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Social systems have developed out of the need for the regulation of individual behaviors in order to facilitate communal living. A major goal of the control developed by social systems is the subordination of individual needs to the larger goals of the survival of the group. What is beneficial for an individual is often a satisfaction attained at the expense of pain or harm to others or to oneself at a future time. It is for such reasons that a Skinnerian analysis has viewed society as a giant mechanism for the enforcement of self-regulation. Social and cultural evolution has developed elaborate agencies of religion, education, government, family, and law. But they leave many loopholes in the control of individuals.
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Kanfer, F.H. (1986). Implications of a Self-Regulation Model of Therapy for Treatment of Addictive Behaviors. In: Miller, W.R., Heather, N. (eds) Treating Addictive Behaviors. Applied Clinical Psychology, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2191-0_2
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