Social control

• social control is the way of making a person conform to society's rule.
• Types of power: legitimate power, coercive power, expert power, reward power and referent power.
• Expert power- authority has expert knowledge and skill in certain area of speciality.
• reward power- power to reward client either with praise or actual gifts.
• legitimate power- society expects people to behave appropriately and a therapist's role is often to be an agent of society in shaping appropriate behaviour.
• coercive power- therapist shouldn't force someone to behave in a certain way. society make someone do something.
• referent power- someone gives someone power because they want to be like them.
• (social) theories of obedience towards increasing levels of obedience in society.
• (social) Milgram found using uniforms and authority figures can obtain obedience.
• (social) superordinate goals can control people so society is more powerful, seen as manipulative.
• (cogntive) eyewitness testimony use of attitudes of legitimacy of how true testimony is.
• (learning) Aversion therapy uses classical conditioning with homosexuality.
• (learning) Flooding the therapist was control over the client.
• (biological) key question: if aggression found to be nature not nurture what are the implications of society in social control?
• (clinical) use of drug treatments to control people. how much power should therapists have?
• (learning) systematic desensitization client can chose their own hierarchy, power in the situation.
• (child) maternal deprivation, attitudes towards working mothers guilt mothers in social control of their actions.