Sianne Ngai’s explanation of the contemporary aesthetic category of the cute reveals the darker side of human nature‚ accurately explaining that what people find cute is what can be violently destroyed—that which we have power over is cute. Animals‚ especially younger animals‚ possess a vulnerability that arouses a sort of destructive impulse in people: they often say they could devour or cuddle to death subjects they find innately cute. Cuteness is everywhere in children’s literature‚ but it makes
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J Heffernan General Theory of Crime Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi have devised the General Theory of Crime‚ or the GTC‚ as a way of explaining root causes of criminal behavior in an effort to find a solution to the problem of crime in America. The GTC is defined as: A developmental theory that modifies social control theory by integrating concepts from biosocial‚ psychological‚ routine activities and rational choice theories. (1) Unlike other crime theories‚ the GTC considers the
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years‚ more and more research has come to the forefront regarding organizational deviance. It is widely accepted that employee deviance has been increasing in recent years and the topic has become much more publicly discussed‚ especially in light of recent scandals such as Enron and WorldCom (Appelbaum et al.‚ 2005‚ p. 43)‚ and‚ most recently‚ with the mortgage crisis in the US economy. In addition‚ employee deviance has a large effect on the economy with some researchers estimating the financial
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Examine some of the reasons why females may be less likely than males to commit crimes. Women in general seem to have a lower rate of offending than men. Some sociologists take the view that it is social factors rather than biological factors that cause the gender differences in offending. Sociologists have put forward three main explanations of gender differences in crime‚ which are the sex role theory‚ the control theory and the liberation thesis. The sex role theory and the control theory
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Society is to blame for the crimes of its youths. To what extent is this true? Crimes of the youths‚ refers to the failure of a youth to perform an act specifically required by law. It has been reported that‚ along the years‚ the rate of youth crimes has shown a tendency to increase. Truly‚ from the case of Mary Bell to the Virginia Tech Massacre‚ every time public awareness and anger was arisen. At the same time‚ more and more young criminals are exposed to the public limelight‚ and we begin
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patriarchal nature of contemporary society. Cultural assumptions determine a person’s position in the socially constructed hierarchy that has been created by the ruling class who tend to be white‚ heterosexual‚ able-bodied‚ wealthy males with outdated disablist and sexist attitudes (SWLF 3726‚ Multiple Identities; Stanford‚ 2015). The literature provided by both Ghai (2009) & Dossa (2009)‚ place an emphasis on the fact that it is not individual abilities that prevent participation in society but the cultural
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Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance‚ by Steven Spitzer‚ critiques the way that traditional theories explain deviance‚ offers components for a theory of how deviants are produced and more specifically explains their production in a capitalistic society using Marxian theory. Traditional theories placed attention on the individual and ignored important aspects surrounding the subject like the political and social structure of that time‚ both are critical and contribute to the definition of deviancy
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CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: DEVIANCE Viel Elysse N. Cansino Concept: DEVIANCE is the outcome of social strains due to the way the society is structured. For some people‚ the strain becomes overwhelming to the point where they do deviance as a way to manage the strain. Often their deviance is due to their feelings of anomie—meaningless due to not understanding how the social norms are to affect them. This is usually because the norms are weak‚ confusing‚ or conflicting. Robert K. Merton
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Explain the relevance of sociological thinking to care in contemporary society. Sociological thinking to care is an objective‚ unbiased form of thought in which challenges out approach to common sense‚ biased beliefs we have in society. Common sense refers to our assumptions about certain criteria or groups in society in which we’ve grown into from our own cultures. These are beliefs‚ which have no evidential back-up or proof of research - just biased personal opinions which as subjective
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