Deviant Character Research Articles

Playing the Hero or Playing the Villain: An Investigation of the Violent Video Game Character Role Effect on Aggression

Five experiments were conducted to evaluate whether violent video game play as a deviant character produces higher aggression than does violent video game play as a heroic character. In all experiments, participants read a brief description of their character as either deviant or heroic before playing the same game. Participants were more aggressive if they played alone as the deviant character than the heroic character (Experiments 1–5). The role effect appeared limited to single player conditions (Experiment 1) and was minimized when provocation by an opponent was manipulated to be either unambiguously high or low (Experiments 2–3). The role effect was also smaller among participants induced to choose their character (Experiments 4–5). Theoretical and practical implications for the findings are discussed.

PANDANGAN HINDU MENYIKAPI PENYIMPANGAN PERILAKU REMAJA DITENGAH GEMPURAN SOSIALITA

Teenagers are the foundation for the nation in continuing the norms of state and religion which cover all members of society. Religion is one of the many choices in guiding and changing the negative behavior of these teenagers. The concept of Hinduism itself has many rules/teachings to be able to introduce where the life of the teenager will take him. To produce valid and reliable data, this research uses qualitative research methods. To produce data that is logical, this study carried out several stages of data sorting in the form of: 1). Reducing data, 2). Display data, 3). Verifying data and, 4). Interpreting research data. Related references greatly support the validity of a scientific work, therefore library techniques are also used through a literature survey on Google Scholar. The deviant behavior of these adolescents is beyond the limits of reason in this global era, there are many cases that make parents sad to see developments and behavior that are beyond the limits of their age. Hindu teachings contain a lot of ethics to fix all the negative characters caused by people with deviant characters. Parents, educators, and government participation must be active in promoting what is conceptualized in the teachings of Hinduism so that they can anticipate unwanted events and the golden generation is saved from influences that tend to damage youth. Keywords: Hindu view, deviance, adolescent behavior, socialite

THE PORTRAYALS OF KILLER MOTHERS AS FOLK DEVILS IN INDONESIAN ONLINE NEWS 2017-2022

This study analyze the portrayal of the mothers who kill the children as folk devil. The theory of folk devil by Stanley Cohen and Erving Goffman’s theories on framing are used to determine the deviant images of the mothers that are created by the news using various means of framing. The mothers who kill the children in the news were depicted as having inhuman characters, having psychological problems, and having a weak nature for dealing with external problems, thus, they are portrayed as folk devils. This portrayal is based on the use of various kinds of elements of construction, such as choice of words, contradiction, perspective, comparison, symbolism, stereotype, exaggeration, highlighted and unhighlighted parts in the news, and assumption as means to frame the killer mother as folk devils. News can be fictionalized for certain purposes. There are many articles used to define mothers as having the quality of deviant characters. Therefore, many news stories in Indonesia are still subjective and biased toward women.

Deviant Characters and the Limits of Inventio in ‘Le Chevalier et la Charrette’

Abstract This essay will examine the characterisation of the principal characters and events in ‘Le Chevalier et la Charrette’, a contemporary graphic novel adaption of the Méléagant episode based on Chrétien de Troyes’s Le Chevalier de la charrette, by applying Mieke Bal’s classic study on narratology, in which legendary and ‘deviant’ characters evoke reactions of surprise or revulsion in the reader. The first section will address the limits of inventio in the portrayal of Lancelot, a legendary character whose behaviour and actions are somewhat limited by the reader’s background knowledge of him, whereas the remainder of the essay will focus on the use of the Lady of the Lake as a deviant character in the Méléagant episode. In the graphic novella, the Lady of the Lake is reinvented as a representation of Ankou, the servant of Death in Breton folklore. This allows the author and illustrator of the graphic novella to take advantage of the lacunae in the reader’s background knowledge to present a previously unknown facet of the Lady of the Lake’s character that bridges the gap between literary adaptation and literary appropriation, thereby resulting in a new cultural product that links medieval Arthurian legend to traditional Breton mythology.

Violence Against Children and Its Relevance to Giving Punishment in Educating Children

Giving punishment as an educational tool used by teachers needs to pay attention to the requirements of a good sentence so that the pedagogical quality can be accounted for. The purpose of punishment in this context is to make children realize their mistakes and not repeat their wrong actions.Islam does not see the application of punishment except as wrong one means if the situation forces them to organize the child and return it to the path of true Islam. Islam does not use punishment except after the use of other means and after society is minimal from crime. The methods adopted by Islam in punishing children are: (a) treating children gently, (b) paying attention to the deviant character of children when applying punishment, (c) looking for solutions gradually, departing from a light way and switching to different ways. weight. This is how Islam requires these punishments and encourages educators to use them. We only need to choose what feels right and can benefit children.

The Daily Life in Dnipropetrovsk in the Conditions of Post-war Reconstruction of 1944–1947 (by the Contemporaries' Memoirs)

The aim is the daily life of inhabitants of the Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro) are considered in the conditions of the first post-war years.Research methods: historical and genetic; historical and comparative, system.Main results. The situation in different spheres of city life, state of communal infrastructure, centralized water supply and heating, food supply, priority areas of development of the city economy are shown. The forms and methods of solving the acute problems of the post-war policy and each family, factors of the material and everyday condition of the working people are considered. The ways of restoring the residential area of the city are shown. The restoration of the housing stock was given in two directions: by repairing partially destroyed buildings and, to a lesser extent, by new construction. In the city, due to the lack of material and technical base, mostly one- and two-storey residential buildings were erected. The way out of the situation was the settlement of the incoming families in the apartment of the surviving state houses, as well as the provision of land to those who were ready to solve their housing problems at their own expense. The various spheres of life of the inhabitants of the city in 1944–1947, their social and economic problems are analyzed: the material and communal conditions of their everyday life, social behavior and strategies of survival of different categories of the population of the policy. The social deviations of the deviant character that took place at this time are shown. The situation in the city under conditions of famine of 1946–1947 was studied. The forms and methods of solving problems of specific categories of inhabitants of the city in this difficult period. The attention was paid to such categories as infants, children of nursery, kindergarten and schoolchildren and students of technical schools. The real situation with wages was investigated, it was found that due to the necessity of various types of voluntary and compulsory loans and mandatory taxes, it was low in itself, it could not ensure the proper existence of a person. It is shown that the system of ensuring food and real needs of the population, namely, normalized supply of food and cargoes through the trading network at government prices for cards. It was found that the supply of food and household goods was extremely unsatisfactory, incomparable with a negligible payment of labor, making the price even unattainable, even on the shelves. At the same time different norms were applied for the workers, for the unemployed, the workers of various sectors of the national economy, employees of different institutions and different rank. In parallel, there was state open (commercial) trade with high prices, and also - bazaars at their prices. Many residents of the city were forced to ride in the villages and exchange household items for food. An impoverished day-long menu of many inhabitants of Dnipropetrovsk consisted mainly of vegetable food. Despite the difficult conditions for the restoration of the industrial and residential sectors, the cityʼs social sphere was restored. Understand the destroyed buildings and exported garbage. Every year, thousands of trees were planted on the streets and in parks, new squares were broken, repairs of the pavement, sidewalks, dwelling houses were painted, and markets were adjusted according to sanitary requirements. Works were underway to increase the capacity of urban water supply. Hospitals, various kindergartens were restored. To provide everyday needs of the population, shops were open, workersʼ dining rooms, equipped sports, dance and playgrounds, parks were improved, new baths were renovated and new baths were introduced, working clubs were being built.Main results. It is concluded that the everyday life of the first post-war years of Dnipropetrovsk was characterized by the difficult conditions of the existence of its inhabitants. Despite the ongoing rehabilitation of the city material, domestic and communal conditions of their existence were determined by the complex socio-economic situation, severe socio-demographic consequences of the war, as well as causes of a natural climatic nature. All this determined the strategies of their existence in the difficult conditions in which the majority of the city population, despite the difficulties, continued to fulfill the basic purpose of the person – to live, work, raise and raise children.Practical significance. For the historians of the everyday life of Dnipropetrovsk in post-war times.Originality. On the basis of research materials and memoirs of participants of events, the situation of the city's everyday life was reconstructed.The scientific novelty. The article was first presented in the history of post-war Dnipropetrovsk through the prism of everyday life, the various spheres of the existence of its inhabitants.Type of article: empirical.

Discursive devices for inserting morality into law: initial exploration from the analysis of a Brazilian Supreme Court decision

The dierences and intersections between law and morality are a pervasive theme in legal theory. Scholars have debated for more than a century about how best to distinguish the two as normative phenomena. However, little attention has been paid to how those two normative systems interact with each other on an empirical, i.e., practical level, and to the consequences of this interaction for the theoretical debate that stands above it. Drawing on tools and concepts from discourse analysis – specifically the ethnomethodology of written texts and studies of moral work – this paper aims to attend to the issue of how morality is inserted into legal phenomena by the practical discursive work of jurists. The data comes from a decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court to remove the president of the Lower House of Congress from office following criminal charges. The analysis demonstrates that the judge mixes references to the legal/technical framework with moral work in constructing a deviant character for the defendant. This defendant so-categorized feeds back into legal categories to justify the decision to remove him from office. Implications for the conjoining of morality and law as a practical matter is discussed.

Constructing the Antichrist as Superstar: Marilyn Manson and the Mechanics of Eschatological Narrative

This article examines the moral crusade against Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar, the various sign-vehicles that contributed to his persona, and the social construction of a folk devil. By fashioning his persona using previous claims concerning Satan’s influence in society - primarily, those employed during the 1980s Satanism scare - Manson ensured that Antichrist Superstar would incite panic as moral crusaders interpreted his pseudo-ostensive actions using collective memories and explanatory millenarianism. He achieved this aim by attacking middle-class Christian ideologies and connecting his persona to previous social problems and cultural scripts to delineate his deviant character. The pseudo-ostensive characteristics of Manson’s stage performances and blasphemous lyrics grant creditability to traditional folk beliefs concerning Satan’s influence in rock music therefore allowing conservative groups to interpret his persona using pre-existing rumours and narratives. By presenting himself as the Antichrist, Manson became a social problem for fundamentalist Christianity: a reiterated moral panic greatly blown out of proportion, and produced using traditional exaggerations and deviant stereotypes in a collective attempt to construct a folk devil. Because Manson’s image and lyrics are meticulously fashioned from various cultural symbols concerning evil and the Antichrist, he encourages his own demonization by enticing his audience to employ explanatory millenarianism and the knowledge of previous cultural scripts to interpret the traditional representations of evil he dangles before them.

When Old Meets New: Classicizing Columns in Northern French Flying Buttress Systems

Appearing in the mid-twelfth century in and around the Paris basin, flying buttresses fundamentally transformed churches, representing a radical break with architectural tradition. While flying buttresses were visually unprecedented forms, they quickly became standard components of church design. But how was such a new form incorporated into traditional architectural language? This article examines one formal aspect in the design of flying buttresses: the column, an iconographically potent form that communicated the idea of support through its several-millennia-long history of use. We can better understand the visual character of the flying buttress by exploring lingering references to the classical column within the innovative features of the flying buttress form. A survey of French examples from the twelfth to the sixteenth century shows that some medieval builders strategically employed classical-looking features, especially during periods of intense experimentation. The incorporation of the column into the new buttressing configuration served as one strategy for mediating the buttress’s deviant character. Tracing various ways in which flying buttresses articulate historicizing syntax over their long history illuminates their aesthetic role as part of an architectural language that may help us understand better the ambiguity and contingency of architectural meaning.

Cladophora rhodolithicola sp. nov. (Cladophorales, Chlorophyta), a diminutive species from European maerl beds

Cladophora rhodolithicola sp. nov., a small green macroalgal epiphyte on rhodoliths, is described from the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles, France and Spain, based on morphological and molecular evidence. Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal that the rhodolith epiphyte is closely related to C. pygmaea, a dwarf species that also grows on maerl and small stones and whose systematic position was previously uncertain. The fact that both species, along with two other distinct Cladophora species (C. echinus and C. battersii), are resolved among species traditionally assigned to the Cladophora section Longi-articulatae, has implications for our understanding of the evolution of the genus. The section Longi-articulatae is one of the most distinctive groups in Cladophora, being characterized by coarse thalli with conspicuous basal cells, strict acropetal growth and the lack of intercalary rhizoids. Here we show that deviant character states such as reduced and irregular growth, and intercalary rhizoids have evolved independently several times within this clade.

Interpretative Deviations in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, and The Tempest

If Shakespeare’s Renaissance contemporaries were keen on efficiency and “progress” (in the sense of “onward movement in space”), they also particularly enjoyed labyrinthine ways which distracted them from their primary purposes. I therefore propose to explore the deviations in three very different plays: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (1602), Othello (1603-1604) and The Tempest (1611). Keeping in mind that “to discourse” first meant “to run, move, or travel over a space”, today’s readers and spectators can still examine the twists and turns of seductive Shakespearean discourses pervaded by irregularities, amplification, irony and perversion. But not only is the dramatic world of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era based on stylistic erring, it is also deeply rooted in the art of perspective: we are continually made to change our points of view when we probe Shakespeare’s universes, teeming with deviant characters. Indeed, a labyrinthine scene necessarily echoes a problematic text. Oblique strategies are thus used by the playwright to generate extra-ordinary emotions: weaving a dramatic web to ensnare the spectators, Shakespeare creates a subversive art which fascinates precisely because of its refusal to follow well-traced, ordinary paths. Either in real life or on stage, only unexpected meanders can provoke men’s amazement…

Courting risk

Youth have been understood as progressing through formal education towards entrance into university or other forms of higher education. But, what of the informal curriculum and the manner in which youth are obsessed by it as a source of formative experiences? This article takes as an example of this the grisefest (pig party) of Norwegian youth in the final year of high school. Through examples such as these our goal is to develop a framework to understand how youth cultures, as sources of education, are ultimately connected with the desire to ‘court risk’.Our conclusion is that, through such activities, we witness what is called ‘learning by doing’, where self-formation ( bildung) and the gaining of a certain competence, not necessarily of a deviant character, are important elements and based upon the role of personal experiences. This article is a follow-up to our project, entitled Overcoming Nihilism Through Planned Normlessness. The Experience of Norwegian High School Youth (Dobson et al., 2003). We continue to develop our views based on Nietzsche’s pedagogy by focusing not upon nihilism, but risk. Accordingly,‘risk’becomes an important additional category in our developing understanding of Nietzsche’s pedagogy.

Attributions of Deviance to Self and Peers by Japanese and U.S. Students

The author examined self-enhancement bias among 5th and 11th graders in the United States and Japan. After listening to stories describing aggressive, depressive, oppositional, and school-phobic behaviors of hypothetical peers, the participants rated the likelihood that they themselves and other students their age would act like the story protagonists. The U.S. students generally showed no greater self-enhancement tendencies than did the Japanese students; in addition, the relationships between positive and negative self-concepts and ratings of self-similarity to deviant exemplars were similar in both samples. In the depressed and oppositional stories, the 11th graders rated themselves less like the deviant characters and more different from their peers than did the 5th graders.

Natural and artificial selection on a deviant character of the anal papillae in Drosophila melanogaster and their significance for salt adaptation

AbstractArtificial selection was carried out on a deviant character of remnants of the anal papillae in pupae of Drosophila melanogaster, i. e. stretched (S) instead of the normal retracted (R) papillae. A chromosomal interchange between the R‐ and S‐selection lines revealed the polygenic determination of the S‐character. A comparison of lines with a different number of chromosomes of the S‐line shows the importance of properties of the anal papillae for salt adaptation. By a comparison of populations obtained by artificial selection for anal papillae and by natural selection for salt adaptation we could analyse the significance of the deviant character under natural selection on media with increasing percentages of salt.Our results shows that taking into account only one character in natural selection is often a simplification. However, applying artificial selection on components of the phenotype contributing to the adaptation make an important contribution to the analysis of adaptive processes.

On self-help in modern society

In a modern society, conflict between people is frequently defined as crime and is handled by officials of the state such as police, prosecutors, and judges. It is taken for granted that ordinary citizens must turn to law for help [1]. This mode of social control has several distinctive consequences: it dramatizes the deviant character of an offense, for example [2], and it may escalate hostility between the parties involved [3]. Its patterns of detection and other procedures also affect the nature and distribution of crime itself, making some kinds of conduct in some places more vulnerable to observation and intervention, leaving other kinds in other places relatively immune. Finally, for the offender, law tends to be more stigmatizing and disabling than other social control and so may even render future conformity less likely [4]. If, however, people were to engage in more self-help rather than relying so heavily upon law, that is, if they were to exercise more social control on their own, a different kind of public order would prevail [5]. In the nature of the case, many incidents would effectively be decriminalized, since they would no longer be formally defined and handled as criminal, and beyond this, many patterns of conduct themselves would surely change in response to new risks and opportunities. In this paper, we specify several conditions under which self help flourishes and suggest a number of techniques by which it might be stimulated. Self-help is by no means a new phenomenon. Rather, it is a social practice which has been commonplace in many settings, and which is present to some degree nearly everywhere. It is a quantitative variable, which may be greater in one place and weaker in another. Historically, for instance, the degree of self-help has been highest in primitive societies, in bands and tribes, and has declined progressively with social evolution and the growth of law [6], Within modern societies as well, some groups of people engage significantly in self-help even to the point of organized vigilantism while others are more dependent upon legal control [7]. The same individuals may have recourse to self-help upon some occasions and turn to law upon others [8J. It might also be noted that, like law, self-help has both preventive and remedial aspects, and these vary quantitatively and to some degree independently across social locations. The problem is to isolate the conditions which permit us to predict and explain variation of this kind. Developments in the theory of law and in the theory of altruism, or helping behavior, provide useful perspectives on this topic. The theory of law is relevant since self-help, like other non-legal social control, generally varies inversely with law [9], and what predicts the one may therefore predict the other in a pattern of opposition. The theory of altruism is relevant as well, since the exercise of informal social control by one person on behalf of another, including his or her Donald Black is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia. M.P. Baumgartner is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

?*Lui Faire Téléphoner Quelqu'Un D'Autre

After a survey of the problems connected with the French faire + Infinitive construction and the ways that have been proposed in the literature to explain them syntactically, we try to show that a discourse-oriented approach may yield better insights into the ways the construction functions. The deviant character of utterances such as ?*il vaudrait mieux lui faire téléphoner quelqu'un d'autre varies with the context into which they fit. In explaining utterances of this type, the notion of perceptual strategy proves to be a decisive one.

The "wetback" as deviant: an application of labeling theory.

This paper deals with some of the questions that arise from the deviant character of those who cross the U.S.-Mexico border without inspection, and the process of interaction through wich the label "wetback" is "created" and used. The historical context of immigration to the United States as related to cheap labor demands is described, and the emergence of the label "wetback" is discussed. The roles of the persons involved in the violation of the immigration law and some of the socioeconomic implications of those roles are analyzed through labeling theory. The process of interaction in which those roles become visible is discussed in terms of the interests, power, and consequences of each role with respect to those of the other roles in the process. The concept of "antilaw entrepreneur" is introduced, and its explanatory potential is indicated.