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Issues of social control - Coggle Diagram
Issues of social control
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Prejudice
Intentional social control can be used to reduce the prejudice built up between 2 groups, through stratergies
Ingroup/ourgroup cooperation
through superodrinate goals -
realistic conflict theory, Sherif
et al (1954/61)
2 groups that had become hostile as a result of predujice were asked to complete tasks that required intergroup cooperation e.g. mending a broken water supply
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Mental health
In therapies such as flooding and systematic desensitisation, the therapist is in control of the client's fears and thoughts - they are encouraged to replace a conditioned fear reponse to a stimulus with a state of calmness and control
Mental health proffessionals can administer drugs for mental disorders that can change a person's thoughts and behaviours
In many mental health facilities and prisons, positive reinforcement is used to reward 'desirable' behaviour - whether a behaviour is desirable or not is in the control of the staff, and they may only reward cooperative behaviour that makes their job easier rather than behaviour which makes progress to improve their mental health
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Drug administeration can also be misused - Rosenhan (1973) found that pseudopatients (who were actually sane) were wrongly diagnosed and given drugs, an example of how social control can be misused
Operant conditioning
Through operant conditioning, an association (positive or negative) is made between a behaviour and its consequence - depending on the consequence, a behaviour can be reinforced
Skinner believed that punishment
systems in society would eventually
be abolished and replaced with
complex reinforcement systems
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