The Relationship Between Democracy And Civility - 1900 Words

Author Ken Burns (2011) describes the relationship between democracy and civility when he said, â€Å"But civility is essential to our ability as a nation to confront together difficult issues, even when we may disagree, and to continue to improve as a country† (National Constitution Center, 2011). Democracy and civility go hand in hand; without democracy, there wouldn’t be civility and without civility there wouldn’t be democracy. In a democracy, the model of dissent should be deliberation, yet the long and careful debate we once had has shifted towards violent measures to fulfill one’s own needs. The model of dissent has transformed from deliberation to violence due impart, to the technological advancements throughout the world. This†¦show more content†¦Albert Bandura, a renowned psychologist, studied how some behaviors are learned through imitation. He calls this the social learning theory. It is exemplified in his classic experiment called th e ‘Bobo’ Doll Experiment. The children participating in the experiment were individually shown into a room with toys and then played with them for 10 minutes while â€Å"either, 1) 24 children (12 girls and 12 boys) watched a male or female model behaving aggressively toward a toy called a â€Å"Bobo Doll†. The adults attacked the Bobo doll in a distinctive manner, either punching or kicking and in some cases using a hammer. 2) Another 24 children were exposed to a non-aggressive model who played in a quiet and subdued manner for 10 minutes. 3) The final 24 children were used as a control group and were not exposed to any model at all† (McLeod, 2011). In order to study whether these three situations had a different effect on the children, the experimenter subjected all the children to â€Å"mild aggression arousal† (McLeod, 2011) by taking each child separately to a room with toys. Once the child began to play with the toys, the experimenter â€Å" told the child that these were the experimenter’s best toys and she had decided to reserve them for the other children† (McLeod, 2011). The experimenter then brought the child into the next room, which had some aggressive toys, such as a toy hammer, and some non-aggressive toys. For twenty minutes the child’s