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Repression

Repression. An Example of Social Control. This Week. Repression as a means of social control Whose Responsible? Real Examples: Lynching and War Torture and Warfare. Things to think about. How is repression part of socialization? What are the goals of repression?

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Repression

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  1. Repression An Example of Social Control

  2. This Week • Repression as a means of social control • Whose Responsible? • Real Examples: Lynching and War • Torture and Warfare

  3. Things to think about • How is repression part of socialization? • What are the goals of repression? • Responsibility is mixture of small and large scale. • How effective is torture as a means of social control and intelligence gathering?

  4. Repression and Social Control • How does society keep people in line? • Internal Sources of Social Control • Socialization internalizes society’s goals and values • External Sources of Social Control • Informal sanctions - pressure, humiliation, etc. • Formal sanctions - rules, laws, etc. • Repression • Use of coercion to enforce goals of the repressing group

  5. Repression to Silence Opposition • At this anti-war rally, police used “bean-bag” bullets on protestors. • Thus, people are encouraged to seek only “legitimate” means of voicing dissent, like voting.

  6. Responsibility for Repression • While connected, it is necessary to separate the institution promoting repression from people who engage in it. • Governments, military and political officials sanction the use of repression. • War, dictatorial regimes, and governments encouraging fear of others promotes the use of repression. • Mixture of small-scale (individuals who participate) and large-scale (institutions and context of repression)

  7. Some Individuals Participate • Some people enjoy their role in the repressive regime!

  8. Others Refuse to Participate • Revealed: U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques • Editor & Publisher • http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1102-05.htm

  9. Pat Tillman • After 9/11, enlisted in the Rangers to fight in Afghanistan, but was sent to Iraq instead. • Thought the war in Iraq was “so fucking illegal.” • Killed by “friendly fire” in Afghanistan.

  10. But, Torture is Official Policy • The US engages in the “practice of rendition, in which dozens of suspects have been seized and turned over for interrogation to other countries, including several known to engage routinely in torture.” • Torture Victim Had No Terror Link, Canada Told U.S. • Scott Shane, NY Times 9/25/06

  11. Torture • The violent force-feeding of hunger strikers, incidents of excessive violence used in transporting prisoners and combinations of interrogation techniques "must be assessed as amounting to torture" • http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0213-01.htm

  12. Torture Produces Little Useful Intelligence • Torture was used to obtain justifications for the invasion of Iraq • Confession That Formed Base of Iraq War was Acquired Under Torture • Agence France Presse • http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1027-04.htm • Information Obtained through Torture is Unreliable • Campbell warns against torture • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3295397.stm

  13. War Worsens Threat • Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat • New York Times • More Deadly Than Saddam • Japan Times - http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1016-20.htm • 98 Percent of Cluster Bomb Victims are Civilians • Inter Press Service - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1103-09.htm

  14. Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward ChaosNew York Times -http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/world/middleeast/01military.html?hp&ex=1162443600&en=ae294d1d13aed188&ei=5094&partner=homepage

  15. Things to think about • How is repression part of socialization? • What are the goals of repression? • Responsibility is mixture of small and large scale. • How effective is torture as a means of social control and intelligence gathering?

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