| Abstract: | Although "attacking what I consider to be a series of simplistic fallacies in thinking about social control, it is my intention to encourage a responsible realistic discussion of the issues." One fallacy is that it is possible to establish a completely unchanging social order, a "total state" which once established will continue running in unchanging form. "A second fallacy in thinking about social control in the 'total state' is that the major problems are those of political loyalty." A third fallacy is "the tacit assumption that the problem of social control is solely one of the control of individual behavior." The determinism versus free-will controversy is irresolvable. Complete determinism "can never be proven or disproven for one reason: our knowledge is and must always be finite." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
