Normative

and thoughts. More specifically, when behavior breaks legal norms, it is considered criminal behavior, a subfield of abnormal behavior that is also stigmatized and entirely categorizes a person and a group based on these "deviant" behaviors that normative society is unfamiliar or unaccepting of. I can specifically relate this concept to the idealization that considers those who are attracted to or have sex with others of the same sex, along with their actions and feelings, deviant simply because…

other behaviors of those we are surrounded by. Why do we feel the need to comply with those around us? Why are people considered different for going against the social norm? There is said to be two reasons for conformity, normative influence and informational influence. Normative influence is when people conform in order to be liked or accepted by others. An experiment by Solomon Asch was used to test this reason for conformity. A group of students, one was a victim while others were…

Since women have less opportunity career options and financial security, society has set up a system where women experience depression more often. By stating women experience more depression, the statistics form a stereotype that depression is a normative experience for women (Corey, 2013). Another example is eating disorder…

A consequentialist theory is a type of normative ethical theory wherein the key determinant of whether an action is the right one, is the result of the action itself. Utilitarianism is a type of consequentialist ethical theory in which the utilitarian argues that the right action, is the action which augments the pleasure that is experienced by the actors involved (Bentham, 1994). In this essay, I will first elaborate upon the technical terms and other semantic variances which are specific to…

Today the term ideology is used in a much broader sense. According to Cole (2017), “ideology can be described as a set of conscious and unconscious ideas which make up ones’ beliefs, goals, expectations, and motivations” (p.4). Ideology changes over time and has the ability and flexibility to adapt to the changing circumstance within the environment. Everything contributes to ideology changing over time, including changes in historical events, society, technology, ideas, economic development,…

To protect restorative justice, active responsibility is an important element but, it is also argued that there could be injustice if passive responsibility has ignored. However, concerning of Brent Fisse’s theory of reactive fault, many criminal justice systems execute the concept of casual fault and reactive fault. The balance between this two fault very from one jurisdiction to another but, for example, in some Asian jurisdiction, reactive fault is the greater fault than causal fault.…

Throughout history, philosophers have attempted to define and establish countless theories relating to the moral principles of the world. Some of these ethical theories include, but are not limited to, Cultural Relativism, Egoism, Kantian Ethics, and Divine Command Theory. Cultural Relativism is the theory that there are no objective moral claims across cultures. Another theory, Egoism, claims that human acts should be done solely in the interest of ones self. Kantian Ethics is centered around…

To Begin, in one of the studies, it studies if a child helps an adult by their own voluntary choice or by giving the most helpful means so the adult can achieve its goals. The way they would figure out this solution is by applying pairs of functional and dysfunctional objects to the children. Another solution to figuring out this problem is requesting dysfunctional objects to achieve the Adult 's goal. After the second solution, they were trying to figure if when providing dysfunctional objects,…

non-democracies respond to rivals in the same way because security and survival of states is always at risk. Layne identifies two strands in DPT strands: 1) Institutional constraints (structural account), and 2) democratic norms and culture (normative account). He dismisses the first strand as being weak…

lower class as an important part of (a system where people own money and valuable things)" (Schaefer 39). "The normative approach takes the view that (unfair, pre-decided bad opinions) is influenced by (related to social pressure, how people act toward each other, etc.) normal behaviors and situations that encourage or discourage the tolerance of minorities" (Schaefer 40). Normative approach can also be seen as (a person's strong feeling that he or she must do certain things in order to be…