PART 1: Please discuss and answer the following questions regarding group behavior.
Discuss in-group and out-groups you have experienced. How did these shape your life? What is a reference group? Describe a situation in which you have given in to group pressure to do something very much against what you wanted.Write a small paragraph analyzing why groups have such power over us.
Explain what is meant by the “double standard of behavior” in groups. Why is the same behavior performed by a different group seen as negative, but it is acceptable for members of your in-group to perform the same behaviors.
PART 2: Find a crime from a newspaper or online news source. Explain the crime briefly, and then use at least two of the following theories described by your authors to define and explain the deviance or crime you found in the newspaper.
Strain Theory
Social Disorganization Theory
Cultural Deviance Theory
Conflict Theory
Labeling Theory
Differential Association Theory
Control Theory