Conclusion -> draw together main ideas/arguments An outsider does not fit into society and they will do what they see to be right. Although the legal system is meant to be fair, it is only fair to society. If some one is different society tries to outcast them. More often than not, justice does not reach as far as the outsider. Justice is what is seen to be right and just by society and this means that society is catered for.
Why or why not? In my honest opinion prejudice is hard to measure because it cannot accurately be predicted or judge by a test. I feel like prejudice cannot be measured accurately because the test shows the association between different groups. The only thing I can see the implicit association test is measured are the groups that I may belong to or fit in. People cannot show the result of being or prejudice because people are known to select things that they are more familiar with, things that they are more commutable with, and things that they see in their everyday environment.
This then lead for official statistics and the law enforcement to show a bias towards working class boys. This research shows how deviance only exists because people have decided to attach a label, thus the labelling theory is useful in explain how a deviant and criminal behaviour is classed as this. However, it fails to explain why some people certain crime and deviance in the first place before they are labelled. Also, as said in Item a ‘’deviant individuals are labelled when their actions are discovered and provoke reactions from society. However, this reaction will take differing forms, depending on how the nature of the action is perceived.’’ But as well as this, labelling theorists look at the effects and reaction it causes the individual to take.
14). The initial reaction to this would be to say that gangs are awful and have no place in society and we should do away with them. This is probably true to an extent but what about the idea behind gangs. It gives youth a sense of purpose in a world that makes them feel like they don’t belong. Of course there could be more structure which would cause gangs to be less damaging to our culture but the original idea behind it is a good one.
All these things and much more happen here in the United States. Where is the freedom in that? Most people do not see the horrible way some people may lose their freedom, or maybe they choose to not see. I am in no means saying that some of these people may not deserve to lose their freedom,
Some may begrudge a colleague for doing a task a certain way because they think it is wrong but in another culture it is considered acceptable . Our life experiences have most likely affected the way we think about people and we all have our own personal like and dislikes too .All this can have a significant effect on how we think of things. It is unlikely that we can
We may stereotype all priests to be pedophiles based on personal experience or a news story and not judge the person by his own merit and actual social characteristics. Thus, we may misjudge others, if we are not careful to examine everyone as an individual instead of grouping people into preconceived categories. We have expectations of people based on our notions of who they should be according to society instead of individuality. The disadvantages of these tendencies are that we may be less likely to access and accept an individual for who they
So Teiresias kept rebelling against Oepidus to let him go and not to bother him. In todays society humans are also like that. They think more of what might happen to them than how its going to affect the other person. This can be interpreted as selfishness. This is something that is common between children, adolescent, adults, and senoir citizens.
Rap music and or television has given the lifestyle of being a gang member or drug dealer as an exclusive identity because you are “badder” than others and gives members who are affiliated with those groups the misconception that they part of some form of the upper echelon. No one desires to leave a group that is feared, talked about, and wanted. Especially if that meant that those young men would lose the respect that they perceive they now glean from being a member of said group. They would only leave if the attraction no longer exists. If things were to change within the group, whether it is someone or something they disagree with they will leave.
Everyone has their own image of how individuals or groups of people should be portrayed. Also many people don’t realize that they are stereotyping, it may just be a habit. People are also raised to look at an individual and classify them into a certain group. Stereotyping cannot be avoided, it is an image that society has constituted to classify individuals to groups of people. Looking back, I realize that we have been raised in a society that substitutes a person’s lifestyle and personal choices to a stereotype.