When dealing with the stress that life tends to bring upon us it is often hard for young children to cope. After looking and turning for some sort of acceptance, love and companionship and a person is luckless often times encourages running away. Running away is often the option young kids and adults run to when they feel like there are no other choices. In fact, between 1.6-2.8 million youth runaway each year in the United States (Foundation). The song “Runaway Love” by rapper, Ludacris, featuring R&B singer, Mary J. Blige successfully utilizes heartwarming stories of three young runaways, while incorporating sociology concepts: integration, physical dependence, concerted cultivation, natural growth, hedonism and family. Companionship is an important aspect for young children because they’re always looking for a way to be a part of a crowd. However, Lisa, a 9 year-old girl in Ludacris’s song, believes a “part of her is missing” because her mother is not around and she have never met her family members (AZLyrics). Lisa chooses the route of running away because the prerequisite, integration, has been rejected from her life. Integration allows individuals to feel solidarity or a part of a society. Therefore, Lisa ran away because she lacks solidarity at home. This concept is important in our society and of course for Lisa. …show more content…
In fact, the concept of hedonism is basically the underlying principal that all humans seek pleasure over pain. Similarly, 11-year-old Erica in the third stanza “pops X to get rid of all her pain” while having unprotected sex with a boy who is older than she is (AZLyrics). Her mistakes demonstrate how individuals rather block out all negativity and hurtful situations from their mind. Seeking pleasure in this case however, caused Erica to get pregnant by someone who is not willing to take care of the baby. Although, the choices she made to try to achieve pleasure, in reality caused her
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Do you feel trapped in your current situation? Are you looking for someone to relate to? Runaway was written by Wendelin Van Draanen. The genre of this book would be realistic fiction. Runaway is a book that follows a 12 year old girl named Holly, as she runs away from home. Holly lives in foster care and is looking for a way to escape.
Fred Feldman distinguishes two categories of hedonism: sensory hedonism and attitudinal hedonism. Both categories of hedonism center around the notion that pleasure is what makes a life worth living (for the person living that life). In other words, if one obtains (receives or acquires) pleasure from life, then one’s life is going well. Additionally, the more pleasure a life contains, the better the life (the more prudential value it contains). Feldman, however, promptly classifies two interpretations of pleasure: pleasure as feeling (sensory pleasure) and pleasure as an attitude (the attitude of enjoyment). And, it is the latter conception of pleasure (pleasure as an attitude/mental state) that Feldman is interested in.
A three year survey of four hundred fifty five runaway teens were leaded by sociologists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The survey showed that runaway teens are highly more likely than average teens to surfer from mental disorders such as conduct disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse and severe depression. Kurt Johnson who is one the sociologists said “seventy four percent of male runaways and fifty seven percent of female runaways in the study have conduct disorder, compared to fifteen percent of the general teen population. Also twenty three percent of males and forty three percent of females show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder” (“Study on Runaways”). Psychological which is also known as a mental disorder. It is a pattern on behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple life areas and cre...
Specialists distinguish between episodic and chronic running away. Episodic running away mostly occurs after some significant event that has happened to a teenager, and directly or indirectly affected their decision to leave home. It may also be connected to a teenager’s attempt to avoid some consequence, humiliation or embarrassment. Chronic running away is a more serious and complicated problem. It may be a part of acting out, or of a teenager’s strategy to gain power over the members of his or her family – a kind of manipulation or revenge. It is like a threat, “If you make me do that, I’ll run away.” In fact, this is their main problem-solving skill: if something goes wrong, they run away, thus feeling that a problem disappears
The song “Where’s the Love?” by Black Eyed Peas displays many sociological concept in the context of its lyrics. In this song the band is expressing their concerns with the world’s views and actions of the present day. They question the mentality and reflect upon the realism of the world. The main idea surrounding this song is concentrated around the social construction of reality and how the world is changing. The song expresses the way people are not living up to society’s norms and values. It suggests that various agents of socialization are at fault and that they contribute to the development of self.
Supported by authors such as Mill (1863) and Bentham (1789) among others, it provides a perspective on the evaluation of a life. One of the main arguments for hedonism is its plausibility. Pain, suffering, and displeasure are all things that people reject, which can be explained by the fact that they all create bad experiences. It makes hedonism seem plausible since it is applicable to everyday things that cause people pain or pleasure. This point can be doubted since it applies to some cases in particular, but there may be cases where bad experiences could end up being good in a future sense. For example, Nick could be going to university and studying Economics because he believes it will give him more pleasure in the future. If he were to not like Economics, would it imply that his hedonic levels are low and that his life doesn’t have as much value as someone else’s? If it were true, it would be stating that it is not a life’s value that is judged, but only a particular moment in that life. By doing so, it implies that pleasure that’s occurred in the past or will occur in the future is irrelevant to the value of a life. If the previous statement were to be false, then it would suggest that someone’s experience could have more pleasure but not have as much hedonic
I had many mixed views after finishing my most recent read of The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters, by Thomas Hurka. I agree with his idea that the value pain is greater than the value pleasure. I oppose Hurka’s views more than I agree with them. I disagree with the idea that only pleasure is good and only pain is evil and the idea of ethical hedonism.
In ancient Greece, many philosophers came up with lot's of great ideas and particular ways to think and go about your everyday life. More than just different ways of life, some of these great ideas that philosophers have been able to come up with are aimed to change a persons daily thought process to only seek happiness or pleasures on the journey of life. Hedonism derived from early Greek times and has evolved today in many different forms. A well practiced Hedonist has trained their mind to only seek only the upmost pleasure for the intrinsic good and to block out all pain that shall cause a person's suffering or discomfort in ones life. Some hedonist focus solely on just avoiding pain, while others main goal is to seek as much pleasure as
Love has been the cause of some of the greatest feats, discoveries, and battles in the history of man. It has driven men to insanity and despair, while it has lead others to happiness and bliss. This idea that love has a strong influence on man’s decisions can be seen in the poem, “Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most prominent theme presented in “Love is not all” is that although love is not a necessity of life, it somehow manages to provoke such great desire and happiness that it becomes important.
As Edgar Allan Poe once stated, “All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire (Masters).” Today, we romanticize love. We create movies, books, novels, music, and everything in between off the concept that love is romantic. Although in ancient times, this was not the case. Love was seen in a completely different spectrum than marriage. Marriage and love are inseparable in the modern world. The real question is has love always been around or was in an invention of the modern world? Centuries have passed and the answer to this question is still a mystery.
middle of paper ... ... Being free of pain is something that we feel within us to be intrinsically joyful, and no reason can be used to explain further why we wish to be joyful, or in good health. These things we just sense, and even a murderer, who rejects morality on the social level, will do whatever he can to avoid the displeasures of his inner being. His sentiments, if only for himself, remain within him. “One thing can always be a reason, why another is desired.
Hedonic motivation refers to the influence of a person’s pleasure and pain receptors on their willingness to move towards a goal or away from a threat.
When people have nowhere to turn and no one to look up to they sometimes seek the tranquility of drugs and violence, which reduces their chance of ever accomplishing their dream. They feel that st...
It refers to theory of xxx which things are good for us and what motivates us to behave in a certain way. In hedonism, gaining pleasure and avoiding pain are the only important things in living the good life. However, what is pleasure and pain is described quite broadly. That specific insight can relate to the theory of folk hedonism, a philosophical term which bears the common stereotype of a person who is concerned with only indulging in sex, drugs and rocknrol, while lacking foresight and sometimes might lead to problems, conflicts and