Donald Black’s Sociology Concept
Donald Black’s concept of the sociology of the case contends that any legal case is in the last instance predominantly affected by sociological factors. In other words, for Black, a legal case is not simply reducible to legal norms, such as what is contained in the content of a particular law. Rather, the case as a process necessarily goes beyond the norms of the law to the extent that all participants in the case are products of social facts. These may include factors such as the social roles which structure the case itself, from that of the judge who society...
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Social Imagination
Very often, the separation between personal lives and governmental control can create a scenario whereas the individual citizen cannot recognize the link between their own decisions and the greater society. In other words, people tend to think of their choices as being their own business and do not recognize how others and the entirety of the social structure are affected by these decisions. According to Mills, the ability to recognize the connection between the two can be discussed as social imagination. Researchers have placed these concepts in regards to various personal decisions in order to determine what level of personal...
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Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is an important concept that helps to shape the way people view the world. Specifically, ethnocentrism is act of viewing another culture through the context of one’s own culture. The values that one holds because they are his own inform and shape the way he views another culture. This might mean believing that one’s own religion is the gold standard for religion, and using that as a barometer by which all other religions are judged. This is an issue that tends to emanate from the Western world. Some people believe that other cultures are inferior, but ethnocentrism does not...
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Value-Free Research
By “value-free-research,” the famed sociologist Max Weber was essentially arguing for an ethic of professional detachment among sociologists and other researchers in the social science fields (Macionis, 2013). In the social sciences, researchers are often asked to investigate socially and emotionally charged topics, such as the family, sexuality, crime rates, and socio-economic divisions. When a researcher is too highly invested on a personal or psychological level in the subject of their research, that can easily cloud their judgment, and they can produce biased results. Oftentimes, this bias is unconscious on the part of the researcher, and does not indicate any...
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Culture and Health
To promote good rapport with clients, clinicians should sound positive and encouraging while interacting with clients. Throwing words of assurance on a client’s well-being will automatically make them likable. Clinicians should be confident while recommending on remedies (MacLachlan, 2016: 163). Having some health conditions is associated with shame from which clients may want to hide. Infections such as AIDs can bring shame to the families of clients, thus difficult in admitting publicly that they suffer from such infections. Society has come up with status for people suffering from abnormal medical conditions. Such status, if discriminatory, will make clients shy from...
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Portrayal of Yuppie Culture of the 1980s Through Cinema: Methodology
The purpose of this research was to provide an analysis of the portrayal of the yuppie culture of the 1980s through cinema. In order to do this, this study is primarily a theoretical paper, developed through detailed qualitative analysis. The rationale behind this study involved furthering cultural geography as a discipline. This was done through the examination of the cultural trends of the yuppie. Furthermore, film was utilized as a medium in order to reflect on the “epochal shift towards the visual in our culture” (Kuckartz, 2014:2). In fact, the representation of moving images as a cinematic production is a...
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The Yuppie Culture
Understanding the relationship between cinema and geographic representation is fundamental in understanding the post-modern society. This is especially true when considering that cinema is immersed in “our day-to-day experiences of existence” (Stadler, 1990). Thus, cinema is a means of expression and provides a platform for communication. Furthermore, cinema has developed at an exponential rate illustrating a moving, active art form that reflects contemporary culture. According to Harvey (1989:308), the cinematic is simply not “a spectacle projected within an enclosed space on a depthless screen.” Rather, it “is an active agent of hegemony” (Kennedy & Lukinbeal, 1997). As a result, exploration...
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Unifying Culture in a Merger
Good Company Inc. is a firm in a small Midwestern American town that provides payroll, tax, insurance and reporting support services to large companies. Most of the employees have been working for the company for ten years or more, and they consider their work teams and colleagues as family. The company has been the major provider of jobs in this small community. The average educational attainment of workers in this company is a two year diploma or Associate degree. In recent years recruitment has become more difficult as younger persons leave to get an education and do not return to...
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Why Culture is Important
Culture is important for many reasons. I think that there are also two ways that culture is important: to the individual and to the society. Individually, culture is important because it ties you to your history and roots. Culture is what a child looks to his parents for a model. Culture is inherited through traditions, and these traditions are what unite communities together. This is how culture becomes important to the society. The bigger group of individuals who share a culture are a community. The community functions based on the culture of the people. Things like religions and beliefs are...
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Culture Group
A culture is a collection of attitudes, customs, beliefs, practices, and other qualities that one can use to identify one group of people from another. Culture can be seen as use of language, possession of material objects which may have a certain meaning inscribed into them, rituals, institutions, artwork, and much more. The cultural group I want to analyze is the Asian culture, more specifically the culture of Japan. The Japanese culture is very complex and has developed over the past thousands of years. It’s government has gone from a shogun system with the emperor as a figurehead to a...
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Culture Survey
Generation gap is a term which is used to mark the differences between generations. Generation gap is a natural phenomenon which occurs due to the cultural shifts. Cultural shifts are the result of the normal development of humankind. People listen to different music, watch different movies, follow various trends in fashion and even lifestyle. All that we can see, including a significant gap between the new and previous generations, is a result of the development. Technological progress is a major factor which nurtures generation gap, creates new inconveniences so quickly that older people find it difficult to adapt. The invention...
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An Aged Culture
In the last decade there has been a sudden rebirth of nostalgia and making part of the past retroactive. One idea that is difficult to understand is with today’s vast capabilities, society should be moving toward the future. With the current state of our country, it is not difficult to want and attempt to bring back the better factors of our previous years. Influence of the media can also be responsible for this sudden popularity. From my own perspective, antiquities have developed a much deeper and different meaning compared to the world's sudden interest. Although we have collectively advanced in...
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