Michelle Staskauskas Ms. Scott Honors US History-HIS 103 6 September 2016 What Really Happened in Salem? Thesis: There have been many stressors leading up to the Salem witch trials. There have been The little ice age, the smallpox epidemic and the Indian attacks on the border of Massachusetts at Billerica (Doc 1). For being religious as the puritans are they would often see these bad events as attributes of God’s wrath. In the 1690’s King’s Philips War led to the puritans believing in his being another punishment from God.
They valued piety, courage, and industry. If they lacked piety, the Puritans would have also lacked the faith and trust required for them to believe they could be successful in this New World. Without courage, they might have been too scared to leave England in search of a new land where they wouldn 't have to face persecution for their beliefs. If they had not valued industry, they might not have worked hard enough to survive in the conditions they had to endure on their long journey. Bradford showed appreciation for these values, along with their generosity and fairness towards one another and the Native Americans, as he wrote about the Pilgrims.
“We the people…” (“Declaration of Independence.”) , Any American knows this first line from the United States Constitution that represents everything the American people stand for and is one of the most recognizable pieces of writing in the world from the American Revolution. The American Revolution helped end Puritan writing, strengthen our own political voice, and showed the American colonists how much of an impact writing has on the world. “In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites” that quote is from the literature Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God and is one of the most recognizable literature pieces from the 17th century American colonies. I have never heard of a high school student has read it and wrote a little essay on it’s
In human nature there are two ways to determine how we classify people, perceptions of others at attributions. Perception describes the way we filter people, and attributions explains how we react to people. In the novel the Chrysalids by John Wyndham a major key theme is perception of others, along with how religion can blind judgement. In the society of Waknuk domination of strict religious beliefs and traditions on perfection makes waknukians fear “difference” of appearance. Anyone/thing that is not in the purest form is hateful in the sight of god and is therefore not pure a “deviant’’ (Wyndham 18).
However, I believe that labeling it as a deviant behavior can stir much controversy. Individuals have little or
Deviance is defined as "any violation of norms, whether the infraction is as minor as driving over the speed limit, as serious as murder, or as humorous as Chagnon 's encounter with the Yanomamo" (Henslin 194). One statement that stuck out to me was sociologist Howard S. Becker 's definition of deviance: "It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant" (Henslin 194). One reaction that acts as a punishment for a deviant or minor criminal is the criminal justice system. On page 211 in our book, it is stated that "the working class and those below them pose a special threat to the power elite" (Henslin). As a result of this threat, the law and punishment comes down harder on the lower class than it does on the upper class.
In exasperation of the Angelica church, not following the scriptures, early puritans came to America to escape persecution. Puritans believed that God had formed a unique covenant, or agreement with them. They believed in a new sect in which God’s law was held supreme. They believed that the bible and its message were above man’s law, and therefore that , it was the key to salvation. Most of the dissenters settled in New England, and it was in these new colonies that they establish a close-knit community governed by absolute religious faith and strict discipline.
For example Deviance-which means “any behavior or physical appearance that is socially challenged or condemned, because it departs from the norm and expectations from a group”(Ferrante).
A major sociological theory related to deviance is anomie. Before the anomie theory of deviance can be presented, the definition of deviance needs to be stated. Deviance is any behavior that violates certain norms. Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton, two famous sociologists, have two different definitions for the term anomie. Durkheim’s definition says that anomie is a mental state of normlessness, and being in a situation in which an individual has no behavior rules to follow.
The Puritans in the 1600s had a very important influence in the development of the New England colonies through the 1660s their ideas, values; political, economic and social development would have a lasting effect on the region. The values of the Puritans were greatly rooted in the idea that man was evil and that God alone would save us. By creating this town upon the hill God will reward them for their efforts for trying to reform the Anglican Church. Politically the Puritans were a semi-theocracy that would only allow those who were part of the church to vote. Economically they brought a lasting effect based on their hard work ethic.
In the Roughnecks vs Saints, the roughnecks went around doing dangerous things. When the roughnecks did something everyone in the town heard about it. However when the saints were participating in dangerous activity they did it with utmost secrecy and were never detected or labeled as deviant. Being labeled as deviant comes from doing risky things seen as bad in society. Once one has done something deviant and society labels them as a deviant they internalize the way society perceives them and moves on to secondary deviance.
According to Hunt and Colandar (2011), a word deviant refers to when an individual’s actions contradict with society’s norms. For instance, majority peoples followed norms because society expect individual to behave in morally tolerate with each other. Those failing to conform the norms noted as deviant. In a social context, the task of the society is to blind the action of the social community together. Once failing to act them to the society’s reaction that seem as deviant.
They are tools with which we decide what we experience, why something is the way that it is, and how we might act or react” (Pfohl, 2009, pg. 11). Stephen Pfohl, author of Images of Deviance and Control, examines nine different theoretical perspectives on deviance and control. In the book, each perspective, its deviance, and how it can be studied and controlled is explained. The nine theoretical perspectives of deviance discussed are the demonic perspective (deviance rooted in realm of the supernatural); the classical perspective (deviance as rational hedonism); the pathological perspective (deviance as sickness); the social disorganization perspective (rapid change and normative breakdown); the functionalist perspective (deviance as beneficial or positive); the anomie perspective (normlessness and inequality); the learning perspective (acquiring deviance in association with others); the societal reaction perspective (social construction of deviance); and critical perspectives.
Deviance behavior is described as a behavior that violates the social norms. Throughout our lives we observe so many deviance behavior. For example, the revolutions throughout the world demonstrates how a group of people are going against the norms, they want a change in the norms. I have been seeing so many deviance behavior throughout my life, so many action that is abnormal. Such as this weekend I saw a car that looked so weird.
Deviance is categorized as a violation of cultural norms. In order for one to express deviance, they must act out against societal norms which are known as expectations and rules that "lead the way" for how an individual should act. Therefore, its much easier to depict from there that mostly one's society is what ultimately differentiates what the rules and expectations are as well as what it needed to break those rules that they have somewhat instilled and ingrained into our daily lives. To add, due to society and different eras of socialization deviant behavior evolves over time.
