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I will show how a model might be applied to social control, and then more specifically focus on religions as mechanisms of social control.

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Parents control their children in the interests of the family, universities exercise control over professors and students, government exercises control over citizens, and religions control their adherents... Society's need for social control was stated most dramatically by Hobbes (1651/1958), who observed that in the "natural" state (without social control), as each person attempted to satisfy his/her individual needs and desires at the expense of others, humankind would be in a war of all against all, such that life would be "nasty, brutish, and short."

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Social power [is the] potential influence, the ability of a person or group to induce or prevent change in another. Social control [is] the process by which members of a social entity are influenced to adhere to values and principles of proper behavior deemed appropriate for that social entity.

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Bertram Raven

Bertram Raven

Born: September 26, 1926

Died: February 26, 2020 (aged 93)

Bio: Bertram H. Raven was an American academic, who was a member of the faculty of the Psychology Department at UCLA since 1956, where he was a professor emeritus. He was perhaps best known for his early work in collaboration with John R. P.

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