...The culture of violence theory states violence is sort of accepted in the household. Throughout history when diplomacy cannot solve whatever issue we are struggling with at the time we simply move on to violence or the threat of violence. When words fail fists are introduced into every equation. This is the natural way of progression the only way to fix this problem would be to change our culture way of thinking violence ends all problems. Violence is not something we are born understanding how to do we learn as it we grow and grasp a better understanding at life. Social learning allows for people to be taught how to commit violent act to solve our disputes. As children grow we learn that fighting and over powering someone is the way...
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...Although the Catholic faith is the dominant religion in the Hispanic culture, it is not followed as intended. In the Catholic religion, for instance, it is believed that the couple must sacrifice in their marriage in order to avoid a divorce; nonetheless, there has been a significant increase in the divorce rates. On the contrary to such belief, I do not agree with staying in a relationship for the sole reason of avoiding a sin. My sentiments are true, especially when domestic violence is involved. I have seen several households where the male is the dominant person in the relationship; thus, he is the sole provider of the family. Some cultures, however, take family circumstances, situations, and cultures to extremes. For example, in the majority of the Hispanic culture, the men have a job, outside of the household, while the women stay at home. In such situations, the women are expected to clean, cook, and care for the children, which is a lot of work in itself. Therefore, when issues arise and cause strain in the marriage, they often lead to violence, making the women feel as if they have no choice but to tolerate such abuse....
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...Culture: Men, Women, and Violence We have little evidence about the origins of how culture develops in terms of the roles of how the relationships between men and women and the family evolved over centuries. Except for some isolated societies probably mythological all cultures have been male dominated and their religious underpinnings monotheistic and always interpreted by some form of male priesthood. I know of no exceptions. Only until the 20th century was there clear changes to this andropower and almost entirely in northern Europe. I have often asked myself how did this phenomenon develop. Was it in the formation of families based on women’s dependency on men to survive during the hunting-gathering period, or the nature of child bearing and women’s isolation and freedom to organize with other women? Clearly politics was men’s domain, and they were physically suited for it. They even selectively banned women from their meetings. Or was it in the psyche of men, perhaps the innate fear of female power and endurance. And if so, they could control it by organizing men and creating a single god to lay down the rules as long as they were the interpreters. Women by their nature, their romantic inclinations and their power to seduce men to take care of her colluded in this process. The men, once they had won the women over and with a religiously sanctified marriage that gave men all the decision making powers and control over the women, there was no possibility to reverse...
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...Violence in American Culture and How it Effects Adolescents Parents are starting to believe that violence in video games, television, and music are having effects on their children. With all the violence that is out there in the media today, should parents be worried that it may be having a harmful effect on their children? This is the question that parents are asking themselves today. Some people today are noticing that their children are acting more aggressively today. Teachers are also reporting that children at school are also acting out with a bit more aggression than normal. Could this be one of the effects that violence could be having on children today? Today parents will finally learn about some of the harmful effects that may or may not be affecting their children. There are two sides almost every story, and we will explore both sides to the question, “is the violence in the media having a harmful effect on my child?” It has been said that violent video games have a harmful effect on children, according to David Bickham (2009) of the Center on Media and Child Health, “there is a strong and consistent relationship between viewing violent media and increased levels of anxiety, desensitization, and aggressive thoughts and behaviors among young people.” Bickham (2009) also found that children exposed to violent video games in laboratories behave more aggressively than children who played non –violent video games. There have also been studies done that show the long...
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...their lives, each person has contact with violence, whether they are the victim, the perpetrator, an observer, or a combination of these roles. The culture of a certain group of people emphasizes and explains these violent actions in different ways. It can be described from an anthropological perspective as well, but that description can vary from the explanations given within a specific culture. Through a series of interviews with university students, I found that their explanations of violence were actually quite similar to the anthropological perspective. Specifically, both the interviews and the anthropological studies emphasized the relationship between violence and culture, the ways that social structures determine the practices...
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...directed against those defined as “other” can be assessed by examining an array of factors behind mass violence and genocide. These factors are primarily group cultural history and situational factors, including crises and authoritarian leadership. Human beings do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, people develop and live within a variety of cultures with distinct histories. Our identity and our perceptions of the world are formed by our culture. Our sense of what is normal, in terms of morality or interpersonal relationships are shaped by our sociocultural context. The three common patterns of a culture of violence are: the use of aggression as a problem-solving skill;...
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...In today's society, people with different family backgrounds are facing various problems. Those problems could be either outside or inside of the home, that causes domestic violence. Women are especially the victim of the domestic violence. Most of the women who experience domestic violence are reluctant to express their voice because they are too afraid of the society. In most part of the world, women are affected by domestic violence. In the U.S., African American females experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than that of white females, and about 2.5 times the rate of women of other races ( Roberta Lee). Most of the women try to make an excuse for domestic violence because they are afraid of stereotype or the society....
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...sociological imagination is a quality of mind that allows us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two in society. (Mills, 1959, pg 6). He also explains the links between personal issues and public issues by helping to identify a personal issue and identifying it in the social structure. One tragic public issue that is very common in society today is ‘Domestic Violence’. For many years domestic violence in the family has been a private issue and was never spoken about in society. By using the three sensibilities that make up the sociological imagination which are the historical, cultural and critical sensibilities, society can begin to understand the radical changes in how society thinks we as individuals ‘should’ behave towards one another especially in the family unit according to societies expectations and social norms. The issue of domestic violence within families was evident in earlier societies. Using the historical sensibility we can see how society used to live and see how we have society has transformed our ideologies of this horrific public issue of domestic violence. From the earliest record, most societies gave the father or the patriarch of the family the right to use physical force against the women and children that he was in control of. This was evident in the reign of Romulus back in 753BC. Abbott (1852, p. 242) states that: The power of the father over his household was supreme. He was magistrate, so far as his children were concerned...
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...Scholarship Spring 2013 Oppression, Sexual Violence and Their Effects on Native American Women Isabella J. Baxter '15 Gettysburg College, baxtis01@gettysburg.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship Part of the Native American Studies Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Baxter, Isabella J. '15, "Oppression, Sexual Violence and Their Effects on Native American Women" (2013). Student Publications. Paper 87. http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/87 This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution. Cupola permanent link: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/ 87 This open access student research paper is brought to you by The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The Cupola. For more information, please contact cupola@gettysburg.edu. Oppression, Sexual Violence and Their Effects on Native American Women Keywords Native American Women, Sexual Violence, Oppression, Colonization, White Feminism Abstract This paper is a response to the chapter “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide” in Andrea Smith’s book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Smith argues that U.S. colonial culture strategically uses sexual violence against Native women as a weapon to ensure...
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...In chapter ten of Women’s Voices, Feminist Vision’s, the topic of gender violence is discussed. If I must be honest, this is a topic that I am personally not too familiar with. Although I am familiar just how important this issue across America, and the world, within my own life experiences gender violence has not had a strong impact on my life. However, I still relate to several things within the chapter, In particular, Andrea Smith’s article on the Politics of Inclusion was an interesting read. One of the first things I noticed in the reading was how Smith addresses the ironic assumptions behind how violence is viewed within U.S society. Although for many, violence is something that happens solely at home, Smith goes on to explain how...
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...cultural stability and change, in that parts of the culture are experiencing rapid change while others are staying the same, happen simultaneously. India is a collectivist culture which is experiencing a state of juxtaposition between East and West as it starts to grow economically and globally while it fights long entrenched cultural values that are in conflict with its stated values. It has both system oriented as well as a practice oriented culture(s) in that a third gender is allowed by law but homosexuality is illegal and female infanticide, domestic violence and Dowry Deaths still occur with high rates of frequency. While the country has, and is supposed to be supported by, a democratic constitution that claims to promote equality, it has a history and culture that practices the opposite that still lingers today. India, being a collectivist culture, has historically placed great emphasis on controlling one's emotions and anger in public; however, in a study done by Raval, Raval & Becker, 2012 found that of the juveniles convicted of violent crimes, the father displayed anger and hit family members. This theme of the social non acceptance of openly displaying anger but turning a blind eye towards domestic violence can also be seen in the common terminology “Dowery Deaths” to indicate wife murders as well as traditional domestic violence. Most Western cultures have progressed to the point where domestic violence is not openly tolerated as women’s suffrage has...
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...The dynamics of a family vary vastly between different cultures. The Hmong people in particular are a group of people whose history and traditional values strongly influences the family dynamic. It’s a culture whose principles strongly revolve around hierarchy and patriarchy. Many times the system of patriarchy overpowers within Hmong cultures and women get left behind and often times become victims of abuse. This is an important issue that not many people in the community have addressed because of importance on cultural beliefs, norms, and family honor. I will first start off with a brief history of the Hmong. Hmong people are an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China. But because of political unrest and ethnic cleansing...
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...Mitigating Prison Violence Cynthia Evans CJ522: Comparative Correctional Systems June 17, 2014 Mitigating Prison Violence Violence in prison systems remains to be a persistent problem among enforcers and inmates alike. Not only does it compromise inmate safety and institutional security, it distorts the purpose of prison systems as penitentiary systems meant to discourage criminal behavior. Adding to this complication, the problem is present in nearly all prison systems worldwide, with some systems more prone to it than others. In America, homicide inside jails and state prisons has remained relatively low in recent years at 3 per 100,000 on average (Mumola, 2005). The same cannot be said for Brazilian prisons, however; in 2013 alone, around 60 inmates were killed in Brazilian prisons, and three others died through decapitation and heavy mutilation at the beginning of the year (Cawley, 2014). Violence in prison systems is by no means limited to physical violence or individual assaults. In the first place, “violence in prison” is a broad category, which involves a range of situations and actions from certain parties, with violence as their common factor. It may involve riots, mutinies, and individual assaults. It may also, in fact, be taken to mean any form of violence—usually physical and/or sexual—done by inmates to fellow inmates, or prison staff to inmates. For example, while physical violence is an all-time low in American prisons, sexual violence is on the rise there...
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...Overview “Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.” These are the wise words of renowned author Chris Hedges. In today’s society, this proverbial disease has spread and has come to plague one demographic in particular: teenagers. It appears that incidents of teenage violence are always swarming the media and dominating news coverage which has led to psychologists and sociologists desperately trying to find the source of this aggression. However, even in this epidemic of violence amongst adolescents, there is one social organization in which acts of violence are not just tolerated, but glorified and encouraged as well; the world of contact sports. Could participation in contact sports be a major contributing factor in the widespread occurrence of teen violence? This study focuses on the correlation between teenagers’ involvement in contact sports, and their development of violent tendencies, and it will help reveal whether there is a correlation at all between the two, and if so to what degree. Specifically, it will explain if, through the acceptance of violent acts performed in sports, a teenager is desensitized to violence and assumes those same acts are tolerated outside of the sports environment. It will also tap into the closely related matter of whether the glorification of these violent acts in sports, subconsciously teaches teenagers that violence is a good thing even outside of the sports environment. Finally, it will...
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...that included sex, violence and some forms of nudity. Kent should know this type of video is not suited for teenagers. Brad does not seem to mind marketing this type of game to teenagers as long as his company makes a profit. Kent’s dad should not have encouraged him to continue working on the Lucky project. Although the project would create more jobs it would be at the expense of our teenagers. The game would have legal issues because it involves gambling, which is illegal in some states and definitely illegal for teenagers. There may also be legal issues with selling an American made game to under age children in other countries. 2. What are Kent’s options? Kent can take a moral stand and turn down the new assignment which would probably leave him without a job or demoted. He could also go back to the drawing board and recreate the games according to how Brad would like to sell them. He would still have to consider how the game will affect teenagers in other countries or even on the internet. If he decides to continue working on the project, this would benefit the company’s revenue and bring new jobs for the company. He has to decide what is more important making a profit or taking a moral stand. 3. Discuss the acceptability and commercial use of sex, violence, and gambling in the United States? In the United States sex and violence are a part of most American everyday routine. The videos games that most kids are playing today contain some form of violence and sex (partial...
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