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Mind Control: Contemporary Tactics and Practice
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Mind Control: Contemporary Tactics and Practice
A look at how coercive persuasion and thought reform share many similarities, mainly the goal of altering behavior and attitude through coercive influences often based in groups.
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1999
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"Coercive persuasion and thought reform share many similarities, mainly the goal of altering behavior and attitude through coercive influences often based in groups. Schein, Lifton, and Professor Ofshe's through his Sociology 156 class all give different emphasis regarding the subject. Schien the apparent "father" of the study, analyses coercive persuasion in a three-stage model, Lifton focused on eight key elements that contributed to the totalistic qualities of the methodology, while Ofshe elaborated on the role of coercive persuasion in police interrogations. All theorists seem to agree with Schein's three-stage process, with the additions of their further findings. The result is a elaborate theory of coercive persuasion that gives insight into the results on the individual formed through confined/assertive and nonconfined/nonassertive programs, belief internalization, and the effects of the methods, graded on adherence to the leader and doctrine."More papers on Mind Control: Contemporary Tactics and Practice:
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Sep 21, 2000 I spent the first three years of my college career at UC Berkeley where i was taught and mentored my such world renoun professors as Buroway, Ofshe, Luker, and Gold. My emphesis has always been on social change whether that is in the political, cultural or psychological realms. After a recent illness in my family, i moved back to my home town of Los Angeles where i'm currently enrolled at UCLA expecting to finish my BA in sociology in the next year. Politically i catagorize myself as a leftist, religiously, often as theistic existencialist. In my writting i try to incorporate as much creativity as possible, but i still use practice outlines to reenforce my thesis.
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