The Importance Of Social Bonding And Violence In The Family

A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess is commonly(different verb) praised for shedding light on Toxic masculinity - even in 2018 - when in fact perpetuates and even normalizes this toxic form of masculinity. The form of barbaric violent masculinity alex portrays is just that, barbaric and violent to men and women today. However a Clockwork orange almost “inspires” some to adopt this toxic masculinity. Anthony Burgess tries to raise awareness for a reality he unknowingly inaugurates.

In “Shame: The emotions and morality of violence,” James Gilligan, a professor of Psychiatry at New York University, argues to make a point that shame can lead to violence in a certain amount of people. After working and interviewing with two convicts in a prison, he learns that there are three preconditions to be met before being considered violent. The first is to not show their feelings of being ashamed due to it threatening their masculinity. The second is that they can’t counteract shame with their social status, achievements, friends and family. The last is not to feel love, guilt, or fear. These preconditions make Gilligan more understanding of the inmates and their lives.

The term sociological imagination was developed by American sociologist C. Wright Mills to explain the relevance of everyday issues on a social level. He examines “personal troubles and how they can be understood in terms of large-scale patterns that extend beyond individual experience that are part of society and history” (The Promise of Sociology, 5). In the reading, Mills went on to express how personal trouble is a public issue and that one must understand his or her own history before they can go on and understand how they themselves fit into society. A social issue, also known as a social problem, is an undesirable condition that influences many people in society to think it can be fixed. An issue evident in society that many people

At young ages, children can be influenced greatly by the things they see around them. A child’s mind is easily influenced at young ages. Fear is a major influence that can shape the way a young girl/boy grows up. In the article “Why boys become Vicious”, Golding states, “when people are afraid they discover the violence within” (Golding).

The way kids are raised by their parents effects their decision making and their values, beliefs and self-image until the day they die. If a kid grows up figuring things out herself or is neglected etc., that kid is forced to do what is necessary to develop as fully as possible. Hamama and Arazi describe family relationships as being crucial in the development of the child. The article specifies that two direct ways that kids are hurt is through family cohesion and subjective well being. Family cohesion, in this article, is defined as the connections between family members that each family has, while subjective well being talks about people’s understanding of the life they live and how they react to everyday situations and how all that effects their emotional and cognitive mind. These two factors have shown to be directly correlated to children acting aggressively or unpleasant, according to Hamama and Arazi. Children’s aggression behavior includes three parts, according to Hamama and Arazi. “1. A cognitive dimension-hostility;2.an emotional dimension-anger; and 3. A behavioral dimension- physical and verbal violence” is how they defined aggressive behavior. Those two factors are largely what influences children and their development, in Hamama and Arazi’s eyes(Hamama and Arazi). This article lays a great foundation for the explanation of Into the Wild.

Every day I go on TV, there is at least one story or more relating to rape, assault towards woman, and of course violence. It is getting repetitive; as a result, more and more people are starting to brush it off their shoulders like a dust. Within rape culture, there is controversy on which it is to blame. The writers Walter Moseley and Rae Gomes write an article about the remedies for rape culture “Ten Things to End Rape Culture” and how it can create an atmosphere that enable both sexes to change for the better. In “Masculinity Is More Than a Mask”, Christina Hoff Sommers discusses the relationship between violence and masculinity when she critiques and analyzes a documentary based on the biological side of masculinity.

In my opinion, I believe one of the biggest factors that is associated with relational violence is within family factors. Although I believe individual factors play just as big of a part in relational violence, I am going to talk about the family factors today. I have read many stories and met people who grew up in abusive situations, whether it's the parents abusing the children or the parents abusing each other. According to Busby et. al (2008) confirmed in a “study that children who witness violence from their parents perpetuate that violence as children and are more likely to be violent as adults” (as cited by Knox & Schacht, 2013, p. 384). Also, if children were the ones being abused, they are that much more likely to be abusive towards

From ages of 8 to 12, all the negative tendencies present in their early childhoods were exacerbated and reinforced. In this period, a male child really needs a father, and it was in just this time period that the fathers of half the subjects disappeared in one way or another…. Potential murderers became solidified in their loneliness first during the age period of 8 to 12; such isolation is considered the single most important aspect of their psychological makeup. (Swiss Criminal Profiling, Childhoods of Violence?)

The theory that best connects with the issue of family violence is systems theory. This theory entails that the “family as a system is thought to be best understood through the recognition that family members (as the parts of the system) interact with one another in such a manner that, over time, these interactions become patterned behavior” (Sutphin, McDonough, Schrenkel, 2013) Every family member that is within this family are characterized as subsystems. The main sub-systems are parent-parent, parent-child, and child-child. In most cases, what happens in the parent-parent relationship impacts both the parent-child relationship and the child-child relationship. A type of violence that can occur between the parent and parent relationship

A friend of mine had experienced conflict with her significant other, and it escalated into violence. They were experiencing the common couple violence. She withheld information from him, with the fear of hurting his feelings, and eventually the boyfriend found out and it escalated from there. While I was not there at the time it started, I received a phone call to come act as a mediator. I do believe that my friends conflict was caused by the chilling effect, which is caused by avoidance and the element of fear. The two ended up verbally abusing each other as I was standing there. The conflict was managed by the boyfriend leaving the house and I could talk to her alone. I feel the conflict was managed the right way by him leaving, instead

I still remember the event happened in China few years ago, the woman, who had a baby just eight days, was battered by her husband and his mother, and the baby was taken away from her without permission. Her mother-in-law asked her obey her rule that the wife’s family members couldn’t come to visit her. Based on the Chinese culture, if a woman marries with a man, she would have to follow the rule which was set by her mother-in-law. But in this news, the rule was ridiculous. If she hadn’t followed this rule, she would have been hit by her husband and his mother. Her husband often dragged her down by her hair, grabbed her by the throat, and banged her head off walls. Maybe someone will ask why she didn’t call police or divorce with her husband.

One clear consequence of living within a culture that embraces values of toxic masculinity is that of the increased likelihood of boys and men to act out with violence to deal with their emotions. When surveyed, only 54% of first grade boys at Woods Charter said it was okay for boys to cry. A 1999 self-report survey of victims of violent crime found that 86% of reported perpetrators were male. (Greenfeld, L. A., & Snell, T. L.). This trait, despite how ¨innate¨ it is claimed to be, is

A problematic social upbringing where children are forced to interact with parents taking on violent roles has a huge impact on their own behaviors. In this story the children gain a sense of attachment and shared identity, which is facilitated by violent family values and rituals, such as, murder and violence. This is known as Authoritarian parenting where the parents have a high level of control but are not very caring (forcing them to fight in a war, not worrying if they get killed). The children seemingly become brainwashed by these notions and accept it as their ‘responsibility’ or as ‘fate’. Psychologist Jean Piaget showed in his research “the self is a social product… because the self is a social product, it changes

Violence, especially in children and teens, is unfortunately an alternative way to relieve frustration. A common fate for children with language-based learning disabilities is to be placed in jail. “As high as sixty to seventy percent of incarcerated individuals are dyslexic/ADD,” (Behavior and Social Development). When children cannot express themselves, they often turn to violence. If they do not find another way to out their frustrations, these originally small violent acts could turn into jail time. Another difficulty brought on by a language-based learning disability is the feeling of knowing what to say, but not being able to get the words out. It’s “…as if the words needed are on the tip of the tongue but won't come out,” (Language-Based Learning Disabilities (Reading, Spelling, and Writing)). Being able to express one’s self is a basic human attribute, and when that is taken away, social development declines. It is impossible to have others relate to someone who cannot tell them how they feel. This inhibits natural social development from lack of communication. Some children may seclude themselves so they no longer have to talk to their peers, or possibly choose not to talk at

“I don 't want to die without a few scars, I say. It’s nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body” (48). Through the societal construction of historically preserved gender roles, arises a prototype men are expected to emulate, and failure to oblige is generally met with opprobrium. In Fight Club we encounter men of a post-modern patriarchal society who have lost faith in their prescribed positions in social order, thus confined to wallow in despair, and seek to experience a palpable sense of being that is thought only achievable through violence. The stigma of emotional weakness in men in addition to the rigidity of socially constructed gender roles illustrated in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, strategically reveals fight club to be a form of self-harm, offering crucial resolution to the universal crisis of masculinity.