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...?Norms My response: Values that a business manager may make use of in making business decisions are not just ethical values, but also there are several other norms and values that are taught in subjects other than Ethics. For example, in subjects like Law, students are taught about “Workers’ Compensation”. “Worker's compensation is basically an insurance program, mandated by law, that protects employees if they become ill or injured while carrying out the duties of a job” (Holetzky, 2011). The employer is obliged to pay the worker his/her normal day salary if the worker can not attend the job because of his fever or other such reasons. However, these norms are different from ethical...
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...Destroying Social Norms Throughout history even as late as the early 20th century, women have been virtual slaves to the male-dominated world. Very few women were able to discover a life filled with self-expression and self-determination thanks, in large part, to the restrictions placed on them by their legal and social status. Charlotte Perkins Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” wrote specifically about these female problems by providing a glimpse into the strong mind of a woman who finds herself a prisoner to the external dictates of husband, society and invisible legal status. Although she does her best to resist her confinement using various different means, she discovers she is...
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...?Contrast Paper Social Norms vs. the Nature Nature has a strange way of showing itself in people’s behavior, their liking and disliking, and sometimes the society and the norms can collide with the nature or the inner self of an individual as shown by the two brilliant short stories; The Lady with the Lapdog by Russian author Anton Chekhov and Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx. In the latter, the plot revolves around two men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who fall in love with each other; a homosexual romance which is considered taboo in a society. In The Lady with Lapdog by Anton Chekhov, Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov, a married man and Anna Sergeyevna, also married, start a romantic bond with...
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... that roles of gender and sex are the product of acts that are repeated and ritualized in order to define what is meant by those terms. Even deviances from what are considered norms become socially constructed towards the identifiers of sex and gender. While Butler discusses these concepts under the umbrella of choices made, she clarifies later that what she means is while social construction of both sex and gender are created through the choices made, they are by no means voluntary choices. The compulsion to enact gender or sex through the acts that are considered non-conforming are also enacting gender and sex that has been designed by society. The development of ways in which to name different gender types, such as transgender... and...
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...?Evolution of Gender Norms Introduction The role of women and position has been changing as a result of several issues that were solved through liberation. From a humble and oppressed background beginning in the 1800s, women have been faced by serious challenges that could not be solved by the actions of their male counterpart. Despite women active participation in the struggle for the abolition of slavery, they were sidelined, and several rights denied. The right to vote, own property, child custody among others were issues that the movement started by Elizabeth Stanton (Allan & DeLuzio, 2009, p. 23). The first wave of liberation, which has been named feminism led to the allowance of...
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...is sometimes complicit in creating new tensions upon gender identity norms. However, it would be important to comprehend that the social construction of gender is permeated with symbolic acts. This comes through the characters attempt of doing gender, which involves can either reify or destabilize the socially constructed beliefs. It is the manipulation of symbols in order to manage the socially established of the dual presence of masculinity and femininity. These two variables of gender have with age, been evolving...
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...Is Crime a Psychological Defect" Compare the arguments of one psychological and one social theory of crime. Introduction Crime comes from the Latinword crimen, meaning guilt or accusation. Crime is an act that is either committed or omitted which results in the violation of rules or laws of a governing authority. This governing authority, such as a country or a state, is also responsible for determining punishment for specific crimes. This punishment is carried out by the same governing authority in order to maintain social order and to compel obedience to its rules by its constituents. By social norms, crime refers to a defiant behaviour which violates a standard of a...
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...around them, they might be surrounded by people who strongly believe this opinion, and it can be a social norm for some people to express views similar to those of certain media. By questioning those views, people will stand out and thus might be scolded or receive negative attention.
Based on the example above, I think Muslim culture has a lot to offer and we cannot make generalizations about all the people of the group based on the behavior of only few representatives of the group. Unfortunately, our media falls in that trap. I wish the American public can be more educated through media, and not only about horrible events that attract so much attention, but also about different...
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... perspectives and the answers provided present another unique set of perspectives. It endorses personal rights and protection of individual expressions instead of established norms and socially idealized behaviors.
References:
Jenkins, Richard Social Identity 2013, Routledge
W.Lee, Janice Gender Roles 2005, Nova Publishers
Lareau, Annette Social Class: How Does it work? 2008, Russell Sage foundation
S. Kimmel The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts 2007, Vanderbilt University Press... challenge established social norms and ideologies as the advice given is in favor of personal rights and protection of individual expression of the self rather than submitting to an established paradigm of...
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...How Gender is Represented/Constructed/Performed in Public Spaces Introduction In this world today, the public spaces play quite a significant role in the economic and social life of the different communities of the world. Big town and major cities of the world have all kind of public spaces and meeting spaces which are quite significant social resources (Innes and Jones, 2006, p. 12). The public spaces in this context include places where people adversely converge; the street markets, street parks, playgrounds, residential areas, neighborhood areas, shopping stalls and the high streets. The public spaces also include the ‘micro spaces’; street corners and stairwells...
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