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Unmasking features of the state of the epidemic
Published in Maria Łuszczyńska, Marvin Formosa, Ageing and COVID-19, 2021
Mariola Racław, Dobroniega Głębocka
The medicalisation process itself is often considered in the context of increasing social control over individuals. It is emphasised that the health care system is intended both to isolate individuals who pose an epidemiological threat and to identify healthy people who are not fulfilling their social roles (Ofiary koronawirusa w Polsce. Jaka jest średnia wieku? [2020]). Social control is supposed to lead to an increase in the self-control of individuals, because health is not only a right of citizens, but an obligation, especially sanctioned during an epidemic. At present, the obligation to estimate health risks and minimise damage to health has been sharpened by legal regulations and by social pressure and ostracism imposed on those who do not listen to government recommendations. In Poland, in social media and news portals, there are heated discussions of outraged citizens who point out the irresponsible behaviour of their compatriots (e.g. the lack of masks in public space), especially young people. Importantly, research shows that people over 55 years of age – compared to other age groups – show the highest degree of obedience to government recommendations and introduced restrictions (Mrowiec 2020a). Despite the emergence of groups denying the existence of a pandemic and rejecting government orders, the discourse of protection, which legitimises the suspension of certain civil liberties, seems stronger than the opposite trend.
Genomic and biological risk profiling
Published in Ulrik Kihlbom, Mats G. Hansson, Silke Schicktanz, Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication, 2020
Mats G. Hansson, Karim Raza, Marie Falahee
It should be observed that the concept of empowerment as outlined and discussed here has a very strong focus on the individual and the specific genetic counselling context, e.g. the consultations that take place at a hospital ward between a clinical geneticist/counsellor and a proband. This perspective needs indeed to be complemented with a focus on conditions needed for achieving social control that provides the means for the patient/proband to actually make a choice.
Challenges to Dignity From Medically Assisted Death
Published in Kathleen Benton, Renzo Pegoraro, Finding Dignity at the End of Life, 2020
Some raise concerns raised regarding a focus on vulnerability because it can be paternalistic and oppressive. It can extend social control, and labeling persons and groups as vulnerable can result in stigma and marginalization rather than their empowerment and protection (Brown, 2011).
Correlates of Mpox Vaccination among Sexual Minority Men in the United States: Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Main Partner Relationships
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2023
Tyrel J. Starks, David Scales, Juan Castiblanco, Jack Gorman, Demetria Cain
These findings align with the idea that the health-related benefits of being partnered are predicated upon relationship quality and may emerge as relationships develop (i.e., the longer a couple has been together). This is entirely consistent with interdependence theory generally (e.g., Rusbult et al., 1998; Rusbult & Van Lange, 2003) and the theoretical framework put forward by Lewis et al. (2006). Across contexts, partners who are more satisfied with, committed to, and invested in their relationships are more likely to consider the impact of their behavior on one another and their relationship overall (Kelley & Thibaut, 1978; Rusbult & Van Lange, 2003). Specifically related to health, Lewis et al. (2006) would suggest that partners in higher quality relationships are more likely to consider mpox a shared health threat. Personal infection might pose a risk to one’s partner and the relationship overall (Lewis, Gladstone, et al., 2006). This provides an additional source of relational motivation for vaccination uniquely relevant to partnered SMM – one that would be expected to be most potent for those in the highest quality relationships. In addition, research on HIV (e.g., Gamarel & Revenson, 2015; Lewis, Gladstone, et al., 2006; Martins et al., 2021) and COVID-19 prevention (Starks et al., 2021) would suggest that SMM in higher quality relationships are more successful at joint coping or working together to reduce a health threat. They employ more positive (supportive) and fewer negative (aversive) social control techniques to influence one another’s health behavior (Lewis, McBride, et al., 2006).
Social Work & Corrections in the Progressive Era: What We Remember, What We Obscure
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2023
Social control, a term many social workers today may find cringeworthy, was an explicit goal of many early reformers. Harm (1992) explains that social workers considered social control a necessary and desirable function, reflective of their “benign view of the state” (p. 97). Abrams and Curran (2000) elaborate: … early modern social workers perceived discriminatory mechanisms of social control as humane and altruistic. The systematic criminalization of young women’s sexuality was congruent with both Progressive Era reformers’ moral crusade to save children and eugenicists’ plan to reproduce a genetically superior society. Social workers joined child savers, eugenicists, and other professionals in the quest to halt young women’s experiences of precocious sexuality. (p. 62)
Social Control of Deviance and Knowledge in Social Work from an Anti-oppressive Perspective
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2021
Social control is a manifestation of power since power is the capability to produce intended effects (Wrong, 1979): treatment (medical, psychological, psychosocial, etc.) therefore constitutes a powerful mechanism of social control since it defines service-users’ situation and can circumvent individuals’ resistance and influence their inner life, conditioning their behavior (Furedi, 2004). Defining power as the capability to produce intended effects leads to two meanings of the concept of power especially relevant to social workers (Wartenberg, 1991): - power as the ability to do something (power to);- power intended as the ability to influence other people’s behaviors without reciprocity (power over).