...Exploration of a Professional Journal Article in Psychology Amanda Almanza Dr. Marina Stakic Psychology November 9, 2013 Exploration of a Professional Journal Article in Psychology The article I selected is one about the relation between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and obesity and weight loss (Johannessen & Berntsen, 2013). This article was a report of research study done to show a general relation between PTSD and obesity. It has been reported in previous research that exposure to a stressful or traumatic event in either childhood and or adulthood have been associated with obesity. Not only is PTSD symptoms and obesity related, but depression and obesity are closely related as well. The author states that “a large decrease in the level of depression has been observed in gastric surgery patients 1 year after surgery” (Johannessen & Berntsen, 2013). This research study was to determine if obese participants were put in a weight loss facility to lose weight, would the PTSD symptoms decrease as the weight decreased. The method of the research was done by recruiting participants from a weight loss facility who were obese dieters with a high body mass index (BMI). During a 16 week stay at the facility the study examined changes in PTSD symptoms, depression symptoms, and BMI levels. Each participant completed a questionnaire and checklist of their PTSD symptoms at 3 different times during this 16 week period, in the 1st week, in the 8th week, and in...
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...James M. Callow Exploration of a Journal Article in Sociology November 10/2013 Professor Lloyd SOC100 The following article written by Darren Dixon; “I can’t put a smiley face on”: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labor and Service Work in the “New Economy” explore how low-skilled men are declining to work in the service sector when evidently it is a field that it is experience a substantial growth. This situation has little to no existent research at the time the author conducted the research, the author himself mentioned that “yet little research has explored exactly what it is about service work that is leading such men to drop out the labor market during periods of sustained service sector employment growth.” (Dixon. D. (2009) I can’t put a smiley face on: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labour and Service Work in the “New Economy” Gender, Work and Organization. Vol. 16 No. 3). The research was based on interviews with 35 unemployed low skilled men. Based on the research we can learn that low skilled males in Britain have a tendency to not succeed within a field that primarily dominated by females mainly because it interferes with what it is consider being a socially accepted behavior for a male. The author refer to a table based on data obtain from OECD between 1984 and 1998. Society has an idea of what could be a job acceptable for either a woman or a man. Although nowadays females has been able to overcome some obstacles when it comes it...
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...what type of article it is. Is it a primarily a review of existing research, or a report of new research? How can I tell? If it is a research article, what type of research was involved? Two international professors combined together on an article that discussed possible implications for special education. Dimitris Anastasiou and James M. Kauffman co-authored an article in Exceptional Children entitled A Social Constructionist Approach to Disability: Implications for Special Education. This article primarily discusses a term called the social model of disability. The article defines the social model of disability as a “functional analysis of the body as a machine to be fixed in order to conform with normative values.” This model identifies certain barriers, attitudes and exclusion by society as the main contributory factors in disabling people. While physical, sensory, intellectual, or psychological variations may cause individual functional limitation or impairments; the authors do not believe these conditions lead to “disability unless society fails to take account have and include people regardless of their individual differences.” This paper will further evaluate the article. In a paragraph or two, summarize what you’ve learned about the content of the article. What were the major findings? How were they supported? To begin, this article is primarily a collection of existing research on disabilities and special education. As previously mentioned, this article was published...
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...Exploration of a Journal Article in Sociology Sociology 100 July 15, 2012 The following article written by Darren Dixon; “I can’t put a smiley face on”: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labour and Service Work in the “New Economy” explore how low-skilled men are declining to work in the service sector when evidently it is a field that it is experience a substantial growth. This situation has little to no existent research at the time the author conducted the research, the author himself mentioned that “yet little research has explored exactly what it is about service work that is leading such men to drop out the labour market during periods of sustained service sector employment growth.” (Dixon. D. (2009) I can’t put a smiley face on: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labour and Service Work in the “New Economy” Gender, Work and Organization. Vol. 16 No. 3). The research was based on interviews with 35 unemployed low skilled me. Based on the research we can learn that low skilled males in Britain have a tendency to not succeed within a field that primarily dominated by females mainly because it interferes with what it is consider being a socially accepted behavior for a male. The author refer to a table based on data obtain from OECD between 1984 and 1998. Society has an idea of what could be a job acceptable for either a woman or a man. Although nowadays females has been able to overcome some obstacles when it comes it to their capabilities to perform a job...
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...Assignment 1: Exploration of a Journal Article in Sociology XXXXXX Sociology XXXXX 5-6-2013 Identify the pros and cons of the partnership as a form of ownership. Owning your own business can be a very rewarding and lucrative experience. This experience even though rewarding can come at a tremendous cost of personal time and personal financial investment. Enlisting the efforts and finances of a partner can aide in successfulness of the business while sharing the financial burden and the responsibilities in starting and operating the business. With the right partnership relationship the businesses owners could use the combined abilities and talents in making the business a success. The partners could support each other in the decisions and operation of the business. The decision to start a partnership is one that should be based on common interest and common among the partners. Commonalities like an excellent work ethic and clear understanding of financial discipline should be similar among all parties involved. Operating a business with a partner can also be a very negative experience. Shared decisions and shared profits and disagreements can lead to hard feelings amongst the partners. Partnerships that involve friends or family are a risk too. Friendships can be lost with hard feelings with long lasting effects that can cause families to split. Forming a partnership someone who does not share the same work ethic and financial discipline...
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...Introduction I have chosen the article Schwadel, P. (2008). Poor Teenagers’ Religion. Sociology of Religion 2008, 69:2, 125-149. This article looks at the effects of poverty on the religious views and practices of teenagers. Based on data collected from the National Study on Youth and Religion, Schwadel shows that income level has some impact on the religious practices of youth. Type of Article This article would be considered a research article due to the fact that while the data was collected from existing sources, Schwadel used the data to determine if the level of income had an effect on teenagers’ religious views. The Survey Method was used to conduct this research. They called 3,290 teenagers nationally and asked a series of questions. Those individuals who did not or would not answer over the phone were followed up with a mail-in survey. Summary Schwadel determined through data collected via the survey that social class had a great deal to do with a teenager’s religious views and practices. He found that upper to middle class individuals were more likely to attend organized religious services, while lower class individuals were more likely to value private worship and scripture reading. It was also noted that lower class individuals were more likely to have no religious affiliation than that of the middle and upper class, regardless of their parent’s religious views and practices, as well as associate with those who hold the same religious beliefs. Teenagers in low...
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...“Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential”, is a journal discussing an increasingly micro-oriented approach toward studying Sports. This article takes a critical look at the field of Sports Sociology. It is a very under researched and under developed subfield of sociology, but the authors of this article think that it has great potential. It assesses the sociology of sports. It also analyzes how organized sports intermingle with the organizational, political, and economic forces that are present in social inequality. It’s primarily a review of existing research based on previous articles and research. It refers to a lot of previous articles that lets you know it’s not new research. Many of us have only recently started referring to this research as “sports sociology” instead of as “economic sociology,” “political sociology,” “social movements,” “organizational sociology,” or “urban studies.” I’ve learned that sports have become an increasingly important social phenomenon that really lends itself to a sociological approach. Part of this allure is intellectual since both micro and macro approaches have been used in some really great ways to understand sports and how sports impact different issues. I find that Sociologists seem to be taking an increasingly micro-oriented approach toward studying sports. This trend is reflected across almost all substantive categories of inquiry. There seems to be something of a chicken-egg relationship going on, especially, with the simultaneous...
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...The Exploration of a Journal Article “Sociology of Emotions” By: Alicia L Johnson Sociology 100 Sheila Farr The article that I found in the Ebsco Host library was an article written by Katherine Walker and it is titled “Sociology of Emotions”. According to the article “Sociology of Emotions”, Katherine Walker received a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently teaches in the University College at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her current research concerns race, memory, and controversial commemoration, and she is wrapping up a study of public debates over Confederate memorials. She has also studied the impact of the Internet on identity and relationships. As the article “Sociology of Emotions was read, the conclusion was made it gave off the impression that it was a previously researched article, as the article made multiple references to Sociology scholars that have established themselves in the field of Sociology and the topic at hand of Emotions. Some of the Sociology scholars were Emile Durkheim and Erving Goffman. Katherine Walker extensively attempts to dialogue about every subject and then goes to tie a Sociology pioneer to that specific focus. She portrays the fact that every study of Sociology at some point has some sort of emotion attached to it and that different each emotions can arise and be separated into groups. The issue ascends that there are regular emotions and emotions that can be attached to specific cultures...
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...Exploration of a Professional Journal Article in Psychology Lestia Reese John Lynch Psychology of Adjustment March 03, 2013 1The purpose of the article of descriptive phenomenological study was to identify and describe the essential meaning structure in the experience of postpartum depression (PPD). 2They interviewed four women diagnosed with major depression and analyzed the data with Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological method. Their analysis revealed two essential meaning structures of PPD. The first structure describes the mother as throw into a looming, dangerous world, coupled with a restricted, heavy body that hindered her attunement to her baby. Tormented by anxiety, guilt and shame, she tried to deal with her pain by analytical reflection and social isolation. The second structure describes sudden lapses into intense feelings of alienation from the self, the baby, and from the social and material world. With a distorted primordial self-awareness, the mother no longer felt that she existed as herself in the world. 1PPD involves a temporary collapse of fundamental structures of consciousness, that is, how they experience self, body, the social world, and time. These structures become more or less deformed, reorganized in a new interconnected gestalt, which sustains and strengthens itself if not identified and treated. Their subjects lived their postpartum depression in different ways and in different contexts. One essential meaning structure encompassed three...
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...Derek Thompson 02/03/2013 Assignment 1: Exploration of a Journal Article in Sociology Intro to Sociology Dr. Sandra D. Smith When I was looking for a journal to read about I came across the paper A Novel Approach: The Sociology of Literature, Children’s Books, and Social Inequality (singer 2011). Doctor Singer wanted to take a look at the impact on society and underlining themes in children’s books. This was the beginning of her work that she would use later in that she would be off of Windy Griswold work and she would try and prove combination of humanistic and social scientific methods in order to study American children’s novels and their production contexts. She was trying to find social conflicts that were coming up in the context of children’s books one of the key example she gives is when Griswold was doing this research before here she notice that British publishing company tended to label people into certain social dynamic such as many times they place the people of Nigeria into roles that place them in urban environments or villages which made people think that there country was most built this way. This was done because British publishing companies could sail the books better if this was done this way because that is what people expected to see. In America we do the same thing we put African American in unban city and from low income families because it is easier to relate to and except. Doctor Singer this moved on to look for stores that...
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...My exploration into Hip-Hop Pedagogy began with the initial claim that it could very well be linked to getting those who have grown up with Hip-Hop in their lives, to become more engaged and better students in the classroom. Throughout my initial exploration of the resources, I found that it was a theme throughout. From the article by Raudenbush, which detailed the transactional theory of teaching and the idea of making connections to the student’s life to help them become more interested in literacy. It can also be seen in the Ted Talk that Christopher Emdin where he emphasized the importance of including “magic” to the already stagnant formula of education, and Anne Strainchamps’ article titled Including Hip-Hop In Classroom Instruction Aims To Revolutionize Education. Anne’s article touches on the idea that it’s important to bring Hip-Hop into the classroom to engage students in their own learning. As I moved on to my formal research of Hip-Hop Pedagogy, I used the initial claim to really develop what I was looking for on different sites and journals. I looked for key words that had been in the previous initial articles and found a number of sites doing such. Kathryn H. Au published a journal titled Social...
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...analysis of the ever-increasing vogue. Selfies are primarily trade-marked as a narcissistic practice and is merely an extension of self-absorption. Although some researchers beg to differ and defines selfies as a mean of self-exploration. Dr. Letamendi (as cited in Sifferlin, 2013), said that selfies allow people to convey messages and depict emotions. Sifferlin also brought the idea of over-analyzing the whole thing by citing Dr. Rutledge. Dr. Rutledge argues that selfies existed from a long time but is becoming more prevalent because of the advancement and easily accessibility of technology. Although Rutledge believes that it is important to know the limits and consequences of selfies as some may unwillingly send rather suggestive and indulgent selfies. She said that it is important for parents to understand the verge of propriety as each teen is unique. Furthermore Sifferlin also introduced selfies as a tool for therapist to use to gain entrance to deeper adolescent issues. She also talked about the peer pressure effect of selfies where one is influenced by seeing other’s selfies on social media. To conclude, Sifferlin says that selfies are definitely worth studying about as it has taken a place in the massively influential social media. The article was meant for parents, psychologists, therapists, guardians and even teens as it provided the meaning of selfies and how it affects teens and adolescents. The writer wanted them to know about the good and bad effects of selfies...
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...Mirchandani (2012) 5 : 08/04/2014 15/04/2014 22/04/2014 29/04/2014 8 9 6 : 06/05/2014 13/05/2014 10 11 7 20/05/2014 27/05/2014 12 13 03/06/2014 14 4 .10 :(18/02/2014) 1 ' ( ) Ball, R., Brown, P., 1968. An empirical evaluation of accounting income numbers. Journal of Accounting Research 6: 159-178. Beaver, W. H., 1968. The information content of annual earnings announcements. Journal of Accounting Research 6: 67-92. Dechow, P. M., 1994. Accounting earnings and cash flows as measures of firm performance: The role of accounting accruals. Journal of Accounting and Economics 18: 3-42. Dechow, P. M., Sloan, R. G., and Zha, J., 2013. Stock prices & earnings: A history of research. Working paper. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. : 2 – (04/03/2014) 2 ' ( ) Bonaccio, S., Dalal, R. S., 2006. Advice taking and decision-making: An integrative literature review, and implication for the organizational sciences. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 101: 127-151. Jacobson, J., Dobbs-Marsh, J., Liberman, V., Minson, J. A., 2011. Predicting civil jury verdicts: How attorneys use (and misuse) a second opinion. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 8: 99-119. Liberman, V., Minson, J. A., Bryan, C. J., Ross, L., 2012. Naïve realism and capturing the...
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...Critical appraisal of research article Medicinal services proficient ought to have capacity to assess and execute research to make it as a guide in practice which requires sound hypothetical establishment. As per Ingham-Broomfield, (2015) a desire of medical caretakers graduating is that they will get to be basic consumers of research. The reason for this paper is to fundamentally appraised a qualitative research article by Burhans and Alligod, (2010), which incorporates assessing each structures of exploration procedure beginning from title, author/s, abstract, introduction, methodology, findings, discussions and lastly conclusion. Basically evaluating articles permits one to sift through the low quality studies and recognize deceiving data (Gerrish & Lacey, 2006). Title: The title of this article is Quality of nursing care in the words of nurses. Here the title represents that the research is about the study of meaning of quality nursing care in the expressions of medical caretakers. Author/s: The writers of article ought to have the essential aptitudes to do the concentrate so their capabilities are leaned to guarantee their capacity for the study. In this article both the authors are from the university and have achieved their PHD. Linda Mass Burhans had done Phd RN CPHQ and she is a research expert. Martha Raile Alligood has done Phd RN ANEF and she is a content expert. Their qualification and professions relevant to the research study which will help to improve...
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...Thesis Preparation Have visualizations been a good tool to use in the world of Design? In my assignment, I will be looking at how the general use of certain software’s and digital technology has taken the world of architecture and Interior Design in another era. And how other articles and journals supports that view and don’t. At the moment, we are living in a world of advanced technology where everything is taught using digital technology, whether it be a mobile device, an iPad or a computer, in a preschool or third level facility. It shows that we are ingrained with it nowadays and even more with the future generation to come. The impact that it has on my chosen career, Architecture and Interior Design has gone on leaps and bounds since I started out as a professional. In my own opinion, as well as looking at different articles and journals, I think it has benefited us as a designer nowadays and the way we think differently productivity. But I also can’t help wondering how it all worked out many years ago without the aid of technology The changes we see nowadays digitally started when the industrial revolution came about! Steel and electricity were new on the scene and designer had to bring them into the design of the future builds. At the time of the industrial revolution, the structure of skyscrapers had to bring in the new elements (Steel and Electricity) and, therefore it had an impact on designers and teams, and how they were going to introduce the...
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