Problem Of Sexual Harassment

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Examines the ideas about private justice and social learning theory to provide a strategy to reduce the problem of sexual harassment. Premise is that a learned behavior, perpetuated by the powerful against the weak, can be unlearned. Concept of conditioning. Self-interest as bases of human behavior. Role of learning on deviance. Relation of concept of reward to sexual harassment. Workplace harassment & women.

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"Sexual harassment is a widespread problem and one that is widely acknowledged by a number of powerful institutions (as well as the victims of the practice) and yet it remains difficult to counteract for several reasons. This paper examines how a perspective that incorporates ideas about private justice and perspectives taken from social learning theory can suggest one possible strategy to reduce the problem of sexual harassment.

The first of the two primary reasons that sexual harassment is a difficult behavior to remove from society are that it is perpetuated in general by the powerful against the weak in this case, by men against women. While in a democracy the weak are protected by the rule of law, laws are in fact always differentially enforced, and always (as a general rule) enforced less well against the powerful. Women who seek justice against men ..."

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