In a recent discussion, an Aussie colleague said:
"On the whole, with the exception of legal writers arguing about whethersuch control is good or bad, academics seem to have steered away from the issues involved of how these things actually work.
I really wondered about "steering away" which really says "deliberatelyavoids" (you have to actively "steer").
Well, if for example i steer to towards the US, I also steer Away from Western Australia. Thats life and thats innocence :) However, although i was not arguing this, there are of course explicit and implicit 'forces' which affect the kinds of work that people take up and which gets propagated - if there isn't, then we might as well forget about doing sociology altogether and simply assume everyone has personal motivations which overwhelm social factors.
It actually sounds as a hot and researchable topic -- see sociological-ish journal _Surveillance and Society_.
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