Social Psychology and Cults
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The cult is defined as a social group or social move under the charismatic leader. It maintains a belief system involving transformation of group members. Members of the organization have high responsibility for leaders, members, and faith (Lalich). Another definition to consider is from American Journal of Psychotherapy. Usually, we use groups of members psychologically and / or economically. Make the members comply with the leadership requirements. Dependent anxiety dependence on the organization and its leaders (Salande and Perkins, 382).
Alexandra Stein talks about withdrawal from her cult and the beginning of social psychology research on extremist political organizations. This is a psychological influence from manipulating cults, and a good primer to canonical literature on cult and totalitarian / forever / 15 minutes. So far, what I've covered shows cults, then business, and then how all fields are affected by the same dynamics. Investment in identity, symbolism, social participation, stories, and values all involve creating a system of these meanings. In the last article, Joe Edelman took the widest view. It is a psychological view of history that reveals culture itself as a system of meaning, but defines the overall contact with the world / 17 minutes
The salient feature of cult control is that it is very common in the strategy and strategy of social impact being adopted. It is a well-known variant of social psychology principles such as obedience, integration, persuasion, discordance, reaction, framework, emotional operation, buying, trying, donating, voting, participating, changing and believing Love, hate enemies. Control of worship is unchanged from these everyday variants, but its strength, duration, duration, and extent are greater. One difference is that it hinders the withdrawal of the group by imposing high exit costs.
In the sociological classification of religious movements, cult is a social group with social deviations or new beliefs and customs, but this is often unknown. Other researchers are proposing pictures of unorganized cults. They say that they occur spontaneously based on new beliefs and customs. The group is known as a large cult organization, from local groups to a few members, to international organizations with millions of people. In another article, the old idea of the term cult is a series of religious practices that are routine in their culture, related to a particular personality, and often associated with a particular place. For example, the reference to "Cult" worshiped by the Catholic saint or the Roman Empire, the meaning of that word