Of course, society influences behavior. Society is made up of individuals who possess likes and dislikes. What is society anyway? Society is an output of social systems and structures which institutionalize us. We may not like to think of being…
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Sheeple, look out! The scape-goats are falling from the sky! There should be a complete field of study based on Idiot-ology, because all of us are treated like idiots by every ideology. Humans spend billions on manipulating others on a…
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The nuclear family is a somewhat recent construct that applies mostly to Euro centric cultures. This concept was not even widely possible to achieve in Euro centric cultures because many people, especially in the servant and soldier classes, were not allowed to live with…
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Emile Durkheim was born in 1858 in Epinal in Lorraine, France. He was the son of French Jews of a devout nature: his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were rabbis. His father was the chief rabbi of the Vosages and the Haute…
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“The stranger’ is but one of the many concepts which contemporary sociologists have received from the fertile mind of Georg Simmel. The sociological form of the stranger’ reveals Simmel’s love of the paradox by emphasizing a mixture of opposites” (McLemore…
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What is the image of God in religious thought? The image of God has taken on different forms in various religions, and even within religions God has taken on different forms. As much as religion says that God created humanity…
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In non experimental social science, the subject cannot be studied under the holy grail of scientific experimentation: complete control over the conditions and completely random selection of test and control subjects. Very little of the quasi experimental technique and protocols…
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I don’t know how well my theory will be accepted by my peers on this site, but I strongly believe that this is in the public’s interest and I am citing my right to free speech which is a globally…
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Why are humans so vulnerable, and fallible? Humans are not perfect by any means, no matter what any individual person will tell you. There is nothing that we can do about it, and we just have our flaws. Some of…
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It is apparently not possible to test intelligence in ways that truly identify innate abilities. There is no way for an individual who has not taken many math courses to test well in mathematics reasoning, indicating that it is not…
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