A society is an organized community composed of the individual’s environment such as the school, the government, the mass media, and the family of the individual wherein such elements of the society may affect one another’s way of living, perceptions, beliefs, and also one’s behavior on the environment he/she is in. But in all of the society’s elements, the family has the greatest impact on the individual, especially the impact of the parents to the child because according to researches individuals most likely trust their parents rather than their teachers, friends, and the internet, giving us a hint that the roles of parents in the family are crucial (Gibbs, 2001).
A person is very proficient at learning and maintaining behavior patterns that may have worked in the past wherein such process begins in early childhood. Children develop and learn many behaviors merely by watching their parents and significant others from the kind of environment the adults create, a process called as modeling or observational learning. Therefore, a child’s behavioral pattern is often acquired through the modeling or imitation of other people, real and imagined, in the child’s environment. Hence, research reveals that the conditions most conducive to the learning of aggression are those in which the child has many opportunities to observe aggression, is reinforced for his or her own aggression, or is often the object of aggression (Huesmann, 1988).
Suppose that a father went home frustrated after a long day during which he accomplished nothing, which leads to his frustration. He then finds numerous bills of water, electricity, internet, cable, and phone bills on his desk and as he opens it, he sees that the bills were exceedingly high. In response, he kicks the chair, throws his things on the floor, and exclaims “Damn it!”, unknown to the father that his child observed the whole scenario and several hours later you will see the child kicking his toys and curses “Damn it!”. Such behavior might flourish if reinforced by the parents by simply drawing attention to it, like saying “Isn’t that cute?” wherein children like him are expected to be neighborhood bullies.
It was noted that family members, particularly parents, can be very powerful models up until the early adolescence of the child, we would then expect that aggressive or antisocial parents would have aggressive or antisocial children such that being antisocial are one of the many behaviors observed on criminals for the reason that based on several studies of criminal behavior it was concluded that most of the criminals were antisocial (Crowe, 1974). One of the major findings was that physical punishment by parents was related to aggressiveness in the children (Siegel &Kohn, 1959).
The mass media such as the television, movies, magazine, newspapers, and the internet may also provide abundant symbolic models wherein some of these, especially the television, offer hundreds of potentially powerful aggressive and violent models in a variety of formats ranging from cartoon films to triple-X-rated cable movies which can lead to an aggressive child or even a criminal in the future.
REFERENCES:
John Macionis, Socialization (Pearson Education South Asia PTE. LTD, 2004)
Curt R. Bartol, Criminal behavior: A Psychosocial Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995)
SocSci10 Z Group 5
Enriquez, Ryan
Flores, Nathaniel Lorenz
Galido, Noel Joseph
Jimenez, Rica
Paican, Maria Luzviminda
Vergara, Bryan
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