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matt kogan

Tween Dating Relationships and Sexuality - Tweens More Sexually Active Than Parents Rea... - 1 views

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  • Dating relationships begin much earlier than adults realize. 47% of tweens and 37% of 11 and 12-year olds say they've been in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. 72% say dating relationships begin by age 14. Nearly one-third of tweens and parents say sexual activity is a part of tween dating relationships. Specifically, the percentage of tweens and parents identified below acknowledge the following acts as part of a dating relationship: Touching and feeling up - 37% of tweens and 31% of parents Oral sex - 27% of tweens and 26% of parents Sexual intercourse - 28% of tweens and 26% of parents Tweens in relationships report sexual activity among their peer group. 47% know a friend or someone their age who has touched and felt up a partner. 31% know a friend or peer who has had oral sex. 33% know a friend or peer who has had sexual intercourse. Parents continue to believe 'it's not my child.' Of the parents who say that sex is part of a tween relationship: 59% know that their child has kissed a boyfriend or girlfriend. 17% know their child has made out with a partner. Only 7% say their child has gone further than kissing or making out. The "Tween and Teen Dating Violence and Abuse Study" was conducted January 2-18, 2008 by TRU (Teenage Research Unlimited) and the survey's findings were released July 8, 2008. Suggested ReadingTween DatingTeen Dating, Sex and RelationshipsRelating to Your Tween Related ArticlesFacts on Tween Dating Abuse and Violence - Statistics on Tweens and Dating ...Kids, Dating and Safety - What Parents Should Know About Kids, Dating and K...Tweens - Understanding Today's TweensSingle Parent Dating - Before You Start Single Parent DatingGrandparents Rights in Oregon - Grandparents Rights by State Linda LowenWomen's Issues GuideSign up for my NewsletterMy BlogMy Forum Advertisement Issues Ads Dating Women Online Dating Dating Tips Dating Chat Rooms Dating Girl
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    You've highlighted too much and not provided a resume.
steven bloom

Video games help focus on fine detail - 1 views

  • Video games help focus on fine detail From: The Australian February 13, 2007 12:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university. "After just 30 hours, players showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in."
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Why highlight this?
  • PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university.
  • These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it," she says. "That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      An interesting article.
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    This website talks about how video games help looking at the fine detail. It states that playing action video games such as halo or call of duty refine your ability to see fine detail. This characteristic is important for doctors or architects. This website is credible becuase it took it's information from the university of Rochester in the United States study.
Daryl Bambic

Chapter 7. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control | Introduction to Sociology - ... - 0 views

  • personality disorder
  • anti-social behaviour, diminished empathy, and lack of inhibitions.
  • term psychopathy is often used to emphasize that the source of the disorder is internal, based on psychological, biological, or genetic factors, whereas sociopathy is used to emphasize predominant social factors in the disorder: the social or familial sources of its development and the inability to be social or abide by societal rules (Hare 1999).
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  • ociopathy
  • sociological disease par excellence.
  • Cesare Lombroso
  • positivist criminology who thought he had isolated specific physiological characteristics of “degeneracy”
  • James Fallon
  • lack of brain activity has been linked with specific genetic markers
  • environment, and not just genes
  • psychopathy and sociopathy are recognized as problematic forms of deviance because of prevalent social anxieties about serial killers as types of criminal who “live next door” or blend in.
  • we do not know our neighbours well
  • deviance is a violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether folkways, mores, or codified law
  • Folkways
  • Mores
  • laws are norms that are specified in explicit codes and enforced by government bodies
  • rime is therefore an act of deviance that breaks not only a norm, but a law. Deviance can be as minor as picking one’s nose in public or as major as committing murder.
  • Firstly, deviance is defined by its social context. To understand why some acts are deviant and some are not, it is necessary to understand what the context is, what the existing rules are, and how these rules came to be established
  • Whether an act is deviant or not depends on society’s definition of that act
  • deviance is not an intrinsic (biological or psychological) attribute of individuals, nor of the acts themselves, but a product of social processes.
  • moral entrepreneurs
  • individuals’ deviant status is ascribed to them through social processes
  • even when these beliefs about kinds of persons are products of objective scientific classification, the institutional context of science and expert knowledge is not independent of societal norms, beliefs, and practices
  • Crime and deviance are social constructs that vary according to the definitions of crime, the forms and effectiveness of policing, the social characteristics of criminals, and the relations of power that structure society
  • social control,
  • organized action intended to change people’s behaviour
  • maintain social order,
  • enforcing rules are through sanctions
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • formal or informal
  • Formal sanctions
  • Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince (1532),
  • It was not, however, until the 19th century and the invention of modern institutions like the prison, the public school, the modern army, the asylum, the hospital, and the factory, that the means for extending government and social control widely through the population were developed.
  • disciplinary social control 
  • Foucault argues that the ideal of discipline as a means of social control is to render individuals docile.
  • The chief components of disciplinary social control in modern institutions like the prison and the school are surveillance, normalization, and examination
  • seeing machine.
  • rows of desks
  • one-way glass or video monitors.
  • normalization
  • examinations
  • disciplinary social control as a key mechanism in creating a normalizing society.
  • One way deviance is functional, he argued, is that it challenges people’s present views
  • which also contributes to society
  • crime is most likely to occur in communities with weak social ties and the absence of social control.
  • cial disorganization theor
  • A person is not born a criminal, but becomes one over time, often based on factors in his or her social environment.
  • Individuals who believe they are a part of society are less likely to commit crimes against it.
  • Attachment
  • Commitment
  • involvement,
  • belief,
  • studies have found that children from disadvantaged communities who attend preschool programs that teach basic social skills are significantly less likely to engage in criminal activity
  • strain theory
  • that access to socially acceptable goals plays a part in determining whether a person conforms or deviates.
  • Critical sociology looks to social and economic factors as the causes of crime and deviance.
  • but as evidence of inequality in the system.
  • accommodatio
  • discrepancy between the reality of structural inequality and the high cultural value of economic success creates a strain that has to be resolved by some means.
  • consensus crimes
  • Conflict crime
  • Social deviations
  • social diversion
  • The second sociological insight
  • ndividuals are not born deviant, but become deviant through their interaction with reference groups, institutions, and authorities
  • t is not simply a matter of the events that lead authorities to define an activity or category of persons deviant, but of the processes by which individuals come to recognize themselves as deviant.
  • Once a category of deviance has been established and applied to a person, that person begins to define himself or herself in terms of this category and behave accordingly
  • The major issue is not that labels are arbitrary or that it is possible not to use labels at all, but that the choice of label has consequences.
  • Government refers to the strategies by which one seeks to direct or guide the conduct of another or others.
  • differential association theory, stating that individuals learn deviant behaviour from those close to them who provide models of and opportunities for deviance.
  • White-collar or corporate crime
  • sociologist C. Wright Mills described the existence of what he dubbed the power elite, a small group of wealthy and influential people at the top of society who hold the power and resources.
  • their decisions affect everyone in society
  • The goal of the amendments was to emphasize that sexual assault is an act of violence, not a sexual act
  • secondary victimization
  • Women who are regarded as criminally deviant are often seen as being  doubly deviant. They have broken the laws but they have also broken gender norms about appropriate female behaviour, whereas men’s criminal behaviour is seen as consistent with their aggressive, self-assertive character
  • medicalize
  • n part the gender difference revolves around patriarchal attitudes toward women and the disregard for matters considered to be of a private or domestic nature
  • 1970s, women worked to change the criminal justice system and establish rape crisis centres and battered women’s shelters, bringing attention to domestic violence.
  • Interestingly women and men report similar rates of spousal violence
  • more a result of differential socialization processes.
  • Labelling Theory
  • Labelling theory examines the ascribing of a deviant behaviour to another person by members of society.
  • not so much by the behaviours themselves or the people who commit them, but by the reactions of others to these behaviours.
  • Secondary deviance can be so strong that it bestows a master status on an individual
  • Primary deviance is a violation of norms that does not result in any long-term effects on the individual’s self-image or interactions with others
  • Secondary deviance occurs when a person’s self-concept and behaviour begin to change after his or her actions are labelled as deviant by members of society.
  • The criminal justice system is ironically one of the primary agencies of socialization into the criminal “career path.”
isaac_wic

Into the Abyss: The Gang Culture - 0 views

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    c: the paper was published in 2002, but due to its subject, its still relevant. the website at first seems a little suspicious but due to its URL having .edu and it being a university website (that I did a quick google search on, i trust its information. r: It explores the culture of gangs and gives a good intro to the topic. Little older than i would like but its still all very relevant. a: PHD mike carlie, a professor at a university. All checks out on google. a: all statements that aren't his have a reference, grammar is perfect. p: its to inform and isn't bias.
jonah-e

Chapter 08 - Deviance and Crime - 0 views

  • xactly who has the power and authority to define the behavior as being normal or deviant.
  • education
  • religions,
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  • governments,
  • media
  • family
  • Durkheim argued that deviance, especially extreme forms are functional in that they challenge and offend the established norms in the larger collective conscience.
  • deviance reaffirms norms when the deviants are punished;
  • promotes solidarit
  • clear contrasting point of comparison
  • stimulates social change.
  • Extreme deviance does make us consider “normal” behavior on the personal and larger social level.
  • But, what if this distribution was not an indicat8ion of test scores, but rather the frequency of times potential roommates stole food from the private stashes of previous roommates? You’d clearly want a score closer to 0 than 80.
  • National studies indicate that less than 5 percent of the United States population considers itself to be exclusively homosexual.
  • s homosexuality deviant or normal?”
  • “Does that make it more or less common and therefore more or less deviant?” I ask.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Think about the relationship of these two ideas: common (so mean) and normal (so deviant).
  • actor violates group norms but complies with the law, it is deviance.
  • how can something be deviant and normal at the same time?”
  • We rarely have total agreement on what’s normal
  • ethnocentrism tends to burn cross-cultural bridges
  • across time; across cultures, and from group to group.
  • shifting values.
  • Deviance varies between cultures because values vary between cultures.
  • ontributed to higher or lower levels of trust over time.
  • The point of this story is that in most social groups a beat down would be considered deviant. In a gang it’s very much normal. Yet, in this situation, not beating him down was deviant within his gang, yet a wise choice.
  • Absolutist Perspective claims that deviance resides in the very nature of an act and is wrong at all times and in all places.
  • Normative Perspective claims that deviance is only a violation of a specific group's or society's rules at a specific point in time
  • Reactive Perspective claims that behavior does not become deviant unless it is disapproved of by those in authority (laws
  • Stigma
  • deviance is a violation of a norm
  • Conformity
  • “random act of senseless kindness”
  • legal and normal
  • complies with group norms yet breaks the law, it’s called crime.
  • normal crime.
  • As mentioned, deviants and criminals make us reassess our values and make new rules and laws
  • crime is often found in every society
  • iolates norms and breaks the law, then it’s Deviant and Criminal behavior
  • Power Elite are the political, corporate, and military leaders of a society are uniquely positioned to commit Elite Crimes, or crimes of insider nature that typically are difficult to punish and have broad social consequences upon the masses.
  • issues of power and powerlessness. It’s about who has the power and how they attempt to force their values and rules upon those who don’t have it.
  • remember that Anomie is a state of social normlessness which occurs when our lives or society has vague norms)
  • disproportionately high level of non-whites who ended up among the 2006 1,570,861 incarcerated members of society
  • Labeling Theory claims
  • majority of US prisoners have been in prison before (perhaps 60-80%
  • Phrenology is an outdated scientific approach of studying the shape and characteristics of the skull.
  • White-Collar Crimes are crimes committed by persons of respectable and high social status committed in the course of their occupations.
  • Street Crimes are crimes
  • Organized Crime
  • Hate Crimes
  • Norm is a set of expected behaviors for a given role and social status.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Do you agree with this definition?  Can you see what the consequences of this might be?
    • jonah-e
       
      yes. and the consequences might be that since you always excpect the excpected you will never excpect the unexcpected. 
  • Look at the diagram below.
  • Is a mean of 80 good or desirable?
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Think of 80, or the mean, as the norm.  When you think of it this way, is it desirable?
  • That depends on what these scores represent.
  • Values also vary between groups
  • An absolutists would probably fall among the 1 in 4 who feel that abortion is always wrong, because it is an unacceptable act. A normative individual would consider the circumstances (rape, incest, diagnoses, or health of mother) while a reactive would consider the legality of abortion.
  • In every society when deviance is considered it is most often controlled.
  • Control is easier if attachments, commitment, involvement, and beliefs are stronger.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      The absence of this is called 'anomie' and signals the breakdown of a society. Sociologists would call this the loss of social cohesion.  
  • Attachments
  • Commitment
  • Involvement
  • Belief
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Think of these four factors that favor control of deviance in terms of your school.  How does each one of these manifest itself in school life?  Are they effective in reducing deviant behaviour?
  • Negative Sanctions are punishments or negative reactions toward deviance. Positive Sanctions are rewards for conforming behavior
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      What type of sanctions, both positive and negative, do we see at WIC?
  • Table 5. Robert Merton’s Five Goal—Means Gap Coping Strategies*** 1.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Don't worry about this section.
Daryl Bambic

BrainJogging » New studies find video games to be detrimental to children's s... - 2 views

  • Boys who received a game system at the beginning of the study showed an immediate increase in how much time they spent playing video games and a decrease in the after-school academic activities.  They also had significantly lower reading and writing scores than the group of boys that were promised a game system at the end of the study.  Parents reported no behavioral changes, but there was an immediate increase in teacher-reported learning problems for boys that received a game system at the beginning of the study (Science Daily).
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      This is a common argument for the negative position.  Be aware that there are educators who use gaming as a teaching tool and believe that it can be positive.  
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      This site is an example of how a web page can have a blog section.  The purpose of this site is to sell a product but the author (a special ed teacher) also has much experience and a point of view on an important topic.  If there is a place to leave a comment, then you may consider this as a blog.
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    This is a good link for Steven and Malik
Catherine Delisle

Main Causes Of Peer Pressure - 2 views

    • Catherine Delisle
       
      This page could be really useful because it speaks of the different factors that can CAUSE a child/teenager to be pressured by peers. It explains how the way of upbringing a child is a crucial aspect. The environment is also very important.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      You need to include some highlights of the most important ideas on the page.
  • First of all, a child need not get pressurized by their peers. If they are cool, if they are confident and if they are sure of themselves, they will not break and crack under pressure. This comes only from healthy upbringing. A child starts to think that their friends are better if they were constantly compared to others by their own parents. Also, children with older siblings, who are bullies, can fall under peer pressure.
    • Catherine Delisle
       
      This section of the text is very interesting because it says that the upbringing of a child is a crucial aspect. Their parents behaviour is also very important to the way they will respond to peer pressures. Their relationships with their families are very important.
  • A child's low self confidence and low self esteem are the biggest reasons for coming under peer pressure. Another common reason is if the parent is extremely strict, then the child may find the constant urge to do something wrong. However, all roads lead to the parents' way of upbringing. The environment at home has a big impact on children. Though for a teenager their friends have a bigger impact on them than the parents, it is the parents who have set the foundation.
    • Catherine Delisle
       
      This section explains the importance of a high self esteem in a child/teenager. Also, it speeks of the role parents play in the development of character in children/teens. There is an aspect of rivalry that teenagers have; the stricter the parent, the more the teen contradicts them.
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    Not a credible site for your research.
isaac_wic

University of Leicester - Gang Culture - 0 views

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    c: its a university website,page was created by multiple professors. r: published in 2006 but due to the topic its still very relevant and gives an in depth look on gang culture outside of North America. a: all the work is cited and doesn't have grammar mistakes a: it was published in a newspaper P; slightly bias but mostly informative
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    c: its a university website,page was created by multiple professors. r: published in 2006 but due to the topic its still very relevant and gives an in depth look on gang culture outside of North America. a: all the work is cited and doesn't have grammar mistakes a: it was published in a newspaper P; slightly bias but mostly informative
Frankie Ferreira

Music Enhances Academic Excellence - 1 views

  • Musicians achieve a higher grade point average (GPA) than non-musicians in the same school do. Music students achieve higher ACT scores and other college entrance exam scores. In a recent study, 66% of music majors who apply to medical school are accepted, the highest percentage of any group. Only 44% of biochemistry majors are admitted. Findings indicate that music study uniquely enhances higher brain functions required for reading, mathematics, chess, science and engineering.
  • Music training enhances reading skills.  A study done with 1st grade children shows significantly higher reading scores with children receiving piano/music instruction than did the control group. (Hurwitz, I., Wolff, P.H., Bortnick, B.D. & Kokas, K. 1975) Music training dramatically enhances children’s abstract reasoning skills necessary for math and science.  A study with 3 and 4 year-olds indicated that children who received piano/keyboard training performed 34% higher on tests measuring spatial-temporal ability than the non-musical group. These findings indicate that music uniquely enhances higher brain functions required for mathematics, chess, science and engineering. (Psychologist Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and physicist Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of California at Irvine in 1994)
  • Music training increases intelligence.  Scores on a puzzle task, designed to measure spatial reasoning ability, increased significantly during the period they (three and four-year-olds) received the music lessons. In a research report, ‘Music Increases Intelligence Report,’ Dr Shaw said the piano was the instrument of choice because its keyboard gave the children both a linear and audible representation of the relationship between sounds. "What this means for parents is that they should consider giving their children piano lessons as early as age three or four," said Shaw. (College of Computing, Georgia Tech, August 24, 1994. UCI Journal, Spring 1997) Music enhances learning and creativity.  In another research test involving four and five-year olds, the effects of music on learning and creativity was measured. After twenty days of training, the music/dance group showed the greatest improvement in learning about body parts and creativity. (Mohanty, B. & Hejmadi, A. (1992). Effects Of Intervention Training on Some Cognitive Abilities of Preschool Children. Psychological Studies, 37, 31-37.)
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  • Music training enhances a brain function that dies away.  Studies show that early experiences of childhood determine which brain cells (neurons) will connect with other brain cells, and which ones will die away. Because neural connections are responsible for all types of intelligence, a child’s brain develops to its full potential only with exposure to the necessary music enriching experiences in early childhood. (Music Beats Computers at Enhancing Early Childhood Development, American Music Conference via PR NEWSWIRE: Neurological Research, February 1997)
  • Music achieves non-musical positive effects.  It has been shown that children develop faster socially, mentally, and even physically when exposed to music in their early childhood. "Thus, it appears that music studied for good and sufficient reasons for its own sake has beneficial ‘side effects’ on cognition." (Rausher, F.H.,Shaw G.I., Levine, L.J., Ky, K.N. & Wright, E.I. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA., August 13, 1994.)
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    This article states a bunch of facts that they say are true, about how music really enhances academic excellence. It is than furthermore proven by showing multiple studies done in various years, all clearly proving how our academic success is greatly influenced by music.
Patrick Reid

The Best Sounds for Getting Work Done - 1 views

  • The Workplace Doctors site details both sides of the question. In one study, University of Illinois researchers found that listening to music in "all types of work" increased work output 6.3% over a control group. In another study (dissected at MetaFilter), 56 employees working on basic computer tasks were found to be more productive when there was no music playing over the same period tested with music.
  • The most often cited study into the question of music's effect on the mind involves the so-called Mozart effect, which suggests that listening to certain kinds of music—Amadeus Wolfgang's classical works, in particular—impacts and boosts one's spatial-temporal reasoning, or the ability to think out long-term, more abstract solutions to logical problems that arise.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      This is a blogger (that I know and follow). It's really interesting but it's still a blog. Where is your sticky note comment?
Leigh Gantman

Why are people generous? Why aren't they? - 0 views

  • Why? Well, altruism, they note, is a component of human social behavior.  But it carries a personal cost. You give that last piece of pie to someone else and that means it doesn’t go to you. Human beings, therefore, might be tuned to constantly gauge how they’re morally measuring up, and not lay on the niceness any thicker than it needs to be.
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    Now that I have altered my study, this passage could be of great use to me. It brings up a very good point: altruism is component of social behavior. This paragraph is trying to explain why people are generous and why people are sometimes selfish. It refers back to human nature and the way people behave. Although this passage is sourced from a blog, the author is mentioning credible information. When one does a selfless act, they are often doing something that is not to their benefit, but to the benefit of another. In some occasions, this means sacrificing.
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    Remember that a newspaper is not the same as a study or a university supported site. They are in the business of selling news and not researching.
Daryl Bambic

Microsoft Word - A--sbk.durkheim.doc.pdf - 1 views

  • till, he insists that the external is necessarily primary to the existence of an individual belief 3or a choice.
  • Durkheim employs this characterization of social facts in The Rules to demonstrate that individuals are social beings, inextricably woven into the fabric of social processes
  • one cannot understand individual behavior without understanding the social forces acting upon that individual.
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  • Each individual is born into a socially-organized network that both teaches and requires behavior and conforming beliefs
  • most part, individuals do not feel or recognize these coercive forces, and may attribute their choices and beliefs to internal processes
  • oercive influence of social organization on our morality and behavior both by describing what we are born into
  • e external is necessarily primary to the existence of an individual belief
  • born into familie
  • onstrained in every respect by the organization of law
  • ustoms of the societies in which we live. The businessman who tries to conduct business outside of the organized economy will fail
  • ules a
  • eligious leaders teach us what to believe and what to think about right and wrong
  • 4Similarly, the lack of strongly aligned family structures or political structure signals a dangerous lack of integration.
  • challenges the view held by psychologists of his time, who maintained that suicide could be explained by individual psychological characteristic
  • This pursuit of knowledge, however, is not the cause of suicide rates to rise. Rather, it signals a lack of integration of the religious society’s norms and values.
  • happy equilibrium
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      A functionalist perspective
  • belongs to a weakly cohesive society, and experiences a change in regulation, usually during a period of rapid change or crisis.
  • or a choice
  • s he describes, for society to regulate individuals’ cohesion into the society, “the passions first must be limited” (248). This is usually done with an establishment of social codes, laws and rules.
  • Anomic suicide
  • either integrated nor regulate
  • e wants sociology to be more scientific and move from the realm of subjectivity to objectivity
  • primacy of the “social fact.
  • Anomic Suicide
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    Some background information about Durkheim's idea of the social fact of suicide.
Daryl Bambic

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

  • This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Do you agree with this premise?  Do you agree that the previous sentence (the argument) is based on this premise?
  • The Dumbest Generation
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  • incessant communication
  • does not lead to intellectual growth, but rather to a stunting of genuine intellectual development
  • solipsistic,
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Solipsism: means that the only thing we can really know and be sure about is the self.  All other knowledge is suspect.
  • "being online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,
  • ubiquitous
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      meaning is found everywhere
  • requires literacy
  • Human society has experienced three profound social, economic, and cultural transformations—the agrarian revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution.
  • we can blend the best of our traditional intellectual linear culture—Socrates' wisdom of the 5th century BCE—with the current digital culture, creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      What does the author want the 21st century learner to be able to do?
  • Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      What do you think the author means by technical fixes?
  • Critical reflection enables us to see the world from multiple points of view and imagine alternate outcomes
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Do you agree with his definition of critical thinking?  What else might be added to it?
  • Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Do you agree with these two paragraphs that connect empirical reasoning with abandoning the supernatural?
  • education has taken on the role of dispensing "cultural capital" to individuals on the basis of a merit system that is a camouflaged proxy for social class and social position.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      What he means is that education is more of a system for making sure the rich stay rich than for actually educating people.  The distinctions between classes is more apparent in American society than in Canadian society.
  • real basis of teamwork is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems
  • that all knowledge is social.
  • When we think about thinking, we turn our mental pictures around ever so slowly to view them from different angles
  • multiple frames of reference
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      means...different ways of looking at a problem
  • where knowledge creation is fluid, fast, and far more democratic.
  • knowledge creation
  • Wikipedi
  • we will incorporate a whole array of technological options into how, when, and where we learn. We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfar
  • answers were always steps on the way to deeper questions.
  • Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth
  • f we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • "personal learning network,"
  • Even thoug
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      I think he has some assumptions about philosophers!
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    the 21st century mind: how are teachers educating for this?
olivia amiel

Teens ignoring real world issues - thestar.com - 2 views

    • olivia amiel
       
      This article is related to my project because it talks about how teenagers are not aware of their surroundings, instead they are more focused on facebook, MSN. It also shows an example of how teachers could help teens become more aware by doing simple things in school. As my topic is about apathy and teens being unaware, this article helps a lot.
  • The benefits of being socially aware are endless. Everything from becoming an informed voter to donating to a needy cause is influenced by one's consciousness of current affairs
    • olivia amiel
       
      By being socially aware, teenagers can have so many more benefits compared to if they are not aware of their surroundings. Being aware can help us in the future and now by, as they say in the article, becoming an informed voter for example.
  • Joseph Miceli, a high school religion teacher, says that discussing current events within the standard school curriculum is "a very practical and effective way of making learning more interesting and real." Although many teachers do an excellent job of making current events relevant in the classroom, Miceli questions whether or not it is consistently used within all subject areas.
    • olivia amiel
       
      Although teachers are very good at their job, Joseph Miceli wonders if teachers are teaching us enough about current events going on around us. If certain teachers would start to put more emphasis on this subject, teenagers would maybe begin to learn a bit more about their surroundings.
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  • Although today's youth are more media savvy than ever before, there seems to be a missing link within the information chain. From soldiers' deaths in the Middle East to fundraising events in their own community, today's teenagers are often uninformed about current events and world news.
    • olivia amiel
       
      This statement here represents perfectly our topic. It is a fact, teenagers are often uninformed about current events and world news and it is'nt necessarily a good thing. They now have more "important" priorities in their life such as facebook, texting , being with their friends etc... that they don't take the time to see what is happening around the world. Basic knowledge, and some teenagers don't even know stuff about their own country.
  • "Students would rather spend hours on social-networking sites like Facebook and chatting on instant messengers like MSN than searching Google for important world issues," says Clarke.
    • olivia amiel
       
      Technology plays a huge role in today's generation... and I believe that it could be the cause as to why teenagers are not as aware of their surroundings now. They are more occupied in the latest web invention instead of simply taking 10 minutes of their time to Google stuff about world issues.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      While this is interesting, a newspaper report quoting one teenager is not the most credible source. It's ok if your other sites are excellent.
isaac_wic

How Gangs Took Over Prisons - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    c: relevant and legit news article. updated recently r: very relevant and gives an in depth look on how gangs and prison are related a: the grammar is perfect, citations are included a: Reporter who i googled and had a great record p: somewhat bias.
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    c: relevant and legit news article. updated recently r: very relevant and gives an in depth look on how gangs and prison are related a: the grammar is perfect, citations are included a: Reporter who i googled and had a great record p: somewhat bias.
Catherine Preston

Chapter 09 - Stratification - 0 views

  • Layers occur almost everywhere in nature: in tissues of the human body, rock formations in the ground, atmospheres around the earth, and in societies of every nation on the earth. We call these layers strata and the process of layering stratification.
  • Social Stratification is the socio-economic layering of society's members according to property, power, and prestige. Property is all the wealth, investments, deeded and titled properties, and other tangible sources of income. Power is the ability to get one's way even in the face of opposition to one's goals. Prestige is the degree of social honor attached with your position in society.
    • Catherine Preston
       
      What makes the layers are the gaps between the haves and the have-nots as well as the gaps of the different economic classes.
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  • here are layers of social stratification in every society
  • here are the "haves" who coexist with the masses or "Have nots."
  • he PRB uses a measure of relative economic well being called the GNI PPP. The GNI PPP is the gross national income of a country converted to international dollars using a factor called the purchasing power parity.
  • lets you understand how much a person could buy in the US with a given amount of money, regardless of the country's currency.
  • That means the stratification difference between the world's top five countries is over 149 times higher than the bottom 5 countries.
  • The US ranks high $45, 840 per capita (per person) but is the 6th wealthiest behind Luxembourg, Norway, Kuwait, Brunei, and Singapore.
  • More Developed Nations are nations with comparably higher wealth than most countries of the world including: Western Europe; Canada, United States, Japan, and Australia-these are also called Now Rich Countries.
  • lso called Now Poor Countries.
  • Africa is the poorest region with the average person making less than 1/10th of what the average US person makes.
  • Again Luxembourg at $64,400 has a score over 20 times higher than Africa's; 11 times higher than Asia (Excl. China); and 7 times higher than Latin America.
  • The higher the GNI PPP the better off the average person in that country
  • Females made much less income than males in all categories.
  • The Hispanic category is lowest for males and females.
  • Asians had the highest personal income for both sexes (Data for Asians was not reported prior to 2004).
  • The first thing you see is that dual-earner marrieds (both husband and wife work in labor force) by far have the highest income levels between 1990 and 2006.
  • husband only in labor force) comes in next followed closely by single males
    • Catherine Preston
       
      This is a great example of how the value of a woman as capital does not lie in income because it is inferior to male's 
  • In sum, the females with the highest income are married.
  • Single females reported the lowest income
  • Basically, the higher the education, the higher the annual income in 2007.
  • higher for Whites and Asians
  • Blacks and Hispanics
  • Official data begin to tell you the story about how the layers look in a society.
  • Over 40 percent of Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans dropped out.
  • In the US, non-Whites, non-Asians, and non-males are more likely to be found in the lower layers.
Leigh Gantman

Human Greed - 0 views

  • Why are we so greedy? Well, possessions can bring us pleasure. And pleasure can become addictive. If we mistakenly associate pleasure with happiness, it's not surprising that we pursue it without end. Another reason for greed is fear. We're afraid there is only so much material to go around, and if we're not quick enough, someone else may snatch what we want. Although fear can cause greed, ironically, greed causes more fear. For as Chuang Tzu wrote," He who considers wealth a good thing can never bear to give up his income; he who considers eminence a good thing can never bear to give up his fame. He who has a taste for power can never bear to hand over authority to others. Holding tight to these things, such men shiver with fear; should they let them go, they would pine in sorrow." Isn't it true that if our desires are endless, our cares and fears will be too?
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      the credibility of this site is questionable. Be prepared to defend it.
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    This passage brings up a very interesting point. In fact, it gets me wondering if greed and fear have a relation. It also mentions that possessions bring us pleasure and we get attached to that feeling. These are some theories as to why humans have greedy habits. Some fear that if they don't grab a certain possession quick enough, another person will get to it faster and leave them empty handed. The quote by Chuang Tzu is also very relevant to my study. It is essentially stating that once you have reached the highest, best point of something, it is difficult to go back to old ways. This is what makes people greedy; the climb to get to that highest, best point.
Jillian Frank

Just How Honest Are You? | Teens - 0 views

    • Jillian Frank
       
      This website shows a few examples of what teenagers typically would lie about. These little white lies are very common our society, and happen all the time. In addition, this web page indicates a survey that was taken to 9 000 high school students about there honesty. I believe that this is a proper amount of students to be able to generally analize teenagers as a society, and formulate how honest they are as a population.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      The 'bias' question is clearly important here.
  • In a recent survey of almost 9,000 high school students: 92% lied to their parents in the past 12 months (79% two or more times) 78% lied to a teacher 71% cheated on a test would lie to get a job
Leigh Gantman

Altruism - 0 views

  • Altruistic behavior is something we might assume takes place every day. A person stops to help an elderly member of society across a street, an adult donates his/her time at a local charity, or someone else might even put himself or herself in harm’s way for the immediate benefit of another without really thinking about the consequences. However, it’s not clear what this sort of altruistic behavior actually comprises, or whether genuine altruism really exists. Today’s episode digs into these questions about altruism from two main standpoints. The first is from Biology, which considers how our conception of right and wrong may have been wired into us through evolution. The second considers altruism from the psychological standpoint. This view grants much more importance to the role of an individual’s psychology and his/her intentions when committing an action, which potentially leaves more possibility for genuinely altruistic acts to occur. 
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      This site is the work of two philosophy professors so it is reputable; but make sure to listen to the rest of the podcast before concluding something that you might misunderstand because you've taken it out of context.
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    This is extremely important for my project because it tries to explain why people act generously, and if their acts are genuine or not. It explains that throughout evolution, humans have been biologically programmed to grasp the concept of right and wrong. Therefore, it would be human nature telling them to do an act of consideration for another. However, it also explains that sometimes a genuine act of altruism can come from the individuals psychology, in which case their intention would be different. When the act comes from a psychological position, chances are more likely that the person sincerely wanted to commit it. I can incorporate this into my project by including questions in the survey such as: If you give to a charity, what is your purpose? Options for this will include answers like: It is the right thing to do or I really want to help someone else in need. This will show me how many people really have it in their hearts to be altruistic, and how many do it because they know it is what they should be doing.
Jonn Nudell

Can Listening to Music Help Us Work Better? - 1 views

  • We know that music can alter your mood
  • . Films have been using musical scores for years to create the right mood for a scene. At times you hardly notice the music at all but you are very receptive to the mood being conveyed. So can we use music to put us in a "productive" mood?
  • Research seems to support such a claim. For example, a trial where 75 out of 256 workers at a large retail company were issued with personal stereos to wear at work for four weeks showed a 10% increase in productivity for the headphone wearers. Other similar research conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois found a 6.3% increase when compared with the no music control group.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      same comment as the other two Oct 31
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  • f your goal is to increase your concentration then music which has a constant, easy beat and light melodies are recommended.
  • they help you pace your reading to aid focus and memorising. Baroque music is reported as an excellent example, especially the works of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel.
  • the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered that a person's ability to recognize visual images, including letters and numbers, is faster when either rock or classical music is playing in the background
  • If you are aiming to be more productive through being more relaxed, then you may be interested to learn that research has shown that music with an upbeat rhythm can reduce stress hormone levels by as much as 41%.
  • Apparently cows will produce more milk if Mozart is played.
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