Committee on the Rights of the Child has been urging countries to ban corporal punishment since 1996," in the hopes that making it illegal to hit them will make it socially unacceptable to hurt them (Bazelon 744). ... However, when behavior in children at a younger age was taken into consideration there was little to no difference, whether they were spanked or not. This suggests that children with unacceptable behavior at a young age are more likely to have unacceptable behavior when they get older. ... She argues that "if the social-science research doesn't support an outright ...

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Agents of social control (eg. police or social workers) may have different perceptions than participants. ... Most of the incidents consist of slaps, pushes, kicks, bites and punches, but there are also incidents of dangerous behavior occurring as well. ... Unless a child kills or maims a parent, it is unlikely that the child's violent behavior will come to public attention. ... Certain social and family structures reduce social controls in family relations and therefore reduce the costs and increase the rewards of being violent. ... With the violence the annoying behavior usually stops....

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Partner violence occurs in all countries and transcends social, economic, religious, and cultural groups. ... Societies often distinguish between just and unjust reasons for violence, as well as between acceptable and unacceptable amounts of aggression. ... Even where culture itself grants men substantial control over female behavior, abusive men generally exceed the norm. ... In developing countries women cite the unacceptability of being single or unmarried as an additional barrier that keeps them in destructive marriages. At the same time, denial and fear of social stigma often prevent wo...

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Other academics define bullying as a set of behaviors. ... The primary theme of the social and learning theory is that delinquency is learned through peer group interactions. ... When applied to youths, this theory assumes that juvenile delinquency is learned from others during the course of their social interaction. ... Ideally, parents nurture and reinforce positive behavior. ... It uses readings and role-plays to focus on violence and the related problem of social rejection by peers. ...

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Sex education as promoted by some educators is devoid of morality in many ways unacceptable to our value system, and still has not helped decrease the teenage incidence of sexually transmitted diseases or teenage pregnancy. ... One of the most common issues that affect adolescents" behavior is concern with peer approval. Both in sexual behavior and in all other areas of behavior, teenagers strive to attain social acceptance by their peers, which is common at the stage in which teenagers are. ... Adolescents often prove their parents" lack of control over them by initiating behaviors that are f...

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Marriage is defined as the society whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal belief for the purpose of beginning and upholding a family. ... Enemies of homosexual marriages observe homosexuality as an irregular behavior according to the Christian faith, which is the dominant religion in the United States. Homosexuality has been seen as an unacceptable lifestyle and those who practice it are level to receive criticism if not utter resentment. ... In conclusion, homosexual marriages are wrong in this society but social problems cannot be solved by constitutional ame...

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These include language, religion, social norms and values, education and living style. ... "The classic anthropological theory suggests that while all human behaviors, including market behaviors, take place within a cultural context, human beings are able to influence and even change, through their behaviors, the cultural context within which their behaviors take place." ... First, culture defines acceptable purchasing and product-use behavior for both consumers and business. ... Many of the time, the wrong research is undertaken, as with the example below: "Unilever introduced a super conc...

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Furthermore, individuals should not be permitted to sell their kidneys because the incentive of money is an ethically unacceptable cost in return for meeting the demands of kidney transplantation. ... This is even more likely with the poor because of their health, behavior and where they live. ... Organ transplant is a medical device to advance standards of greater social equality rather than exploit people in poverty. ...

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The first ever-cloned sheep, Dolly born 6 years ago, died from a developing lung disease. Since her birth, she has caused a sensation around the world, sparking controversial ideas of human cloning (Nuland 128). This lead to people questioning whether or not cloning was really a success. Many peopl...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to Europ...

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