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milieu control

milieu control noun: tactics that control environment and human communication through the use of peer pressure and group language.

Noun

milieu control (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) tactics that control environment and human communication through the use of peer pressure and group language.
    • This may be called milieu control. The Chinese Communist prison is probably the most thoroughly controlled and manipulated group environment that has ever existed.1962, DeVere Edwin Pentony, China, The Emerging Red Giant: Communist Foreign Policies, Chandler Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 237
    • The milieu control exerted over the broader social environment of Communist China, while considerably less intense, is in its own way unrivalled in its combination of extensiveness and depth; it is, in fact, one of the distinguishing features of Chinese Communist practice.1969, John M. Phelan, Communications Control: Readings in the Motives and Structures of Censorship, Sheed and Ward, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20

Examples of milieu control in a sentence

  • The first is that of total milieu control — control of all information exchange and imagery in an environment that seeks to extend itself to internal controls of every kind.2000, Paul Kevin Wapner, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Richard A. Falk, Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International...
  • A reliable system of indoctrination requires nearly total 'milieu control' in which the indoctrinatee has few or no alternate sources of information and values.2006, Frank Kemp Salter, On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN...
  • 'Milieu Control' involves the control of daily schedule including food intake, sleep, information and time and space for critical reflection.2010, John Paul Healy, Yearning to Belong, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:
  • The result is that milieu control disrupts the 'balance between self and the outside world', resulting in 'a profound threat to [the individual's] personal autonomy'.2012, Adam Piette, Mark Rawlinson, The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century British and American War Literature, Edinburgh University...

Questions about milieu control

What does milieu control mean?
Milieu control means tactics that control environment and human communication through the use of peer pressure and group language.
How do you use milieu control in a sentence?
The first is that of total milieu control — control of all information exchange and imagery in an environment that seeks to extend itself to internal controls of every kind.
What part of speech is milieu control?
Milieu control is a noun.

Words near milieu control in the dictionary

  1. Miliches
  2. milichiid
  3. milichiids
  4. Milicz
  5. milieu
  6. milieu control
  7. milieu therapies
  8. milieu therapy
  9. milieus
  10. milieux
  11. Milifan

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