Social Theory and Social Structure

HMS 105 Exam 9 question 1 Discuss differences and similarities between the social learning model and the cognitive-behavioral model. Intro A person who is trying to remain sober has many barriers to overcome. There is a “high rate of relapse during the recovery process” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 261). This is one reason why “more research is being done to address substance abuse relapse” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 261). There are many reasons why a person relapses. Since everyone is individual so is…

education level. Many theories have been developed over the years to provide an explanation for why people commit domestic violence or behave as they do. Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory proposes that people learn from one another, by observation, imitation, and modeling (Boeree, 2006). The Social Learning Theory implies that people learn the procedures and mindset of crime from intimate contact with criminal peers (Siegel, 2010). The perspective of the social learning theory that…

self-efficacy were identified through focus groups conducted for diabetes patient and based on the self-efficacy theory. The self-efficacy theory was developed by Albert Badura in 1994. Bandura (1994) defined self-efficacy as the belief in one’s ability to succeed in a particular situation. The beliefs are the determinants of how people think, behave, and feel. According to the self-efficacy theory, all people identify goals they want to accomplish, things they want to change, and thing they…

Social control revolves around why people conform or break social norms in society by exploring macro-sociological and micro-sociological perspectives. Macro-sociological perspective studies the formal system such as groups, laws, and enforcement that prohibit bad behavior. While the micro-sociological focuses on an individual’s internal belief, values and self-controls. For example, social control believes forces such as family, friends, religion, and moral beliefs regulate human behavior and…

Explanation of Personality Disorders: Here you should be addressing how the theory explains personality disorders. In other words, according to theory, why/how do personality disorders occur? According to the social-cognitive theory, maladaptive behaviors and personality pathologies are the result of dysfunctional learning. Theorists argue that like other behaviors, maladaptive responses might also be a result of direct experiences or by exposure of bizarre behaving models. Moreover, Bandura…

having to restrict myself to schools close to where I grew up. After reflecting on my path to higher education, I will now demonstrate how principles associated with life course theory, as well as exchange theory, had a large hand in my decision to attend university. So how exactly do the life course and social exchange theory intertwine with my life? There are two of the principles from Elder et al.’s article for which I partially credit my success. The principle of agency, which looks at an…

student in Mr. Baer’s class whom is showing various characteristics that are out of the norm for her. This paper will go into detail on five different questions that relate to Annie’s behavior and will apply a theory to the current situation. Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory relates to the idea that cognition has a major effect on how we behave and act. Bandura believed that our behavior and actions were influenced from influences that came from our environments at home,…

physiological effects, health problems, emotional consequences, behavioral problems, cognitive development, and social adjustment (Adams, 2006). This means that children can have eating problems, sleeping problems, higher levels of shame, feelings of fear, sadness, anger, and powerlessness, poorer verbal skills and abilities, difficulty concentrating in class, and difficulty in social development with peers, caregivers, and/or romantic partners. Many other studies prove the same. “Wolf and…

David Letterman confessed that he had sex with the female staff who work on his show. The Social Exchange Theory can help explain why he confessed the way he did concerning this issue. According to our text, “we make decisions about and engage in behaviors we expect to be rewarding” (pg. 378). The Social Exchange Theory, in short, explains and predicts. Furthermore, it explains why people tend to maximize their rewards and minimize their costs. For Letterman, he decided to confess this way…

Operant Conditioning Theory (Operant Conditioning) – Callum Arnold The Operant conditioning theory is an example of a connectionist theory of learning, relying upon the connection between a stimulus and a response. These may also be known as a S-R theories. This theory states that we become conditioned to give a particular response to a particular stimulus; that we have learned to act in a certain way given a certain stimulus. The likelihood of the response is dependent upon the strength of the…