Concept
Social control
Overview
concept within the disciplines of the social sciences and within political science
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This excursus should, accordingly, have the effect of reinforcing the conclusion that genuine social control means the formation of a certain mental disposition; a way of understanding objects, events, and acts which enables one to participate effectively in associated activities. Only the friction engendered by meeting resistance from others leads to the view that it takes place by forcing a line of action contrary…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Social control is; names Social control twice.
Under the influence of this desire, it shows mankind accumulating wealth, and employing that wealth in the production of other wealth; sanctioning by mutual agreement the institution of property; establishing laws to prevent individuals from encroaching upon the property of others by force or fraud; adopting various contrivances for increasing the productiveness of their labor; settling the division of the produce…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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But labour, especially when prolonged and monotonous, is naturally hateful, and mental labour the most irksome of all; and hence a second antagonism, which must exist in all societies whatever. The character of the society is principally determined by the degree in which the better incentive, in each of these cases, makes head against the worse. In both the points, human nature is capable of great amelioration.
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Philosophers who discussed Social control
Related ideas
- Belief
- Political freedom
- Athens
- Government
- Transaction Publishers
- Individualism
- Mass communication
- Censorship
- Sociology
- Law
- Leviathan (Hobbes book)
- Culture
- Cesare Beccaria
- Conformity
- Noam Chomsky
- Political science
- Religion
- Social science
- Thomas Hobbes
- Émile Durkheim
- Value (ethics)
- Social norm
- Anomie
- Mores
Place in the tradition
Part of Authoritarianism.