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Leigh Gantman

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  • Altruistic behavior is something we might assume takes place every day. A person stops to help an elderly member of society across a street, an adult donates his/her time at a local charity, or someone else might even put himself or herself in harm’s way for the immediate benefit of another without really thinking about the consequences. However, it’s not clear what this sort of altruistic behavior actually comprises, or whether genuine altruism really exists. Today’s episode digs into these questions about altruism from two main standpoints. The first is from Biology, which considers how our conception of right and wrong may have been wired into us through evolution. The second considers altruism from the psychological standpoint. This view grants much more importance to the role of an individual’s psychology and his/her intentions when committing an action, which potentially leaves more possibility for genuinely altruistic acts to occur. 
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Oct 10
       
      This site is the work of two philosophy professors so it is reputable; but make sure to listen to the rest of the podcast before concluding something that you might misunderstand because you've taken it out of context.
  • Leigh Gantman on 17 Oct 10
     
    This is extremely important for my project because it tries to explain why people act generously, and if their acts are genuine or not. It explains that throughout evolution, humans have been biologically programmed to grasp the concept of right and wrong. Therefore, it would be human nature telling them to do an act of consideration for another. However, it also explains that sometimes a genuine act of altruism can come from the individuals psychology, in which case their intention would be different. When the act comes from a psychological position, chances are more likely that the person sincerely wanted to commit it. I can incorporate this into my project by including questions in the survey such as: If you give to a charity, what is your purpose? Options for this will include answers like: It is the right thing to do or I really want to help someone else in need. This will show me how many people really have it in their hearts to be altruistic, and how many do it because they know it is what they should be doing.
revisesociology

Theory & Usages of Sociology Concept - 0 views

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usages of sociology concept theory

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    Revise Sociology provides a strong foundation for empirical research, encompassing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Our research methods are demography and applied sociology to fulfill one of the most important goals of a college education. Feel free to contact us anytime.
dunya darwiche

Teenager's Search for Identity - 1 views

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  • the fundamental task of adolescence is 'ego identity' or 'self-definition.'" (1969, p73) This does not suggest that a child entering adolescence has no concept of self, but it becomes the critical need of the teenager.
  • three stages of adolescent development: Early adolescence (ages 12 to 14), Mid-adolescence (ages 15 to 16), and Late adolescence (ages 17 to 21)." (1987, p20)
  • The brain is bombarded with questions about what to do about all of these feelings so new and so demanding
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  • but many questions still remain. "What am I going to do with my life," and "Should I go to college or take a job."
  • There are many factors involved in a teenager forming that self-image or self-ideal.
  • rough adolescen
  • inherited traits
  • two ways
  • Families account for one of the largest areas of impact
  • structure and content of the values espoused by the family
  • young person may reject all or part of the parental value system
  • look around to replace it with one of their own
  • physical traits of the individual
  • Do they consider themselves too short or fat?
  • It would appear from autobiographical material, that the adolescent not only is acutely aware of every physical variation from his concept of what is normal or beautiful or handsome, but that is perhaps his most frequent frustration
  • physical deviation can be of great concern
  • to any young person
  • positive or negative
  • Anywhere that teens spend a large percentage of their time
  • spiritual life
  • Social and economic factors, geographic location, rebellion, television, movies, music, radio, books, hobbies, clubs, death of loved ones, divorce, remarriage, heroes, role models, and many more.
  • many other factors
  • re they popular, artistic, or athletic.
  • If they are seen by their peers as
  • he relationship between the teachers, coaches, and administrative personnel
  • Relationships with peers
  • Any group that teens belong, or adhere to, will affect their development of identity
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 30 Sep 10
       
      This web page is useful for our project becomes it talks about Teen identity and the steps and variables leading to teen identity.
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 30 Sep 10
       
      Can you imagine that the physical of a teen can have such a great impact on there self esteem that it changes the whole perception of themselves.
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 30 Sep 10
       
      We often forget about spiritual life and the presence of religion in a teen's life. It is also a great and important factor on identity.
Daryl Bambic

Social theories - Intro to Sociology - 0 views

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social socio theories

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  • Conflict Theory claims that society is in a state of perpetual conflict and competition for limited resources.
  • those who have perpetually try to increase their wealth at the expense and suffering of those who have not.
  • power struggle
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  • wealthy elite
  • common person of common means
  • Power is the ability to get what one wants even in the presence of opposition. Authority is the institutionalized legitimate power.
  • society is in a state of balance and kept that way through the function of society's component parts.
  • biological and ecological concepts
  • Dysfunctions
  • threaten social stability
  • Manifest Functions are the apparent
  • Latent Functions are the less apparent, unintended, and often unrecognized functions in social institutions and processes.
  • unctionalism is more positive and optimistic
  • Equilibrium is the state of balance maintained by social processes that help society adjust and compensate for forces that might tilt it onto a path of destruction.
Daryl Bambic

Five Big Words - 1 views

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      Daryl Bambic on 29 Sep 10
       
      A starting point for explaining the key concepts in sociological research
Catherine Delisle

An Often Misunderstood Concept - University of Minnesota Extension - 0 views

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      Catherine Delisle on 27 Oct 10
       
      This page is extremly helpful for my partner and I because it is based on a research and is highly credible. It explains that peer pressure is often misunderstood. Teens choose like-minded friends, which means that if the friend is pressuring them for something, it's often a thought that has been considered by the teenager before. It gives us a very different point of view on teens and peer pressure.
Daryl Bambic

Chapter 7. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control | Introduction to Sociology - ... - 0 views

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  • personality disorder
  • anti-social behaviour, diminished empathy, and lack of inhibitions.
  • term psychopathy is often used to emphasize that the source of the disorder is internal, based on psychological, biological, or genetic factors, whereas sociopathy is used to emphasize predominant social factors in the disorder: the social or familial sources of its development and the inability to be social or abide by societal rules (Hare 1999).
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  • ociopathy
  • sociological disease par excellence.
  • Cesare Lombroso
  • positivist criminology who thought he had isolated specific physiological characteristics of “degeneracy”
  • James Fallon
  • lack of brain activity has been linked with specific genetic markers
  • environment, and not just genes
  • psychopathy and sociopathy are recognized as problematic forms of deviance because of prevalent social anxieties about serial killers as types of criminal who “live next door” or blend in.
  • we do not know our neighbours well
  • deviance is a violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether folkways, mores, or codified law
  • Folkways
  • Mores
  • laws are norms that are specified in explicit codes and enforced by government bodies
  • rime is therefore an act of deviance that breaks not only a norm, but a law. Deviance can be as minor as picking one’s nose in public or as major as committing murder.
  • Firstly, deviance is defined by its social context. To understand why some acts are deviant and some are not, it is necessary to understand what the context is, what the existing rules are, and how these rules came to be established
  • Whether an act is deviant or not depends on society’s definition of that act
  • deviance is not an intrinsic (biological or psychological) attribute of individuals, nor of the acts themselves, but a product of social processes.
  • moral entrepreneurs
  • individuals’ deviant status is ascribed to them through social processes
  • even when these beliefs about kinds of persons are products of objective scientific classification, the institutional context of science and expert knowledge is not independent of societal norms, beliefs, and practices
  • Crime and deviance are social constructs that vary according to the definitions of crime, the forms and effectiveness of policing, the social characteristics of criminals, and the relations of power that structure society
  • social control,
  • organized action intended to change people’s behaviour
  • maintain social order,
  • enforcing rules are through sanctions
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • formal or informal
  • Formal sanctions
  • Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince (1532),
  • It was not, however, until the 19th century and the invention of modern institutions like the prison, the public school, the modern army, the asylum, the hospital, and the factory, that the means for extending government and social control widely through the population were developed.
  • disciplinary social control 
  • Foucault argues that the ideal of discipline as a means of social control is to render individuals docile.
  • The chief components of disciplinary social control in modern institutions like the prison and the school are surveillance, normalization, and examination
  • seeing machine.
  • rows of desks
  • one-way glass or video monitors.
  • normalization
  • examinations
  • disciplinary social control as a key mechanism in creating a normalizing society.
  • One way deviance is functional, he argued, is that it challenges people’s present views
  • which also contributes to society
  • crime is most likely to occur in communities with weak social ties and the absence of social control.
  • cial disorganization theor
  • A person is not born a criminal, but becomes one over time, often based on factors in his or her social environment.
  • Individuals who believe they are a part of society are less likely to commit crimes against it.
  • Attachment
  • Commitment
  • involvement,
  • belief,
  • studies have found that children from disadvantaged communities who attend preschool programs that teach basic social skills are significantly less likely to engage in criminal activity
  • strain theory
  • that access to socially acceptable goals plays a part in determining whether a person conforms or deviates.
  • Critical sociology looks to social and economic factors as the causes of crime and deviance.
  • but as evidence of inequality in the system.
  • accommodatio
  • discrepancy between the reality of structural inequality and the high cultural value of economic success creates a strain that has to be resolved by some means.
  • consensus crimes
  • Conflict crime
  • Social deviations
  • social diversion
  • The second sociological insight
  • ndividuals are not born deviant, but become deviant through their interaction with reference groups, institutions, and authorities
  • t is not simply a matter of the events that lead authorities to define an activity or category of persons deviant, but of the processes by which individuals come to recognize themselves as deviant.
  • Once a category of deviance has been established and applied to a person, that person begins to define himself or herself in terms of this category and behave accordingly
  • The major issue is not that labels are arbitrary or that it is possible not to use labels at all, but that the choice of label has consequences.
  • Government refers to the strategies by which one seeks to direct or guide the conduct of another or others.
  • differential association theory, stating that individuals learn deviant behaviour from those close to them who provide models of and opportunities for deviance.
  • White-collar or corporate crime
  • sociologist C. Wright Mills described the existence of what he dubbed the power elite, a small group of wealthy and influential people at the top of society who hold the power and resources.
  • their decisions affect everyone in society
  • The goal of the amendments was to emphasize that sexual assault is an act of violence, not a sexual act
  • secondary victimization
  • Women who are regarded as criminally deviant are often seen as being  doubly deviant. They have broken the laws but they have also broken gender norms about appropriate female behaviour, whereas men’s criminal behaviour is seen as consistent with their aggressive, self-assertive character
  • medicalize
  • n part the gender difference revolves around patriarchal attitudes toward women and the disregard for matters considered to be of a private or domestic nature
  • 1970s, women worked to change the criminal justice system and establish rape crisis centres and battered women’s shelters, bringing attention to domestic violence.
  • Interestingly women and men report similar rates of spousal violence
  • more a result of differential socialization processes.
  • Labelling Theory
  • Labelling theory examines the ascribing of a deviant behaviour to another person by members of society.
  • not so much by the behaviours themselves or the people who commit them, but by the reactions of others to these behaviours.
  • Secondary deviance can be so strong that it bestows a master status on an individual
  • Primary deviance is a violation of norms that does not result in any long-term effects on the individual’s self-image or interactions with others
  • Secondary deviance occurs when a person’s self-concept and behaviour begin to change after his or her actions are labelled as deviant by members of society.
  • The criminal justice system is ironically one of the primary agencies of socialization into the criminal “career path.”
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