Social philosophy

The knowledge of right and wrong and the concept of respectful morals that vary from person to person is not a skill that you are born knowing. Understanding these types of concepts is not an easy task to accomplish and is not something that you are born knowing or can learn out of a textbook. Instead, to acquire this knowledge you must be willing to open up to new ideas and have the ability to broaden your perspective. Maturity is a very sought after theme that most people usually associate…

Many times we are faced with situations that can cause us to consider compromising our values. Maybe you have been offered a job with a company you do not respect, but you really need the job. Maybe you disagree with your boss’s business practice but are too shy or too afraid to rock the boat to stand-up for what you really think or believe. When confronted with these situations, it is sometimes difficult to stick to your guns or stand your ground. I think it is important to stand up for what…

Organizational Values and Codes of Ethics A mission statement, in my opinion, is like a road map. You can use your mission and values to set a course. Keeping that course can help you reach your goal/destination faster and easier. We can see in the example of Clay Walker that a mission statement can be derived from a very personal experience. JEAN E. PALMIERI (Dec 2011) explains how Clay took his firsthand experience and turned it into his life’s work. That to me is a true mission. Keeling,…

Paradox of freedom Freedom is the power or right that enables someone to act, speak or think according to personal interest without hindrance or experiencing resistance. In connection to the freedom, it requires to be controlled whereby having freedom does not automatically prove one if free. Freedom is also associated and connected to some level of fundamental obligations. It requires one to use freedom wisely as it comes with responsibilities. The paradox of freedom is the essence of…

During Thanksgiving break we were asked to ask our parents about this election and what they thought about it and how that affected me and this country. It was an interesting assignment for me and my family because we usually do not talk about politics and especially because it was a really crazy election. Before I speak about the views of my family I have to shed some light on my background, and what ethics actually is. Explaining what ethics, I will explain how my family felt with this…

“It is not the act itself that makes an action deviant, but rather how society reacts to it” Howard Becker. Becker describing it perfectly, in the social world, once in a while someone decides to break or violate the social norm that is know as deviance. Because different groups have different norms, deviance is viewed and defined differently depending on one. What could be considered normal in one culture can be considered deviant in another. There are different types of deviances and theories,…

tend to come across my mind will be strange, inappropriate, and rule breaking. This is because deviance is an explanation for behaviors or actions that breaches social norms, be it for formal breaching or informal breaching of social norms. Thus, it is some sort of rule breaking because deviant behaviors are those that breach the social norms, which is like a rule for the society. Deviance may be action or behaviors that are inappropriate because it deviates from what is appropriate in the…

Council’s first belief is that social justice evades an easy definition. These is the step that discusses what social justice is. Social justice is a term that defers depending on what context it is being used in. The term can lead to the discussion of many different topics: racism, sexism, classism, culture, spiritual belief, etc., and the term can be very controversial. When people think of the term social justice, who they are can determine what they believe social justice is. Because of…

My group was assigned the broad topic of social deviance and crime. Social deviance is a phenomenon that has existed in all societies where there have been norms. There are two possibilities for how an individual will act in the face of social norms: conform or violate. However, there is often a blend of conformity and deviance in the ways people behave. Furthermore, deviance can be relative to time and place because what is considered deviant in one social context may be non-deviant in another.…

In stark defence of the status of the sociology of deviance, Roach-Anleu justifies the study of deviance “…we can examine the emergence of norms, the contestation of norms, evaluations of behaviour, assessments that some people are outside the normal expectations, disagreements with those assessments, attempts to change or modify behaviour, and so on…Deviance exists where some people hold others to behavioural standards’ (Roach-Anleu, 2005). Roach Anleu examines this in Deviance, Conformity &…