THREE ARTICLES

Three Articles

Three Articles

The atrophy of social life

The author of the article has emphasized that in the course of socialization, people adopt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for conduct. They do things that give them satisfaction and a sense of self-worth and refrain from behaving in ways that violate their moral standards because such conduct will bring self-condemnation. However, moral standards do not function as fixed internal regulators of conduct. Moral self-sanctions do not come into play unless they are activated, and there are a variety of psychosocial mechanisms by which such sanctions can be selectively disengaged from lethal conduct (Eitzen, 2004).

This enables individuals to carry out lethal functions without the restraint and personal costs of self-censure. This entry examines the critical role of selective moral disengagement in state executions. No matter what it is, it gets easier over time. The job just gets easier.” The routinization is fostered by a sense of duty and professionalism in carrying out the executions. However, some were distressed by the fact that they no longer were perturbed by their deadly activity: “The hardest thing for me is that the first one really affected me and the next two to three didn't. It affected me that it didn't affect me.”

The New Sex Scorecard

In this articlee, the author has emphasized that he use of the concept of gender to explain the social differences between males and females is a fairly recent focus in sociology. This is not to say that differences between the two have been ignored by sociologists but that those differences were understood as immutable biological facts and that the social was, in the last instance, powerless to change. The presumed “natural” binary of sex was taken for granted by nineteenth-century and most twentieth-century theorists, for whom men were the primary focus of sociological interest, with women making an appearance usually in discussions of marriage and the family (Marano, 2001).

In my opinion, If we examine the topic of gender in different cultures, we see even more variations than researchers in the United States typically acknowledge. Some cultures recognize more than just two genders. For example, in the Balkans, some women may take on a traditional male role to serve the needs of their family. In some Native American cultures there is a third gender referred to as Berdache, which is a man or woman who takes ...