Usually means: Regulation of behavior within society.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. social control: Merriam-Webster
  2. social control: Vocabulary.com
  3. social control: Wiktionary
  4. social control: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. social control: Dictionary.com
  6. Social Control, Social control: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. social control: Rhymezone
  8. social control: FreeDictionary.org
  9. social control: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. social control: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. social control: Anthropological Terms
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See social_controls as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (social control)

noun:  Any control, either formal or informal, that is exerted by a group, especially by one's peers

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