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Old 08-27-2010, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk View Post
When using broad terms such as "social control" one can construe it into any such form.
Social control is not a broad term.

It means exactly what it sounds like. It is a macro-level approach to a sense of threat. Harming someone who cheats on you because you hate cheaters (as many people do) is not a social control mechanism.
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