Some would freely admit that they have joined unions not out of the conviction but out of self-protection.
This is tantamount to an insurance self-protection racket.
The book shows the importance of such factors as legitimacy, feasibility, power, goal displacement, organisational inertia and professional self-protection, though they are not named as such.
They may (unconsciously) adopt various behaviors as part of an overall strategy of self-protection and pain avoidance - behaviors that seem eccentric or excessive from an outsider's perspective.
Converting the unimproved gave way to strenuous self-protection as these young men closed ranks against those whom they identified as willfully ignorant.
These primarily include self-protection, self-configuration, self-healing and self-optimization.
The city people suffered damage intermittently, and so they needed the self-protection activities led by the local elites.
In short, it is seen as a psychological self-protection mechanism or tendency for people to turn psychological distress into bodily complaints.
