Where the Census leaves off, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) steps in to provides the comprehensive and state of the art social science information that is needed to gauge the pulse of American society. Founded in 1941 as a component of the University of…
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“No man is an island,” the famous quote referring that people need each other. People need someone to talk to, someone to be with. People need someone to enhance and support their talents and skills. That is why there is…
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Today’s media is mass and ubiquitous. This means that is is portable, constantly available and vastly growing in capability. One of the main complaints about the media’s influence on society and on behavior is that it gives a “big fat…
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Sociology is the study of the psychology of groups. Psychology studies individual behavior. There is considerable overlap between individual psychology and group psychology. Sociology Sociology looks at individual behavior as it is influenced by groups. It also studies the behavior…
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Every society evolves a way of life. For modern humans it is not easy to understand how much past peoples depended on the seasons, coped without electricity, or within the confines of their climate. Climates have changed in the past…
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Urban sprawl began in the later part of the nineteenth century. The construction of the railroad system in America enabled people to move around the country. The government offered land at a price people could afford to entice them to…
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Why are there cities? Well, when humans first evolved, they were mostly a society of hunter-gatherers, and were highly nomadic in nature. They had to be, because for the longest time, we were just living off what the land gave…
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A Rational Explanation Of Social Darwinism From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, written by Charles Darwin: “Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of…
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Human beings are very complicated individuals. The factors that contribute to personality, values, tastes and expressions are countless, and therefore so is the variety of the combinations of these and other elements that comprise a person’s individual identity. Human society…
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The philosophical origins of negativity or positivity concerning women go back to the earliest known major philosophers, Aristotle was of a very negative mind toward women, and claimed in detail that there were justifications for considering women as inferior to and the subject…
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