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Control theory (sociology)
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Control theory, as an extension to the field of psychoanalysis, postulates human behaviors driven by the therapeutic function of taming the threatening Otherness of one’s surroundings. This is accomplished by producing other through one's own self control, resulting in a controlled, and thus non-threatening other.
More commonly known today as Choice Theory, Control Theory, as developed by William Glasser, states that behavior is caused not by outside stimuli, but by what a person wants most at any given time.
Control theory starts with the assumption that humans are neither naturally wicked and prone to crime nor naturally virtuous and prone to conformity. Instead, we appear rational and will turn to crime when the advantages weigh out the idea of conformity.
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