Social Control Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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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
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Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
— Hugh Jackman
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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
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Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.
— Theda Skocpol
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
— Edward Snowden
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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
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Social control is best managed through fear.
— Michael Crichton
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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
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The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature…
— Barack Obama
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: