If the fifth premise were true, then no one would commit crimes or become deviant, which contradicts the second premise of deviance and crime should be expected. The fifth premise also seems invalid because it does not account for the vast number of criminals that are in jail or that have been executed. ... The fifth premise is based on the idea that societal crime and deviance are a product of social control. ... An example of this is a child who shoplifts at a young age. If the child is punished for the act, they will most likely conclude that stealing is an unacceptable behavior and refrain...

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To illustrate this idea Bauman uses a famous short story by Rudyard Kipling: "A centipede walked effortlessly on all her hundred legs until a sycophantic courtier began to praise her exquisite memory, which allowed her never to put down the thirty-seventh leg before the eighty-fifth, or the fifty-second before the nineteenth Brutally made self-conscious, the hapless centipede was unable to walk any more." ... These rites act as a "go between" and social signal when moving from one social state to another; foetus to child, single to married and life to death. ... After the birth of a child the...

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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. The female has also been the one parent with the responsibility of seeing that the school age child was well read and homework was complete. ... 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 avoi...

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The fifth classroom was stationed at Preschool B, a preschool regulated by a Catholic church in the same city as Preschool A. ... Their monitoring was as discreet as probable, and they intermingled modestly with the children, even though from time to time a child would ask what they were doing or "write " their own "notes " while sitting next to them. ... Apparel, specifically the color, indicates a child's gender; gender in preschool is color-coded in fact. ... Dresses can also be lifted up, which can be embarrassing experience for five year old's if done intentionally by another ch...

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The fifth principle of differential association theory is that ``definitions of the legal code as either unfavorable or favorable has a significant influence motivation and drives for delinquent behavior, for instance if a person interacts with people who perceive violating some laws as a normal or acceptable behavior, that individual is likely to violate those laws. ... That implies that more illegal behaviors are defined as normal and acceptable by an individual, then it is likely that that individual will develop deviant behaviors, for instance a child born within a street family in Nairobi...

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The fifth concept I learned about was cultural relativism. ... This form of marriage is interesting because the parents are in control of who their child marries, and then it up to the children to accept each other only after they are married. ...

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