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Domestic violence is a condition defined as a social problem that is present throughout society, usually hidden, but there nonetheless. ... Social problems like domestic violence call for social change in policy. Domestic violence can be defined as a social problem, because it has an impact on a large number of women. ... Domestic violence is a condition that can be remedied through collective action taken by influential people in society. ... Domestic abuse has no race, economic, or educational restrictions. ... Domestic abuse which affects 1 out of 3 women is social problem that is increasingly debated over. Sociologist, scientists, and other researchers argue that domestic violence occurs because of the following explanations: It is a learned behavior in other words “ a cycle of violence,” “subculture,”
“biological,” or a “social structural” issue. Domestic abuse can only be overcome with social policy change. Therapy programs, family support, mandatory arrest and restraining order laws must come into affect in order to solve or at least reduce domestic violence. ...
Domestic violence is a learned behavior usually learned in the family institution by children. ... Domestic violence conflicts with the purpose of the family to ensure its purpose. ... In other words, domestic violence arises from the ineffectiveness of the family institution among other institutions like society in guiding behaviors and self worth. ... Adults can do the following to lessen the effects of domestic violence on children. They can teach and model nonviolent methods of conflict resolution on a everyday basis, In order to break the ‘cycle of violence’.
The cycle of violence theory suggest that there is a direct transmission of violence down the generations by a learned behavior, creating a cycle in which, the violence continuously repeats itself. ... There is also a “sub cultural model,” in which the use of violence is learned as a part of a wider way of life, either in neighborhoods, in criminal subcultural such as gangs, or in certain professions such as the police and the army. Academic researchers suggest that domestic violence is a consequence of the violent character of the whole society in the U. ... Some sociologists believe that people become desensitized to violence by the common occurrence of all types of brutality (Berry 145). We are surrounded
by violence in the streets, in the media, on the news, in sports, in war, virtually everywhere. The pervasiveness of violence outside the home may make it more acceptable in the home as well. ... There is certainly evidence that violence can be learned, but these theories cannot explain why some individuals who observe such behaviors or live in such environments are not violent, or why some people are violent who do not live in such environments are violent who do not live in such environments, or why some people are violent who do not live in this kind of family or social setting. Nor can it explain why, according to rather indiscriminate lumping of different kinds of learned behavior, it ends up that boys both observing and experiencing violence should, according to theory, become predators of violence. ... Biological explanations offer a set of casual theories about domestic violence which are based on sciences such as genetics, and which are regarded as scientific, although there appears to be no systematic research to establish whether they are firmly based as they apply to men’s violence against women. Biological explanations often incorporate notions of addiction to
violence. ... These usually involve the application of domestic violence of medical research on the
relationship between chemical substances and aggression, mood changes,deviant behavior and mental illness. ... Fortunately, there is little evidence that these ideas hold sway in helping woman who experience domestic violence, though it gives comfort to violent men and those who would support men’s claim to dominate the family.
Approximate Word count = 3072
Approximate Pages = 12.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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