Self-control is maintained socially, through others, not only individually
Evidence
In the exercise of proxy agency, individuals maintain self-control by enlisting the help of others. Social support buttresses self-control in taxing situations. In this electronic era, social media can provide instant proxies. In the exercise of collective agency, control is enabled and practiced at the group level. The conception of controllability as a gradation in social context is more in keeping with the everyday realities of self-management than the dichotomous view that behavior is either controllable or uncontrollable. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 331
In the exercise of proxy agency, individuals maintain self-control by enlisting the help of others. Social support buttresses self-control in taxing situations. In this electronic era, social media can provide instant proxies. In the exercise of collective agency, control is enabled and practiced at the group level. The conception of controllability as a gradation in social context is more in keeping with the everyday realities of self-management than the dichotomous view that behavior is either controllable or uncontrollable. In the case of moral disengagement, personal and social influences are used to remove restraints over detrimental conduct rather than to buttress them. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 331
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines proxy agency and collective agency as modes of self-control.
- XREF: Proxy agency via social media echoes how moral disengagement spreads — the group-level removal of restraints connects to the vault’s authoritarianism/social-conservatism claims about how communities license harmful policy. — connects to: Workplace friendliness programs extend social control into private impulses — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 115; Selfhood is formed socially through others from earliest infancy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 737; Behavioral engineered self-control masks society’s ultimate control over individuals — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1386 (+2 more)
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 331