Deciphering Sociology 2020-21

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🌐 Understanding the Criminal Act of Rape through the Social Strain Theory.

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✅ RELEVANCE: Crime and Deviance

🔵 EXCERPT:
"The POWER and CONTROL variables associated with the commission of the act of rape calls for additional understanding of those who are committing the acts. As Nicole and Sealock, (2000) examined offender populations, applying ST, 150 youth participants acknowledged key variables, promoting the need for future study. The variables most commonly associated with the commission of rape, promoted by societal strain was ANGER, RAGE, POWER, AND CONTROL. The study highlighted the need for ongoing education and intervention of societal youth, where this lack of oversight and the marginalization of societal norms, with sexual activity now prevalent in every day society, children have become confused. The inability for society to essentially police itself and PROMOTE CLEAR BOUNDARIES AS TO WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR, with governments, teachers, and parents challenging social media and general media DEPICTIONS OF SEX AND SEXUALITY can only serve to reduce the commission of the act of rape. The lack of oversight and education is contributing to the strain and the commission of these types of violent crimes, and without societal revision, it can be expected that the number of reported and unreported rates will continue to climb (Nicole & Sealock, 2000)."

"As calls by sociologists and researchers go out to revise ST and/or integrate the concepts into developing theories such as general strain theory of deviance (GSTD), what is explored is an enhanced understanding of violent acts such as rape through assessment of serious social strains facing males and females in society. As Kaufman (2009), calls for ongoing study into the externalization and internalization of negative emotions while accounting for multiple gendered deviant outcomes, the expectation is that a series of rehabilitation models will result in responding to GTSD variables. These models will address strains contributing to violent crimes such as rape, allowing for INTERVENTION and REHABILITATION to address the strain which is escalating the deviant behaviour. What becomes clear for the criminologist are the interconnections between strain, education, prevention, possible rehabilitation, and the commission of rape, where the body of this research appears to continually be searching for answers, which is a positive aspect of this field of study. However, as the theories evolve, societal norms, challenges, expectations, and strains change, violent acts such as rape unfortunately do not have an end or a finish line, yet. The proactive models seeking to assist offenders are a step in the right direction, with calls for additional study and empirical review are consistent with the previous research (Kaufman, 2009)."

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🌐 Rethinking Sociological Study Of Suicide: Suicide Contagion

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✅ RELEVANCE: Suicide, Durkheim, Suicide Contagion

🔵 EXCERPT:
"Over the last four decades, the sociological study of suicide has become increasingly interested in the potential for suicides to spread between individuals, or what is often referred to as suicide contagion or suicide suggestion (Phillips 1974; Stack 1987; Wasserman 1984). Consistent evidence, for example, has revealed that when people, particularly youth, experience the suicide death or attempt of a role model, they are at increased risk of suicidality themselves (Baller and Richardson 2009; Bearman and Moody 2004; Farberow et al. 1987; Mueller, Abrutyn, and Stockton 2014; Niederkrotenthaler et al. 2012; Thorlindsson and Bjarnason 1998).

Despite the mounting evidence that suicide contagion matters, the sociology of suicide has remained largely focused on Durkheim’s admittedly important thesis that social integration and moral regulation are the primary social forces that condition suicidality (for review, see Wray, Colen, and Pescosolido 2011). In part this is because we know very little about why it is that friends tend to have similar levels of suicidality and if this similarity is in fact indicative of social contagion, how contagion occurs."

"Indeed, we argue that research must now turn from documenting suicide contagion towards identifying the mechanisms behind the spread of suicidality through social relationships. What circumstances transform the generalized idea of suicide into a meaningful cultural script that individuals may deploy for coping with their own distress? To investigate this question, we examine whether knowing about a friends’ suicide attempt changes the likelihood that suicide contagion occurs. Additionally, we analyze whether friends’ emotional distress and suicide ideation, absent concrete actions (such as suicide attempts), promotes suicide contagion. Our research is guided by social learning theories (Akers and Jensen 2006; Bandura 1977; Sutherland, Cressey, and Luckenbill 1992) and symbolic interactionism (Stryker 1980), in addition to research on emotional contagion between significant others (Hatfield, Cacioppo, and Rapson 1994)."

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Task For Today Paper-1
𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐀𝐭 𝐀 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞
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🌐 Bharat Bandh Against Farm Bills

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✅ RELEVANCE: Agrarian Transformation, Peasants and Farmers Movements

🔵 EXCERPTS:
"Farmers and farmer leaders fear that once private markets are set up outside the APMCs, the APMC will have few buyers. This is because a key feature of the new legislation is that in the ‘trade areas’ – the new markets – no market fee, cess or levy shall be charged to the farmer or the trader. Under the old system, these charges could add up to a significant proportion of the transactions – as high as 8.5% in Punjab."

"One of the methods by which the APMC, in theory, leads to better price for farmers is through a transparent auction mechanism where a bunch of traders bid on the farmer’s produce and the highest bidder buys the produce. 
This system does not exist in the private mandis that have come up in Bihar often leading to LOW PRICES for farmers and EXTREME VOLATILITY BETWEEN SEASONS. For instance, the price of maize in Bihar dropped from around Rs 2,200 a quintal last year to around 1,300 per quintal this year."

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