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Society and Behavior, 2002.
An analysis of the influence of society on behavior in the novels "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines how society influences behavior in the novels, "The Great Gatsby" and "The Catcher in the Rye". The author discusses how Holden Caulfield is driven crazy by phoniness, snobbery, and unfairness, and how society has influenced him to become an alienated loner. He also notes how in "The Great Gatsby", all of the characters demonstrate the destructive influence of society on behavior, for Gatsby, Nick, Myrtle, Daisy, Tom, and George all engage in activities that are immoral and unappealing.
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Adolescent Television Behavior and Actual Behavior, 2002.
Examination of adolescent behavior as depicted on television; compared with actual adolescent behavioral patterns.
4,838 words (approx. 19.4 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 123.95
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This study uses content analysis to examine adolescent television drama program behavior as compared to actual adolescent behavioral statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics. Issues of sexual behavior, alcohol usage and drug usage were analyzed. This work contributes to cultivation theory; the culmination of similar messages on fictional adolescent television drama programs re-enforces impressions that are not based on reality.
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"Media can be described in many ways and forms. It is the dissemination of news, events, and information as well as a portrayal of America. It contains movies, sitcoms, dramas, comedies, news, and world events that all shape our reality of what the world is. Television more specifically is so popular because its function is to be a mirrored image of what America is, its beliefs, and ideas. Because it performs this function, it is considered entertainment. This industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that centers around two words: money and people. It does not necessarily have to be accurate for people to believe it. People will believe what they find to be interesting whether it is true or not, based upon no actual proof. This is why the media can get away with straying from the truth, because people do not care whether what they absorb is true. Truth is a very powerful concept that most people take too lightly. Most people will not admit that what they watch on television, hear on the radio, or read in the newspaper affects them. However, it has been proven through the cultivation theory that this effect is present, it does occur, and it subsequently affects the way a country perceives itself. This is how the media ultimately controls the power of thought."
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Individuals and Society, 2005.
This paper explains that action and structural theories of sociology endeavor to understand different aspects of society by explaining the behaviors of individuals as separate entities and as a part of group.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that, according to Weber, an action is social, as long as it holds some meaning for the actor, involves people, has some direction and leads to some end; furthermore, he believed that the actions should be studied while taking into the account the actual, existing conditions. The author points out that Weber focused on conscious will of people; whereas, Durkheim considered external factors.
The paper reports that Durkheim has been accused frequently of an anti-individualistic approach to his studies and over-emphasis on society, integration, cohesion and rituals; however, his work on altruistic suicides balances societal regulations and individualism, as an overdose of any of two can lead to suicides and social anarchy.
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"Some of examples of social relationships are friendships, marriages, conflict, wars etc. these relationships may differ in their nature. Relationships may not be probably balanced in loyalty, agreement and duty may differ from individual to individuals. Similarly, the time a relationship last is also any important factor. Some relationships might be fleeting ones but these weren't studied in detail by Weber. He only studied relationships that occurred for a longer period of time which led to social institutions such as workplaces, families, friendships, religious places etc. Also it only when an action is repeated number of times, that is meaning has some value and effect on people as individuals and as a group. It is among these repeated actions that some become the customs, laws, norms and maxims that people are supposed to adhere to, in a society. As Taylor et al. (1995) suggests, people in a society or particular group are influenced by its norms because members have a 'shared culture and regular social interaction'. Weber did not include in study the unexpected actions and their effect on society. These are better analyzed by Durkheim."
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The Role of Civil Societies: Three Approaches, 2006.
A paper discussing what makes a society civil and what we think is the behavior of civilized people.
1,873 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper considers different views about what makes a civil society and civilzed behavior. In particular, the paper discusses what the role of a civil society is according to political thinkers John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx.
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"Of his major concerns, Locke reasoned that men in their natural condition were "free, equal, and independent." It was not a matter of their thinking themselves independent, for property was a physical relationship to external nature, and it was within the limits provided by this physical relationship that each individual could equally find room or space to exercise his freedom independently of other men. By being masters of themselves and proprietors of their own actions and labor, men had in themselves a great foundation of property and independence. "Every man has property of his own person," Locke reasoned. "This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body and the work of his hands are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided and left it in mixed his labour with, and joined to do it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property." At the level of subject matter, civil societies consisted of individuals who acquired by their physical actions something as their own, which was distant and separate from what other individuals had."
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Gender Roles, Marriage and Society in "Pride and Prejudice", 2000.
A look at Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" as a historical account of gender roles, marriage, and society in the early 19th-century, and the character of Elizabeth Bennet which constitutes a critique of traditional norms of women's behavior.
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"Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice can be read as an historical account of gender roles, marriage, and society in the early 19th-century. Most of the characters in the novel embody traditional 19th century standards. However, the character of Elizabeth Bennet constitutes a critique of traditional norms of women?s behavior. Her independence, intelligence, and bold personality do not hold to a traditional 19th-century view of women. Elizabeth?s rejection of Mr. Collin?s proposal does not conform to the submissive role that women were expected to adhere to. Elizabeth has no respect for the existing economic classes as seen by her rude disposition to Lady Catherine on her trip to Hunsford. Further, Elizabeth?s carefree and independent nature simply does not agree with the traditionally expected role of women."
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Franciscan Missionaries and Society in Moldavia, 2002.
This paper is a serious work that evaluates various aspects of the society in the Danubian principalities during the first half of the 17th century, focusing specifically on both popular and official religious characteristics of the society as well as on
17,200 words (approx. 68.8 pages), 39 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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The paper consists of three chapters, an introductory part and conclusions. The introduction defines the topic, the sources, the method and the structure. As the thesis refers to Franciscans and their reports, the first chapter provides a brief insight into their organization, their reasons for coming to the region, the relationship between them and the local power, and among themselves. The second chapter deals with the local clergy and its everyday life, stressing both its way of following church cannons and the coexistence with the clergy belonging to other religions. The third chapter deals with the society and is divided in two subchapters. The first one concern the society itself, focusing on its patterns of behavior in certain occasions, mentality, customs, ethnicity and education. The second subchapter is dedicated to religion, both the official religion and the popular one, which includes local beliefs mingled with Christian dogma and miracles. The last part consists of the conclusions drawn from the paper, highlighting its outcomes.
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"Knowledge of the reports written by the Franciscan missionaries is valuable for any historiography of the countries that were comprised within partibus infidelium where the Franciscans were active. Their reports are written in different styles suitable for different approaches, from demographic or culinary history to political history. Naturally, the accounts of the Franciscans proved valuable for Romanian historiography as well. However little use of the new trends was made and they were employed mainly as a source that stressed the political history. Therefore as previous research disregarded the potential of the reports for social history, there is a certain gap in the field."
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Culture & Society, 2002.
A study exploring the inter-relationship between the individual, culture and society.
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The paper explores the true meaning and distinct definitions of culture and society. It defines culture as the set of beliefs, values, behavior and material objects constituting a people's way of life, and society as a set of cultural rules. The paper examines the paradoxical relationship between who forms who: the individual on society, or vice versa, the society is molded by individuals. The author uses the example of this process by looking at tobacco use in our society, from cultural ban to outlawed societal ban. The author writes that people bring about change by influencing others first in small groups and then in society at large by enlisting the assistance of groups, the government, and the media.
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"Consider the idea of culture more fully. "Culture" is a label for an abstraction encompassing the total way of life for a group of human beings. Culture can also refer to the shared patterns of belief, feeling, and adaptation which people carry in their minds as guides for conduct and the definition of reality. Culture helps define such things as values, symbols, language, and norms and how they will be viewed and utilized in society. A value is a belief upon which an individual acts by preference, and the clarification of values is a cognitive act leading to specific and related behavior. Behavior is determined for the individual by what he or she values. Decision-making is governed by values. This is an ongoing process whereby individuals are continually evaluating alternatives and making decisions based on the values they hold and the degree to which the various alternatives open to them fulfill and serve those values. Culture helps define how people view these issues and how they make these decisions. All societies place a high value on the inculcation of values in the young, for this is the means for perpetuating certain cultural norms and thus values from generation to generation. Clearly, values may differ from one society to another, from one culture to another, even from one region within a society to another. Every society has a set of core values are to be transmitted from generation to generation. Other values may be associated with common practice, religious beliefs, or a basic world-view that is prevalent in the given society and culture, and these are also elements of culture itself. "
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Information Society Theory, 2006.
A discussion on the history and definition of the concept of information society, its impact and criticisms.
2,240 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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In contemporary society, information is rapidly growing abundant and essential in human progress and communication. Information has been incorporated into all levels of human organizational values with a significant impact on community behavior. This paper examines how this has led scholars to claim that the current social order has evolved into an 'Information Society' where information has substantially affected and determined not only the course of social communication but also the global economic and political landscape.
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Introduction
Information Society: Concept History
Defining Information Society Theory and its Impacts
Criticizing Information Society Theory
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"According to Daniel Bell, information, labor, and production are the most likely elements to progress faster in a post-industrial economy. Pre-industrial societies are dominated by an agricultural mode of production. This can be described by the maximization of natural resources by human and animal means. On a post-industrial scale, the focal point is in processing. More importantly, Bell's theory states that in a post-industrial society, there is going to be a significant shift to services as the main employing sector. Services would be the main source of need in a post-industrial society and Information Technology would produce these particular services."
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Society and Crime, 2007.
This paper offers an analysis of criminogenics and criminal behavior.
1,516 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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The paper discusses how America is a criminogenic society, where people learn to adopt criminal tendencies and behaviors from their environment and surroundings. The paper bemoans today's chronic social crisis that is leading to increased incidences of child abuse, poverty, violence and inevitably crime. The paper explains the views of social theorists that society is responsible for the crime in that society. The paper provides a case history of a convicted black criminal and evaluates all the factors involved. The paper concludes that the environment in which this criminal was raised influenced his behavior as much as his personality or biological make up.
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America, The Criminogenic Society
Case History
Theories Regarding Case History
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"A "criminogenic" society by definition is one where the people living within society are taught to become criminal by adopting deviant morals, beliefs and values. These deviant morals, values and behaviors derive from their cultural and environmental condition. Brown, Esbensen & Geis (2004) note that the "etiology of crime" is the foundation of criminology. Further the authors suggest that modern efforts at explaining crime have focused on among other areas, family violence, hate related crimes, violent consequences of human behavior and misconduct in the world of white color workers."
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The Problem of Evil in Human Society, 2002.
This paper looks at the problem of evil and how to control and understand it. The writer sees this as a universal theme in human society.
1,736 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper states that the struggle is inevitable because the existence of evil poses problems that threaten to destroy a culture unless they are somehow kept in check. In order to control evil behavior it is necessary for the society to have some understanding about where evil comes from, what causes it, and what are effective techniques to use against it.
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"Evil is defined primarily as existing within a religious context; that is, as contrasted with the existence of Good in some way. If Good is defined as being related to God, or as a description of God?s nature, then Evil is seen as the opposite. It seems logical that the more powerful evil becomes, the weaker Good becomes. This is another reason that all cultures grapple with the problem of evil: because all cultures have some form of God as a part of their belief system, and the existence of evil can be seen as a repudiation of God?s being both all-powerful and all-good."
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Rape and Society, 2002.
A look at the effect of the act of rape and the legislation surrounding it on our society today.
1,642 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper explores the broad implications of rape and its affect on society as a whole. It looks at how violence against women is flagrant in video games, where women appear as huge-breasted cartoons posed in impossibly suggestive postures, and how our media sensationalizes sex crimes, rapes, murders, and the like, with stylized headlines and flashy commentary. It shows how, as a society, we are traumatized because there are no clear definitions of what rape is, who the victim is, and what the moral boundaries of sexual behavior are.
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"How does rape affect us? ?Rape is a trauma just like a major disaster such as a tornado or bad car accident? (Koss and Harvey, 173 ). If rape inflicts trauma on society, then why does it continue? ?At present, as we enter the third millennium and women have made great social strides and obtained legal rights equal to those of men, they continue nevertheless to be portrayed by media advertising and pornographic literature as objects of desire and lust? (Palermo and Farkas, 40). Our morality is changing. In 1939 the movie ?Gone With The Wind? the producers took a terrible chance and allowed its lead actor to utter the word damn. In 2003 it is common to hear the word damn on primetime television or read that its utterance as attributed to national leaders."
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Language and Society: What is Sociolinguistics., 1999.
An analysis of language and the role it plays in society. A look at the field of sociolinguistics.
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Language is one of the most powerful emblems of social behavior. The relationship of language and society puts forward a field of study called sociolinguistics. It is the study of relationships between language and society with the goal being a better understanding of the structure of language and how languages function in communication. This paper discusses what sociolinguistics is all about, looks at language, dialects, gender differences in speech and the issues of language and culture.
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"When two people communicate with each other, we call the system of communication they use language. In the normal transfer of information they also send vital social messages about who they are, where they come from, and with whom they are associated. To point out how much there is to say about language and society, let me refer to an example used by R.A.Hudson in Sociolinguistics. It pertains to a society of about 10, 000 Indians that occupy an area half in Brazil, half in Columbia. These Indians are divided in twenty tribes, which are grouped in five phratries. There are three crucial facts about this society that are subject to interest and present the relationship between society and language. First of all, each tribe speaks different language. Second, the five phratries are exogamous, which means that a man cannot marry a woman from the same phratry. Considering these two facts, we easily come to the following linguistic consequence: a man?s wife must speak different language. The third crucial fact is that marriage is patriocal. A rule states that the woman speaks to her children using only her husband?s language. The linguistic consequence is that a mother teaches her children a language she speaks as a foreigner (thus one can hardly call the children?s first language their mother tongue). This Indian community can be referred to as a ?sociolinguistic phenomenon?. It is the perfect example for the complicated relationship language-societyand a clear answer to the question why we need sociolinguistics."
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Erik Erikson's "Childhood and Society", 2003.
This paper analyzes psychologist Erik Erikson's "Childhood and Society".
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This paper explains that Erik Erikson's book "Childhood and Society" presents his views of personality and development. The author points out the reasons Erikson wrote this book and his attitude towards human behavior. The paper includes biographical data on Erickson.
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"We are also forced to recognize a universal blind spot in the makers and interpreters of history. They ignore the fateful function of childhood in the fabric of society."
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Diversity in Society, 2005.
A paper that explains and discusses the diverse characteristics found in society.
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This paper discusses diversity and demographic characteristics that influence an individual's life. The author explains the many different aspects of diversity, and how each one can have a significant impact on the views, beliefs, and behaviors of individuals. The author concludes that diversity is the cornerstone of an advanced and progressive society and can bring great success to organizations that embrace it.
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"There are a multitude of diversity and demographic characteristics that profoundly influence an individual's behavior. These characteristics can include ethnicity, gender, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, religion, geographical location, occupation, skills and abilities, values, and attitude. Though many misunderstandings and conflicts have resulted from these differences, there are even more benefits. A wide range of experiences, mindsets, and behaviors can be beneficial to all parties involved. The characteristics can lend creativity and revitalize a stagnant project or idea. For this reason, diversity is an important consideration when it comes to organizations and businesses. Four of the important characteristics include ethnicity, gender, age, and geographical location.
Ethnicity often plays a vital part of forming an individual's behavior. Individual cultures foster a variety of values and attitudes towards other cultures and life in general. Everything from language to local customs can be directly impacted by ethnicity; and nowhere are the differences more visible than in the course of human interaction. Many a misunderstanding has occurred because of slight differences in behavior between individuals of different ethnicities or cultures. Personal space, eye contact, group participation or interaction, and other tendencies can all send mixed or wrong signals when dealing with individuals from a different culture. On the other hand, differences in behavior and mindsets are the very things that are responsible for all the good traits of diversity. These differences often provide a variety of unique approaches and ideas; not only to a business or organizational environment, but to personal lives as well."
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Women in Athenian Society, 2005.
An analysis of the contrasting roles of the wife and hetaera in Athenian society.
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This paper looks how the phallocentricity of Athenian society was a set of attitudes, legislation, and behavior, which elevated the prestige, power, and place of men, while assigning women to roles that would sustain the propagation of this way of life. In particular, it examines the differences in the prescribed roles of those women most intimate with the men, namely the wife and the hetaera, and their respective roles, which manifested themselves across a broad range of attributes and circumstances.
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"A child fathered on a hetaera, even by a full-fledged citizen, would not be afforded citizenship in kind, which rendered the role of a mother obsolete in her. The hetaera found her place in a much different and less domestic setting, but one which was as polarizing to the wife as child-bearing was to the hetaera. The proper place for love and sex was ?excluded from the family setting,? given over instead to the drinking group, which was primarily set in the symposium which was found in the men?s quarters, an area to which the wife was restricted from entering (Murray, 23). It was in this setting, which was forbidden territory for Athenian women that the highest expressions of love took place."
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