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Meaning: (idiomatic,linguistics)tacticsthatcontrolenvironmentand humancommunicationthrough the use ofpeer pressureandgrouplanguage.1962, DeVere Edwin Pentony,China, The Emerging Red Giant: Communist Foreign Policies, Chandler Pub. Co.,→OCLC, page237:This may be calledmilieu control. The Chinese Communist prison is probably the most thoroughly controlled and manipulated group environment that has ever existed.1969, John M. Phelan,Communications Control: Readings in the Motives and Structures of Censorship, Sheed and Ward,→ISBN,→OCLC, page20:Themilieu controlexerted 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.1994, Kevin Fauteux,The Recovery of Self: Regression and Redemption in Religious Experience, Paulist Press,→ISBN, page26:Althoughmilieu controlis 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.2000, Paul Kevin Wapner, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Richard A. Falk,Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations, Rowman & Littlefield,→ISBN, page233:The first is that of totalmilieu control— control of all information exchange and imagery in an environment that seeks to extend itself to internal controls of every kind.2006, Frank Kemp Salter,On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration, Transaction Publishers,→ISBN, page199:A reliable system of indoctrination requires nearly total 'milieu control'in which the indoctrinatee has few or no alternate sources of information and values.2009, Barend Christoffel Labuschagne, Reinhard W. Sonnenschmidt,Religion, Politics and Law, Brill,→ISBN, page399:The totalist administrators 'look uponmilieu controlas 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''.2010, John Paul Healy,Yearning to Belong, Ashgate Publishing,→ISBN, page40:'Milieu Control'involves the control of daily schedule including food intake, sleep, information and time and space for critical reflection.2012, Adam Piette, Mark Rawlinson,The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century British and American War Literature, Edinburgh University Press,→ISBN, page301:This kind of 'milieu control'can be brought about through coercion, but at its most successful it convinces individuals that they are acting autonomously — as is the case for the ex-POW Sergeant Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate. The result is thatmilieu controldisrupts the 'balance between self and the outside world', resulting in 'a profound threat to [the individual's] personal autonomy'.2013, Martin Halliwell,Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970, Rutgers University Press,→ISBN, page102:This kind of 'milieu control'can be brought about through coercion, Lifton believed, but at its most successful it convinces the subject that he or she is acting spontaneously rather than being directed by values that are alien to the self.2013, Jeffrey Kaplan,Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future, Routledge,→ISBN, page213:In applying Erikson's totalism concept to the Thought Reform experiences of his subjects, Lifton famously identified eight 'themes' of the totalistic milieu:Milieu Control, i.e., monopoly of the spatial and informational environment.2013, Dennis Tourish,The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective, Routledge,→ISBN, page149:Such accounts are consistent with what Lifton described as 'milieu control', a key aspect of ideological totalism. As Lifton postulated it, this is primarily the use of techniques to dominate the person's contact with the outside world but also their communication with themselves.2014, Kamil Yilmaz,Disengaging from Terrorism – Global Lessons from the Turkish Penitents, Routledge,→ISBN, page121:A second way in whichmilieu controlis affects group members is linked to groups' conscious efforts in that regard. That is, the groups maintainmilieu controlespecially by way of labeling recalcitrant members as 'subjective' or 'objective agent.' The former term is used for those who are thought to have harmed the organization by their mistakes or failures in groups' operations.
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