Sociological Imagination
In sociology we define values as big ideas that are share by the people with in the same culture. The culture of the capital punishment values the idea of “eye for and eye” which refers to revenge and how the death penalty is use as a way of revenger and punishment towards those that are harming the society we are living in. Another value in the death penalty society is the values of safety; the government tries to support the fact that they use the death penalty telling the public that they are using it for the safety for the country. The safety of the country is using jails and the death penalty to take away all the harmful people in this country to make a better and safer place for everyone to live. In the foundation of the capital punishment the idea of loyalty to one country is another value that conducts the government to execute people. The idea of one having loyalty to a country means people have to be responsible for there for action falling into conformity and trying to follow the rules. This is so that there are no difficulties on having order in this nation, those who do not follow this loyalty are the ones that are incarcerated and executed.
This value shapes the norms surrounding this topic because. People did not categorize inhuman seen public executions; people were made to believe that the death penalty was a sanction for the wrong dues of people in those times. These values have change overtime as more and more countries are staring to abolish the death penalty. Now a day people think that the death penalty is not a punishment from which people are learning from, is inhuman, and it violates people rights. Norms are the rules set by culture that define appropriate and inappropriate behavior. This wrong does have been creating sanctions not only in the people from the Unite State, but also the relationships with other countries. Sanctions are rewards or punishments used to encourage people to follow norms.
Furthermore, the United States uses the death penalty as a formal sanction toward those who commit crimes. But that seem to be an internal sanction because there are also other sanction that try to punish the country laws, for example other countries have been trying to not male allies with the unites stare, they have lost respect for the country. Something even worst for the country the companies that use to provide the country with the lethal injection re not doing that anymore because they say giving this medicine for killing people gives them a negative reputation. This informal sanctions are no making any progressing the Unites State government since they have not abolish the death penalty completely.
Conflict theory
Conflict refers to the difference between people that does not let people come to an agreement, a disagreement between ideas, feelings, and actions etc. the conflict theory says society experiences inconsistency and conflict. When it comes to the groups who are in competitions refers to the countries who try to advance compare to other countries. Also the countries that are against the death penalty are in competition with the Unites States which has not completely abolished this horrible law. The Unites States is trying to preserve the death penalty to maintain control over society. Conflict theory best fit this law because the government enforces the capital punishment because they believe society experience “inconsistency” and they have to maintain order, and avoid conflict.
This value shapes the norms surrounding this topic because. People did not categorize inhuman seen public executions; people were made to believe that the death penalty was a sanction for the wrong dues of people in those times. These values have change overtime as more and more countries are staring to abolish the death penalty. Now a day people think that the death penalty is not a punishment from which people are learning from, is inhuman, and it violates people rights. Norms are the rules set by culture that define appropriate and inappropriate behavior. This wrong does have been creating sanctions not only in the people from the Unite State, but also the relationships with other countries. Sanctions are rewards or punishments used to encourage people to follow norms.
Furthermore, the United States uses the death penalty as a formal sanction toward those who commit crimes. But that seem to be an internal sanction because there are also other sanction that try to punish the country laws, for example other countries have been trying to not male allies with the unites stare, they have lost respect for the country. Something even worst for the country the companies that use to provide the country with the lethal injection re not doing that anymore because they say giving this medicine for killing people gives them a negative reputation. This informal sanctions are no making any progressing the Unites State government since they have not abolish the death penalty completely.
Conflict theory
Conflict refers to the difference between people that does not let people come to an agreement, a disagreement between ideas, feelings, and actions etc. the conflict theory says society experiences inconsistency and conflict. When it comes to the groups who are in competitions refers to the countries who try to advance compare to other countries. Also the countries that are against the death penalty are in competition with the Unites States which has not completely abolished this horrible law. The Unites States is trying to preserve the death penalty to maintain control over society. Conflict theory best fit this law because the government enforces the capital punishment because they believe society experience “inconsistency” and they have to maintain order, and avoid conflict.