Social control in worship is not intentional or deliberate; worship leaders do not have a sinister desire to manipulate people.
We collected empirical studies that tested assumptions from
social control theory as well as from attachment theory.
Instead of judging acceptable risk, we could ask what would count as an acceptable and plausible
social control over potentially hazardous activities.
His subject matter has focused on institutional spaces and the relationship
between social control, societal structure and ever more sophisticated levels of interpretation.
This study connected two areas of research by focusing on empirical studies that have tested hypotheses drawn
from social control theory and assumptions from attachment theory.
The implications of such a move in a country known for its penchant for
strict social control are profound, to say the least.
Social control does not necessarily apply to private worship or personal devotion, although it can, because such worship is often heavily shaped by community practice.
The corporate reform of education is part and parcel of the corporate attempt to transform American society in the direction of
greater social control.
The body is the boundary point of
overt social control — something that can be worked, borrowed against, confined, a unit that can be processed.
A state - owned digital currency for the Chinese people might be the final piece of the
total social control puzzle that the government has been trying to create.
Social control comes from positive social bonds to family, elders, school staff, mentors, and positive peers.
But in all these cases, increased freedom enhances autonomy, social responsibility and social control [5].
In the past, these tensions were managed through avoidance and
other social controls but when different groups were forced onto missions and reserves, serious conflicts arose.
It can help small farms, and when you have
social controls in place like fair trade, it puts money back into the communities and schools.
A point noted here often is that although environmentalists claim that their perspective is grounded in science, their desire
for social control is palpable.
Social control theory focuses on the effects of parental behavior on adolescent delinquency but fails to take into account the effect of adolescent delinquency on parental behaviors.
To halt and reverse this destruction of natural beauty, not only must standards of individual taste be raised, but much
stricter social controls must be exercised.
One may therefore conclude that nonsmoking peers in long - lasting social relationships play a modeling role in influencing egos» behaviors [47] and thus function as
social control with a preventive effect on smoking [48].
In Orwell's dystopian novel, a totalitarian state maintains
social control by obfuscating reality, using what the British author called «Newspeak» and «doublethink» to compel its subjects to acknowledge as true what they know is false.
Criminal justice is the system of agencies and institutions formed by governments and directed
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Governments however had gained
more social control over the economy, and they could, and they do, offset in large measure the effects of intrinsically unjust money rates.
Iriz Pääbo has dedicated the past decade to examining systems of
social control as they relate to climates of technology, consciousness, the environment, the body, and social politics.
According to Collins, due to the many barriers that shape our perspectives of race
like social control, mutual policing, and silencing victims, it isn't easy to achieve coalitions.
In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less
rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.
The Communist Party has experimented with forms of
social control ever since it came to power in 1949, though China's self - policing tradition stretches back to the Song dynasty.
All technical manipulations are potentially dangerous; the manipulation of the media can not be countered, however, by old or new forms of censorship, but only by
direct social control, that is to say, by the mass of the people, who will have become productive.
It has depersonalized
social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.
Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of
oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.
This is an unconscious process by which
normal social controls, which have had little meaning to Joe in the advanced stages of his alcoholism, are reestablished.
Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans —
social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.
But it IS worthy to note that people continue to sheepishly believe absurdities about certain personalities that are put out there by people promulgating this or that ideology or simply trying to
exercise social control by making people feel unworthy in comparison to ruling elites.
Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of
intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).
In this context of
inevitable social control, its effectiveness and use must be examined in light of Christian concepts of social justice.