Bertram Raven: Individual

Bertram Raven is American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on individual.

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“The concepts of social power and social control are closely interrelated, since the process of social control involves the exercise of the bases and resources of power. But both terms also have their negative and even threatening connotations. All of us, or at least most of us, like to think that we are independent agents, and being subjected to social power restricts that sense of independence. The thought of being "socially controlled" also brings forth strong negative feelings. Yet, when we consider it more carefully, power and influence are part of our everyday interaction and contribute to individual and collective benefit. Similarly for social control.”

Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 161

“Tension between two or several social entities (individual, group or organizations) which arises from incompatibility of actual or desired responses.”

Source: "Conflict and power." 1970, p. 70

“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."”

Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 161