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Apr 12, 2019 · Power Control theory integrates feminist theories, Marxist theories and control theories to explain different crime rates among men and women. The basis of the Power Control theory is the basic assumption of the control theories that not deviant but adapted behaviour must be explained.
Dec 1, 2015 · Powers (1973) proposed that behavior is the control of perception and he introduced a closed-loop, hierarchical architecture to implement this principle. We propose that Powers’ control theory provides a wholly new perspective on psychological science and is, as such, a third grand theory, after the behaviorist and cognitive theories.
- Warren Mansell, Richard S. Marken
- 2015
Abstract. Power control theory is credited to John Hagan and considered among the first criminological theories that sought to gauge power relations within a family system through patriarchy. In assessing the impact of patriarchy, a major focus rested in the patriarchal hierarchy within the employment setting and its relationship to gender ...
- Kathryn M. Whiteley
- 2014
We propose that Powers’ control theory provides a wholly new perspective on psychological science and is, as such, a ‘third grand theory’, after the behaviorist and cognitive theories. We describe a range of advances in neuroscience, animal behavior, social processes and mental health, based on Powers’ theory, to illustrate its potential to transform the nature of psychological ...
- Review of General Psychology
- 19
- 425-430
Dec 28, 2015 · Power-control theory was developed by John Hagan with colleagues A. R. Gillis and John Simpson in an effort to theoretically explain the gender gap in offending and changes in this gap over time. The theoretical structure enhances elements from traditional control theories with measures of household/family power – referenced as household patriarchy – drawn from Marxian definitions of class.
- Laurie A. Gould, Brenda Blackwell
- 2015
This gender stratification in the division of domestic social-control labor is a cornerstone of patriarchal family relations and of power-control theory. The key questions in this theory are where, why, and how the resulting mother-daughter relation-ship, so often emphasized in feminist writing, exercises its influence.
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Dec 1, 2015 · Powers’ version of control theory was taken up by self-regulation researchers in the 1980s and continues to burgeon, and yet arguably Powers’ theory has not realized its full potential for ...
