Social Science

Perhaps I take on an individualistic persona when I say this, but I enjoy the feeling of solitude. In a world where people often enjoy socializing and jumping from one event to the next, there is something luxurious and slow-paced…
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Why do Westerners generally not mind living alone; while Asians, South Americans, Central Americans, and Africans prefer to live with either their families or other people of their race and cultural background rather than alone? I think for the Western…
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Paraskavedekatriaphobia is pronounced para-skavi-deka-tria-foby-ah the basic stress pattern makes it sound like PAraSKAveDEkaTRIaPHObia.   The word paraskavedkatriaphoiba is a combination of the greek word paraskevi meaning Friday and dekatreis meaning thirteen attached to phobia meaning fear. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of…
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Occasionally we hear a theory, laugh a little and file it under bogus. Then slowly we begin to notice it seems to have some validity. Could it be that Louise Coffey-Webb is correct? This professor of fashion history teaches that…
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World Crisis and Man’s Hierarchy of Needs Many of us are familiar with Abraham Maslow’s work on the hierarchy of human needs. This was not so much an original postulate, but more of an attempt to synthesize a large body…
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Where does an alter ego come from? An alter ego is usually something that is created by people as something fun to do, or maybe your buddy decided that it would be funny to do some night when your thinking…
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For a long time, I believed that the ego was something rather negative. To be described as having “a big ego” or needing the “ego massaged,” suggested a person full of their own importance who demanded to be given the…
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Women’s perceptions and negative image results in our automatic devaluing ourselves and only thinking of ourselves in terms of our sexuality and attraction to men. What is it that makes male attention so much better than that from females? If…
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In the world we live in now we hear stories of truly violent behaviour, of how men maul each other, and of how fights break out over the smallest of things. We even hear of serial killers, of murdering rapists,…
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When considering the id, the first thought that comes to mind is that we owe its invention, as we know it, and theoretical explanation to the work of the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud(1856-1939 . Freud devised ways to treat…
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