Rick is a 37-year-old man who has been experiencing a bumpy road through his entire life. When we was young his mother Fiona would mentally and physically beat him daily until she drank herself to consciousness. Ricks father left him and his mother when he was just a newborn and Fiona angrily blames Rick for his father leaving. His entire life Rick learned awful traits from his mother, he had no role model nor anyone to look up to for guidance. As he aged he ended up dropping out of school and finding his way to a military style boot camp. Rick has a hefty record full of theft, driving under the influence and assault. He has seen the inside walls of a prison more then once for the decisions he has made. Behaviour …show more content…
What shapes behaviour is based on three main categories. The culture of people around one another shows a tremendous influence when surrounding yourself daily. Society has a huge impact on people, when neighbouring yourself with people you spend time observing their qualities and traits. By a force of habit most people tend to pick up some of those traits and make them a part of who they are. The environment you surround yourself with can have a huge influence on people. When you compare unfortunate poverty towns compared to middle class housing, the environment changes shockingly. People tend to loose respect for their town when they live in poor unhealthy conditions, and that’s when property crime really strikes a high. Comparing to middle class towns people seem to have increased respect for their town by taking care of their property. Comparing these three categories to Rick we have a better understanding why he turned out the way he did. The culture, society, and environment Rick was raised in were very broken and had no real structure. Rick had no signs of positive reinforcements in his life, his mother put that aside and used punishment and abhorrence to replace any positivity in his …show more content…
Learning from his mothers social learning and situational factors have sculpted Rick into the man he is today. Behaviour is so powerful when displayed, it can and will be picked up by others especially children who depend on their guardians. Rick behaviour is outrageous, he is very angry, socially awkward, and disturbed with his life. He displays his emotions by acting out in ways that are socially unacceptable. Rick acts the way he does simply because it is what he has been taught, he merely grew up observing that abuse and anger was acceptable in his house and as a result he treats others in such an unfortunate