The Pros And Cons Of Social Capital

These scarce goods can relate to material interests (e.g., affordable housing, well-paid jobs, resources of the welfare state), but also include power and status. The development of perceived group threat is fundamentally a collective process by which a certain social group comes to define other groups (Blumer, 1958). It would, therefore, be inappropriate to conceive negative outgroup attitudes as based solely on threats to the individual well-being; challenges to group privileges or status are equally as important (Bobo, 1983, p.

They positively or negatively affect the individual, in other words, family support might be weak for any number of reasons effecting attachment and commitment resulting in the search for others like themselves for attachment. This theory is very relevant seeing that it doesn’t reside in just one class of society. However, it does seem to be more prevalent in the poorer areas due to the lack of financial opportunities, broken families and the encouragement of education. In my own perception, the theory could go more into detail in the belief phase. I feel if the self-control part of the general theory of crime could be incorporated into the belief component of the social bond theory, it would further elaborate on the ability of an individual to commit crime believing it to be wrong to do so.

After these contracts are established, however, then society becomes possible, and people can be expected to keep their promises, cooperate with one another, and so on. I believe that thanks to the social contract we created justice and established what is moral and immoral for the whole society and not only on what we think could be moral or immoral. This topic may be controversial for some people because they will probably think that even though the social contract was created to be equal for all people there are some things until today that does not apply for all. But for me that is not a strong reason to do not believe in the Social contract I strongly believe in this theory because this is what makes a civil society with justice and morality. A philosopher Stuart Rachels suggests that, “ morality is the set of rules governing behavior that rational people accept, on the condition that others accept them too”.

In a society reputation symbolizes who we are and what we stand for, a person's reputation can be seen as bad or good based on their behaviour and how they treat others. In the play Othello, reputation is a strong component that shapes how some of the characters base their decisions and respond to events that occur. There are many people in the world that have a good reputation but have created a plastic image of themselves that doesn't represent who they are as a person, the importance of social status has become such a key role in how people act and motivate them to work so hard just to have people think highly of them. In Othello, William Shakespeare demonstrates how one's reputation may not be how it appears, the character Iago appears

Individuals may not apply impression management, but they should know the cons for not delivering what the organization wants and needs (Slideshare.net, 2015). Individuals can create better supervisor impressions when they use these tactics, given that they have high in political skills. On the other hand, individuals who have low political skills and engage in high levels of impressions management are likely to be viewed as less favourably, avoid using impression management tactics will be a better option (Crant, 1996). Impression management is neither good or bad, it is an integral part of our social interaction and everyone gets involved in it every day (Slideshare.net, 2015). Therefore, politicians who do well in impression management can get immediate political advantage compared to the others.

It is hard to separate the cases between instrumental aggression and bias motivation. I think not every bias motivation reflected as hate crime or breach the hate speech law. In some time you have the ability to like some one or not, so hate crime law could make many problems **** instigate retaliatory attacks. In conclusion, society would be better with more control and more law to live in an organized and pleasant community of humanity. Hate speech law does not prevent of exercising the freedom of speech but it has been found for reduce using freedom of speech and minimize making problems to other or causing harm to them.

Robert Putnam says this about social capital ‘Whereas physical capital refers to physical objects and human capital refers to the properties of individuals, social capital refers to connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them. In that sense social capital is closely related to what some have called “civic virtue.” The difference is that “social capital” calls attention to the fact that civic virtue is most powerful when embedded in a sense network of reciprocal social relations. A society of many virtuous but isolated individuals is not necessarily rich in social capital’ (Putnam 2000: 19). In America Putnam noticed that people going to bowling leagues had decreased

It is the passion that is then at the origin of an institution and all correlative values. For Example, this is why we don 't steal the properties of others. The role of reason in empiricism is called the association of ideas which is limited to a given form for the institution. Avidity only requires satisfaction but doesn 't determine the form of an institution which will provide this satisfaction. Example, we can be socialist, capitalists etc.. all these systems secure our belongings in a different way, because these forms of justice are determined by the association of

The dynamics of social mobility can be explained by classifying it in terms of the differing types of factors that may contribute towards a change. Economic conditions explains the social status of an individual in terms of intergenerational mobility and intra-generational mobility, if an individual is better or worst social status than his or her earlier generations than it would be inter-generational social mobility, if the individual 's socio-economic condition changes within the same generation over time it will be intra-generational. Conventional wisdom suggests that there are very less barriers in the United States for upward social mobility as compared to other developed nations. There are numerous examples of immigrants who moved to the United States with very little knowledge of the language and money, but through hard work they climbed up the social

The tragedy of the commons is a theory that suggests that rational people in a group will more often than not, act in a manner that suits their own personal interests and ultimately be detrimental to the group’s interest (Chang, 2011). The tragedy of the commons is a theory made by Garrett Hardin. Today an example of a tragedy of the commons is pollution. A ‘commons’ can be defined as a resource that is used openly for the enjoyment of all members of society. It can be seen that people tend to compare their own personal assets to public goods and value their own belongings more than public goods (Fioramonti 2014, Class Notes).