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  2. 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 ...

  3. Legal socialization - Wikipedia

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    Compliance to laws and respect for authority is variously called socialization, internalization of norms, conformity to rules, identification, moral internalization, and conscience formation. Regardless of nomenclature, psychologists have attended to the problem of compliant behaviour as an aspect of socialisation research, crucial to the ...

  4. Conformity - Wikipedia

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    According to Herbert Kelman, there are three types of conformity: 1) compliance (which is public conformity, and it is motivated by the need for approval or the fear of disapproval; 2) identification (which is a deeper type of conformism than compliance); 3) internalization (which is to conform both publicly and privately). [15]

  5. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Obedience is a form of social influence that derives from an authority figure, based on order or command. [12] The Milgram experiment , Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment , and the Hofling hospital experiment are three particularly well-known experiments on obedience, and they all conclude that humans are surprisingly obedient in the ...

  6. Obedience - Wikipedia

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    Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure". [1] Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which some authors define as behavior influenced by peers while others use it as a more general term for positive responses to another individual's request, [2] and from conformity, which is ...

  7. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    The need for a positive relationship with the people around leads us to conformity. [4] This fact often leads to people exhibiting public compliance—but not necessarily private acceptance—of the group's social norms in order to be accepted by the group. [5] Social norms refers to the unwritten rules that govern social behavior. [6]

  8. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia

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    3. Interpersonal accord and conformity (Social norms) (The good boy/girl attitude) 4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation (Law and order morality) Level 3 (Post-Conventional) 5. Social contract orientation 6. Universal ethical principles (Principled conscience)

  9. Social impact theory - Wikipedia

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    The psychosocial law states that the most significant difference in social impact will occur in the transition from 0 to 1 source and as the number of sources increases, this difference will become even eventually. [4] The equation Latané uses for this law is =. That is, some power (t) of the number of people (N) multiplied by the scaling ...