...ASSESSMENT 2: CASE STUDY ON INDUSTRIALISATION AND CONSUMPTION Introduction Modernity is a transition between how society lived years ago opposed to how society lives now. This case study will focus on the impact of industrialisation and consumption and how it has shaped the modern world of a close friend along with society today. The academic sources that were used contained useful information along with an interview I conducted, to help prove and analyse how the impact has changed and shaped the modern world. This case study will cover the way industrialisation has changed society. It will discuss the social, economical and technological changes along with the key changes and how society perceives what work is. In addition it will discuss how society has gone from producing to consuming, how we shopped years ago opposed to now and how this has changed our lives. Literature Review Industrialisation: Industrialisation has transformed the way societies have produced products required to meet societies needs. It has transformed many social institutions such as work, family, social bonds and education. In addition the biggest impact of industrialisation was the change from gathering and cultivating to manufacturing which has drastically improved productivity and wealth. The major social, economic and technological change was the Industrial Revolution between the 1760’s and 1850’s in Great Britain, spreading through Europe, United States, Japan and Australia...
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...Society’s Existence and Exposure in Today’s Technology Technology has made such an impact on society’s culture today that some situations created still leave some humans in the dark. The global opportunities that are associated with the world wide web has made global business very profitable. The advancement has opened many doors for new trends and connections. The world is now exposed to very positive aspects and then we share a negative side with this new innovation. Technology affects someone’s life everywhere, with new trends and connections. The comparison of differences lay between safe internet use and the deceitful barriers that novice users are unaware of, appropriate choices are the key when using the web. In addition, the positive aspects that come into play using the internet consists of many potential business opportunities. You can create businesses online and work from home. When looking for a new position, you can apply to various job sites from major institutions such as indeed.com or monster.com, etc. Blogs can be created to give personal opinions on various subjects. Online shopping purchases are made daily, some enrollment may be required. Major educational institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Berkley, Yale and MIT for example offer free college courses. The courses available include liberal arts and sciences. Although, they are not credit courses, you can educate yourself at your own pace. Free video conferencing is...
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...As we celebrate National Work and Family month, I'm wondering how increasing usage of ICT affects and will continue to impact today's working families. ICT at home: ICT permeates family life, especially for married couples with minor children, says a Pew Internet survey. ICT helps today's busy families stay connected with each other. Parents can check in with kids at all times to see where they are and what they are doing. Kids can easily reach parents if there is an emergency or a problem. However, ICT can also keep families apart. Imagine today's family gathered in the kitchen for dinner. Maybe the TV is on, a laptop on the kitchen counter and everyone has their phone with them. Mom and dad are keeping an eye on emails even though the work day is technically over. So this family is physically together, but they are not totally focused on and paying attention to each other. They are at least partially attentive to a ping or a beep indicating that there is a new text message, email or missed call. Maggie Jackson describes how ICT can make it difficult to focus, pay attention and connect with others in her book, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. ICT at work: For many, work is no longer something we do at a certain time or place; work can be anytime, and anywhere. Technology blurs the boundaries between home and work and can negatively impact employees and their commitment to their organizations, as well as their partners, and children. A...
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...net/publication/236669025 Impact of Smartphone's on Society ARTICLE in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH · FEBRUARY 2013 Impact Factor: 0.74 CITATIONS READS 7 50,697 2 AUTHORS, INCLUDING: Tariq Rahim Soomro Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Scien… 48 PUBLICATIONS 36 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Tariq Rahim Soomro Retrieved on: 28 September 2015 European Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-216X / 1450-202X Vol. 98 No 2 March, 2013, pp.216-226 http://www.europeanjournalofscientificresearch.com Impact of Smartphone’s on Society Muhammad Sarwar Department of Information Technology, SZABIST Dubai, United Arab Emirates E-mail: sarwar.baloch@gmail.com Tel: +971-50-5055285; Fax: +971-2-4045110 Tariq Rahim Soomro Corresponding Author, College of Engineering & Information Technology Al Ain University of Science & Technology, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates E-mail: tariq.soomro@aau.ac.ae Tel: +971-3-7024883; Fax: +971-3-7024777 Abstract The intention of this study is to investigate how Smartphone‘s are impacting the society and also how Smartphone‘s are going to transform the culture, social life, technology landscape and other diverse aspects of modern society. The intention of this study is to understand all the positive and negative aspects of Smartphone on the society. The study will primarily focus on impact of Smartphone on business, education, health sectors, human psychology and social life. At the end, the...
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...Challenges Facing the Youth in Today’s Society Most of the problems facing today’s youth are not restricted to any one ethnic or religious group, but affect young people generally. Most discussions on youth have focussed on issues such as drug abuse, crime, violence, sexuality and poverty. In addition to these, today’s youth are afflicted by new challenges. These include: An Identity Crisis: Who am I? Lack of self confidence and low self esteem: I am worthless A sense of hopelessness: Where am I going? Confusion and ambiguity concerning moral issues: What is right and wrong? The negative impact of the electronic media: Entertainment ? Competitiveness in education: the uneven playing field: Excellence by whom? Not Me. Muslim Youth The Quran and life of the Prophet give numerous examples of outstanding youth. Islam praised the efforts of the youth in reviving religion through calling to the worship of God and fighting against disbelief as a form of backwardness and corruption. Indeed the image of Abraham peace be upon him in the Quran is one of extreme inspiration, enlightenment and uniqueness. It is the image of a young man rebelling against his people’s decadent traditions, a young man defying the dominant values of his society even in the form of a tyrant king who claims divinity. His son Ismail inherited these qualities of sincerity in worshipping Allah and sacrifice of everything for His sake, as clear in the story of the sacrifice when his father consulted...
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...their exit to get to their destination, traffic is always backed up by a slow traffic light. As the drivers get closer to the traffic light they notice that there is a homeless people on the ramp holding a sign in his hand stating that they need food or money. In today’s economy, unemployment is at an all-time high. Many Americans face issues that impact their way of life, causes stress, and creates financial strain which makes it hard to provide for their family. No one can deny that unemployment has caused an impact of their lives’ or families. There are many American’s who are unemployed due to the three types of unemployment. The three types of unemployment are Structural, Frictional, and Seasonal. Structural unemployment comes from being an absence of demand for the workers that are available. Many people lose their job because the update on technology. Some people are so uses to be “old fashion” when it comes to work they would rather use the old typewriter as well as computers because they just can keep up with the new technology. People that have lost their jobs due to changes in the economic they can take small steps in to learn how new thing works and later see how well they can grasp to the new technology. Next, is Frictional which is unemployment that is caused by people who moves between job, careers and location? These people are the ones that are more likely to make it the unemployment world because they are the ones’ who can adapt to change. The...
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...he New Kind and its Culture ''No Country for Old Men'' (2005), writer by Cormac McCarthy is a police story set on the border between Mexico and the United States. It is the story of Llewelyn Moss, a veteran of the Vietnam War that finds, in the scene of a bloody massacre in the desert, a briefcase with several million dollars and decides to keep them. Soon, a mysterious assassin, Anton Chigurh, and veteran sheriff Tom Bell, along with drug traffickers and other criminals in a violent and savage persecution will be behind him . As in almost all the work of McCarthy, the issue here is the line between good and evil, and the natural tendency of man toward this last. The pure evil is represented by Chigurh, a ruthless murderer who warns Moss that...
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...Digital Media and Technology Professor November 28, 2013 Education in Digitalization Our group decided to do our paper on the topic of Education in the Digital age which was our first project of the year. Education has changed so much over the years and it has done that very fast. From having textbooks and covering them to now classes having I pad’s in them and almost diminishing textbooks from school. As technology advances everyday, we can only imagine how our education will be in schools in even just 5 years. Research, studying, student testing, disabled education, hybrid classes and the changing roles of teachers in today's digital age are some of the main topics I will be talking about. Textbooks are not only very important for a students education but also puts a hole in their wallet. On average a student spends roughly $1,200 a year on textbooks whether you are renting them or buying them. That is a staggering number for a book that sometimes doesn't even help you too much in class. A single sheet of paper to make costs just 5 cents, but that adds up with how many pages are in a book overall. Some of the jobs that textbooks make were more than I expected. You can have jobs such as authors, illustrators, publishers, editors, lumbar people, paper mill workers and shippers. The authors are the people who write the text in the book, the illustrators can print in the pictures into the book, the editors look for any misspelling or misprint that the author...
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...Impact of technology on Canadian lives: the Economic and Social Perspectives Myles Anda July 26th, 2011 Challenge and Changes in Society Mr. Cicchetti In the words of one of the greatest scientist in the world, Albert Einstein, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our own humanity.” Human beings all around the world, specifically in Canada, have completely incorporated the monumental world of technology into their lives by using it on a daily bases to improve their quality of life in ways not even imaginable many years ago. In particular, the social climate of Canadian education has been greatly revolutionized by technological advances in the forms of computers and networking devices. In addition, technology has revamped Canada’s economy by creating profit for consumers due to high supply and demand offers from technological corporation’s creations and consumers spending all across the country. Technology has also greatly impacted the social communications and interactions people share with one another to new extremities, forever altering the world of communication as society once knew it. Computers and the Internet technology have revolutionized the field of education in Canada immensely. Advances in technology have striking effects in the way classes are instructed; for instance, the typical school classroom has became quite dynamic, where information is more accessible through more miscellaneous...
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...human resource management (HRM) practices. • Describe how technology is changing HRM • Identify significant changes that have occurred in workforce composition • Describe the HRM implications of a labor shortage • Describe how changing skill requirements affect HRM • Explain why organizational members focus on quality and continuous improvements • Describe work process engineering and its implications for HRM • Identify who makes up the contingent workforce and the HRM implications • Define employee involvement and list its critical components • Explain the importance of ethics in an organization. CHAPTER OVERVIEW The chapter’s opening vignette illustrates how Four Seasons Resorts and Hotels uses the Golden Rule to treat the employees as you expect them to treat the customer. While customers like to be pampered, so do the employees as evidenced by the Four Seasons being listed in Fortune magazine as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” every year since the list started in 1998. Overviews of today’s dynamic business world, highlighting cultural environments, globalization, technology, and social history evolution, set the stage for discussions about the implications to the HR field. These topics include: multicultural issues, global workforces, HRM technology, workforce diversity, labor supply and management, contingent workforces, decentralized work sites, continuous improvement, work process engineering, employee involvement, HRM challenges,...
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...at the Paperless Office concept was first introduced in the 70-ties, as a futuristic office work-style, when the first personal computers were introduced. Advances in information & communication technology has since then made the Paperless Office a feasible reality. The advantages of going paperless are many and undeniable. LEARN MORE ABOUT PAPERLESS The terms "paperless," "electronic," and "digital" are often used interchangeably to describe work which previously was done with paper, but which now has been adapted to information & communication technology (ICT) devices and software. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has defined information technology (IT) in the electronic era as "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT entails processes involving the use of computers and software to create, convert, store, process, transmit, and retrieve information securely. The term has recently been broadened to ICT (Information and Communications Technology), so as to include the idea of electronic communication. To be paperless means essentially that the traditional paper-based practices-such as writing, note taking, reading, editing, communicating, and even drawing-are instead performed electronically with ICT devices and software. Much has been said and written about the paperless office in recent years, and the rapid development...
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...Case 1 Colleen Case Dr. Stogner UCWR 110-046 9 November 2012 Excessive Consumerism Today Excessive consumerism is a growing problem in today's society. So many of our actions are driven by the desire to consume. Our whole lives revolve around getting the latest thing and working to no end to achieve it. Then, once we have the means of obtaining it, we spend even more time trying to decide which features we want or don't want. In this way, we find ourselves in a situation in which we serve the economy instead of it serving us. Colin Beavan and Robert Reich both offer their interpretation of the issue in relation to sustainability and freedom of choice, respectively. In No Impact Man, Beavan reveals the environmental issues associated with increased consumerism and attempts to find a way to counter the effects by discontinuing purchase of anything new. In Reich's "The Choice Fetish", he discusses how the sheer number of options available to us can limit our personal freedom because so much of our time is spent mulling over these insignificant choices. He uses the example of buying a computer, something many people do in their lifetime, and shows how incredibly overwhelming the process can be with all of the features to choose from in order to make the final product "personalized". In No Impact Man and "The Choice Fetish", Beavan and Reich show their readers the causes and effects of increased consumerism in a variety of areas. Because of these causes and their...
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...Technology and Social Change Page 1 Leslie Chappell SOC/100 University of Phoenix 03/28/2016 Technology and Social Change Page 2 Americans are faced with increasing change of technology in everyday life. Most of the time, the change happens, and we don't realize how it affects our lives. I remember talking to my grandparents about their younger years; it made me realize how technology changes from generation to generation. Technology is scientific knowledge and the making of tools to solve problems. The technological advances are vehicles, airplanes, radio, TV, cell phones, and computers. The 20th century has changed how people meet, interact, learn, work, and do business. This type of knowledge doubles every several years. Sociologists are concerned how these technological societies will adapt to the social changes that technology continues to bring. Social change is alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values. Sociologists acknowledge the role that social movements play in members to bring about social change. There are ways to understand the nature of long-term social change; it includes looking for patterns and causes which led sociologists to understand the evolutionary, functionalist, and conflict theories of change. According to The Pew Internet and American Life Project, 45% of American adults own a smartphone which is a 10% increase since May 2011. But smartphones are more popular with the young adults and...
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... Despite the fact that computer and video games gave the same multimedia capability as CAI programs, Begg et. al. (2005) stressed in their study “Game-Informed Learning: Applying Computer Game Processes to Higher Education” that their potential learning impact is often discounted by parents and educators. Recently, computer-based video games presence and popularity have been ever-growing, and game developers and researchers have started to investigate video games impact on students’ cognitive learning. For, example Pillay (2002) commenced a study entitled “Journal of Research on Technology in Education” investigating the influence of recreational computer games on children’s subsequent performance on instructional tasks. While game-playing is regarded somewhat negative in educational settings, particularly for young children, re-scrutinization of its influence in a teaching and learning context is crucial. This study investigated whether computer-based video games facilitate children’s cognitive learning achievement. In comparison to traditional CAI programs, this study explored the impact of the varied types of instructional delivery strategies on children’s learning achievement. Research results from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Children’s Digital Media Centers pioneered by Riedeout et. al. (2003) found in their study “Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and preschoolers” that children in the United States are growing up with media and are spending...
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...I have been blessed in my life. I have learned each day and have grown slowly but surely. Life is full of ups and downs but through God and with the help of friends and family I have worked through it all. This is an example of how sociology has applied to my life in many situations and times of need. Many social forces have had an impact on my life. Businessdictionary.com says a social force is, “An element of society which has the capability of causing cultural change or influences” (businessdictionary.com). I think one of the biggest social forces in my life has been technology. Technology plays a huge role in the lives of people all over the world. It has changed the way people act and how the world works. World news travels faster than...
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