Parents control their children in the interests of the family, universities exercise control over professors and students, government exercises contr… - Bertram Raven

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Parents control their children in the interests of the family, universities exercise control over professors and students, government exercises control over citizens, and religions control their adherents... Society's need for social control was stated most dramatically by Hobbes (1651/1958), who observed that in the "natural" state (without social control), as each person attempted to satisfy his/her individual needs and desires at the expense of others, humankind would be in a war of all against all, such that life would be "nasty, brutish, and short."

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About Bertram Raven

Bertram H. Raven (born September 26, 1926) is an American psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the Psychology Department at the . He is perhaps best known for his early work in collaboration with John R. P. French, with whom he developed an analysis of the Five Bases of social power.

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Alternative Names: Bertram H. Raven Bert Raven Bertram Herbert Raven
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