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us to think what makes us free and how are we restrained from freedom. At first these concepts were difficult to answer because, I feel like I’m never truly “free”. I feel that my freedom is restrained due to being in school and abiding by societal norms. Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. (Webster, n.d.) I feel restrained from school due to the responsibility of abiding by my professors’ rubrics and rules in order to pass my…

Emile Durkheim mentioned the term anomie in regards to some individuals of society which means that they were given to little to no morality support by society’s standards. Popular celebrities were the victims of anomie because they became the victims of their own fame. Individuals engaging in destructive behavior can encounter end results such as drug and alcohol dependency or even death. Individuals tend to succumb to anomie more if routines are disrupted or they are little to know familial…

grandmother cherishes her love him to this date. This commitment with now civil or religious binding is something that could only strive for. More importantly it left me with questions as to what determines a healthy and enduring relationship. My Cultural Norms I was brought up in a devoted Roman Catholic family. Within the small town of San Francisco de Macoris in the Dominican Republic, my family was well known for their involvement in church and are always recognized within the community.…

In 1963, a psychologist at Yale, Stanley Milgram, performed a study on the obedience of humans. The purpose of the study was to research “how easily ordinary people can be influenced into committing atrocities” (McLeod). The main research question was “for how long will someone continue to give shocks to another person if they are told to do so, even if they thought they could be seriously hurt” (“Milgram Experiment”). To study this, “40 males, aged between 20 and 50, whose jobs ranged from…

unofficial rules of society, they are the family and our peer groups. This is how, as Durkheim claimed the moral codes are implanted. The Family functions as an institution of social control by socializing individuals as to accepted and expected norms, values and standards of behaviour of the wider society. If we conform we are praised, but if we deviate from these accepted values we are punished. This punishment may take various forms such as grounding, taking away one’s cellphone ridicule or…

the firing of Julie Tishkoff and 5,300 other employees. Yet, a connection exists between market norms and the breakdown in corporate governance. Within the executive and board leadership, the focus on increasing the monetary value of Wells Fargo blinded leaderships’ ability to follow a strategy that increased the value of services for customers. The breakdown in governance is a direct result of market norms guiding the behaviors of bank…

Social deviance has existed in every place in the world that has norms that people should follow. Howard S. Becker says that ‘’It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant’’. So it doesn’t matter what you do, what it matter is what happens next. Social classes play a huge role as gender roles in social deviance. Because of how people are taught, how their environment is (nature vs. nurture), and things like that, also their culture and the society where…

Julien Smith once said “everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.” With that being saying I choose to be “deviant” in psychology terms and go against a norm. I broke the norm of standing towards the doors in elevators. Often norms are set due to people conforming and just because an action is set in place based off society standards does not mean it is actually correct. The theory in which I choose to study was normative influenced by…

in a community should revolve around being the best person you can be to better the community as a whole. Etzioni spoke of the morality we have as citizens. That citizens in any community are lacking the morality and social norms that we once had. There are no social norms that every single person follows…

In mid-19th century, one of the most controversial wars claimed the territories of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This war is essentially known as the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War lasted an alarming 20 years, from 1955 to 1975. As you could imagine, there were an extensive number of casualties, estimating in over 2 million victims. Of the most claimed, were South Vietnamese, totaling an estimated 430,000 citizens. In hopes of preventing a communist takeover in South Vietnam, several anticommunist…