Social precepts can become interiorized until external compulsion becomes unnecessary

Evidence

In all of this, several very important motives cut across one another. Society confronts the individual with precepts. He becomes habituated to their compulsory character until the cruder and subtler means of compulsion are no longer necessary. His nature may thereby be so formed or deformed that he acts by these precepts as if on impulse, with a consistent and direct will which is not conscious of any law. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6435

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays groundwork for Simmel’s own account of how the social is internalized — relevant to how Raskolnikov carries society’s precepts (law) unresolved internally.
• XREF: Runs parallel to the reader’s own social-capital material on internalized norms and Durkheim’s social facts. — connects to: Workplace friendliness programs extend social control into private impulses — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 115; Administered needs cause individuals to identify with and submit to domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 39; Massive socialization at home arrests consciousness and blocks autonomy’s hidden roots — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 851 (+7 more)