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Social Process
The entire panorama of social behavior, therefore, cannot be seen without developing the
dynamic aspects on the structural base built up earlier. The individual and group forces at
work in a social setting may described in various ways.
Socialization
Socialization is incorporating the values of a group into the growing individual is called
socialization. A leading sociology text develops two perspectives, from the point of view of
society and of the individual. From society’s vantage point the individual is fitted into an
organized way of life while the opportunity for the full unfolding of the person.
Socialization is not only transmission of attitudes, value and beliefs but it is also serves as a
means of development of individual and awareness of self.
Socialization begins early in life. In individual life span where people are important in
shaping the young individual, adults, parents and other family members play a leading role in
passing on their own attitudes and values as well as being the transmitters of border cultural
patterns.
Attitudes can be transmitted very subtly as perceptive children recognize is and is not done
within the group.
Conformity to Norms
The rules that every society uses to point tout what kind of behavior is desirable or
appropriate are called norms. These guidelines for behavior are based on cultural values.
“Cleanliness is next to godliness” reflects that has received much support in the past. Norms
are fundamental to socialization. In this process the child incorporate rates the values of the
society by being reinforced for following the rules. Conformity to norms is learned rewards
are in the form of social approach while punishment comes in the disproval manifested in
various ways.
Concepts of Change
The concept of change is coming from the decline of civilization. Most of Greeks and Indian
scholar was do many researches in social change. Changes are proceeding from “trail and
error” experiments of an individual and next phase in the process is the stage of inventing.
This concept goes beyond the production of a technological product and includes the
“invention” if an elaborate organizational structure and process. The final stage historically is
characterized by planning and planed thinking.
Social Change
Attitudes toward change are individual cultural products. Western society, particularly US
remains neutral in feeling about change or more positive attitudes toward finding new and
better ways to do thing.
Why Social Change?
1. Due to Environmental Change- Climatic conditions have changed very drastically
2. People want better ways to live.
3. Impact of technology
World was change from Stone Age to the Bronze and then to the Iron Age. We focus on the
innovations in material without really illustrated the profound change.
Even with positive attitudes toward the introduction of new methods there is usually a time
lag between the availability of a technological innovation and the general acceptance of it.
Culture lag, however, extends beyond acceptance of technology. Social stratification also
bring the social change but recent events bear witness to the widespread activity involved in
the links between technological and social change. For instance, mechanization of agriculture,
particularly in the South, has reduced the need for human labor. Some time changes bring the
traumatic readjustment of behavior and attitudes.
Change in Groups
The process of change in small groups and organizations occupies attention of many
researcher in various applied areas-industry, education the military, and government.
Change in Groups was occur by the rapidly develop social and technological events.
The responses to change are both individual and group. Attitudes, motivation and ability play
a role within the broad area of individual personality. Communication plays the crucial in
change in group behavior.
Personality is important change agent for individual behavior change. Attitudes are very basic
to the functioning of individuals. Some one is positive attitude for new or novel events, they
are liberal and some one is negative attitude for new or novel events, they are conservative.
Attitudes are learned behavior. The family is the prime source of attitudes, surpassing the peer
group or other agencies outside the agencies outside the family in this respect.
Motivation must be considered as equally important factor in individual behavior change. For
instance, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink”.
Age is considered to be related to attitudes. Youth attitude is liberal and old age is more
conservative.
Accommodation
The process of adjustment that takes place when individuals agree to various compromises or
develop working relationships in order to be able to function together is called
accommodation.
A married couple reaches a point where there is recognition of what can or cannot be done to
preserve a relationship of harmonious equilibrium. Labor management relations are
characterized by accommodation processes such as arbitration, negotiation, conciliation or
compromise.
Assimilation
Alienation
Alienation is opposite of accommodation and assimilation. When two process increasing the
gap alienation is arising. For example, gap between union and company in a bringing labor
dispute.
An earliest developer of the concept of alienation was Karl Marx. It was his hypothesis that
the technology of an industrial and capitalist economy was responsible for the alienation of
the working man from society by depriving him of the control over and responsibility for his
livelihood.
Alienation is arising by:
1. The isolation form ownership of property
2. Isolation from Means of production
3. Decline in freedom
Marx concentrated on class struggle between workers and owners under the capitalist system.
Alienation is more in industrialized society or capitalist society. For example: Human
resource turnover, conflict and civil disturbances featuring like rioting & looting.
The alienation also appears by cynicism about political event and deep distrust or suspicion of
political leaders.
Integration
The term integration is social organization contact existing between social groups within the
society. When groups exists in harmony within a central framework and can work with each
other and communicate back and forth is essential features for integration.
Isolation
The lack of integration in a society is known as isolation. Complete isolation and partial
isolation is appearing in society. Isolation is appearing by:
1. Absence of social bond.
2. Due to mutual rejection
3. Attitude change in passage of time
4. Conflict arising in groups.
Anomie
A “normlessness” that results form an individual departure from values is anomie. The term
was coined long ago by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim, write in his book on Suicide
(1951). Most recently, Merton has expanded the concepts to focus on the relationship between
means and ends. Anomie is arising due to lack of means or ends or both.
Anomie is a sociological term meaning "personal feeling of a lack of norms; normlessness". It
was popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897),
which borrowed the word from French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau.
Anomie in common parlance is thought to mean something like "at loose ends." The Oxford
English Dictionary lists a range of definitions, beginning with a disregard of divine law,
through the 19th and 20th century sociological terms meaning an absence of accepted social
standards or values. Most sociologists associate the term with Durkheim, who used the
concept to speak of the ways in which an individual's actions are matched, or integrated, with
a system of social norms and practices ... Durkheim also formally posited anomie as a
mismatch, not simply as the absence of norms. Thus, a society with too much rigidity and
little individual discretion could also produce a kind of anomie, a mismatch between
individual circumstances and larger social mores. Thus, fatalistic suicide arises when a person
is too rule-governed, when there is … no free horizon of expectation.
Collective Behavior
The study of amorphous and largely unorganized social interaction is the area commonly
designated as collective behavior. Social situations such as crowds, riots and mobs are coming
in collective behavior. This area also includes such social and
Collective Behavior
The study of amorphous and largely unorganized social interaction is the area commonly
designated as collective behavior. Collective behavior is study of behavior of more than 2
persons or collective mass of people. For instance, crowds, riots and mobs are collective
behavior. Social and economic phenomena as fads and fashions, cults and crazes as well as
booms, rumor and propaganda are collective behavior.
Crowds
A loosely Knit gathering of individuals in one place is commonly designated a crowd. Some
crowds may be very casual and passive and some are quite emotional and highly active. For
instance, audience in theater, congregation in a religious setting, group attending in
deliberative assembly or spectators at a sports event.
A crowd is a large and definable group of people, while "The crowd" is referred to as the so-
called lower orders of people in general (The mob). A crowd may be definable through a
common purpose or set of emotions, such as at a political rally, at a sports event, or during
looting, or simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area (eg
shopping).
ii) Riot: Big mass or group is involved in an antisocial activity the situation can be called a
riot. It involves widespread aggression and destruction of property, possibly by many
different kinds of randomly acting crowds.
A riot is a form of civil disorder characterized by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden
and intense rash of violence against people or property. While individuals may attempt to lead
or control a riot, riots are typically chaotic and exhibit group behavior.
Historically, riots have occurred due to poor working or living conditions, government
oppression, taxation or conscription, conflicts between races, food supply or religions (see
race riot, sectarian violence and pogrom), the outcome of a sporting event or frustration with
legal channels through which to air grievances.
Riots typically involve vandalism and the destruction of private and public property. Targets
can include shops, cars, restaurants, state-owned institutions, and religious buildings.
Dealing with riots is often difficult task for police departments, and police officers sent to deal
with riots are usually armed with ballistic shields and riot shotguns, mainly because of the
larger spread of the shorter barrels. Police may also use tear gas and CS gas to stop rioters.
Panic: Panic is an uncoordinated irrational response to fear. Source of fear make people
disorganized and unable to cope effectively with the situation. Some aggressive responses
outlined from panic.
Panic is a sudden fear which dominates or replaces thinking and often affects groups of
people or animals. Panics typically occur in disaster situations, or violent situations (such as
robbery, home invasion, a shooting rampage, etc.) which may endanger the overall health of
the affected group. The word panic derives from the Greek pertaining to Pan, because Pan
was reputed to give a loud, chaotic and anxiety.
A rumor is often viewed as "an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from
person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern". However, a
review of the research on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across
sociology, psychology, and communication studies had widely varying definitions of rumor.
Thus, rumor is a concept that lacks a particular definition in the social sciences.. In addition,
some scholars have identified rumor as a subset of propaganda, the latter another notoriously
difficult concept to define. Rumors are also often discussed with regard to "misinformation"
and "disinformation". Rumors thus have often been viewed as particular forms of other
communication concepts
Fashion:
Fashion may be described as socially sanctioned variation in material form or activity.
Change in dress, life style, music or art are important factor of fashion. Automobile
manufactures, furniture designer and boutique creator have grate impact of fashion choices.
Most dynamic and obvious variations come in are of women’s apparel (dress). For example:
women’s skirt and jean pant have change very drastically over short periods of time.
The more technical term, costume, has become so linked in the public eye with the term
"fashion" that the more general term "costume" has in popular use mostly been relegated to
special senses like fancy dress. This linguistic switch is due to the fashion plates which were
produced during the Industrial Revolution, showing the latest designs. For a broad cross-
cultural look at clothing and its place in society, refer to the entries for clothing, costume and
fabrics. The remainder of this article deals with clothing fashions in the Western world.
Fads: A limited and more superficial manner of dress or other behavior is called fad. These
come and go very quickly. Fads have fewer acceptances than fashions and they are quite
prevalent in particular area or age group.
A fad is a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal. The nature of fad is
individual. It could be called as a like in a guy an individual/individual society'
s over interest
in some thing which is considered to have consist of some virtue i.e. fad diet, exercise etc.
Crazes: A pattern of activity that is more emotional and more intensive than a fad can be
called a craze. It may sometimes be difficult to distinguish between dad, a craze and fashion.
For example: witchcraft mania of 16th and 17th century, jazz and rock in 20th century.
A craze is a product, idea, cultural movement, propensity or model that gains popularity
among a small section of the populace then quickly migrates to the mainstream. Crazes are
characterized by their lightning fast adoption and swift departure from public awareness.
Being of temporary nature is one of the major characteristics of craze. Crazes and fads are
also characterized by their unusually high interest and sales figures relative to the time they
are active in the marketplace, as compared with other similar products, ideas, cultural
movements or models.
The term boom refers to a great buildup in the price of a particular commodity or, alternately,
the localized rise in an economy, often based upon the value of a single commodity, followed
by a downturn as the commodity price falls due to a change in economic circumstances or the
collapse of unrealistic expectations.
Boom phenomena have existed for centuries. During a "boom" period, buyers find themselves
paying increasingly higher prices until the "bust", at which time the goods and commodities
for which they have paid inflated prices may end up as valueless or nearly so.
Examples of "Booms”
• The Tulip mania of the 1630s, in Holland
• The narrow gauge railroad movement of the 1870s in the United States
• Towns such as Bodie, California that prospered during the California Gold Rush of the
late 1840s and early 1850s then became ghost towns.
• The Roaring Twenties in the United States, followed by the Wall Street Crash of 1929
and the Great Depression.
• The Dot-com bubble, involving new electronic technology and the internet, in the late
1990s.
• The American subprime lending boom in the 1990s and early 2000s, followed by the
Sub prime mortgage crisis of 2006 and beyond.
Social Movements:
Social movements are a type of group action. They are large informal groupings of
individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words,
on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change.
Modern Western social movements became possible through education and increased
mobility of labor due to the industrialization and urbanization of 19th century societies. It is
sometimes argued that the freedom of expression, education and relative economic
independence prevalent in the modern Western culture is responsible for the unprecedented
number and scope of various contemporary social movements.
American Civil Rights Movement is one of the most famous social movements of the 20th
century. Martin Luther King is giving his "I Have a Dream" speech, in front of the Lincoln
Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The term "social movements" was introduced in 1850 by the German Sociologist Lorenz von
Stein in his book "History of the French Social Movement from 1789 to the Present" (1850).
Tilly argues that the early growth of social movements was connected to broad economic and
political changes including parliamentarization, market capitalization, and proletarianization.
Political movements that evolved in late 18th century, like those connected to the French
Revolution and the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 are among the first documented social
In 1945, Britain after victory in the Second World War entered a period of radical reform and
change. In the post-war period, women' s rights, gay rights, peace, civil rights, anti-nuclear and
environmental movements emerged, often dubbed the New Social Movements. Some find in
the end of the 1990s the emergence of a new global social movement, the anti-globalization
movement. Some social movement scholars posit that with the rapid pace of globalization, the
potential for the emergence of new type of social movement is latent -- they make the analogy
to national movements of the past to describe what has been termed a global citizens
movement.
To understanding collective behavior we must be know social and psychological bases for the
behavior. Some factors which play the major role in collective behavior development:
Emotional contagion refers to a mood the individuals in the group or crowd have in
common. A shared set of emotions can be seen in a highly excited mob or the controlled
aura of a religious service. In crowd people support from others in their behavior and are
especially sensitive to other peoples activity. The behavior further reinforces the similar
behavior of others, and the process becomes a circular one. When the individuals in the
group share common needs and attributes, the common behavior patterns are even more
firmly fixed. Mob scenes and riots illustrate the freedom from the usual restraints felt by
many people who have strong ties to a norm group in this highly emotional state. The
significance of emotional contagion to the individuals involved may serve as an
explanation of the phenomenon.
Social Mobility
Social Mobility: In the social sciences, as well as in common political discourse, social
mobility refers to the degree to which an individual' s family or group's social status can
change throughout the course of their life through a system of social hierarchy or
stratification. Subsequently, it is also the degree to which an individual's or group' s
descendants move up and down the class system. The individual or family can move up or
down the social classes based on achievements or factors beyond their control.
These different levels in the social hierarchy are not static (constant) but it is movement or
dynamic. Movement through the various strata may be either downward or upward mobility.
Social mobility arising due to following reason:
i. Better opportunity
ii. Education
iii. Social stratification
iv. Carrier Mobility
Career Mobility:
Like most people, you’ll explore several different career options in your professional life.
You’ll have the opportunity to build your career in different professional.
We can provide you with the education and experience you need to grow, continue learning
and to realize your career goals.
So, if you like choice, put your ideas to work with us and you’ll have access to a range of
career options that you just won’t find anywhere else. The movement of individuals during
their career has been a topic of continuing interest down through the years. An open society in
the US does permit movement, but many factors combine to limit the vertical occupational
mobility of an individual during his career. The high educational requirements of a complex
technological society have brought the mobility.
Generation Mobility
Occupational mobility from one generation to the next shows patterns that resemble career
mobility patterns. There is a substantial amount of downward mobility from one generation to
the next, even more upward mobility and still more similarity between the occupational
Intergenerational mobility
Inter-generational mobility is a measure of the changes in social status which occurs from the
parents'to the children'
s generation. It can affect anyone in the population, as one’s economic
standing can increase or decrease from the position they were born into. Our society is
constantly changing, and because of this various opportunities can cause one to advance or
digress in their economic standing. One’s talents can cause them to surpass the economic
position into which they were born.
Many see intergenerational mobility as a way of measuring the equality present in the
economic opportunities of a society. It takes a realistic approach of how much of your future
economic standing is determined by your childhood experience and how much is determined
by an individual’s talents and capabilities. Inter-generational mobility can best be determined
by analyzing where children from the least or most affluent families end up in terms of
incomes and earnings as adults. Their income as adults is then compared to what their parents
earned.
Population Dynamics
Growth and decline of population and its movement from place to place are social facts
are study in demography or population science. Basic social facts such as population
however must be studied for their own sake and for influence to other. All the data of
population was taken form census and it is more about birth and death rates, immigration
and mobility. This area of study is known as social demography and it studies about broad
aspects of social process.
Fertility: Fertility is the natural capability of giving life. As a measure, "fertility rate" is
the number of children born per couple, person or population. Infertility is deficient
fertility. Human fertility depends on factors of nutrition, sexual behavior, culture, instinct,
endocrinology, timing, economics, way of life, and emotions.
Mortality: Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a
specific cause) in some population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time.
Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1000 individuals per year; thus,
a mortality rate of 9.5 in a population of 100,000 would mean 950 deaths per year in that
entire population.
1. The crude death rate, the total number of deaths per year per 1000 people. As of July
2009 the crude death rate for the whole world is about 8.37 per 1000 per year
according to the current CIA World Factbook[1].
2. The perinatal mortality rate, the sum of neonatal deaths and fetal deaths (stillbirths)
per 1000 births.
3. The maternal mortality rate, the number of maternal deaths due to childbearing per
100,000 live births.
4. The infant mortality rate, the number of deaths of children less than 1 year old per
1000 live births.
5. The child mortality rate, the number of deaths of children less than 5 years old per
1000 live births.
6. The standardised mortality rate (SMR)- This represents a proportional comparison
to the numbers of deaths that would have been expected if the population had been of
a standard composition in terms of age, gender, etc..[2]
7. The age-specific mortality rate (ASMR) - This refers to the total number of deaths
per year per 1000 people of a given age (e.g. age 62 last birthday).
Migration
Intercontinental Movement and Internal Migration
Human migration is physical movement by humans from one district to another,
sometimes over long distances or in large groups. The movement of populations in
modern times has continued under the form of both voluntary migration within one' s
region, country, or beyond, and involuntary migration (which includes the slave trade,
trafficking in human beings and ethnic cleansing). People who migrate are called
migrants, or, more specifically, emigrants, immigrants, or settlers, depending on historical
setting, circumstances and perspective.
Seasonal human migration mainly related to agriculture. Rural to Urban, more common in
developing countries as industrialization takes effect (urbanization)
Urban to Rural, more common in developed countries due to a higher cost of urban living
(suburbanization)
History of Migration
Migration of peoples has been occurring since prehistoric times. Ancient and modern
peoples alike have shown some geographic mobility.
Intercontinental Movement
Both in terms of numbers and distance, the migration of European peoples to North and
South America represented the greatest movement of population in history. No more than
5 million people migrating in the 3000 years prior to the beginning of 19th century. The
size of the movement is increasing by introducing Negroes as slave trade in US. Foreign
countries are alarmed by the ‘brain drain’ by loss of top level manpower to other
countries.
Internal Migration
Movement within the borders of a country has also significance role in population studies.
Mobility has always been an important aspect of the American scene. People always like
the shifting from one place to another.
URBANIZATION
History has recorded an ever-increasing tendency for man to cluster, for one reason or
another, with his fellow man in compact living areas. This is undoubtedly a tread that
began well before written records documented this development. It has reached a point
where we speak of the present century as being the era of urban man and are
concerned with problems of population, transportation and living space, especially in
the sprawling megalopolis of both east and west coast. We have reached the point
where in the United States over 70 percent of the population is classified as urban.
Snap Shot
Widening income disparities
The distance between the richest and poorest countries was about 3 to 1 in 1820, 11 o 1 in
1913, 35 to 1 in 1950, 44 to 1 in 1973 and 72 to 1 in 1992. In 1997 it was roughly 727 to 1.
The rapid urbanization of the world’s population over the twentieth century is described in the
2005 Revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects report. The global proportion of
urban population rose dramatically from 13% (220 million) in 1900, to 29% (732 million) in
1950, to 49% (3.2 billion) in 2005. The same report projected that the figure is likely to rise to
60% (4.9 billion) by 2030. However, French economist Philippe Bocquier, writing in THE
FUTURIST magazine, has calculated that "the proportion of the world population living in
cities and towns in the year 2030 would be roughly 50%, substantially less than the 60%
forecast by the United Nations (UN), because the messiness of rapid urbanization is
unsustainable. Both Bocquier and the UN see more people flocking to cities, but Bocquier
sees many of them likely to leave upon discovering that there’s no work for them and no place
to live."
According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of
2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in
history; this is referred to as the arrival of the "Urban Millennium" or the '
tipping point'. In
regard to future trends, it is estimated 93% of urban growth will occur in developing nations,
with 80% of urban growth occurring in Asia and Africa.
Urbanization rates vary between countries. The United States and United Kingdom have a far
higher urbanization level than China, India, Swaziland or Niger, but a far slower annual
urbanization rate, since much less of the population is living in a rural area.
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People move into cities to seek economic opportunities. In rural areas, often on small family
farms, it is difficult to improve one'
s standard of living beyond basic sustenance. Farm living
is dependent on unpredictable environmental conditions, and in times of drought, flood or
pestilence, survival becomes extremely problematic.
Cities, in contrast, are known to be places where money, services and wealth are centralised.
Cities are where fortunes are made and where social mobility is possible. Businesses, which
generate jobs and capital, are usually located in urban areas. Whether the source is trade or
tourism, it is also through the cities that foreign money flows into a country. It is easy to see
why someone living on a farm might wish to take their chance moving to the city and trying
to make enough money to send back home to their struggling family.
There are better basic services as well as other specialist services that aren' t found in rural
areas. There are more job opportunities and a greater variety of jobs. Health is another major
factor. People, especially the elderly are often forced to move to cities where there are doctors
and hospitals that can cater for their health needs. Other factors include a greater variety of
entertainment (restaurants, movie theaters, theme parks, etc) and a better quality of education,
namely universities. Due to their high populations, urban areas can also have much more
diverse social communities allowing others to find people like them when they might not be
able to in rural areas.
These conditions are heightened during times of change from a pre-industrial society to an
industrial one. It is at this time that many new commercial enterprises are made possible, thus
creating new jobs in cities. It is also a result of industrialization that farms become more
mechanized, putting many labourers out of work. This is currently occurring fastest in India.
Economic effects
As agriculture, more traditional local services, and small-scale industry give way to modern
industry the urban and related commerce with the city drawing on the resources of an ever-
widening area for its own sustenance and goods to be traded or processed into manufactures.
Research in urban ecology finds that larger cities provide more specialized goods and services
to the local market and surrounding areas, function as a transportation and wholesale hub for
smaller places, and accumulate more capital, financial service provision, and an educated
labor force, as well as often concentrating administrative functions for the area in which they
lie. This relation among places of different sizes is called the urban hierarchy.
Recent developments, such as inner-city redevelopment schemes, mean that new arrivals in
cities no longer necessarily settle in the centre. In some developed regions, the reverse effect,
originally called counter urbanization has occurred, with cities losing population to rural
areas, and is particularly common for richer families. This has been possible because of
improved communications, and has been caused by factors such as the fear of crime and poor
urban environments. Later termed "white flight", the effect is not restricted to cities with a
high ethnic minority population.
Family Pattern
Family is the first and most fundamental socialize of the individual. Conflict and
disorganization is primary unit of a society. The stability and cohesiveness of the family unit
may not be the prime factor in understanding the basis for maintenance of social bonds in
general. For example: In Stable marriages partners are psychologically secured and of similar
socioeconomic or religious background. Divorce rate is highest among those who lack these
qualifications, lower socioeconomic levels and who show a great diversity in religious and
other beliefs.
Environmental stresses on the family have their impact on its members in various ways. The
strength of the relationships between members of the family and the types of bonds between
them are the basic determiners of the outcome of individual actions under social and
economic stress. Conflict is arising when male breadwinner easily suffer in unemployment.
Crime is antisocial behavior that is learned and the family along with the peer group serves
the most important training.
Many researchers believe that the prime basis for delinquency lies in the breakup of the home
and unhappy home.
Community Conflict
Community conflict is arising in the industrial society and urban setting. Revolution is a good
example of community conflict. A basic set of conditions seems to be ground for the
germination of civil strife (conflict) and violence. Continuous frustrations to community
people bring the conflict. Social mobility also brings the conflict.
Discrimination and segregation are the end result of the prejudice that pears between majority
and minority groups. Discrimination always brings the conflict. Minority group are prone of
discrimination.
Crime Data
Scholars quote that true crime rate statistics are impossible to attain because figures are often
incomplete and biased. Male and teenager are more prone of crime.
Lower class and certain minority groups are more often in trouble with the law. More
delinquents and criminals come from broken homes and from urban areas.
Industrial Conflict
In industrial world many sources of conflict are found. Some are economic factors while other
is individual and social nature. Conflict may arise in different parties of dispute. 3 board
groups are involved – organizations of workers, management entities and the government.
The government generally monitors company activity and management performance.
Problems of antitrust, fair trade, and consumer protection are carry conflict in organization.
The union and management always face conflict and antagonist
Conceptually conflict between work and family is bi-directional. Most researchers make the
distinction between what is termed work-family conflict, and what is termed family-work
conflict. Work-to-family conflict occurs when experiences at work interfere with family life
like extensive, irregular, or inflexible work hours, work overload and other forms of job
stress, interpersonal conflict at work, extensive travel, career transitions, unsupportive
supervisor or organization.
Work can conflict with one’s home and family life. However, workaholism can lead to
adverse affects on one’s relationship with his or her partner. Workaholism is “an individual
difference characteristic referring to self-imposed demands, compulsive overworking, an
Conflict as taught for graduate and professional work in conflict resolution (which can be
win-win, where both parties get what they want, win-lose where one party gets what they
want, or lose-lose where both parties don'
t get what they want) commonly has the definition:
"when two or more parties, with perceived incompatible goals, seek to undermine each other'
s
goal-seeking capability".
A clash of interests, values, actions or directions often sparks a conflict. Conflicts refer to the
existence of that clash. Psychologically, a conflict exists when the reduction of one motivating
stimulus involves an increase in another, so that a new adjustment is demanded. The word is
applicable from the instant that the clash occurs. Even when we say that there is a potential
conflict we are implying that there is already a conflict of direction even though a clash may
not yet have occurred.
Crime
Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently. While every crime
violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of
contract and of other civil law may rank as "offences" or as "infractions".
Governing or administering agencies may for example codify rules into laws, police citizens
and visitors to ensure that they comply with those laws, and implement other policies and
practices designed[by whom?] to prevent crime. In addition, authorities provide remedies and
sanctions, and collectively these constitute a criminal justice system. Legal sanctions vary
widely in their severity; they may include (for example) incarceration of temporary character
aimed at reforming the convict.
The label of "crime" and the accompanying social stigma normally confine their scope to
those activities seen as injurious to the general population or to the State, including some that
cause serious loss or damage to individuals.
Delinquent
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The term is often used to refer to a juvenile who commits a minor criminal act—juvenile
delinquents.
In other cases, a delinquent is a person who fails to pay a debt or other financial obligation,
like a mortgage. Failure to cure a delinquent payment can result in repossession or
foreclosure. Accounts that are not current are also known as delinquent accounts.
Juvenile delinquency refers to children who act against the law. Most legal systems prescribe
specific procedures for dealing with juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers. There are a
multitude of different theories on the causes of crime, most if not all of which can be applied
to the causes of youth crime. Youth crime is a major issue and is an aspect of crime which
receives great attention from the news media and politicians. Crime committed by young
people has risen since the mid-twentieth century, as have most types of crime. The level and
types of youth crime can be used by commentators as an indicator of the general state of
morality and law and order in a country, and consequently youth crime can be the source of
‘moral panics’ Theories on the causes of youth crime can be viewed as particularly important
within criminology. This is firstly because crime is committed disproportionately by those
aged between fifteen and twenty-five. Secondly, by definition any theories on the causes of
crime will focus on youth crime, as adult criminals will have likely started offending when
they were young. Usually, a delinquent will do to someone else what has been done to them.
A Juvenile Delinquent is one who repeatedly commits crime. These juvenile delinquents
sometimes have mental disorders/behavioral issues such as post traumatic stress disorder or
bipolar disorder, and are sometimes diagnosed with conduct disorder partially as a result of
their delinquent behaviors.
Crime statistics
Several methods for measuring crime exist, including household surveys, hospital or
insurance records, and compilations by police and similar law enforcement agencies.
Typically official crime statistics are the latter, but some offences are likely to go unreported
to the police. Public surveys are sometimes conducted to estimate the amount of crime not
reported to police. Such surveys are usually more reliable for assessing trends. Public surveys
rarely encompass all crime, rarely procure statistics useful for local crime prevention, often
ignore offences against children, and do not count offenders brought before the criminal
justice system.
Crime statistics are gathered and reported by many countries and are of interest to several
international organizations, including Interpol and the United Nations. Law enforcement
agencies in some countries, such as the FBI in the United States and the Home Office in
England & Wales, publish crime indices, which are compilations of statistics for various types
of crime.
When disputes arise in the workplace, they may be because of the roistering schedule or more
serious matters, such as the inability of stakeholders to reach a settlement on the negotiation
of new wage agreements or things such as unfair dismissals of employees.
Formal industrial conflict is reserved for organized expressions of conflict articulated through
a trade-union or other worker representative. Its characteristic form is the organized strike:
that is, a withdrawal of labour such as to constitute a temporary breach of contract, using the
collective strength of the workforce to avoid sanctions and achieve adjustments to pay or
conditions of work. Strikes may be reinforced by other types of formal sanction such as the
go-slow and work to rule.
At one time there was much debate in industrial sociology about the term strike-proneness—
epitomizing the search for structural causes of industrial conflict. Though weak correlations
have been found with some of these factors, the frequency and incidence of strikes and similar
forms of unrest is so erratic that plenty of discrepant occurrences could be found.
Vanto's initiatives, tailored to specific union and management situations, bring about a
dramatic shift in how people work together to fulfill organizational goals. When people can
see themselves as an integral, vital part of an organization' s future, they are able to step
outside their separate, often adversarial roles and experience themselves as part of a team.
Union represents employees under a contract. In the organization there are many discontents,
controversy, or military in industrial scene. Harassment has brought more conflict.
Cultural and environmental factors shape individual and group responses which influence the
broad action pattern. Change is one of the most identifiable of the features of aggregate
activity. Cultural, attitudes and values have played an important role but these technological
developments play crucial role as well as by concomitant factors of migration and conflict.
Change in groups must be studied first in terms of the changes occurring on an individual
basis. Attitudes are fundamental in the functioning o individuals in society and developed
mainly in primary groups such as the family. Motivational and personality factors play role
changes agents are apt to be those who conforms lease to the constraints of the culture.
Collective behavior, sometimes called mass behavior, includes the social and economic
phenomena of fads and fashions as well as the more highly changed crazes and booms. Social
movements on a broad scale and intended to change the status quo show more organization
and stability. The highly emotional and more immediate influence processes may be present
in the behavior of crowds; the aggressive behavior of a mob or the withdrawal as in panic may
be the resulting circumstance. Each pattern often is enhanced by the presence of rumor.
The base for collective behavior lies in the ambiguity (unclear) of the guidelines for decisions
in a new situation. This provides insecurity for individuals. Once responses are made in
highly changed social situation, to a spread of emotional contagion provides a firm, though
often illogical, basis for the action of an individual.
Urbanization is nothing new; present patterns represent a persistence o historical trend. Cities
have grown because they provide diversified services to the inhabitants, but his same diversity
may have undesirable consequences in the conflicts it produces. The stimulation of a city may
also provide a threat for the insecure and increase alienation.
Conflict in a society ahs many of its roots in the primary units such as the family. Stability of
a martial unit is greatest at higher socioeconomic level and where the partners show similar
backgrounds. The effects of external stress on the family deepened on the attitude and
behavior with respect of the individual parents. Males with little authority or prestige in the
family unit show greatest deterioration and negative responses.
The competing elements in the community provide a basis for the emergence of conflict.
Frustrations in a rapidly changing set of inter group conditions provide an emotional basis for
conflict. Prejudice produces varied reactions; withdrawal or aggression and hostility may be
the result or there may be genuine growth and stability. Generally, however the social loss in
discrimination is extensive.
Criminal behavior is difficult to quantify as statistics of the reflect certain biases. Young
males are clearly the highest offenders, however. Lower socioeconomic status shows some
reaction shows some reaction to frequency of crime as well, though the figure misleading.
Crime is deviant behavior by those who have not internalized the norms and values of the
dominant society; either they have no norms or subscribe to the values of a deviant group.
Alienation of such individuals can be reduced by incorporation them into the main cultural
stream.
Industrial conflict involves various parties to the dispute-worker, management, and the
political body. Each of these entities may have their own internal conflict. The most visible
form of industrial conflict are strike –represents only a small part of the total discord.
Restriction of the output or other harassment abound (many). The bases for industrial conflict
lie in the fundamental factors in individual and social and individual behavior. Frustration,
aggression, and counter aggression have been well documented. Means of conflict resolution
must incorporate consideration of these dynamics.