Created By: Mecca Abdullah
This video explains how or why a person can become a bully. One of their many reasons is that they are being abused. As I stated earlier, all behavior is learned, which means if a person witnessing or enduring abuse then they may mirror those actions to other people.
In conclusion, we as people should not avoid the issue of deviance and isolate the "deviant". But confront the problem with individual. Their actions can be a cry for help and what good is the cry if no one is there to hear it?
The majority of us follow the the rules or social norms in society. So if the majority of people "act correctly" why do some choose to act against the social norm? All behavior is learned; therefore deviance is learned also. How does one become a deviant? One of the main factors of a person acting out is labeling. Calling someone other than there birth given name can give an individual the ammunition to act against the social norms . For example, an adult calling a teenager a juvenile or a judge stating that an individual is a menace to society. After being labeled a negative name, that individual can become isolated which may cause them to act against the social norms that the majority follows.
http://youtu.be/b9zN7qOP21gThis video explains how or why a person can become a bully. One of their many reasons is that they are being abused. As I stated earlier, all behavior is learned, which means if a person witnessing or enduring abuse then they may mirror those actions to other people.
In conclusion, we as people should not avoid the issue of deviance and isolate the "deviant". But confront the problem with individual. Their actions can be a cry for help and what good is the cry if no one is there to hear it?
Submitted by Edwin Rivera
ReplyDeleteI thought you did a great job at connecting deviance to stigma's. I agree that many people may act against social norms as a result of the negative labels and names they are given. I think it is just as important to consider how often people are deviant even when they aren't given stigma's. Great work!