%0 Journal Article
%T The Theory of Social Control and the Social Psychology of Dissatisfaction: Inhibition, regression and isolation in a cultural context
%A Orsolya Selymes
%A PhD Candidate
%J Grounded Theory Review : an International Journal
%D 2011
%I Sociology Press
%X The Theory of Social Control (TSC) is grounded in satisfaction and happiness research. The study investigated the reasons behind relatively low levels of civil and personal satisfaction, subjective social well-being and experienced happiness in the post-communist Hungarian social context. The basic social process uncovered in the research is self-situating, which involves a continuous assessment of social control, which occurs on three psychological dimensions: activity, fairness and connectedness, operated via social flow. The culturally salient outcome of self-situating in Hungary is self-victimizing, meaning a subjective loss of control on all three dimensions. Some of the most important emotional-motivational consequences of self-victimizing are inhibition, regression and isolation, which contribute to various socio-cultural phenomenon such as distrust, bystander strategies, pessimism or anomie across a number of social situations. Based on the emerging theory, the concept of subjective social control is introduced and an expanded three-dimensional model of civil satisfaction, comfort and contribution, along with psychological and cultural implications, are discussed.Key words: social control, self-situating, self-victimizing, activity, fairness, connectedness, inhibition, fury, isolation
%K grounded theory
%K qualitative methodology
%K qualitative research
%K Glaser and Strauss
%K social control
%K self-situating
%K self-victimizing
%K activity
%K fairness
%K connectedness
%K inhibition
%K fury
%K isolation
%U http://groundedtheoryreview.com/2011/06/15/the-theory-of-social-control-and-the-social-psychology-of-dissatisfaction-inhibition-regression-and-isolation-in-a-cultural-context-4/