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Sociological Theory: Positivistic, Interpretative, And Critical
Number of Words: 1956 / Number of Pages: 8
... hopes to be able to approximate "reality" in a detailed
generalization or theory on how reality operates.The theories of a positivist
generallytake the form of cause and effect laws describing the outside
reality.Robert Merton defined these theorems as "clear verifiable statements of
the relationships between specified variables."
2.Epistemology.
Positivism relies onan objective epistemology.The observer remains distant and
does not interact with the observation or experiment.Values and any other
factors that might lead to bias are to be carefully removed so that the cold,
monological gaze of science ...
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Trapped Inside The TV
Number of Words: 1861 / Number of Pages: 7
... verses a television based society effects intellectual tendencies and public discourse of all the people in the respective communities. The print based societies can date as far back as the conversations that took place as cave paintings or smoke signals up to the invention of the alphabet and of course into the enlightened age of Colonial America. This place we call home, America was founded by a group of intellectual men who brought over readings, and books from the “Old World” to start their “New World” with. In America literacy rates climbed, and everyone wanted to read. As time went on, re ...
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The State Of The US Family
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... of social integration from. Also, since our society is obviously based on two-sexes, these children are emerging unbalanced and unprepared to deal with the pressures and demands a two-sex society has. The text states that these children tend to live in homes with less income. In divorce situations, the income is being split between two households, and sometimes two separate families. This is an added strain not only on the parents, but the children who have to struggle with the emptiness of that complete family unit. In cases of unwed mothers, they often do not even have the luxury of chil ...
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Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
Number of Words: 1452 / Number of Pages: 6
... destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had psychological problems sometime during their period of fame. Each of the three were also writers which was a vital part of Schaller's study. Schaller wanted to show that fame increased the self-consciousness in each of these people. To do this he analyzed the songs and stories written by these authors and found an increase in the amount of first-person singular pronouns from before to after their achievement of fame.
According to Phillip L. Ackerman(1997) defining personality would take up a whole chapter in a book. Some would say th ...
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Living Together Before Marriage
Number of Words: 958 / Number of Pages: 4
... an ideal way to
have a "try out." This trial marriage is a result of the ever increasing divorce
rate. Many couples are afraid of marriage and decide to live together with the
intention to persue marriage if the temporary arrangement is successful. The
couples hope to "minimize their chances of a potential disastrous marriage; any
conflicting attitudes toward social activities, economic arrangements, or
domestic chores will be discovered and hopefully resolved while the couple live
together." (Carter, Sharon. "Trial Marriage". Ladies' Home Journal 14 (May
1993): 12-13.) If an unsolveable conflict a ...
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Down With Community Service
Number of Words: 464 / Number of Pages: 2
... results. It seems that eight out of ten students
that are about to graduate high school are planning to go to college after they
graduate. I also asked them about doing community service. Most of them said
that they would be getting a job, and they would not have time to do community
service. My survey has brought me to the conclusion that students who are
thinking about going to college should not be thinking about doing two years of
community service.
Community service is detrimental to college students. I was talking on
the phone with my cousin, Waldo, who lives in Rhode Island. We got to t ...
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Why Should I Be Moral?
Number of Words: 1384 / Number of Pages: 6
... is experiencing a lively feeling
of joy or pleasant feelings. We can be happy at one moment, but not the next.
Aristotle on the other hand said that true happiness includes pleasures, joys,
and successes as well as many pains, griefs, and troubles in ones life. A happy
life is not cause by the pleasures we've had, nor marred by the displeasures
we've had.
Aristotle also contended that children could not be happy as the
requirement for happiness was a complete life. For instance, an old man looking
back on his life and being able to say that it was good, is happiness.
Aristotle defined the ...
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Emotional And Rational Appeals
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... the cells of a
2(positive or neutral mood) x 2(emotional or rational message type) x 2(strong
or weak argument quality). Subjects were in groups of two to six.
After this step was established, eight messages in approximately equal
length were developed. Each message contained six arguments that were either in
favor or against using animals for research purposes. Rational and emotional
were used in nature and strong and weak were used in quality. In the procedure
of the experiment, subjects participated in an experimental session that
included several tasks that were not directly related to the ...
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Racism
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... amongst multi-cultural worlds like Canada and the States. is a part of each and every one of us. No doubt, we are all racist, but this the term has been used too loosely. has been mutated to such an extent that it could be a reason for war, a symbol of terrorism, and even an excuse for neglecting. Is that all there is to it? No, actually it is just the beginning. is just like warfare in which there is no shelter and nobody is neutral. Nobody is exempt from this demon. He has haunted us with a bitter curse. On one occasion I remember, nobody would play with me at school. I would walk around by myself an ...
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Affirmative Action Today
Number of Words: 1399 / Number of Pages: 6
... during their employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin" (qtd. in Hall 898). In 1954, the Brown decision [Brown v. Board of Education] required racial desegregation in schools and other public places. The Brown decision led to "the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, soon supplemented by the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act" (Graglia 26). This was the beginning of public awareness to the racial discrimination issue.
Many blacks today still feel the effects of racial discrimination. Henry Gates Jr., a black Harvard professor of the Humanities, ...
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