By: Ray Langley
What is the Concept of Culture? The concept of culture has a clear definition of “the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/), but the depth...
Theories about how society influences behavior
By: Angelina Moore
We all want to feel accepted in society in order to build on our confidence and self-esteem and allow us to grow as people. In order for this to happen we conform to a way in which we deem will make us fit in society...
By: Elizabeth M Young
Hyperbolic discounting is a model based method of quantifying human and even animal propensities for valuing deferred gratification or reward at a lowed level than immediate or faster gratification or reward. "Sooner" has more value than "later", in hyperbolic discounting. Another way of describing it...
By: Elizabeth M Young
Indigenous economics are a new force in the world. Indigenous peoples throughout the world are asserting their rights to own land and to actualize their goals in a post colonial world. Indigenous knowledge is the basis for indigenous economics and is based on the precept...
By: Elizabeth M Young
Measuring poverty is not an easy process. There are multiple agencies of society and government that use differing ways of calculating a number that can be used as a threshold. There are concepts of absolute poverty and relative poverty, each with their own indexing, depending...
By: Elizabeth M Young
Surveillance camera systems are closed circuit systems that can record and play back video as passive systems, or they can be active systems that are constantly monitored by security or law enforcement personnel, or they can be hybrid recording and active systems. In some cases...
By: Elizabeth M Young
Absolute poverty is in relation to a threshold that establishes a minimum level of the necessities of life, an adequate standard of living, or where the minimum standards of food, clothing or shelter are met. This can be called living on the edge of ability...
Overview: The National Data Program for Social Science
By: Olivia Kay
Social Science's national data program is a key source of information and an essential resource for social scientists and other professionals in related fields all over the United States. The data program consists of the results and findings of the nearly annual General Social Survey...
Civil war in America: Could it happen again?
By: Sam E. Jones
Clearly civil war could once again break out in the United States. It would be arrogant to assume we have mastered history and now know how to resolve disputes between large segments of our society. Though civil war is not likely to erupt any time...
Culture
By: Volecia Plafcan
There are only some people in this world who seem to be cultured. Of course, Britain's royal family pops in mind, first of all. But, many Americans and the Japanese follow close behind. Those Asian men who puff on their pipes in the opium dens...

 

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