Social Control Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual… — John Conyers
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized… — Charles Horton Cooley
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic… — Kate Millett
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the… — Sheila Jeffreys
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's very unhealthy. It… — Ted Bundy
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally. — Francis Galton
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak,… — Abraham Kaplan
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive… — Parker J. Palmer
Social control is best managed through fear. — Michael Crichton
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often… — Michelle Alexander
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. Theyâ€™re operated as holding pensâ€”miniature… — Barack Obama
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real… — Saul Bellow
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick… — Naomi Wolf
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political… — Noam Chomsky
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which… — Noam Chomsky
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally… — Whitfield Diffie
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is,… — Charles Horton Cooley

Who Wrote These Social Control Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Social Control Quotes as follows: