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guitarryan88

"Ideas" Do Not Change The World! [Execution > Planning > Ideas] - 0 views

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    C:September 2012 R:It to inform us on how ideas do not change the world. A: It is india's biggest magazine for entrepreneurs and start ups business. A:They are writers from this site and magazine so they have credentials P: It is to Inform us
raquel7

The changing face of Canadian families | Ontario Human Rights Commission - 0 views

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    Currency: This website does use good adjectives to make it interesting but not too advanced to understand .This was very good in terms of what I was looking for with many different/varied points. Relevance: This is anonymous Authority: The author did site where all the information that they used were found. Accuracy: This article is not bias, it is objective. It is all information found in books and credible websites. Purpose: the purpose of the author was not to sell anything but only to inform people on this subject.
mira ahmad

The Apathetic New Generation - CBS News - 2 views

  • We can't let apathy and ignorance become the status quo
    • mira ahmad
       
      What this quote signifies is that we can't let ignorance and apathy be a reason for people not to make a difference. We need to change what's going on and make people realize the importance of several fundamental issues going on in today's world.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Well said. The status quo - accepting things as they are and not making necessary changes- is like death because it's a state of non-growth.
  • The report found that younger people "do not understand the ideals of citizenship, they are disengaged from the political process, they lack the knowledge necessary for effective self-government, and their appreciation and support of American democracy is limited."
    • mira ahmad
       
      Younger people don't know what's going on politically. When it comes time to vote, they won't be able to make their own decisions; they will most likely be lead to follow something that they don't truly understand.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Do you think that it's only knowledge that they lack? Do you think that young people think their efforts won't make a difference in a 'corrupt' system?
    • mira ahmad
       
      No, I do not think that it's the only knowledge that they lack. I was just giving an example. There are elements of corruption, but our society is always looking for change. I think that if people are really passionate, that their efforts will be worth while.
  • The baby boomers, the World War II generation and our schools have failed to teach the ideals of citizenship to young people."
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    This article is useful for my project because it states facts and shows statistics that really show how younger people are unaware and apathetic towards issues that revolve around their own government. It helps us make our hypothesis of teen awareness more thorough.
Catherine Delisle

Who Shaped Our Behavior? Peers or Parents? - 2 views

  • According to Harris, children are most influenced by their peers.  They adopt many behaviors of their peers in social settings in order to be accepted by their peers.
  • She goes on to say that children's interaction with their peers permanently modifies their inborn psychological characteristics
  • They adopt many behaviors of their peers in social settings in order to be accepted by
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  • The fact is that we decide who we would let influence, inspire, or corrupt us.
  • Peers influence our behavior but parents play a part in which peers we choose to associate with.  Our behavior in public and at work is largely determined by our childhood peers but our family behavior is determined by the early lessons we received at home. 
  • Parents influence at-home behavior and peers influence behavior outside the home, that is, the behavior in the social setting.  We learn how to make friends and influence others by first experimenting with our peers and then we transfer these skills to the adult world of coworkers and friends.  But, how we behave as partners and parents is more likely to be shaped by what we observe in our families as children.  
    • Catherine Delisle
       
      This section could help us because it explains how teenagers change their behaviours when at home compared to with their social groups. People will always be different with their friends than with their families.
  • It is true that children adopt or mimic certain behaviors in social settings in order to win acceptance of their peers.  How desperate children get for peer acceptance and approval depends on the sense of individuality (or lack of it) their families cultivate in them.  Children whose parents encourage them to think independently learn to question rather than to blindly follow.  Such children might be less influenced by their peers.
    • Catherine Delisle
       
      This could help me and my partner for our project because we understand that teenagers try to immitate people to become socially accepted by them. We also understand that teenagers are desperate for this acceptance and have parents who teach them to question important decisions have more independance that those who are 'followers'.
    • Catherine Delisle
       
      This web page could really help me and my partner on our search to find the correlation between different environments that teens are in and the behaviour they adapt for that specific environment. This text explains a lot about the mentality that teens have and their influences.
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    Psychology of teenage behaviour: Who influences our behaviour and how does it change from social cliques to our homes
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    Also not the best site for you.
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.”
Daryl Bambic

Cyber violence against women is rampant and together we're changing that reality | BWSS - 0 views

  • gender-based cyber violence
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Why do you think this is described as 'gender-based' cyber violence?  How would it be different if we called it 'sex-based' instead?
arturirgaliyev

Does culture affect our personality? - Individual Traits and Culture - 0 views

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    C: Information written in 2012  R:  Goes in depth about how culture changes the way we think  A: Written by the People at Explorable.com A:There are no apparent false informations  P: It is a few paragraphs of a book published by explorable.com
guitarryan88

Ideas Don't Change the World, People Do - 0 views

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    C:The article is one the newer one on this subject and it was created about 14 months ago. R: It does answer my question very well because it breaks down the topic into four pints that are easier to understand and remember A: The writer of this article is the director of Engineering at Addepar which is a Investing firm. A: I find they are right with my point of views. There is no grammar mistakes from what I have noticed. P:The point of this article is to inform you and not to sell anything.His views are not bias, they take a fair view at this topic.
sammie3611

Transgender FAQ | GLAAD - 0 views

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    Currency: Was updated in 2015. Relevance: It doesn't answer my question but I am thinking of changing my questions and speaking more about gender identity and this article would help with that. Authority: There is no author but the website is GLAAD which is an advocate website for LGBTQ+ community. Accuracy: No statements known to be false and the website looks modern and there are no adds. Purpose: Purpose is to raise awareness about gender and sexuality, also they say they want donations...
msigal

Teen suicide: Link 1 (Matt Sigal) - 0 views

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    Currency: -August 2015 -Very recent. - Topic doesn't change very rapidly. Relevance: -It states the primary causes and gives many statistics. - I was unaware that exposure to violence was a cause for teenage suicide. Accuracy: - No known false statements. - No grammar errors. - It mentions the FDA. Authority: - URL is dot ORG. - It is written by a clinic. Purpose: - To inform.
msigal

Teen Suicide Link 2 (Matt Sigal) - 0 views

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    Currency: - January 2015, fairly recent. - Topic doesn't change very rapidly. Relevance: - It takes about a lot of factors, it answers many questions on the topic. Such as what you should do if you know somebody that is about to do it. - Mentions how to get help. - I was unaware that carbon monoxide poisoning is one of the main ways for a teen to end their life. Accuracy: - No known false statements. - No grammar errors. Authority: - The author is Roy Benaroch, MD. - He has written 2 published books, completed Emory University. - He was certified in pediatrics in 1997. Purpose: - To inform.
raquel7

2006 Census: Family portrait: Continuity and change in Canadian families and households... - 0 views

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    Currency: This website does indirectly answer my question, by comparing Canadian families in 2006. relevance: the authors of this website are: Anne Milan, Mireille Vezina and Carie Walls, who are trusted because they are in the demography divison of Stats Canada. Authority: This information should not be false because it is on the Stat Canada website so, it is made by the government. Accuracy: This website is very accurate with their information, it is mostly stats that are probably correct and trustworthy because it is made by the government of Canada. Purpose: this is not at all to sell anything nor is it bias, only to inform.
msigal

The Study Of Suicide Link 3 (Matt Sigal) - 0 views

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    Currency: - Date not given, but the information hasn't changed. Relevance: - It explains a lot about Durkheim's theory about suicide. - I didn't know there were 3 different types of suicide. (Anomic, Altruistic and Egoistic.) Accuracy: - No known false statements. - No grammar errors. Authority: - Ashley Crossman is the author. - She has a PH.D in Sociology. - Is considered as a sociology expert. Purpose: - To inform.
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

Student Cheating and Plagiarism or Creativity and Innovation? » Edurati Review - 1 views

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    What do you think about using the internet for exams?  How would exams change if we allowed students to have access to the internet?
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.
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

» The Sociological Imagination Revisited The Sociological Imagination - 0 views

  • the popular mood was suffused with a strange sense of unease. It was a condition in which people were told by their papers, their screens, their politicians and ideologues that they lived in a state of freedom.
  • An American could be whoever they wanted to be and follow their own inclinations and desires. But the scope of this freedom was very much limited to every American’s private life
  • that all wasn’t safe and well
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  • What the sociological imagination does is provide a way of thinking through and understanding social life, of how the inner lives of each of us as individuals are conditioned by social forces,
  • the imagination is also a ‘terrible’ realisation as it shows that our fate is largely something that is done to us, regardless of our choices.
  • rivate sphere
  • hat are its components?
  • How is society structured
  • What social groups hold sway
  • ow are they interrelated and mutually conditioning? How do they contribute to social persistence and social change? How does one society differ from another?
  • personal troubles
  • public issue
  • higher social scale
  • Mills’ thesis that unease and anxiety underlined the American (modern) condition
  • nsecurity, fatalism, fear for the future is a mass experience
  • social phenomenon
  • He argues that every age has a common intellectual denominato
  • zeitgeist
  • Consciously and unconsciously, social policy, sociology, emerging nationalisms, encouraged the view that relations between human beings were essentially an extension of the evolutionary struggle each and every species wages in the natural worl
  • Economists are forced to acknowledge the social dimension outside of their equations to explain the crash of 2008
  • sociological imagination is the habit of mind par excellence sociology as a discipline is stuck on the doldrums
Daryl Bambic

Chapter 01 - History and Introduction - 0 views

  • Auguste Comte (born 1798
  • ociety's knowledge passed through 3 stages
  • cience-based). Positivism is the objective and value-free observation, comparison, and experimentation applied to scientific inquiry
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  • Societies had change in unprecedented ways and had formed a new collective of social complexities
  • Industrial Revolution
raquel7

Census shows new face of the Canadian family - Canada - CBC News - 0 views

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    Currency: This article answers my subject question very well. Relevance: this was published by the Canadian Press which is a very credible source, although the author is not specified. All of the quotes state who said it or where it came from. Authority: There are no spelling/grammar errors and because it is in CBC News, it is professionally done. Accuracy: the author was not intending to sell or persuade anything but to inform them on this subject. It is not bias. Purpose: the purpose of this article is to inform people on this subject.
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