1. Concept
Social discipline is a historiographic concept introduced around 1960 by Gerhard Oestreich [19]; [20] (annotated partial printing of his literary remains: [30]; [17]). He used it for a disciplining of society as a whole (Society [community]) undertaken since the 16th century by the state and its institutions (Government), which reached its peak in the 18th century and was, he claimed, a premise for the later development of both capitali…