Cue-Arousal Theory

It's in our nature to compare ourselves with others, to find fault, and to envy. While some judgment is healthy, in fact, it's instinctive (survival), there are times when things get out of hand and people get downright mean and say and do things that are hurtful to the person they are judging.

privileges that the lower classes do not have, such as more wealth. This means the lower class is

the lower end of the income distribution is poor ex officio, as it were—poor by virtue of having

inequality, in the sense that not all people are equal and they should not be equal.

When people are part of a group, they often start to deviate from their personalities, and tend to focus on the opinions and actions of the group. Groups can generate a sense of engaging energy, which can lead to behaviors that a person would not typically engage in if they were alone. People seem to believe that certain behaviors are acceptable when they are in groups that would otherwise not be acceptable if they were alone. Many people believe they cannot be held responsible for their actions when they are with a group because they see the

Is aggression an innate and deterministic quality from birth, or is it something that one that all can control, as a matter of free will and choice, to be used when we need it in a calculated manner? At birth all people are born with aggression as a survival trait. As we educate ourselves as we have seen in the video “The Truth About Violence” even in an educated culture such as the United States we still have violence. Violent people and we are drawn to violent sports such as cage fighting and football. Even the most mild manner people who don’t like violence in movies, sports or anywhere else can find enjoyment from participating in violence. When a person results to violence I don’t believe they can control the amount of aggression

I had no idea what poverty really was or the difference between relative and absolute poverty: many people grew up with this notion built in their minds. One such woman, GAY, ROXXANE. “Peculiar Benefits.” The Rumpus.Net, 16 May 2012, therumpus.net/2012/05/peculiar-benefits/, and she argued that people’s perspectives towards privilege are different and that the way people used the word it is seen as it has become white noise.

There are many definitions as to what constitutes as a group. An assortment of individuals whose views and opinions are systematized by a set of rules or norms, a collection of people who influence each other and more than two individuals stood together interacting are some explanations as to what a group can be perceived as. (Hogg and Vaughan, 2005)

These people could also suffer a conviction and would also be

Edsall, (2015) noted, over the past fifty years, poverty experts have agreed that poverty amongst our people, have gotten better. Thus, according to this article, “there were many rising disagreements over who’s really poor, and what condition the people may live in.” Thus, in 2013, the United States found 45.3 million people living in poverty. However, many of the experts in this article had many different views on poverty and who they figured to be poor. Moreover, relative and absolute poverty was mentioned in this article. Thus, absolute poverty, is not having enough resources to meet your basic needs, and relative poverty, is having enough resources to meet your basic needs. Lastly, this article discussed anti-poverty policy, and how it has marginalized many people. Furthermore, we as social workers need to understand relative poverty in order to deal with this issue.

something. It happens within all social classes, whether poor or rich, you will find someone with this notion everywhere

Relative deprivation is described as feeling deprived of something to which one believes to be entitled. Often it is referred to the discontent people feel with their own social status compared to others leading them to realize they have less, cause them to feel entitled to the same as anyone else. This theory is used to explain why mass shooters commit such violent crime. For example in a workplace setting, an employee can feel as if they have been overlooked for a promotion. The feeling of being deprived of a raise and status change can trigger a person to commit a mass shooting at the work setting.

as the unfair or uneven conditions within the society, where some people control more wealth, money,

Relative poverty is ‘a measurement of the resources and living conditions of parts of the population in relation to others’ (Schwartzman, 1997). This means that people, who are living in a way that deprives them of a similar standard of living that is the norm to their society, can be considered as living in poverty; relative rather than absolute (Fulcher, J & Scott, J 2007).

In 2010, about 46.2 million people were considered poor. The nation’s poverty rate rose to 15.1 percent, whereas in 2009, 14.3 percent of people in America were living in poverty (Censky, 2011). That is an increase of 2.6 million people in 2010. In the United States, the federal poverty line – an absolute measure of annual income – is frequently used to determine who is categorized as poor (Ferris & Stein, 2008, 2010). Currently the government defines the poverty line as an income of $11,139 for an individual and $22,314 for a family of four (Censky, 2011). In sociology, poverty can be defined using two terms – relative deprivation and absolute deprivation. Relative deprivation is a comparison between people and social class. With