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under reward power, communications are likely to consist of promises and exchanges of information regarding the positive outcomes each side has in store for the other, thus increasing the likelihood of a mutually satisfactory agreement.

— Bertram Raven

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Tension between two or several social entities (individual, group or organizations) which arises from incompatibility of actual or desired responses.

I will show how a model might be applied to social control, and then more specifically focus on religions as mechanisms of social control.

Manifest bases for conflict may be there in actual inequities in education, but the possibilities for conflict are further increased as the result of underlying factors transferred from other situations.

Social power [is the] potential influence, the ability of a person or group to induce or prevent change in another. Social control [is] the process by which members of a social entity are influenced to adhere to values and principles of proper behavior deemed appropriate for that social entity.

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