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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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. ... Our society has given approval to spanking as an acceptable method of child raising and discipline. ... With the violence the annoying behavior usually stops. ...

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Social media is the way teens stay connected in modern days. ... Anyone that meets an age limit to a specific social media website can make an account, whether it be their real identity or not. ... Bullying, cyberbullying, and related behaviors may fall under a single law or multiple ones. ... Its horrible to think that there are so many kids out there that think it is acceptable to act so harsh towards other people and get away with it. ... It should not be acceptable for someone to do such a thing to another person, even if it isn't face-to-face. ...

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Heroes and role models have the ability to mold minds and make people emulate their behavior. ... They understand that what they do will be perceived by many people as right and acceptable. ... We have some preconceived notions about what is acceptable in our culture. ... In my opinion, we place too much emphasis on what is socially acceptable in our role models. ... We emulate their behaviors and incorporate them into our everyday life. ...

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Others see not only the physical but also the social, emotional and intellectual differences between male and female. Gender roles influence women and men in virtually every area of life including family and occupation, but are women and men subject to different roles or behavior expectations? Gender roles by definition are the social norms that dictate what is socially appropriate male and female behavior. ... Society begins teaching them certain values and creating in them certain behavior patterns acceptable to their social roles. ... Many of these women were ladies of means and social po...

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In addition, prostitution, as a gendered institution serves to reinforce and perpetuate one of the cultural images of women that is largely responsible for their continuing subordination, namely, the perception that a woman's sexual behavior, availability and/or desirability are important facts about her social value or position. ... The third factor is marginalization, "People who are marginalized are excluded from, or absent from, core productive social roles in society "roles which convey self-respect and meaningful contribution"" (Pg. 76). ... Consider rape, the complainants past beha...

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Gender roles are sets of behaviors and characteristics associated with men and women. ... Gender is a social construct, a term that was invented to explain a social and biological difference between men and women. ... This compares heavily to the media now a days in the fact that we still let the media determine what we deem acceptable in sex and gender. ... Divorce rates are currently over 50% and with this shift in what is deemed acceptable, no longer is anyone ostracized for wanting a divorce. ... The final example I want to use in how gender and sex differ is through what public figures te...

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With the advances in technology with smart phones, digital tablets, and online social networks, the entertainment industry is stressing the development of the more popular themed games for the new gamers of today. ... Most studies on aggressive behavior have been on the influences that lead to this behavior. ... This media violence could encourage some individuals that aggressive behavior is acceptable by seeing it in games and television. All humans will encounter social conflicts and problems. ... Yet again this portrays false realities in most cases of social differences and problems of eve...

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Many other social issues, such as racism, for example, are far more prevalent in some regions than in others. ... Their prevalence alone makes them one of the most important social problems we can discuss as a society. ... When an idea of behavior is controversial, it will be seen sparingly until it becomes widely accepted. Over time, seeing a thing over and over can desensitize the viewer, thus making the thing more acceptable to the audience. ... Gender One source defines gender as "the behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females; masculinity or f...

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Partner violence occurs in all countries and transcends social, economic, religious, and cultural groups. ... Asking behavioral questions "for example, "Has your partner ever physically forced you to have sex against your will?... 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. ... At the same time, denial and fear of social stigma often prevent women from reaching out for h...

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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 who have sexual intercourse at this stage often do so out of the need to prove to themselves that they are lovable and acceptable. ... Adolescents often prove their parents" lack of control over them by initiating behaviors that are forbidden such as sexual intercourse. ... "The media expose adolescents to the s...

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Here they have found work, opened shops, raised families, built schools and churches, and formed social clubs and sporting teams. ... (Swanson, Territo, Taylor, 2012) The theories that illegal immigration impacts the most are the organizational theory and behavioral theory. ...

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First, negative social change andsecondly, the breakdown of family. ... The parent that would take care of the social and emotional growth of the child, not to mention the teaching of personal needs of the individual child's growth. ... Children are taught how to use foul language by hearing acceptable playground or social language at school and inappropriate things that would have be terminiated at the onset by the mother would have more time to spend with the child, it the child's bad behavior could have been avoided. ... Social changes have also take a significant roll in destroyi...

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Last of all, much of the public who disapprove of television violence believe many psychological and behavioral problems occur with children who are overly exposed to violence. ... Furthermore, television violence protesters believe children who are overly exposed to television violence find aggression and brutality as an acceptable way to achieve goals and solve problems (Edgar 34). ... Mary Hepburn, a columnist for Social Education states, "The scenes and sounds of television exercise great influence over young people. ... Those who defend television violence children attending permissive sc...

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Violent behaviors associated with gangs include possession of weapons, sexual harassment of peers and teachers, bullying, verbal intimidation, arson, drug trafficking and use, and graffiti. ... Principals at urban schools express great concern over youth gang activity, but rural administrators claim "community cohesion and geographical isolation would reduce gang related behavior in their schools." ... A school that allows students to wander and litter the halls and allows graffiti to be a common sight on the walls, invites students to test the limits of acceptable behavior. ... A 1995 Youth R...

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The middle and lower class majority cannot afford, neither economically nor socially, to be non-conformists as Emerson and Thoreau prescribe. ... Man is a social animal, and as such has a natural inclination to follow the behavior of his neighbors. ... Moreover, the individual possesses a responsibility to act wholly upon his/her own will, without regard or succumbing to the pressure society exerts on the individual to act in an acceptable manner. ... Were everyone to act as they would, regardless of society, the result would be political and social anarchy and society would suffer in conseque...

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Researchers at the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology claim that aggression in animal behavior reflects competition for resources and its benefits vary in relation to the characteristics of the resources – such as abundance of them, controllability, and spatial distribution – while the costs vary based in relation to how the animals choose to fight. ... Another factor to take into account when considering the acceptability of torture practices is the so-called "ticking time-bomb scenario.... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's go...

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Researchers at the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology claim that aggression in animal behavior reflects competition for resources and its benefits vary in relation to the characteristics of the resources – such as abundance of them, controllability, and spatial distribution – while the costs vary based in relation to how the animals choose to fight. ... Another factor to take into account when considering the acceptability of torture practices is the so-called "ticking time-bomb scenario.... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's go...

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Another use of state surveillance can be found in schools whereby surveillance is used to monitor deviant behavior and criminal acts that may occur by students or even teachers. ... In countries that are prone to terrorist, state surveillance may be accepted and be the norm, but in other countries this may not be acceptable to the citizens. ...

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Social and cultural differences have made the United States what it is today - the melting pot of the world. ... German society finds that a couple living together before marriage is completely acceptable. ... Despite social changes the family remains the most important social reference unit. ... Between the two extremist are center-right and center-left groups, ranging from Christian Democratic Union to the Social Democratic Party. ...

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Thus, while the Abolishment of Slavery of the late 1800's and the Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties may have diminished the impact that racism could play out in the open, these efforts have ultimately failed, to a great extent, in actually driving racism and discrimination to extinction because today, this toxic behavior is as prominent as it ever was. ... For instance, allegedly "good" white people such as Sally Phelps and Miss Watson display no awareness about the social inequality and discrimination of slavery. ... Generations who were raised in the founding y...

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