The study of the role that social or external influences and social norms have on human behavior is well-established in sociology and psychology, as evidenced in the assigned readings. ... Social norms are the perceived standards of acceptable attitudes and behaviors prevalent among the members of a community. ... However, a person's immediate social environment has been proven, as seen in the above experiments, to have a profound impact on behavior. ... These social influences lead to changes in beliefs, feelings and behaviors that otherwise may not have occurred in an individual setting...

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Many teachers choose isolated behavioral strategies that are not applied immediately after the problem behavior has occurred. ... Positive behavioral support strategies make problem behavior irrelevant by redesigning the environment. Positive behavioral support strategies teach students new skills that are meant to replace the problem behavior with a socially acceptable alternative. Addressing the larger social context surrounding a student can reduce the amount of time spent implementing intensive positive behavioral support plans. ... It includes a setting event, antecedent, behavior, ...

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Reinforcements of a behavior will cause an individual to repeat that behavior and punishments will do the opposite. ... Individuals who watch others act in a certain way, deviant or not, will be more likely to repeat that behavior because all behaviors are learned. ... These definitions can be applied to both deviant and non-deviant behaviors. ... Akers and Gang Lee argue that Akers and Burgess's social learning theory applies to smoking exactly as it does to any other deviant or delinquent behavior. ... Their results proved social learning theory to be an applicable and acceptable defini...

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For years, society has turned to punishment as a method to change a person's negative behaviors. ... Furthermore, my work with children over the past twenty years has given me much reason to believe that a solid knowledge of social mores, norms, and use of good judgment is not always an individual's response to a difficult situation. ... Thus, it is acceptable, and perhaps even desirable, at times, to employ the use of positive methods to indicate that a job is well done. ... However, that does not make it the best method for changing behavior. In the future, if we can impose positi...

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Either they create behavior in order to reduce negative self-perception or they will try to escape self-awareness. ... Perhaps the reason lies within the complex social structure of young adulthood. Many young people do not have a strong understanding of their social selves, and, therefore are more likely to become frustrated and resort to the socially acceptable ritual of drinking. Alcohol can play a significant role in helping to break down initial social barriers. ... Additionally, alcohol can serve as a method of bringing people together and initiating social contact and interaction....

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This incident caused an immediate plea for more socially responsible communities, assuming that greater moral values would curb the likelihood of these argument-related homicides. This relies on the idea that greater social help will lead to a decrease in the rate of crime. ... The morals ingrained in the more stable Northern communities do not find this behavior acceptable and argument-based homicide is therefore more common in less stable communities. ... While social organization is clearly a factor, the more marked distinction is based on region rather than social organization. In the W...

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The intolerance of children exhibiting less than "acceptable" behaviors is not new to our society and social norms. ... There are many effects that might contribute to this behavior including changes socially and physically. ... The first major effect for increased intolerance of children exhibiting "bad behavior" may deal with the social aspect of the child and their community. ... Behaviors outside of this could make for other difficulties not just socially. ... If this behavior is tolerated, children could be inclined to think violence is acceptable. ...

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They openly flirt with married men, and this is completely acceptable. ... The societal expectations placed on Edna were acceptable and normal until she was placed in an altered environment, in which case was a completely different society. ... Essentialism basically emphasizes roles within genders, believing that what is socially acceptable, is the real true essence of things. ... On the contrast, Creole society had many differences in the behavior of how a lady should act. ... By showing two very different societies, and the different social exceptions seen in both of them, one can see...

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Researchers find that female wading birds kill their offspring as a cause of social and/or environmental necessity. Every single day, thousands of women around the world force death upon the freedom of their daughters as a cause of social and/or environmental necessity. ... The slaughtering of the daughter's voice goes back to being a cause of social and environmental necessity. ... The behavior of a girl is always put under criticism; innocent actions such as playing marbles are viciously turned into scandalous behavior. Things that are acceptable for men become very close to sin for th...

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Finally, symbolic interactionism is becoming more helpful in an increasingly globalized world to demonstrate the ideas of different cultures in what is considered indigenous or Westernized and whether or not these totems of culture are acceptable or a part of a new type of Imperialism. Social constructionism, though, is by far the best lens to view and dialectically deconstruct destructive ideas that further inequality and disparity. ... GM, in particular is notorious for this type of behavior. ... The social construction of the personalities of the poor encourage welfare reform and discour...

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The fourth premise is that social control is a response to deviance and crime; coercive forms of social control can regulate or reduce crime and deviance. ... They grow up learning that crime and deviance are acceptable. ... His interpretation of his surrounding environment was that crime and deviance was an acceptable and respected way to live (Capeci and Mustain). ... If the child is punished for the act, they will most likely conclude that stealing is an unacceptable behavior and refrain from doing it again. ... Social order is a highly complex subject. ...

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Drug abuse alters people's behavior and attitude in society. ... Teens look up to their favorite celebrities and hope to be just like them, and in doing so, they begin to justify the actions of their idolized celebrity and deem them socially acceptable. ... Celebrity endorsements have proven to be twice as high in foreign countries due to a social influence. ... According to Ata, 45.6% of high school students are currently trying to lose weight in hopes to feel more socially acceptable (1024). ... Social support is of vital importance to young teens when they are growing up. ...

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Art and the Modernist Museum Précis-Tony Bennett, "The Political Rationality of the Museum- In The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics Tony Bennett discusses the roles the museum plays in regard to the organization of objects and history, the establishment of acceptable public behavior and the display of power. ... The museum also establishes a "norm- in public conduct through behavior imitation, thus serving as a form of social education. ... Reform is called for time and again based on race, gender, class, or other social exclusion. ...

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It seems that the overall point Newman tries to make is that people feel a need to know what appropriate behavior is in order to function as a society. ... As the author is submersed into a culture that is extremely distant from his own, he is forced to re-examine how he defines what is socially acceptable. Through examination of how the Akaramas treat cultural aspects such as physical standards, death, religion, and cannibalism, we can begin to understand how people define civilized behavior by using social rules and inherited cultural standards that have been passed down by previous genera...

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In childhood, uncontrolled behaviors are initially accepted as normal because it is understood that a child has a limited toolbox; absent physical debilitation, the development of language, motor and social skills takes time and repetition and is influenced by the degree of affection/interaction the child receives, the content of direct instruction and role modeling. ... What can be learned from the behavior of an all-powerful person who is never the same? ... Human behavior is understood to be "conduct", which is purely a judgment as to acceptability, but behavior is also an action or collect...

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Unfortunately, experimenting with drinking by college and even high school students is still considered by many to be "normal" and, therefore, acceptable behavior. ... The report also states that, "their perception that alcohol use is socially acceptable correlates with the fact that more than 80 percent of American youth consume alcohol before their 21st birthday, whereas the lack of social acceptance of other drugs correlates with the comparatively lower rates of use. ... Additionally, the common marketing strategy used by bars, such as the "Two-for Tuesdays"...

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Sanakuya means "cousinage," "joking relationship," and it refers to a social norm present especially among the Mandingo ethnicity. ... Therefore, in this essay, I intentionally violated a folkway, an informal social norm that is mildly punished when violated, on the Kamara family because I was very interested in the Kamaras' reactions to experiencing behaviors they were not used to. ... In conclusion, my finding was to get a wife for the Kromah family's posterity through breaking a social norm, which I accomplished, and to reenergize and solidify the cultural bond between the Kromah ...

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Research show that it is definitely a major source of violent behavior in children. ... It is scientifically proved that children copy violent scenes from television, believing that this type of behavior is acceptable. ... Social environment and family lifestyle have been proved to have a direct affect on a teenagers" behaviour. Failure to stop a child from doing something wrong could lead the child to believe that his manner is acceptable. ...

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The disability affects social aspects, which in turn hurt one's ability to behave in an orderly sexual manner. ... Apart from the inapt behavior, there are also behavioral problems that occur with unsettled sexual problems. ... For residents with fair to good spoken language, who also have signs of sexual behavior towards others, there is a rather high occurrence of self-destructive behavior. ... The Mortlock study (1993) explains acceptable physical contact, sex grouping, modesty and naming of body parts as tactics to help the patients develop more rationally. ... If the social tab...

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The disability affects social aspects, which in turn hurt one's ability to behave in an orderly sexual manner. ... Apart from the inapt behavior, there are also behavioral problems that occur with unsettled sexual problems. ... For residents with fair to good spoken language, who also have signs of sexual behavior towards others, there is a rather high occurrence of self-destructive behavior. ... The Mortlock study (1993) explains acceptable physical contact, sex grouping, modesty and naming of body parts as tactics to help the patients develop more rationally. ... If the social tab...

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By shaping the social mores of the community, the system designers can encourage desired behaviors that enrich the stories being told, while preventing degenerate users from ruining the experience for others. There are a number of ways to structure the social mores of a system to guide the behavior of its members. ... The way status is awarded can shape the social mores of the community. ... Socially undesirable behavior is far harder to categorize and cannot be dealt with by the computer. ... However, the community can set boundaries for what kinds of stories are and aren't accepta...

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Furthermore, these barriers also limit a person's social life. ... Gay and lesbian people find it harder to fit-in socially once they have announced they are homosexual. ... This acceptance by the church relieves some of the pressure of social acceptance gay and lesbian people face. ... Many factors influence human behavior in society and two of the most prominent are sex and religion. ... This dilemma changes what is socially acceptable behavior and alter people's opinions on society. ...

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Early identification and treatment of these depressed adolescents who are at risk for the initiation and evolution of serious drug abuse behaviors is critical. Cultural and societal norms frame acceptable standards for substance abuse. ... When drug use begins to negatively alter functioning in older adolescents at school and in the family, and risk-taking behavior is seen, intervention is warranted. ... Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment. ... The following risk factors for drug abuse by adolescents were identified: biol...

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"Like all founders, Watson organized and promoted ideas that already were acceptable to the intellectual Zeitgeist" (Schultz, 2002, p. 247). ... Second, both human and animal behavior would be investigated. ... "By the 1920's, universities began offering courses in behaviorism and the term was becoming acceptable in the professional journals" (Schultz, 2000, p. 287). Watson's behavioral psychology primarily discussed the elements of human bodily behavior, dealing exclusively with acts that could be observed objectively. ... Social learning theories were stealing the fame from the old...

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Even though the social interactions, social customs, and social rituals between the Arab Culture and the Mexican culture are vastly different, they are surprisingly similar regarding family relationships. ... Public displays of affection are considered unacceptable and rude, even between spouses, in the Arab culture; whereas, Mexicans consider touching or kissing members of the opposite sex in public totally acceptable behavior. ... Culture, though, is a thin veneer that provides the rules of behavior within a society. ...

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