Root Causes of the American Revolution There are many different reasons as to why the American Revolution took place. One might argue that the British oppression upon the colonists triggered the Revolution itself through unjust tax laws, land restrictions, trade regulations and political and economic differences. However, one might also argue that the differences between the upper and lower aroused conflict and social unrest, which called for revolution in order for a strong unification between the rich and the poor. Schweikart and Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States discusses these two viewpoints as the root causes of the American Revolution. Although Zinn argues that the conflicts caused by the differentiating social classes in order to dissolve the class divisions was the main cause of the American Revolution, the “other side of the story” is told by Schweikart and Allen, as they reason that it was actually the British who unknowingly burdened the colonies with oppression, which brought about the revolution itself.
Assess the usefulness of subcultural theories in explaining ‘subcultural crime and deviance’ in society today. The term subcultural crime and deviance is another way of describing the violation of laws or social norms by various groups within society. These groups have been explored in depth by many sociologists and they have attempted to explain subcultural crime and deviance through the existence of deviant subcultures. Originally, the work of Merton surrounding strain theory claimed that when there was a strain between the goals of society and the means of obtaining the goals then people would turn to crime. However subcultural theorists developed this idea claiming that people experiencing strain seek different forms of success.
The origin of social disorganization theory can be traced to the work of Shaw and McKay, who concluded that disorganized areas marked by divergent values and transitional populations produce criminality. Strain theories view crime as resulting from the anger people experience over their inability to achieve legitimate social and economic success. These theories hold that most people share common values and beliefs but the ability to achieve them is differentiated throughout the social structure. The best known strain theory is Merton's, which describes what happens when people have inadequate means to satisfy their needs. Cultural deviance theories hold that a unique value system develops in lower class areas.
Vietnam helped Americans draw from experience new lessons that drastically reformed the society during the 1960 and 1970s, and called to attention the questioning of beliefs and morals. It demonstrated how war was a threat to economic growth, social stability, and politics, as well as how difficult restoration of such changes
While these differences shape the essays’ handling of development and detail, the authors’ main ideas are contradictory. For Alexander and Shaler, social dislocation causes drug addiction, and while for Gardner drug trade creates gang-related homicide. Alexander and Shaler’s perspective on free-market society shapes their essay. The writing has a systematic argument and clear thesis. Causal analysis and the detail it provides produce strong historical relationship between dislocation and addiction, especially in England in the 1500s.
It does however explain why some people or actions are described as deviant, and can help in understanding crime and deviance. According to item A labelling has changed the theoretical base for the study of criminals. Becker emphasises the significance of crime being a social construct; an action only becomes criminal or deviant once society has labelled it so, and that crime can be argued to be a social construction. He introduced the concept of a master label, referring to the label which a person is given which overrides all other labels. When a person is labelled as negatively, society tends to tend them as such, and this master label often becomes internalised, and then a self-fulfilling prophecy occurs.
This is an age old legal dilemma and is what is effectively meant by ‘balancing conflicting interests.’ In the nineteenth century, von Jhering recognised law as a means of ordering society in a situation where there were many competing interests, not all being economic; as he believed utilitarianism views he was concerned with social aims and results over individuals. His view was that legal developments were driven by the constant tussle between individuals and groups within society to have their interests portrayed and supported by the law. As a result the law acts to determine the true balance between different interests by examining the value of each. Roscoe Pound identified 2 categories of interests in the law. Firstly is social interest, such as health and safety and public order, whilst individual interests include privacy and domestic relations.
The American people rebelled against the British in 1776; this rebellion was prompted by quite a number of events. The writer would analyse the factors which led to the rebellion in this paper. Some of the factors that will be provide the backbone of this paper are parliamentary taxation, the legacy of colonial religions and political ideas, British military measures and restrictions of civil liberties. It is important to note that even though stated the causes are intertwined as with many historical events because some events take place simultaneously and are therefore inextricable although the writer will hereafter discuss them as though they are separate. The first factor is parliamentary taxation; this taxation was done by the British parliament which had no true colonial representation according to the colonialists.
The Danger of Stereotyping Many concerns have been raised about the relationship link between gender, and societal pressures to terrorism. Authors, Michael S. Kimmel, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Noel Sturgeon, a professor of women’s studies and American studies at Washington State University, use different circumstances and examples to discuss this relationship, its validity, and which societal pressures are causing such anomalies to occur ( Kimmel 646, Sturgeon 574). Throughout each piece of academic writing, rhetorical strategies are used to boost the author’s points. Although their arguments are solid with valid points, the authors do have holes in their essays that I disagree with. The
The following essay is based on ideologies, it will consider the concept of ideology itself and why it's so often carried negative associations, also look at the concept anarchist and why the demand the impossible and lastly look at feminism and fundamentalism and why it has grown in significant and if they have the potential to displace conventional thought. Why has the concept of ideology so often carried negative associations? Ideology is a group of ideas, beliefs, or position taken that comes to a decision about a view with which to take as having a certain cause grouping and political material facts. Political ideology has been a confusing topic for social analysts, and those who attempted to eschew judgmental reductions of others’ conceptions