Man and society

DUTIES

1. Humans were not able to live on their own and so started to form a bigger group. These organised groups created their system of laws ans accepted behaviour which can be defined as a society. These laws and behaviour make it possible for people to live tohether.

Everyone of us must know what our rights and duties are. Everyone who lives in a society must keep the rules of the society.

BASIC DUTIES OF A MAN IN SOCIETY

• The duty of every person to aid, support, educate and protect his children, and it is the duty of children to honor their parents always and to aid, support and protect them when they need it.
• The duty of every person to acquire at least an elementary education.
• The duty of every person to vote in the popular elections of the country of which he is a national, when he is legally capable of doing so.
• The duty of every person to obey the law and other legitimate commands of the authorities of his country and those of the country in which he may be.
• The duty of every person to pay the taxes.
• The duty of every person to work, as far as his capacity and possibilities permit.

ETIQUETTE

• is the formal rules of correct or polite behaviour in society or among members of a particular profession. It includes greetings, behaviour at meetings, etiquette of visitors or how to behave when we are in another country.

GREETINGS

Greetings can be formal or informal. Greetings are the beginings of conversation, not only in cases when people know each other, but also at introducing, at meetings. It is really important to use a right greeting in a different situations we get into. There are certain rules how to greet each other. For example:

• younger people greet the older ones first
• a man greets a woman first
• children always greet adults first

In North America there is no set of rules who greets the first.

Congratulations are also types of showing respect, or showing that we like somebody, that we want to share somebody´s happines or important moments in his life. We congratulate to people when they have their birthday, when they finish the school, when they achieve some success, …

There are also some important rules at the dining table. It is impolite to talk with your mouth full of food, you also shouldn´t eat with your fingers, you shouldn’t put your elbows on the dinning table, you should wait till everybody sists at the table, you can‘t smoke during the eating, .

There are certain everyday manners at home: children have to be polite to their paretns, they should help them in the household, children should ask for something politely it means to say “please” and “thanks”, you shouldn’t interrupt your parent while they are talking elc (think of another manners at home)

Hairstyle: are there any rules?

Clothes at work, school, theatre, interview etc. What are the rules?

CRIME

Everybody must know what their rights and duties are. Everyone who lives in a society must keep the rules of the society. Society has a right to expect people to obey the law. If anybody doesn’t and they are a danger to society, they can be locked up. No man is born as a criminal. His environment makes him what he is. A criminal must pay for his crime. The price he has to pay depends on the seriousness of the crime.

SOME CRIMES THREATENING HUMAN LIFE

• speeding – driving the fastest speed you are legally allowed to drive at
• kidnapping – the crime of taking sb away by force and demanding money for his/her safe return
• mugging – the crime of attacking and robbing sb in the street
• theft – the crime of stealing something
• robbery – the crime of stealing money or other things from a bank, shop, or person, especially using violence or threats
• burglary – the crime of entering a building illegally in order to steal
• manslaughter – the crime of killing sb without intending to do so
• murder – when someone is deliberately killed
• fraud – cheating sb in order to get money, etc. illegally
• rape – the crime of forcing someone to have sex, especially by using violence

SOMEONE WHO COMMITS CRIMES

• a criminal, an offender, a thief, a robber,a burglar, a shoplifter,an attacker,a mugger, a murderer,a rapist

PUNISHMENTS

• sentence – a punishment given by a judge in a court
• fine – an amount of money that you must pay as a punishment
• penalty – a general word for a punishment given to someone who has broken a law, rule or agreement
• death sentence/ death penalty/ capital punishment
• community service – unpaid work helping other people that someone does as punishment for a crime
• corporal punishment – when someone punishes a child by hitting them