Deviant Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Introduction

While many certainly agree that white collar crime presents serious legal issues the sociological implications, regarding deviant behavior, is not always obvious. No discussion inspires a proper balance for analysis without a relevant definition of our terms. According to a ‘Sociology’ glossary, published by the McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2014) group deviance is defined as “Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.” The same glossary defines the concept or theory ‘anomie’ as a Durkheim term for “the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective” (“Sociology Glossary,” 2014). In an effort ...

Introduction

Pragmatically, the deviant behaviour of white-collar criminals provides students of sociology a different exploration of how human nature works in clandestine operations in plain view. Society, at least superficially does not suspect a so-called white-collar individual of criminal behaviour in general, as stereotypes tend to lead people’s thoughts in the direction one way or another. While, the dishevelled, unkempt, anti-social “looking” individual exists as suspect of deviant behaviour by his/her mere appearance including labelled as a criminal in some regards, the white collar individual stands in society appearance wise as an upstanding citizen (Goode 2008).

Historically, the concept of white collar is not so new:

Edwin Sutherland created the concept of ...

Sociologists refer to deviance as any behavior, characteristic or a belief that violate, or deviate, or depart from, a basic norm and is likely to generate negative reactions or perceptions by the persons who observes or hears about the norm violation (Bartos and paul, p17). In addition, they further outline the ABCs of deviance as: Attitudes, Conditions and behaviors. Adler and Adler (2009) clearly explain why these ABCs are considered to be the major types of deviance. He explains Attitudes as any unpopular, unconventional beliefs that may or may not depict themselves in overt actions. In regard to behavior, he explains ...

The Marxism theory is the cornerstone of all relationships, but suggests that the economy can bring power, while the conflict theory is only the cornerstone of all relationships. They both advocate for social relationships, but the latter does not support the issue that power can only be gained by economics. Conflict theory is an alternative of functionalism, and it gives a macro sociological perspective (Bartos & Wehr, 2002).
It brings out the elements that are normally constant in the society, and these are hostility and resentment. Power is different in the different levels of social status. Resources are also fought ...

In sociology, crime and deviance are studied when cultural norms, changes it goes through over time and the consequences that occur when they are broken are studied. With help of norms, individuals learn to exert self control from the activities that might destroy the peace of a society. Social norms differ in different parts of the world. It means that if for one society a certain social act is abhorred it might be considered normal in another society. Sociologists study the reasons behind these differences and how it effects the population living in those societies.
Deviance is the name given ...

Module #4

Module #4
The cause of criminal behavior can be attributed under two theories namely, the Positivist and Classical. Under the Positivist theory, it can be referred to the deviant behavior of every human being is based on the one’s genetic composition. The intrinsic evil qualities of every individual will force him or her to give in to the criminal behavior. The logical explanation for this theory is that the criminal mind has a close connection to the biosocial perspective which includes the physiological and biological traits acquired by birth. On the other hand, the theory under the Positive ...

The movie “Monster” leaves a viewer with the controversial thoughts about the focus of the film. On one hand – it is more than obvious that Aileen Wuornos, the former prostitute, has been justly condemned to the death sentence, taking to the consideration all the murders she has committed. On the other hand – Aileen Wuornos’s conscious has been harmfully injured after being repeatedly raped by her father’s friend. This so – called “event” has marked the beginning of her hate towards men. The catalyst, which has led to much deeper mental disorder and to murders as a disclosure of ...

Introduction

The three areas of peacemaking areas in criminology are religion, critical and feminism. Fundamental rationalization of criminology is that basic reaction to crime does not bring better understanding of problem solving. Criminology offers the context that crime is due to problems that people suffer like poverty, alienation, abuse among other reasons.
Criminology holds the stand that crime perpetuates itself through policies and social control programs that are repressive (Downes, 2011). These incorporate methods that ensure that solutions for crimes are implemented in the society. In different ways, this reduces violence and crime in general.
It is a more ...

Bullying, while physical in nature, can have lasting social and psychological consequences that can profoundly effect the emotional and cognitive development of young people. Aggressive behaviors, both in traditional settings and in the virtual realm, have been shown to have deep and lasting challenges to their capacity for personal relationships, emotional stability, and overall success. This is true for both the victims of bullying and the bullies themselves. In assessing the research that has been done in the field of bullying it will be possible to establish a general criteria to determine the overall consensus in regards to the ...

OVERVIEW

The two theorists we chose for our research are Robert K. Merton and Peter Blau. Two famous American sociologists of XX century. Their theories will be applied to the article named Should we worry about gene editing which apparently exposes the author`s opinion upon the new biological researches and the ability of biologists to influence our body artificially.
The credibility of an article is proved by the fact that the author of the article is Robert Klitzman, a renown professor of psychology at Columbia University.
There are several ways of approaching the problem, but first of all, we ...

Mark Warr carries out his research using a paper by Sampson and Laub (1993) as a starting point. Sampson and Laub have proposed that life-course transitions such as marriage, employment, and entry into the military may have significant effect on criminal behavior. Sampson and Laub had also sought to examine criminal behavior over a subject's entire life and not just the teenage years. The carried out this research on data from the 1950s which has known for its comprehensiveness. They had found that marriage and job stability had significant effect on criminal behavior in adulthood. Warr argues that their analysis is not ...

Psychology of humanity is as interesting as presented by Bowlby in this article. The idea that human beings view the world through mental images that can change at the event of a new experience or set of experiences is interesting, and relates closely to the subjective views that many people hold. This ideal therefore holds a valid stand in the psychological areas of humanity and relationships. The subsequent section explains the variances that inform attachment theory.
The exposition of the attachment theory explains a critical phenomenon in the life of humanity and psychology. From the previous study of young children and ...

Discussion # 1

Discussion # 1
Discretionary death penalty laws are considered more just, fair and reasonable than mandatory penalty laws because it allowed the jury the option to impose life imprisonment instead of death (Bohm, 2012, p.9). Mandatory death penalty can be considered as contrary to justice, fairness and morality because of the theory that criminality was not freely chosen by the criminal, but the criminal behavior of such individual was a consequence of biological and environmental factors that are beyond such person’s control (Bohm, 2012, p.9). Based on this premise, the motivation and causation that influences an individual to develop ...

Therapy is an important approach of treating mental and behavioral problems. There are different types of therapy that are common and they are suitable to different people depending of the circumstances. The three important therapies that are addressed in this research are bahavior therapy, family therapy, and psychoanalytic therapy.
In psychoanalytic therapy, the psychologists listen to what their patients say about their previous lives. According to the therapy, the early lives of the people and the important events in their childhood help therapists to analyze the possible causes of the problems that the patients may be currently facing. ...

Introduction

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

The modern pharmaceutical industry has currently developed several medications in an effort to address a wide array of concerns—concerns that they hope could be addressed by medications. However, along with that development is the ever-increasing number of individuals resorting to substance abuse. A number of substances, despite their medical value, are ...

Michael Pichinte, 39, and his nephew Christopher Pichinte, 20, were arrested in San Bernardino County, California on October 31, 2012 and charged with murder, carjacking and robbery. Their victim was Eduardo Martinez III, 40, of Victorville, California, who was found dead along the side of the road. Police gave out no real details about the suspects or their motives and only stated that they had “found evidence linking the two to the murder.” Sabrina Martinez praised her deceased husband as “the most loving, sincere, respectful, honorable and loyal person that I have ever known” and said that “his whole ...