milieu control
noun1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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:
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- Although milieu control is more obvious in the situation of a prisoner whose environment is forced on him, spiritual purgation often begins with a similar structuring of a person's physical environment.1994, Kevin Fauteux, The Recovery of Self: Regression and Redemption in Religious Experience, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 26:
- 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 Relations, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 233:
- 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, page 199:
- The totalist administrators 'look upon milieu control as a just and necessary policy, one which need not be kept secret.' The assumption of 'omniscience' and 'ultimate truth' leads these administrators to consider it 'their duty to create an environment containing no more and no less than this 'truth.2009, Barend Christoffel Labuschagne, Reinhard W. Sonnenschmidt, Religion, Politics and Law, Brill, →ISBN, page 399: