Examples of control theory in the following topics:
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- Control theory explains that societal institutions without strong control of society can result in deviant behavior.
- Control theory advances the proposition that weak bonds between the individual and society allow people to deviate.
- Control Theory in sociology can either be classified as centralized, decentralized, or mixed.
- From a control theory perspective, children who are properly bonded to their parents would be involved in less crime than children who have weaker parental bonds; control theory assumes that the family is a naturally law-abiding institution.
- Control theory advances the proposition that weak bonds between the individual and society allow people to deviate.
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- Social control theory argues that relationships, commitments, values, and beliefs encourage conformity.
- Social control theory describes internal means of social control.
- Social control theory seeks to understand how to reduce deviance.
- Ultimately, social control theory is Hobbesian; it presupposes that all choices are constrained by social relations and contracts between parties.
- An internal understanding of means of control became articulated in sociological theory in the mid-twentieth century.
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- The conflict theory perspective towards education focuses on the role school systems may play in implementing social control.
- Conflict theory assumes that the ideas held by a society are the ideas of the ruling class.
- Social control may also be enforced using formal sanctions.
- This form of control usually takes the form of government action.
- By means of social control, students are taught the boundaries of acceptable behavior.
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- An example of affect control theory in practice is how people behave at funerals.
- Sociologists identify two basic forms of social control - informal control and formal control.
- Formal social control typically involves the state.
- Informal social control has the potential to have a greater impact on an individual than formal control.
- This is example of a social situation controlling an individual's emotions.
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- Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power within a society to gain control of scarce resources.
- During war, one army tries to gain control over available resources in order to prevent the opposing army from gaining control.
- Resources are scarce and individuals naturally fight to gain control of them.
- The three tenets of conflict theory are as follows:
- The idea that those who have control will maintain control is called the Matthew Effect.
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- Foucault theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.
- Karl Marx is the father of the social conflict theory, which is a component of the four paradigms of sociology.
- In conflict theory, deviant behaviors are actions that do not comply with social institutions.
- Rather, the modern state receives praise for its fairness and dispersion of power that, instead of controlling each individual, controls the mass.
- He also theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.
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- Role theory is, in fact, predictive.
- Many role theorists see Role Theory as one of the most compelling theories bridging individual behavior and social structure.
- An extension of role theory, impression management is both a theory and process.
- The theory argues that people are constantly engaged in controlling how others perceive them.
- The process refers to the goal-directed conscious or unconscious effort to influence the perceptions of other people by regulating and controlling information in social interaction.
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- Social movement theories seek to explain how social movements form and develop.
- Some of the better-known approaches include deprivation theory, mass-society theory, structural-strain theory, resource-mobilization theory, political process theory and culture theory.
- This particular section will thus pay attention to structural-strain theory and culture theory, while mass-society theory and political process theory will be discussed in greater detail later in "International Sources of Social Change" and "External Sources of Social Change," respectively.
- Lack of social control: the entity to be changed must be at least somewhat open to the change; if the social movement is quickly and powerfully repressed, it may never materialize
- Both resource-mobilization theory and political process theory incorporate the concept of injustice into their approaches.
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- Classic sociologist Max Weber was strongly influenced by Marx's ideas, but rejected the possibility of effective communism, arguing that it would require an even greater level of detrimental social control and bureaucratization than capitalist society.
- Weber's theory more closely resembles theories of modern Western class structures embraced by sociologists, although economic status does not seem to depend strictly on earnings in the way Weber envisioned.
- Weber noted that managers of corporations or industries control firms they do not own; Marx would have placed such a person in the proletariat.
- Using Weber's theory of stratification, members of the U.S.
- Recall the three components of stratification in Weberian theory, including their definitions
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- There are two significant problems with this theory.
- lack of social control - the entity that is to be changed must be at least somewhat open to the change; if the social movement is quickly and powerfully repressed, it may never materialize
- Critics of the political process theory and resource-mobilization theory point out that neither theory discusses movement culture to any great degree.
- Culture theory builds upon both the political process and resource-mobilization theories but extends them in two ways.
- Both resource-mobilization theory and political process theory include a sense of injustice in their approaches.