This book explores Morris Janowitz's creative ideas and their application to the study of a wide range of American institutions. Janowitz is one of the best known and most prolific sociologists adopting the institutional approach to an understanding of contemporary society. In this book, his students and colleagues take up many of his seminal ideas and apply them to such instituions as the local community, the armed forces, the welare state, and crime control. | The Challenge of Social Control by Gerald D. Suttles, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters