The national cost of a gallon of gas, the War in the Middle East, the repressed economy, the trend of having too few females in the 18-24 year old singles market, and the ever-increasing demand for plastic surgery are just a few of the social facts at play today
Chapter 02 - Sociological Imagination - 6 views
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but we rarely find a way to significantly impact them back.
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False Social Conscious which is an ignorance of social facts and the larger social picture.
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Do you think teens live this way...ignorant of social facts?
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Absolutely i think that teens live by the following : Ignorance is bliss. And can you blame them? Can you blame any one that thinks this way for that matter. In a sense i wish i could be ignorant to problems present in society because I A) Wouldn't feel so threatened by things i cant control and B) I wouldn't feel morally or ethically at fault for the decisions of my nation.
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A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
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A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
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A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
The Learning Generalist: March 2011 - 0 views
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society
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anthropologist
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When Do People ¬Not Protest Unfairness? The Case of Skin Color Discrimination... - 1 views
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This is the phenomenon of “colorism” – “the tendency to perceive or behave toward members of a racial category based on the lightness or darkness of their skin tone”
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Colorism: (Definition) It is discrimination towards the more dark pigmented people, which excludes them from social and daily activities. Colorism is found all around the world since people have spread and this is prejudice against the darker skinned humans.
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This website separates skin discrimination into different sectors so we can see that there's isn't only one place that the discrimination is affecting us. All of the examples which are highlighted in blue are a tool that helps us really understand what this professor is talking about.
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lighter-skinned black soldiers in the Union Army of the Civil War were, compared with darker-skinned soldiers, more likely to be skilled workers rather than field hands before entering the service
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however, is that how people behave and are treated is affected not only by the nominal category of race, but also by the ordinal category of multiple shades of skin tone
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Ape Genius reveals depth of animal intelligence - Telegraph - 1 views
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By Paul Eccleston
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5:00PM BST 02 May 2008
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Chimpanzees in Senegal make and sharpen spears with their teeth to go hunting. Like our own ancestors they have learned to use tools to kill their quarry more effectively.
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Intelligent design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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"certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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version of the theological argument from design for the existence of God
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leading proponents
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Webspeak: The Secret Language of Teens - ABC News - 0 views
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"I've been texting so much that I wrote the letters 'u-r' instead of 'y-o-u-r' and the letter 'r' instead of the word 'are,'" said Michelle Sloan, a Clarksburg High freshman, of a paper she wrote for school. "My teacher came up to me and told me my mistake, and I felt kind of stupid."
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