...SOCIAL CONTROL AND CRIMINAL DEVIANCE: BULLYING Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying Princess L. Cato Professor Scott SOC100 08/09/2015 SOCIAL CONTROL AND CRIMINAL DEVIANCE: BULLYING Collecting information is essential for any research that an individual is conducting. Gathering data and analyzing it will help simplify and organize the information that is presented. Throughout history every culture or society has had unique norms that are acceptable to their particular group. In order to establish and come to the acceptance of the basic norm, each society must develop their own strategies and techniques to encourage the fundamentals of behavior which is very clear in modern society. Most individuals assume that everyone in a society will follow and respect such norms. However, some individuals tend to deviate from the adequate norms and demonstrate deviant behavior. Nevertheless we are inclined to ask ourselves “Why do we as people decide to violate such important standards of living?” Collecting information is essential for any research that an individual is conducting. Gathering data and analyzing it will help simplify and organize the information that is presented Bullying is defined as verbal comments, actions, behavior or tactics that are used to hurt an individual. Bullying can play a form of different roles which consist of people who are bullied, people who bully, and people who witness bullying is connected to many...
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...Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying By Jonah Miller Strayer University Sociology 100 Professor Catherine Terry August 10th 2015 Bullying has become a permanent part of schoolyard play. It is sad but true. Bullying has three key components. First; unwanted, aggressive behavior. Second; a real or perceived power imbalance. Third; recurrence, and the potential to be repeated over time. The mixture of these three dynamics creates a situation that moves beyond conflict to become persistent persecution. There is a strong relationship between bias and bullying. The targets of bullies are often from a group marginalized because of certain characteristic such as race, immigration status, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, gender identity or size. What’s the most effective tool against bullying you may ask? By creating an inclusive learning environment that supports all students, educators maintain a space that is inhospitable to those who would bully. Everyone including administrators, teachers, cafeteria staff, bus drivers, assistants, substitute teachers, parents and students has a role to play in creating an anti-bullying climate. This culture must exist from the cafeteria to the classroom. Also remember that not all bullying looks the same. Harder-to-detect actions, such as spreading rumors or isolating a student from friends, can also constitute bullying. Students may hesitate to even call the harassment they’re enduring “bullying”. Will every bully turn...
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...feburary 13, 2016 | ------------------------------------------------- Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying into to sociology feburary 13, 2016 | ------------------------------------------------- Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying into to sociology First I would like to start off by saying that I truly enjoyed that video and definitely had to let my daughter watch it so she can see the causes and effects of bullying from another stand point. However doing this assignment hit home for me. I have witness so much bullying its crazy which is why I chose to pick collect and analyze data as an important step to analyze bullying. Bullying goes unreported all over the world. My focus is to discuss the effects of bullying with kids and their schools. If time was taken out at schools to analyze and collect data from different kids being bullied then it will a more hands on approach on day to day treatment a kid may be enduring during school hours. However, ever that’s if you can get them to address the situation. Often kids who are bullied are afraid to speak up. They fear that it would only make the situation worse than what it is. School bullying in my opinion is the worst kind of bullying. Kids have a way of being so cruel and mean to each other. They drag others into the drama by using social apps or just spreading rumors amongst others at the school. If there are adults who can barely handle bullying I can only imagine what kids may feel...
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...Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying Deborah A. Wilson Professor Emmanuel O. Obi SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology 15 February 2016 Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying Out of seven possible choices, the most important step I believe would be step 3, “selecting the appropriate method” in order to analyze the data correctly. By selecting the wrong method research, it could lead you down the path that would give you too many variables and the wrong conclusion. In the case of analyzing bullying, I think the use of “participant observation” method would be more advantageous because the tester is afforded an opportunity to actually live the life as an active participate and also be able to have a detached observation especially in our case bullying. Most people know or have heard of bullying within the school, sports, mass media, by peers, at work, even in religion and by family but the latter is the one that is the least acknowledged or reported. Where do we think bullying starts or is learned first? Most times it is at home in the family between siblings or from mother to daughter or father to son or even children to parents. In these cases, the word used is not bullying but other words that are less damaging consequently sibling rivalry or just being boys, sometimes personality conflicts. What happens when your family are bullies? Even in the household, it is very common for siblings to pick on each other but at what point is it just playful antics...
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...Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying By: Professor: Lisa Riggleman Course: Intro to Sociology Date: November 15, 2015 What is a bully and who can be considered a bully? The term bully can be defined as a noun or a verb. The definition of a bully is a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker. This is the noun version of this word. Now the verb definition is, use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants. The most important step in a student’s guide to research in this situation would be frame your research question. To me this means finding out what you are planning to ask and discuss with someone or about something. Having the proper questions and research is the best way to have a successful project. The one question I would like to know is why people are bullying in the first place. Where does bulling take place the most is something that should be asked by everyone? Bullying relates the most to the agents of socialization (i.e., family, teachers and school, peers). School is one of the many places that bullying seems to take place the most. Anyone being bullied should take their concerns to a higher authority or adult. Being bullied in school can also affect the person at home. This can lead to them lying to their parents, eating problems, or depression. Most kids today would rather keep the fact that they are being bullied to themselves because they don’t...
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...Assignment 2: Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying Bridget King Marilyn (Mari) Sango-Jordan SOC 100 November 15, 2015 Bully has come a long way from the days of the sand box and the school yards, Bully use to be no more than simple teasing due to the fact that deep down they truly wanted to be friends with you, or they just had low self-esteem. The true meaning of bully is the use of both force, threat, and even some form of intimidation to dominate the other person. This behavior is very often repeated until the aggressor gets their desire result. In this paper we will discuss into more detail the behavior of bullying. The most critical step in researching bullying is to think about the question that you are answering. Why has bullying being compared to genocide and how has it progressed into such an extreme and senseless form of violence. By asking the questions: Where did this behavior come from? Were these bullies’ victims of bullying in the past? Are their parents to blame for not stopping their behavior earlier in their lives? Or did their parents simply ignore the signs. By asking the right questions we can dig deeper into the reasoning behind the bullying to truly get to the root of the matter. Looking at the situation from a sexual deviance, many bullies are a result of fatherless homes as a result to acting out due to not having that strong positive male influence in their lives. In result many young men become mean and heartless, they are...
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...Assignment 1: Evaluating Bias in Research Penny Williams Professor Virginia Merlini Sociology 100 January 25, 2015 The first step in research is to Frame the research question. A Research Question is a statement that identifies the phenomenon to be studied. For example, “What resources are helpful to as drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias. To develop a strong research question from your ideas, you should ask yourself these things: Do I know the field and its literature well? What are the important research questions in my field? What areas need further exploration? Could my study fill a gap? Lead to greater understanding? Has a great deal of research already been conducted in this topic area? Has this study been done before? If so, is there room for improvement? A well-thought-out and focused research question leads directly into your hypotheses. What predictions would you make about the phenomenon you are examining? This will be the foundation of your application. Many clinical research studies are funded by pharmaceutical companies and there is a general perception that such industry-based funding could potentially skew the results in favor of a new medication or device. The rationale underlying this perception regarding the influence of industry funding is fairly straightforward. Pharmaceutical companies or device manufacturers need to increase the sales of newly developed drugs or devices in order to generate adequate profits...
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...Chapter Eight: Deviance and Social Control Chapter Summary Sociologists use the term deviance to refer to any violation of rules and norms. From a sociological perspective, deviance is relative. Definitions of “what is deviant” vary across societies and from one group to another within the same society. Howard S. Becker described the interpretation of deviance as, “…not the act itself, but the reaction to the act that makes something deviant.” This coincides with the symbolic interactionist view. In some cases, an individual need not do anything to be labeled a deviant. He or she may be falsely accused or discredited because of a birth defect, race, or disease. Even crime is relative when interpreting the deviance of the actor. Deviance is based on adherence to and violation of norms. Human groups need norms to exist. By making behavior predictable, norms make social life possible. Consequently, all human groups develop a system of social control, which involves formal and informal means of enforcing norms. Those who violate these norms face the danger of being labeled “deviant.” Violators can expect to experience negative sanctions for the violation of norms. Members of society who conform to societal norms, especially those who go above and beyond what is commonly expected, receive positive sanctions. In some societies, such as the Amish, shaming is a common negative sanction that acts strongly as a means of social control, minimizing deviance. Biologists,...
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...DEFINITION OF DEVIANCE Sociology defines social deviance as an act of omission or commission of an offense where perpetrators risk facing state prosecution and legal punishment. Therefore, the sociological study of deviance looks at various social laws, their influence on the individual and societal behavior, and potential punishments for lawbreakers. Indeed, Kubrin, Stucky, & Krohn, (2009) note that sociology appreciates the fact that social norms vary in description across societies. This implies that an action that is deviant to one community may be morally acceptable to another. Moreover, sociology recognizes that while societies play a more important role than individuals do in creating and imposing norms and rules. This means that views on deviant acts existing in individuals more likely relate to their society’s responses to the behavior (Kubrin, Stucky, & Krohn, 2009). Norms are rules and expectations by which members of society are conventionally guided. Deviance is a failure to conform to these norms. Social norms differ from culture to culture. For example, a deviant act can be committed in one society that breaks a social norm there, but may be normal for another society. Over the years, sociologists have come up with numerous theories and concepts that help explain the causes, effects, and solutions to deviance. For instance, originally studied at the Chicago School, the social disorganization theory owes its application to deviance as a social issue to...
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...Notes Crime and Deviance 1. Basic Concepts Sociology Central www.sociology.org.uk Crime and Deviance Basic Concepts In this section of the course we will be exploring the nature of conformity to - and deviation from social rules in both our own and other societies. In order to do this, we will initially need to understand a number of basic concepts that we can develop. In more detail at a later point. Before we start to do this, however, it might be useful to briefly map-out the various general areas covered by the syllabus. In this respect, we will be looking at a major aspect of deviant behaviour in our society (crime) and the way such behaviour is associated with various social categories such as: Class Age Gender Ethnicity Locality / Region In simple terms, we need to look at the various explanations of crime and deviance that have been produced by sociologists over the past 100 or so years. The concept of power is a very significant one in relation to the way social rules are created and applied and, for this reason, we need to examine this concept as a means of understanding the nature of social conformity and deviance. A significant aspect of (deviant) behaviour is the reaction of others to that behaviour and, in this respect, we will be particularly concerned with an examination of the role of the mass media in the process of Deviancy Amplification. The concern here will be to outline the role of "official" agencies of social control in our society...
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...Grace A. January 30, 2016 11 – Benevolence T. Francis Deviance Deviance is a behavior or action that goes against the social norms of a society. I choose Deviance as my topic because there have been a lot of social norms that have been broken through the years like how same-sex marriage, abortion, divorce, and euthanasia are a few examples of act that were not permitted and so was considered an act of deviance. Knowing this, a study of deviance in sociology would be relevant because there would many factors to consider in identifying what is a deviance in society. Like in the table made by Robert K. Merton, deviance can be affected by conformity, innovation, ritualism, and retreatism. If all four are failed to be met then rebellion becomes the new means which leads to deviance. Another example would be the hippy movement of the mid-1960’s where in people around the world wanted peace so they banded together and made communities that propagated about ending the war and making peace, but that ended badly as these hippies were not only propagating peace, but also rebellion against the government for letting the war go on. There are several theories about deviance like social pathology, biological theory, psychological theory, social disorganization theory, labeling theory, anomie or structural stress theory, conflict theory, and cultural transmissions or differential association theory. Social Pathology is how deviant behavior is caused by physical and mental illness...
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...Running head: FINAL PAPER- DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL Final Paper Deviance and Social Control Sociological Foundations Oklahoma Wesleyan University Matthew Charles Colaw November 16, 2010 Abstract This paper is covering the different forms of deviance and social control. The word deviance is defined by actions or behaviors that violate a cultural norm. Deviance can be a formal crime or an in-formal act that is not perceived as normal in the culture. Each culture or group in this paper has different sets of norms and moral standards. This paper will discuss deviance within cultures and that many cultures can have different views on deviance. Social control is developed within a culture to punish the deviant acts. These topics will be discussed in the paper. Deviance in text book and from the internet source refers to any violation of a culture’s norms. This violation of cultural norms could be as insignificant as simply speeding a few miles an hour over the speed limit or a major crime such as murder. Deviance is further explained when Howard Becker stated, “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.” Each culture has a set of cultural norms and when an action or behavior causes a negative connotation in this culture it becomes deviant. (Jim Henslin, 2010) (Robert Keel, 2007) In the textbook it discusses different cultures and how certain acts are deviant. The...
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...usefulness of labelling theory to our understanding of crime and deviance (40 marks) Synopticity – Crime & Deviance and Theory Labelling theorists such as Becker and Lemert argue that because of the diversity of different values in society, there can never be a universally agreed definition of what constitutes ‘normal’ or ‘deviant behaviour’. What is deviant for one person may not be deviant for another. Labelling theorists argue that social reactions means labels are attached to certain people. For example, studies of the media by Cohen, Young etc. indicate that media social reaction may result in groups such as gays being labelled folk devils (such as aids carriers etc.). Fundamental to labelling’s traditional belief is that negative social reaction, in the form of labelling, causes an actor to become one with the deviant activity placed upon him, and, in many cases, leads to development of further deviance. Theorists believe that the stigma people feel from this labelling propels them toward, instead of away from, future deviance. Lemert made a distinction between Primary deviance and Secondary Deviance that labelling truly acquire prominence. Primary Deviance refers to an individual committing any norm-violating behaviour, usually without personal or social consequences. Secondary Deviation is deviant behaviour generated when one is placed in a deviant social role as a result of negative social reactions – having been processed and labelled as deviant. Once labelled...
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...Deviance The study of deviance is the basis for criminology in sociology—the study of crime and its effects on society. nDeviance refers to the socially disapproved violations of important norms and expectations of a society. nWho is deviant differs from one culture to another. nStigma is the mark of deviance (the Scarlet Letter). n 5/17/2002 1 Social control n n Social controls are sanctions which try to keep people from deviance. Internal social controls are behaviors and attitudes socialized into the individual to protect them from deviance. External controls are society’s mechanisms like the law and the police. Since everyone breaks social rules and norms, the sociology of deviance usually refers to those who do it big-time. 2 5/17/2002 Theories of deviance Who becomes deviant? Why do they do it? 5/17/2002 3 Labeling theory n Labeling theory: a person becomes deviant when they get labeled as such. Getting a deviant identity means distinguishing between primary and secondary deviance. Primary deviance is where most people do something deviant but it is not discovered; secondary deviance is where a person takes on the identity of a deviant and may be thrust into a “deviant career.” Labeling theory fails to explain when being labeled deviant can jolt someone out of becoming a career deviant. Deviants are seen here as helpless victims rather than bad guys 4 5/17/2002 Transmission theory n 5/17/2002 Cultural transmission theory...
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...HOW MIGHT THE LABELLING OF ACTIVITIES AS ‘DEVIANT’ SERVE AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CONTROL? Deviancy is considered any behaviour to violate cultural norms and it is essentially split between two formations; formal deviancy (crime) and informal deviancy (social). Social control is a product of social learning via labeling strategies, it is composed of both informal and formal mechanisms and maintains that the exploitation of socialization and social learning contributes to the individual building of self-control, and in the reduction divergent behaviour. Both controls enforce labeling as a sanction to shame the supposedly deviant character; it infers that the individual has earned disapproval from society due to failed expectations of behaviour. Labeling theorists propose that criminality comes from the response to behaviour as an alternative to actual violation of the law (Wellford, 1975), this is evident in society’s acceptance of illegal downloading despite the sanctions and group in powers values. Durkheim views this defiance as a necessity to an ever changing society where deviance is of use to maintaining functionality, social constancy and collective consciousness, when this is absent anomie is said to arise. Labelling theory holds much of the same stance as conflict theory in emphasising the power of social groups and social control in expectations and stigmatisation. Where the delegation of labels creates sub-groups within society each group is anticipated to fulfil certain...
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