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    middle school, and the education that her mother taught was not beneficial. As Rose developed, she noted discrimination started happening. Although she tried to disregard the racism, she stated the environment affected her ability to love. Social Exchange Theory According to Thibauilt and Kelley (1959), people weigh their costs and benefits of their relationship to determine satisfaction and commitment. Essentially meaning people form relationships in which the incentive is more significant than the

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    Three theories: Social Control: Takes a different approach, instead of trying to figure out why people break laws, like the other theories, social control theorists are on a quest to find out why people are abiding rules. Essentially one-eighty-ing the others. However, just like the previous theories there were flaws in examining women. The text examines one of the most influential people of the social control theorists, that being Travis Hirschi. From previous classes we examined this theory from

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    Immigrants and Social Control Theory For years, society has attempted to come up with reasons as to why immigrants are involved in criminal activity at a higher rate than native-born Americans. Some point to the fact that immigrants tend to face acculturation and assimilation problems while the majority of native-born Americans do not. Some even speculate it is because immigrants tend to establish themselves in disorganized neighborhoods that are characterized by cultural, social or biological differences

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    The social comparison theory suggests people learn their abilities and flaws by comparing themselves to other people (Weiten, 2015, pg, 171). We compare ourselves with other who are similar on to our characteristics or self-worth. We compare ourselves to others when there is no influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. When I receive an average grade in a class, I compare myself to a student received an A. This motivates me to look up to that classmate as

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    The two theories I chose are The Social Disorganization Theory and The Strain Theory. Social Disorganization theory was created by Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay. They wanted to know why certain areas in certain communities were continuously high in crime year after year. They found that the change or high turnover disrupted the community and caused the communities to be unstable. Social Disorganization Theory has two main sections, the three causes of neighborhood deterioration and the zones

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    Founder of the theory The founders of the theory were Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor. Altman is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Utah whereby Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas, Arlington. Altman and Taylor developed this theory to provide an understanding of the closeness between two individuals. Apparently, social penetration is defined as a process that moves a relationship from non-intimate to intimate. The theory states that this

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    The social bond theory is one of many theories under the umbrella of control theories. Within the control theories, there is not an exact socio-historic background but there are few assumptions. Control theories take a different approach to crime than most other criminological theories. Instead of looking to solve the popular question of why people commit crimes, it looks to answer the question of why most people do not commit crimes. This theory believes criminal motivation is in fact not an individual

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    Social control theory is about how society controls how every individual acts, whether they are around positive or negative influences. W.Reckless ‘s containment theory is about the influences in an individual’s life such as peer pressure, family conflicts.It is a theory that says that all humans are subject to criminal behaviour but that many people can resist the criminal behaviour using inner and outer containment. T.Hirschi’s social bond theory is a part of social control theory this part of

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    There are plenty of small group communications theories in Disney’s Toy Story, but for this essay I will focus on two important theories: Social exchange theory and symbolic convergence theory. A Social Exchange Theory is a relationship that is described in terms of reward and costs (BeeBe, S. A., & Masterson, J.T. 2014). Social exchange theory is used in many cases, and a perfect example would be in the work place. Say for example have to do a presentation with two other coworkers at your job for

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    According to the slide show “Social Exchange Theory” from Dynamics of Family Relations, Social Exchange Theory is a theory that says that “human relations are based off a cost benefit analysis” (slide 1). This means that people whether it be between romantic relationships, friendship relationships, or family relationship the reason for these relationships are because there is a balance between costs and rewards. When the distributive justice, which according to the slideshow is when the “cost benefits

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