Social Science

Radio carbon dating is a method for estimating the age of archaeological samples by comparing the amount of unstable carbon 14 found in the sample with the amount of stable carbon 12 found in the sample. A team of University…
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Civilized Discontents a la Freud IntroductionFreud argues that our relationship to ourselves is crucial to being ethical. He points out that as part of an individual’s development, one must better understand the ethics of their environment. He compares the similarities…
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We live by a combination of judgments that are based on our own informal observations and confirmations, “wisdom” that has been passed down from others, and scientific proof that we may learn about on or own or that may have…
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Both stereotyping and sociological hypothesis serve to form conclusions that are based on observations that, over time, appear to be reliable ways of predicting that an individual falls within a certain category of people, comes from a specific culture, is…
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Social control mechanisms lead to social conformity or compliance with the dictates of society. An understanding of a society’s social control mechanisms gives understanding of what constitutes social disorder in a particular era, place, or country. Members of a society…
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Howard Becker’s labeling theory was developed in 1963 and has been argued, debated and criticized regularly ever since. This shows only that the theory must still be alive and well as it continues to stir interest in not only sociologists…
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As I walk through our local city centre I can count hundreds of kids dressed in their prefferred outfits. There like a uniform, a way to conform to some kind of influence. The desire to fit in. The ironic thing…
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THE PSYCHE PART 1 PREFACE Everything originates in the psyche. The outer world is derived from the inner world.Therefore the emphasis in this work is on the psyche.It can also be said here that the psyche shares with the physical…
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The premise of symbolic interaction is that humans use symbols to understand and interact properly with natural and social world. Symbolic interactionism is a theory of social cognition, which models human interaction among significant concepts like identity, language, meaning, labeling…
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Firstly, the reason for making any decision is the idea that it will be beneficial to make a decision. For example, even when suicide occurs the person who makes the poor decision to end their life perceives their decision as…
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