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Philosophy/Sociology (BA) - Undergraduate, University of York - 0 views

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  • In Sociology, you will be introduced to core elements of the subject, including sociological methodology and key concepts.
  • These will help you to develop the knowledge, understanding, and skills that you'll use in more specialised investigations in your third year.
  • Course structure may vary in future years.
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Sociology And Philosophy,Philosophy And Sociology,Study Of Society,Modern Philosophy,So... - 0 views

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  • There is a philosophy of sociology in the same sense as a philosophy of science that is an examination of the methods, concepts and arguments used in sociology.
  • Karl Mannheim argued that sociology of knowledge had implications for epistemology.
  • No propositions are allowed to play a role in the system if it contains knowledge which is not empirical. In other words it is not formulated under the limitations just stated.
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Social Philosophy - Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology - University of Exeter - 0 views

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  • We draw on all these areas to address a variety of contemporary and urgent themes that are philosophically challenging, and at the same time also have immediate relevance for our lives as social beings, in our daily interactions as well as in relation to broader economic, scientific, technological and cultural events.
  • Traditional understandings of the human-nonhuman relationship are being questioned,
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Difference Between Philosophy and Psychology | Philosophy vs Psychology - 0 views

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  • On the other hand, Psychology deals with the study of the mind and its behavior.
  • Philosophy also deals with the relationship of man to the Almighty and the supreme force responsible for the creation of life in this universe.
  • They believe that behavior is more important since it can be observed. Psychology is a developing field of study and has a number of branches, catering to all aspects of the human life.
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  • it has to be mentioned that psychology has its roots in philosophy as well.
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Psychology vs Sociology: What's the Difference? - 0 views

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  • Although these disciplines often attract students of similar mindsets and inclinations, the subjects are often confused with one another.
  • Both fields provide researchers with insight into inherent human attributes such as emotions, relationships and behaviors.
  • And both areas have the same ultimate goal: to improve people’s lives and work toward the betterment of society.
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  • Students seeking to make informed decisions about their career path must understand the nature of each subject in order to make the proper choice about their course of study.
  • Asks questions about comprehensive issues, such as “How will ‘x’ affect the continued development or wellness of the community?”
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Psychology and Sociology - What is the Difference? » Degree in Sociology - 0 views

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  • Sociology looks beyond individuals and examines societies through the specific lenses or associations.
  • People with a background in sociology can work in these specific positions and more:
  • While it is interesting to note all the places that they overlap – eventual deductions about the behaviors of people, humanity, societal structures – they are also very different and attract different kinds of people to each of their disciplines.
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  • Both help people understand the dynamics of emotions, relationships and behaviors better.
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Philosophy vs Psychology - Difference Between - 0 views

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  • It is this ability that has made us capable of imagining things that do not exist, of thinking up situations in which reality is different, and has allowed us to create, investigate, invent, change and discover ourselves as philosophers or psychologists.
  • As a science, psychology investigates causes and reactions, using systematic procedures and breaking down every aspect of the observation.
  • Philosophy makes us look outside of us, imagine different scenarios and wonder about human behavior in a Universe where everything is possible.
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What Is The Difference Between Philosophy And Psychology? - Career Igniter - 0 views

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  • The nature of reality and questions about the existence of God and the order of things are discussed in metaphysics.
  • Applied psychology promotes the use of psychological principles in order to find solutions to various problems or help people suffering from mental or behavioral disorders.
  • Psychology uses the scientific method to understand human behavior.
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  • They may also work as school psychologists who try to address learning and behavioral issues among students by counseling them and their families.
  • Philosophy underpins all sciences and as such, both disciplines also overlap with each other to a certain degree.
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The Difference Between Philosophy and Psychology | Difference Between - 0 views

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  • Psychology is an academic discipline and applied science, which seeks to understand the role of mental processes in human behaviour, whilst also exploring the physiological and biological functions that underpin cognitive processing and behaviour.
  • This involves hypothesis testing that result in logical conclusions, supported by both observations and physical data.
  • Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems that concern concrete matters such as values, existence, knowledge, reason, and language.
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communication - The psychology of communication | social behaviour | Britannica.com - 0 views

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  • individuals are indeed variably persuasible and that, at times, factors of personality are related to this quality.
  • The dissonant or inconsistent elements include the bowler’s knowledge of his skill and the fact of his poor score. This produces tension.
  • Because the agreement or disagreement of a communication with an individual’s cognitive structure affects not only behaviour but perception as well, the major criterion for the psychological analysis of communication is neither the message nor the medium but the expectation of the person receiving the message.
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The Power Of Communication: Psychology Of Words And Language Revealed | Science 2.0 - 0 views

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  • “I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. How you think is on the outside, how you feel is on the inside, so that's what I need to understand.”
  • Central processing is triggered by certain queues, such as involvement and immediacy.
  • "Someone like me comes around and realizes that it's not an estate tax, it's a death tax, because you're taxed at death. And suddenly something that isn't viable achieves the support of 75 percent of the American people. It's the same tax, but nobody really knows what an estate is. But they certainly know what it means to be taxed when you die."
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  • Instead of referring to global warmer, the concept is dubbed "climate change" which lessens fears associated with global warming.
  • To better understand the way we react to information, research on communication is vital to understanding our reactions, emotions and how they build our behaviors and actions.
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3 Psychological Theories To Help You Communicate Better With Anyone - 0 views

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  • I’ve come across a few that are simple enough to understand and that I think of often, particularly when dealing with other people.
  • Anything above this is a struggle for our brains, so people drop off the bottom of our list as we add more to the top of it.
  • Rather than being frustrated or surprised that your customers don’t “connect” with your brand, think about this: each emotional connection they offer to your company is one they can’t offer to a true friend or family member.
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  • The idea is that when someone appears to be treating you with malice, you should always dig deeper to see if ignorance could be the cause, instead.
  • comes from “motivating” factors like enjoying the work itself, feeling a sense of achievement and having responsibility.
  • There are loads of theories and concepts like these which are useful to know. Do you know a good one? Let us know in the comments.
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Six Tips for Better Communication | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  •  Repair behaviors include apologies, laughter, hugs or touch, finding common ground, validation, and more. 
  •  (You can only have a few of these a year, for obvious reasons...and you both have to agree that you want to adhere to the system.)
  • Your partner’s opinions are always valid because they are his or her own, whether or not you understand how he or she got there...and vice versa. 
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  • Yet a lot of what we say is "partner-focused" – what we think our partner ought to be doing differently or better, for example. Focus, instead, on expressing your own feelings and ideas.
  • We do this all the time, so to break out of the habit takes overt effort and practice.
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Developing Communication Language And Literacy Skills Education Essay - 0 views

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  • They need to recognise the role of communication in our society and from birth they need many and varied opportunities for positive interaction, and responses to their attempts to express themselves.
  • Communication, Language and Literacy helps a child to understand relationships, to hear words and sentences.
  • Through their growing knowledge and understanding, children can learn to appreciate the contribution made by many cultures to the development and application of communication, language and literacy.
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  • Children learn different communication, language and literacy skills through a structure of literacy framework that are related to development.
  • The process tries to make children to enjoy communication, language and literacy and be enthusiastic about the learning it .
  • They develop understanding of the correspondence between spoken and written sounds and learn to link sounds and letters and use their knowledge to read and write simple words by sounding out and blending.
  • The development of a national infrastructure is capable of providing ongoing professional development, quality assurance and data collection for the intervention.
  • The observations should be shared with the group to help make improvements in future performances.
  • Observing and encouraging babies and children's use of mirrors for self exploration of facial expression and gesture.
  • At times it can be useful to encourage children to use their home language, for example when organising initial ideas.
  • New buildings should be physically accessible to disabled pupils and will involve improving access to existing buildings including ramps, wider doors, low sinks, etc
  • All opportunities need to be well grounded in positive pride for the styles common in every child's own background. 
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Consciousness and Language | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Homo sapiens became sapiens largely because of language.
  • We can call this problem the radically uneven distribution of language.
  • If one conceives of consciousness as access to our thoughts for action and report—the so-called ‘access consciousness’ (Block, 1995
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  • related to our ability to have very complex interactions with our environment and with others.
  • ) determining how a semantics based on behavior and goals is capable of explaining the inferential and hierarchical structure of sentences, which is basic for language comprehension;
  • If one holds the view that phenomenal consciousness does not play any role (that it, as it were, just “sits there” in us) then one commits to a kind of epiphenomenalist view (that consciousness is just a by-product of cognitive processing with no meaningful purpose).
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The Psychology Of 'Everything Happens For A Reason' - Evolution Counseling - 0 views

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  • People who believe that everything in life happens for a reason have very little tolerance for existential anxiety.
  • A superstructure takes on total responsibility so that the individual doesn’t have to, and with the transfer of responsibility existential anxiety is diminished.
  • We can think of the psychology of everything happens for a reason as the psychic equivalent of taking a powerful sedative, of sort of descending into a happy stupor where there’s no need to face existential anxiety squarely.
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  • Reason is a term used in philosophy and other human sciences to refer to the higher cognitive faculties of the human mind.
  • "Plato and Aristotle! These are not merely two systems, but rather two types of human nature, that stand, since time immemorial, in hostile opposition. Across the entire middle ages, to the greatest degree, and up to the present day, this battle was waged, and this battle is the essential content of Christian church history.
  • as steps and points of departure into a world which is above hypotheses, in order that she may soar beyond them to the first principle of the whole; and clinging to this and then to that which depends on this, by successive steps she descends again without the aid of any sensible object, from ideas, through ideas, and in ideas she ends
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A blend of Buddhism and psychology - 0 views

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  • That observation led to an ongoing attempt to understand and free herself and others from what Brach has come to call "the trance of unworthiness."
  • It's a particularly strong habit in the West, she thinks, because our competitive, individualistic culture pressures us to feel we're never good enough.
  • The second is that recognizing and mirroring the client's strengths is powerful medicine.
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