That branch of Mathematics and Engineering which deals with the design, identification and analysis of systems with a view towards controlling them, i. e., to make them perform specific tasks or make them behave in a desired way.
The mathematical analysis of the systems and mechanisms for achieving a desired state under changing internal and external conditions.
A mathematical and engineering theory that looks at how dynamic systems behave over a period of time.
see social control theory.
An approach which looks at the ability of society and its institutions to control, manage, restrain, or direct human behaviour, sometimes called social control theory
In psychology and sociology: control theory (sociology)
Control theory, as an extension to the field of psychoanalysis, postulates human behaviors driven by the therapeutic function of taming the threatening Otherness of one’s surroundings. This is accomplished by producing other through one's own self control, resulting in a controlled, and thus non-threatening other.