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  2. Controlling behavior in relationships - Wikipedia

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    Controlling behavior in relationships are behaviors exhibited by an individual who seeks to gain and maintain control over another person. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Abusers may utilize tactics such as intimidation or coercion , and may seek personal gain, personal gratification , and the enjoyment of exercising power and control. [ 4 ]

  3. Isolation to facilitate abuse - Wikipedia

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    Isolation (physical, social or emotional) is often used to facilitate power and control over someone for an abusive purpose. This applies in many contexts such as workplace bullying, [1] [2] elder abuse, [3] [4] domestic abuse, [5] [6] child abuse, [7] [8] and cults. [9] [10] Isolation reduces the opportunity of the abused to be rescued or ...

  4. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Controlling abusers use various tactics to exert power and control over their victims. [15] Tactics may include coercion and threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, and more. The goal of the abuser is to control and intimidate the victim or to influence them to feel that they do not have an equal voice in the relationship. [16]

  5. Social consciousness - Wikipedia

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    By the experience of collectively shared social identity, individuals may experience social unity. Social consciousness may also stimulate working towards a common goal. According to Karl Marx , human beings enter into certain productive, or economic, relations and these relations lead to a form of social consciousness. [ 1 ]

  6. Domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    Economic abuse (or financial abuse) is a form of abuse when one intimate partner has control over the other partner's access to economic resources. [145] Marital assets are used as a means of control. Economic abuse may involve preventing a spouse from resource acquisition, limiting what the victim may use, or by otherwise exploiting economic ...

  7. Intimate partner violence - Wikipedia

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    The most extreme form of IPV is termed intimate terrorism, coercive controlling violence, or simply coercive control. In such situations, one partner is systematically violent and controlling. This is generally perpetrated by men against women, and is the most likely of the types to require medical services and the use of a women's shelter.

  8. Social control theory - Wikipedia

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    Another early form of the theory was proposed by Reiss (1951) [3] who defined delinquency as, "...behavior consequent to the failure of personal and social controls." ." Personal control was defined as, "...the ability of the individual to refrain from meeting needs in ways which conflict with the norms and rules of the community" while social control was, "...the ability of social groups or ...

  9. Social responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Social responsibility is an ethical concept in which a person works and cooperates with other people and organizations for the benefit of the community. [ 1 ] An organization can demonstrate social responsibility in several ways, for instance, by donating, encouraging volunteerism , using ethical hiring procedures, and making changes that ...