Political Sociology

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This paper discusses forms of extra-governmental control of the populations of countries. The author reviews topics including the internal passport system in the Soviet Union, DNA-typing and the role of aid agencies, which help the populations in underprivileged countries. The paper states that these methods of control are outside of what is normally consider to be the government's legal, legislative or judiciary scope and therefore are probably often overlooked in examinations of state control of people.

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"These three articles, Akhil Gupta's "Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program in India", Marc Garcelon's "Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport" and Pamela Sankar's "DNA-Typing: Galton's Eugenic Dreams Realized?", discuss different social and historical phenomena from different angles, but combine to give us an emerging if not complete picture of the ways in which governments potentially or actually control their citizens. All of these methods of control are outside of what we would normally consider to be the government's legal, legislative, or judiciary scope, so they are probably often overlooked in examinations of state control of the people."

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