Social Influences On Behavior

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Social Influences on Behavior Megan Libey PSY 300 Ashley Dolecki Social Influences on Behavior can begin in so many different ways. Behaviors can be differential in people’s lives. The two behaviors that will be discussed are homosexual and alcohol and drug use behaviors. First, homosexual behavior has impacted so many people’s lives that there are many problems associated with that lifestyle. There are many different areas of a gay lifestyle like being two males in a relationship, two woman in a relationship, being bi-sexual which means you like both male and female and transgender which is when someone reverses their sex to another, male to female and female to male. It is very hard to keep up with different aspects of what one must do. The rolls of the behaviors in a gay or lesbian relationship can be uncomfortable if you were brought up to respect people or believe it should be man and woman. In relationships a lot can strain the two people, and make people feel uncomfortable when around a big group. It is different when you have a work relationship and one of the co-workers is gay, but when in a social relationship it makes you uncomfortable to see or accept to males, or two females holding hands, kissing, and being flirtatious. The consequences can stem from past relationships, their exes wanting that individual back, and just society in a whole. So many deal with labeling, their lives can be pressured from people who do not accept the lifestyle. In this scenario, a man believes he is in love with a woman and they might go out on a few dates. The transgender male who lives his life like a woman never tells the man that he was born a male. That deceit turns the straight male into rage which could develop into violence. Transgender people need to allow the other to choose if they want that kind of relationship and should be advised when first
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