Social Science

Here are two scenarios for you to ponder. You walk into a job interview. Your shirt is unbuttoned, you’ve got a grease stain on your cheek, you’ve trekked mud in on the carpet, you’re wearing a pair of cast-off running…
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We all make mistakes. It is part of being human and so the most important thing is not in completely avoiding those mistakes but in learning from them, then getting up and moving on to a better place. But, how…
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Alienation is an often tragic form of dislocation in the social sphere. It is a condition which entails a dissonance between oneself; one’s hopes, dreams and aspirations and the wider social whole, which seems to be moving in a direction…
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In the establishment of tests designed to weigh the intelligence of any individual’s capacity for knowledge, it is arguable that the overall calculation is formulated by a populous opinion, moreover that of factual information. Due to the amount of resources…
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Hypothetically, we can almost always derive at a probability or conclusion simply by studying the applied effort, action, and the reaction or result thereof. For as much as Newton’s law of motion implies; when we force any type action, (be…
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If you have ever worked in a gas station you have met them, people who come in every day and buy as many lottery tickets as they can afford. Even when you simply stand in line you see them. Often…
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To be truthful, it’s hard to recognize some with a potentialfor violence, unless they outright become explosive that verymoment. Besides it usually takes time for all this aggression to build upit doesn’t happen overnight. Most normal human beings find ways…
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We like to think of ourselves as individuals who think for ourselves. Our decisions are our own and while others may influence us they don’t control those decisions. This may be true for some people but for far more the…
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Erik Erikson, a Freudian ego-psychologist who is also socially-oriented, is best-known for his ego development. It’s an elaboration of Freud’s five stages of development, which didn’t include adulthood. Erik Erikson’s ego development has eight stages that extend from infancy to…
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Imagine being in a large minority group (roughly 20-30% of the total population) who are physically indistinguishable from the majority. Imagine that you are somehow unaware of this fact but are just conscious that you relate to people and to…
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