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[From Bruce Gregory (990429.1115 EDT)]

Bill Powers (990429.0712 MDT)

> I _would_ like to know what word you use to refer to one
> person using force
> or the credible threat thereof to control another person's behavior.
> Evidently you use "coercion" to mean something else, or
> perhaps you don't
> see the credible threat of force as being as effective as the
> actual use of
> force.

As you know, all societies use "the credible threat of force" to
maintain social order. If you believe there is a difference between The
People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom you must go beyond the
simple existence of the credible sense of force to model this
difference. A Marine Drill Instructor and an RTP teacher both use a
credible threat of force to control their subjects in the PCT model. You
can use the same model to represent each. But you can't predict very
much with this model. You certainly can never understand the differing
perceptions of their students as to what tasks they are engaged in and
why they are engaged in them. If you tell me such questions are beyond
PCT, I will accept this.


Bruce Gregory