The question I feel should be solved by sociologists regard peaceful co-existence and how it could be achieved. The Functionalist perspective theory that tries to provide solutions to social structures that are to be used to maintain stability falls under the topic of political management and war. Controversy has covered the face of the globe over the issue of political and social guidance in regard to attaining superior economic and social order while safeguarding the rights of the people. Therefore I would like to see a sociological research that can define and set parameters that will include the most social and individually accepted form of governance that can bring peace to the whole world. Additionally, conflict perspective data is easily obtainable and could be used in the study to come up with better and practical leadership theories that can be used to integrate peace into the world instead of the day today beguiling social orders that keep fighting against each other.
This is a question that is of great benefit to all living being in the social setting. Peace is truth and truth can only be found in love. The quest to find the best form of governance is still being sought in vain due top divergent ides that conflict thus bringing about war.
The greatest strength of a social-based research is in the five scientific step process of attaining the assumed truth through dedicated research methods that must define a problem, review literature, format hypothesis, collect and analyze data and a well formulated conclusion from the results of the research. The application of operational definitions is equally important in order to achieve specific results without bias. Personal interpretation of data collected from scientific study is usually inaccurate due to bias. Therefore Max Weber advises researchers to apply Value neutrality while engaging research to avoid personal feelings during the study.
My culture appreciates individuals-my thought and my obligation are always welcomed to make a difference in the approach that everyday life should be based on. Therefore there is no frozen and contained kind of approach to life that forces a specific path. I appreciate my culture because of the freedom it grants for every soul to indulge in pursuance of all personal rights, believes and freedoms. Socialization and the right to association is well facilitated by the social setting of my culture hence appropriately making life simpler and eliminating unnecessary fears that exist in various countercultures. My cultures dominant ideology is democracy and freedom for all being despite the diverse individual and social affiliations of the peoples.
Part II - What do you think that Horace Miner was trying to teach us with his article about the Nacirema Who are the Nacirema Reaction papers are to approximately 1 and pages in length, typed, double-spaced with a 12 pt. Times New Roman font (or Courier), and a 1 in. margin, in ms word format.
Horace is exposing the ethos of his people that involves the belief that the body is a diseased and ugly component of life that has to be taken care of all the time. Consequently, the people are involved in severe and extreme cleansing rituals and ceremonies that are aimed at forestalling diseases, pain and negative psychological impacts that are deemed to be detrimental effects of mans unable body. In the light of these ceremonies, therefore every family dedicated much of their time and economic resources to the appreciation of having as many shrines as possible for private and secret rites. Usually children are introduced to the rites by a severe code of secrecy surrounding the shrines chest that contains magical charms that virtually control life. The Nacirema people believe that without the application of the ritual, man is no more this precludes the Naciremas belief about life being a direct consequence of the rituals separate form which life is no more. Personally I find the social orientation disturbing since it is not a universal truth but a conned social control measure that the herbalists, practitioners and medicine men use to potential control the closed economy of these people since s substantial amount of resources are given into the development of these charms. The people are wildly aware of the dangers and effects of these charms that sometimes they are afraid of using them due to various diseases and effects that each charm represents the inability and the forgetful nature of the people is plied on by the charm makers who attach fear of unknown in case one discarded these charms after use. The rituals have a religious connotation and meaning making ablution and other forms of rituals a basic psychological need for life to exist.
My main concern is the beguiling rituals that are attached with supposed injurious effects in absence of practicing these rituals. Well, I believe the Water Temple and the Holy-Mouth-Men are some of the worst lies in this society where mouth rituals like, inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures are approved. The situation is made worse by the supposed personal and social implications like, teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, and their friends desert them and their lovers in case of deviance to the social order. Questions are raised concerning the credibility of these practices. The simple answer could be that this community lacks elaborate and scientifically approved mechanisms to deal with diseases thus the only option has been hijacked by sadistic temple agents and religious men who have internalized the barbaric acts with a social approach that if one negated their application he could be doomed and be rejected by the society. Evidently, fear and rejection sustains these sadistic and machismo practices. Therefore this is a society that is displaying a diverse form of a counterculture.
Week4 Chaper5, 6, 7
For this weeks discussion, pick the theory that you feel best explains deviant behavior. Provide a description of the theory, and state why you feel it is the best theory for explaining deviance. What are the theories greatest strength and limitations
Every society is organized and cemented together by dominant ideologies that are approved of as social norms that define their social integration and behavior. In life, individuals have the power of will and so aptly exercise their right of association while at the same time referring to personal developed opinions that better fit and define that self. Subsequently, social control conformity and disobedience are two likely outcomes of an individual behavior towards the society. And in return the society condemns those who violate social norms calling them deviant to the set social controls rebels are stigmatized.
Crime is rated as the worst form of social order deviance. Crime can range from prostitution and drug abuse (victimless crime) to professional, organized, white collar and transnational crimes. Due to humans inadequacy to deal with crime, punishments have been administered to criminals in the hope to find a solution by altering the dominant crime stimuli.
Personally I believe that crime occurs in accordance with the Routine activity theory that states that there must be a union of motivated offenders and suitable targets of crime for the deviant activity to occur. Generally speaking prostitution occurs mainly when two converge in order to satisfy a need. At the same time a robbery occurs if indeed there is a security leakage that can be determined to be risk free by a lacking or greedy individual before the actual crime is committed. Also for instance, if international trade was to subside immediately, then international crime will be no more.
Stratification and economic policies have facilitated social inequities such as slavery, caste and estate systems that could be blamed for social deviant character. The society through its social order influences can drag individuals to a situation of that exposes them into accepting social deviance so as to live. Although routine activities theory can not adequately define the emergence of social deviance still other divergent factors are not well represented in the model the theory lack the ability to define psychological crimes like sexual immorality. As a result, cultural transmission theory can be applied since it appreciates the idea that people learn and adopt criminal activities while interacting with the society. Routine activities theory results can be merged with cultural transmission theory since the society must have learnt the social deviance from motivation offenders.
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