...To find out why people do what they do scientists look at social location. The book defines, social location as the corners in life that people occupy because of their place in society(pg.3). Examples of social locations could be race, gender, and religion. Each of these three social locations put you in a metaphorical “category”. If you’re religious that must mean you go to a religious ceremony on Sundays and Wednesdays or if you are a male then you have certain roles you must meet in your household such as cutting the grass and work on the cars. Now this doesn’t mean that women can’t cut the grass or six a car, it just means that society groups men into yard work and mechanical work. Social location can be shown in simple things like how...
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...Emily Pee Mrs. Cook Intro. To Sociology August 26, 2014 Social Location A person’s social location can affect a person from the time they are born to the time they actually reach the social location they want to obtain for their adult life. Social location has a lot to do with what gender you are, what race you are and where you are born, how you were raised and if you choose to continue being the person your parents brought up. Social location also deals with a person’s emotional attachment to how society looks at them. Everyone wants to be able to fit into society, which doesn’t necessarily mean they want to be accepted by the world. As we grow up we meet new people, whether it be a family member, a friend, or just a stranger waiting in line behind you. How you feel about yourself and your social standpoint can affect your relationships and interaction with other people. When you are a child on the playground and you look around and notice all of the kids are somewhat bigger than you, you might feel like you don’t fit in. So, to get the attention of the bigger kids you decide to go down the big slide even though you have been afraid of it for some time. You get all the way to the top of the slide, and all the kids are watching you. Your heart starts to race as you realize how high up you actually are, but in your mind you can’t back out now because everyone is counting on you. You make your choice and go down the slide, the whole playground sees that you come out...
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...INTRODUCTION Snapchat is a mobile social media application that allows individuals, who have the application downloaded, to send timed pictures, messages, and videos to other users. A common practice of the Snapchat application is posting a story, which is video/picture content that a user posts digitally for their friends to view for a twenty-four hour period. The belief behind this practice is that this feature helps users maintain relationships with their network through regular updates. The question can be posed, what different types of self performance are found in Snapchat stories? Is the performance deeply rooted in a need to be connected to our social networks? Previous research suggests that users on social media networking sites...
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...The life map: self-location and personal linkages assignment planted the seed for a personal journey. This assignment began the critical self-reflection on who I am and where I stand in society. More importantly, this laid the foundation for who I am as a social worker. This helped me reflect on my personal beliefs, opinions and "isms", allowing me to identify how these hinder or help my practice. However, presently what I believe to be the most valuable learning is my reflection on my social location. As outlined within my life map assignment, my maternal ancestors were of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nations. Unfortunately, due to colonization my ancestors diligently worked towards hiding our heritage and as a result, our culture was lost. Although curious to learn about and for cultural connection...
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...Sociology and its effects in regards to upbringing is something that sociologists have grappled with for a long time now, and through exhaustive efforts, the effects of social location (or nurture) on a person’s development is no longer called into question. With that said, this paper will be about how my social location has affected my outlook. The term “social location” can be defined in a few different ways in regards to perspective. For me personally, the big factors were my schooling and the parenting I received. The first and undoubtedly most imprinting thing on my upbringing was my schooling. From second grade on I was sent to a christian school. I was shaped to never curse, look at things with a christian perspective, have proper etiquette, and many other things. And being in the heart of the bible belt, without even knowing it, my beliefs were also inadvertently being shaped. I was being constructed into a biblical robot who could spout you answers about the gospel as a result of my schooling. My school also was very sheltering. I was given a false perception of many things. I was “brainwashed” of a sort...
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...layout of most flyers. I used a template on Microsoft to organize my flyer and then I put the information I found on the club’s website in along with the logo. After doing my process work I took the suggestions and I switched the logo and contact information around so that the flyer would be more effective. After revising my flyer, I started creating my essay with the introduction where I included Ann John’s definition of a community of practice and a description of my community. When I began describing the Genre convention and the social role I tried to include as much detail as possible while answering all...
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...When I think of privacy in the millennium Era, I am starting to get more concern about the direction it is going in. I can remember using my GPS on my cell phone when I first got it and I found a Google App that was monitoring my location. It would tell me everywhere I had been while driving. I was very concerned and I later found out how to turn that particular setting off. I think it has pros and cons.For instance, this tracking is good for locating love ones and keeping them safe. However as an adult, I did not want to be linked to a setting that followed my every move. It felt like my privacy was invaded. I wonder how many people activate GPS and are not aware that it can track locations if it is linked to location settings. Radio frequency identification is a bit disturbing to me. It is a technical term that is used to describe radio waves that identify people or objects for business(Turri, Smith & Koop, 2017). I deleted my personal Facebook due to privacy being invaded. People and businesses will look you up on Facebook, and create ideas or solicitations based off suspected financial, education,social status. So, I decided it was...
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...To try a have a deeper understanding sociology and how it looks at culture and society I have to start thinking sociologically. How I see my sociological place in life is influenced by how I view the world around me this is also called my worldview. A more detailed way of describing this is it how I evaluate everything around me in relation to my personal experiences during my life. And for me as a mature student my life experiences are different to those of the average student studying in third level education considering the majority of students are coming from a younger age group, normally it’s in around the 17 to 25 year old age group. I am not in that age group and because of that I have different values and experiences to younger student....
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...Sunday night and my friends and I got together at the Cheesecake Factory for our weekly dinner out. There were five of us at the dinner table and we were discussing our lives and new relationships. Jacob, a twenty-year-old student and my previous neighbor when living in the dorms, says, “I met this great girl on Tinder the other day and we’re going to hang out tomorrow.” Jennie, my roommate, says, “Another Tinder girl? Why can’t you just meet girls in real life?” to which he responds, “It’s not that easy for some people. Plus, this way, I don’t have to deal with girls looking for something serious anymore.” This would be the fourth girl he was going to meet up with from Tinder within the school year. The first three turned into exclusive relationships, but he ended up dumping all of them, because each one ended up being crazy, or so he told us. When I got home, I began thinking about the app. From what I have been told, Tinder’s main audience was college students. I was not sure why we would need such an app, especially for people our age. I know that it can be difficult meeting new people sometimes, but I figured most college students in my age range, did not want to meet potential partners online. I figured only older people did that when they were lonely. Then I realized, this generation is so obsessed with technology, it makes sense why this app has become so popular. Then I began to wonder, why does the millennial generation rely on technology and social media for dating...
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...Anthony Morris SOCW3103/Aging Instructor: Adelle Sanders, DPA, MSW Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the transportation needs of, and for the elderly as a social problem. I will attempt with the help of research to show how badly the elderly need help, I will research the transportation availability. for the elderly publicly and privately in my community. Looking at the demographics in the Fuller Park community, to show ridership, location of bus stop, show the accessibility for wheelchairs. To research my neighborhood, for shopping centers, Doctors offices, food pantry’s, grocery stores. Transportation is a major problem for the elderly, and the department’s senior services area Agency on Aging administrates a variety of programs designed to address the diverse needs and interests of the elderly. For those who are healthy and active, to those who are frail and homebound. Transportation Paper Addressing the needs of the elderly is becoming a Hugh social problem. Planning Transportation to Meet the Needs of an Aging Illinois: Chicago (February, 2015) communities throughout Illinois will need to make significant revisions to current transportation options, explore more varied housing greatly augment health and human services alternatives to meet the day-to-day needs of the increasing...
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...analysis for Custom Coffee & Chocolate. Strengths * Formal Education - Both, Bonnie and Stacy had formal education in management and marketing; this provides them the basic knowledge of how to manage a business. * Experience – They worked for several years in other companies acquiring the experience necessary to take on a challenge of establishing a new business. * Intimate knowledge of their core customer – As former students of the university, they have a good grasp of the people they cater to. Weakness * Location (Yes, location) – Anyone would think that the perfect location would be near the university, but I don’t think so and this is why: although the university is a good location, only have traffic during school seasons; take away summer recess, winter break, and all other holidays and off days and the opportunity to capture customers gets substantially reduced to those days when the university is open. Compare the university location against Pike Place Market, which is a business center with lots of business people and shoppers that work and shop all year around. Also, the spending power of business people is higher than that of students, thus allowing Bonnie and Stacy to offer their products at a higher price since these demographics are willing to pay a higher price for higher quality – not so with students since their disposable income is limited. One more point to ponder is the uneven flow of traffic; I can see lots of students going to Pike Place Market...
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...Social Media Arthur Council Internet can prove to be a great advantage for small businesses in this era for both marketing and selling their product. Even small businesses now need to have a website of their own, otherwise they will have to bear the risk of being left behind in the race. First of all, internet is a smarter way of connecting with your customers as well as for expanding your customer base. Internet can be used for advertising your business which is not easier through any other channel. Receiving orders as well as replying enquiries is also far more convenient if done online. In a way internet can prove the most cost effective method of marketing and selling in todays business scenario. Companies can boost their sales and benefits if they are able to utilize internet in the right way. I own a small clothing store, which I have decided to take online. I expect it will add to my benefits as well as help in increasing sales by reaching new customers. In this regard the first step will be to do a SWOT analysis to find out my strengths and opportunities as well as to measure my threats. I will need to check which additional opportunities I will get when I get my business online.The first strong point or a competitive advantage that my store has is that it is among the biggest in the locality. We sell multiple popular brands and can serve customers across different levels. We have products for those who spend on the high priced fashion brands...
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...Collins social location wasn’t matching the standards of her overall high school population. Collins problem she encountered in high school were the set of values and beliefs that majority of her high school population went by is blocking from what’s she is being taught at home and reflecting on her character. Collins social location was living in an environment as a high school student that was raised in a working class household, it doesn’t match up to the standards of everyone else in high school. So in result, Collins had to speak “so called proper called English” to her teachers and perform all the other behaviors of middle class people in her class to feel accepted. This caused Collins inner character to be virtually educated out of existence. I went to Western High School located in Baltimore, Md. While I was attending this High school, I didn’t experienced similar things as Patricia Collins. Majority of my high school population had the same social location as me. So the values of the working class everybody believed in and met by them. In high school I didn’t have to worry about my race and gender becoming a big problem with my education because my high school was an all-girl school and was predominately African American. Prior to my school being in a city and I didn’t have my license, I had to rely on the public MTA bus or the light as my transportation. I also had to work to provide for myself while my mother were a single parent struggling to pay bills in my household...
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...My mom would always tell me, “I can’t wait until you’re 18, so you can move out of my house!” This was usually said after my many childhood “mess ups”, causing my mom tons of stress. But the older, and more mature I got, the less I heard her say the expression. The closer I got to the magic number eighteen, the more real it got. My mom began to fear the day that I went off to college. It scared not only my mom, but my whole family. The same little Anthony they had watched grow up was stepping into adulthood. This scared me even more. There was even a time period where I contemplated if college was even the right decision for me. All of my friends committed to what school they were gonna attend pretty early, which was scaring me even more....
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...becomes more and more strained, and the understanding of animal behavior in the presence of man becomes increasingly important. A great example of a species that has successfully adapted to life with humans is the gray squirrel. My study tried to prove that squirrels learn to live with humans and become comfortable functioning in their presence. It attempted to show that squirrels living in areas of high human traffic are braver in approaching humans than those that live in areas of low human traffic. My hypothesis was that the gray squirrels that come in contact with humans more frequently have adapted to life with people and would more readily approach me than those that have not become accustomed to human interaction. To test this hypothesis, I tested a squirrel s willingness to approach me at a location of high, medium, and low human traffic. I measured their approach in three levels: ten feet or less, thirty feet or less, and no interest. I then performed a Chi squared test to see if the locations were different from the expected results. The high traffic area and the low traffic area were significantly different. Squirrels in the high traffic area were far more willing to approach a human than those in areas of low traffic. This data supported my hypothesis that the squirrels living in areas of high human traffic would be more willing to approach me than squirrels living in areas of low human traffic. More importantly this study also shows the squirrels ability to become...
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