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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this episode, we look at how social control theory can help you take more positive action. Get excited, because this is Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.

Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes where I share research-backed strategies you can use, to get more out of your life. My name is Gregg Clunis.

From Wikipedia:

In criminology, social control theory proposes that exploiting the process of socialization and social learning builds self-control and reduces the inclination to indulge in behavior recognized as antisocial. It derives from functionalist theories of crime and was developed by Ivan Nye (1958), who proposed that there were three types of control:

Direct: by which punishment is threatened or applied for wrongful behavior, and compliance is rewarded by parents, family, and authority figures.
Indirect: by identification with those who influence behavior, say because his or her delinquent act might cause pain and disappointment to parents and others with whom he or she has close relationships.
Internal: by which a youth refrains from delinquency through the conscience or superego.

It goes on to say:

The theory seeks to understand the ways in which it is possible to reduce the likelihood of criminality developing in individuals. It does not consider motivational issues, simply stating that human beings may choose to engage in a wide range of activities, unless the range is limited by the processes of socialization and social learning.

Key Takeaways:

Connection to a community of some kind matters
This plays a role in criminal activity but how does it affect behavior in general?
The more deeply you are connected with the people around you, the less likely you are to do things that go against the social contract
You don’t want to lose connection with those people
Comes from our need for tribes

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0:00.0	In this episode, we look at how social control can be used to improve your behavior.
0:07.5	Get excited because this is tiny leaves.
0:12.0	Big changes. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leavesif's big changes where I share simple research-backed
0:36.2	strategies you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and
0:42.1	this episode I want to talk about something called
0:45.2	Social Control Theory and we'll get into the details in a second but it's this idea
0:50.1	that the more connected you are essentially to your social group this is your
0:55.2	friends family the community around you so and so forth the more connected you are
0:58.7	the less likely you are to engage in crime, right?
1:03.8	And it's a theory in criminology trying to figure out who
1:07.5	is more or less likely to become a potential offender
1:11.1	and either intervene in that and try to change it or know who to sort of pay attention to, right?
1:16.7	So it's this really interesting theory that I think has probably been proven over and over over again and we've seen sort of this play out in a lot of ways.
1:26.1	I think there's incredible value to it in criminology, but I think there's also potential value in our personal lives, in the changes that we're trying to create and the goals that we're trying to accomplish.
1:39.5	So that's why I want to bring it to your attention today. The goal being how can we use this if we know
1:46.1	that people react in a certain way based on their level of connection to the community
1:51.6	around them? How can we use this in our own lives?
1:54.5	How can we use this to be more likely
1:57.8	to take the right actions, be more likely
2:00.7	to do the things we know we should be doing.
2:03.0	All of those goals, all of those desires,
2:05.5	the things we say we want, the people that we want to be.
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