...Social Development Research Purposeful Aging: Teleological Perspectives on the Development of Social Interest in Late Adulthood By Jeffrey M. Penick * Explain why you chose this topic and article Being a child of young parents had enabled me to view my elders in a different light. Social Media has left what I perceive the middle aged, 65 to 75 years of age, behind the times. People are living longer and the perception of “old” is outdated. Social interests need to be met for all ages 80, 90 and yes 100 years old. * Key points of the article One of the key points of the article was the discussion of the expectations of change in social interest late in adulthood and how these changes are and will continue to augment the fabric of later social development. Another key point made was that social interests and needs are changing with the largest demographic, whose center and purpose is degrading with the release of day-to-day parenting duties, spouse or intimate partner loss, and the decline in health and career and employment demands. These fore mentioned factors have been driving your early adult life for many years and to have a sudden decline with no replacement or substitution, will drive the desire for innovative social interests and inspirations. Lastly, later in life, with many burdensome conditions lifted, there is a lot of time for self-reflection and expression of interest in real or synthetic communities. The article made valid points that purposeful...
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...Social Development Research Psy/202 August 28, 2013 The article that I chose is titled: What’s going on with young people today? I chose this article because it provided an interesting theory of how sociological changes have influenced and delayed the transition into adulthood. The article begins with explaining the lengthening process to adulthood over the past several decades, and what challenges the youth of today face transitioning into adulthood, noting that these challenges change to meet the social realities of the era. For example it was not uncommon for youth to leave home in the fifties at a young age to pursue work opportunities while they were plentiful. It was considered normal to encourage young adults to do so and social expectations of the time reinforced that need. This transition soon fell by the way side when economic and employment uncertainties arose in the seventies leaving young adults to reconsider their living arrangements, educational investments, and family formation. Next the article took a look at changes in the core timing shifts in the new transition that lengthens the time it takes for youth of today to leave home, complete school, enter the workforce, marry and have children. The authors Settersten and Ray go on to state that the stress of today’s new agenda for attaining independence leaves many families overburdened as they support their children for extended periods of time...
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...Social Development Research Social Development Research I chose to read and summarize an article found in the UOP library from the source Psychology and Aging September 1, 1992, written by Laura L. Carstensen titled “Social and Emotional Patterns in Adulthood: Support for Socieomotional Selectivity Theory”. I chose this article because I have wondered before why people choose who they do for social companions and what happens to those relationships as people mature. What really sparked this question in me was I often wondered what my Grandfather was like when he was younger and what kind of people he hanged out with. He was a very friendly person with a great personality I never seen him really socialize with any friends, he just took care of my Grandmother as she was dying. Now that she is gone he does not too much in the way of getting out and socializing. I have often asked myself, as likable as he is why does he just sit at home and not go out with some his old friends or go make new ones. So this article touched on something that I had already been in search for an answer on. This article pointed out different theories like the “disengagement theory and activity theory” (Carstensen, pg 331 paragraph 1) and brought out how it compared with the selectivity theory. Laura Carstensen constructed this article with two theories in mind, “(a) Selective reductions in social interaction begin in early adulthood and (b) emotional closeness to significant others increases rather...
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...Social Development Research PSY/172 Essentials of Psychology Social Development Research Article Title: Adulthood Link: http://www.credoreference.com/entry/worldsocs/adulthood I chose this article because it provided an interesting theory of how sociological changes have influenced and delayed the transition into adulthood. The article focused on the impact of modern technological and industrial changes to societal attitudes toward adult rites of passage. In the modern-day industrial society, the introduction of formal education as well as the need for higher education in the twentieth-century postponed adulthood by introducing an adolescent and post-adolescent phase prior to adulthood. By comparison, in the agricultural society of the medieval era, people transitioned from infancy to adulthood as soon as they could work alongside their elders. Some interesting key points of the article, Adulthood, describe both formal and informal transitions in a person’s life that indicate the achievement of adult status. Formal indicators that a person has achieved adult status are: 1. Completion of formal education 2. Economic independence 3. Moving out of the parent’s home 4. Voting 5. Full-time employment 6. Marriage Informal transitions into adulthood are behavioral patterns assumed by an adolescent in an attempt to attain adult status. These behaviors include: 1. Drug and alcohol use 2. Smoking 3. Sexual activity 4. Teenage pregnancy...
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...Social Development Research Social Development Research Depression is a mental illness that causes strong feelings of sadness or despair and affects a person’s moods and thoughts. It is a sickness that will happen without a motive. Each year in the United States depression affects an estimated 17 million people (Gordon,2010). Depression is a disease in which a life can be destroyed. Depression is tricky to detect in any age group. Men, women, and teens can become victims of this dreaded disease of the mind. Depression is complicated to detect in one owns self because a person‘s thoughts may be cloudy and any critical thinking can be lost. This disease called depression can be fatal, just like cancer or diabetes. Depression is a serious matter. To learn more about depression is a weapon against the disease. Emotions are hard to detect. Emotions do not bleed red like a deep cut. Feeling sad hurts just like a bleeding wound but it is sometimes undetectable. Depression is a silent killer like diabetes. Some warning signs of depression are withdrawal symptoms, frequent crying, anger, extreme sensitivity, and lack of enjoyment, thoughts of suicide or death. If any of these symptoms are detectable or obvious in someone, they might be depressed if the symptoms are long lasting or and severe. Helping a person with depression can save their life. A depressed...
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...Social Development Research • A study was done to examine violent behavior from ages 13 to 21 and identified predictors at age 10. • 55% of youth engaged in violence in adolescence, but desisted from any violence in early adulthood. • 16% of people persisted in violent behaviors at age 21. • The analysis performed and referred to in this article found that factors loaded consistently on three components, which were labeled; Early Individual Characteristics, Early Pro-social Development, and Early Antisocial influences. Explain why you chose this topic and article: I chose the topic (childhood risk factors for persistence of violence in the transition of adulthood) because violence among children has become more and more common over the years. It is not unheard of to hear a child brought a gun, knife, or even a hand grenade to school. I was curious to learn what characteristics were shown in these type of children and what the likely hood was for them to turn around their lifestyle as an adult. Key points of the article: The key points in this article were the numbers given during and after the study. It showed that more than half of youth that were engaged in violence in their childhood years retracted from any violence in early adulthood. The article also made it a point to inform that some differences in risk profiles did develop after combining risk and protective factors into component scales that were based on results of the principal components analysis. If you...
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...Draft Proposal on Impact Assessment of Urban Agriculture Research and Development in Nairobi By William Omoto Department of Research Development Nairobi Kenya 1. INTRODUCTION Background Kenya’s leading development challenges today include alleviation of poverty and environmental management in the context of rapid population growth and urbanization. Kenya’s population was 28.6 million people in 1999 and is expected to reach 43 million in the year 2020. According to the government statistics, the national level of absolute poverty increased from 44% in 1992 to 56% in 2002 (GoK 2002). Nairobi has registered the highest rate of urbanization (4.5%) with a population of 2.2m in 2000 projected to reach 3.2m in the year 2010. About 50% of people in Nairobi live below the absolute poverty line of Ksh. 2 648. As the urbanization trend continues, urban environments are deteriorating. Most of the urban poor are concentrated in the informal settlements where there are no infrastructure and services to address environmental problems and are engaged in urban agriculture. One of the biggest policy challenges today is the inclusion of environmental policy into urban policy. UPA can be an integral part of a set of policies for sustainable urban environmental management. Urban AF can play an especially vital role in waste management by transforming waste into food and fuel. Waste management approaches in place include waste collecting, sorting, treatment and recycling...
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...is a recent development. For a long time, concern has been placed on other factors of production. It was not until recently that attention shifted to Human capital which has led to a massive wave of investment in human capital development. Human capital development is the term used in referring to factors such as education, health, and other variables that can raise productivity. It refers to the ability to perform work so as to produce economic value. To a large extent this a function of the skills and knowledge workers acquired through education and experience. When viewed from a macro perspective, Human capital represents the human factor in an organization and this consists of the combined intelligence, skills and expertise of workers that gives the organization its distinctive character. It consists of those elements of the organization that are capable of learning, changing, innovating and providing the creative thrust which if properly motivated can ensure the long-term survival of an organization. Increasing attention is being given to Human capital due to globalization and its attendant saturation of the labour market. Concern about the issue has been being compounded by the recent downturn in the various economies of the world. This has led Organisations to appreciate the need to leverage on the workforce for competitive advantage in order to thrive and keep ahead of the competition. One major way of doing this is through human capital development. However experience...
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...Research and Design Methodology Essay In the subject of lifespan and development, there are several different theories and methods of research. Three designs for studying development are longitudinal, cross sectional and sequential designs. Each of them has strengths and limitations. Scientists interested in human growth and development require information about the way research participants change over time. They must extend correlational and experimental approaches to include measurements at different ages to answer questions about development. Longitudinal and cross sectional designs are special developmental research strategies. In each, age comparisons form the basis of the research plan. (Berk 34.) Longitudinal design is when participants are studied repeatedly, and changes are noted as they get older. This approach has two major strengths. The first one is since it follows the performance of a person over time; the scientist can identify common patterns as well as individual differences in development. The second is that the researchers are permitted to examine relationships between early and later events and behaviors. An example of this would be The Guidance Study; where it tracks to see if children with extreme personality styles retained the same dispositions as they became adults. (Berk 34.) There are also problems when conducting longitudinal research participants might move away or drop out of research. Also due to the repetition of the...
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...Technology Research, Cooperation and Strategies of Organisations in the Pacific involved in Research (# 1); • PACE-Net Questionnaire on Science and Technology Research, Cooperation and Strategies of Australian and New Zealand Organisations involved in Research in the Pacific region (# 2); and • PACE-Net Questionnaire on Science and Technology Research, Cooperation and Strategies of Governmental Institutions in the Pacific (# 3) The questionnaire # 1 launched in mid-September targets the organisations involved in research activities based in the Pacific group of the Asia, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). In total, 85 organisations or bodies , including research institutes, development organization, ministries, government departments and private countries, from within the Pacific island region were contacted to participate. Twenty of these organisations have responded to the questionnaire (23.53% response rate). The following figures present the key preliminary findings of the PACE-Net questionnaire # 1 on the thematic areas in which the organisations surveyed in the region support research in. It demonstrates the importance of research in the Pacific islands in science and technology sectors of environment and climate, biology and medicine, and agriculture, fisheries and food supply. It is also indicative of the research capacity in the region, though complementary data is required. Research and Development Sector...
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...The GKSS Research Centre is located in Geesthacht near Hamburg, Germany, with a further centre in Teltow near Berlin, and is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF). With its approximately 800 employees it undertakes, in collaboration with universities and industry, research and development in the areas of coastal research, materials research, regenerative medicine, and structure research with neutrons and synchrotron radiation. The Centre for Biomaterial Development of the Institute of Polymer Research of the GKSS in Teltow offers a PhD Student Position - Code-No. 2009/PB 10 in the fields of Polymer Science and Pharmaceutical Technology for activities in a DFG funded project on new applications of shape-memory polymers. The position will be for three years. You will investigate new capabilities of shape-memory polymers as drug carriers in the field of Pharmaceutical Technology. You will be responsible for the benchwork including polymer synthesis and comprehensive polymer characterization as well as analysis of the properties such as the thermomechanical behaviour of polymer-based drug carriers. Moreover, depending on your personal interest, there will be the opportunity to extent your personal expertise and to participate in the preparation of drug carriers or the biomaterial characterization in cell studies after training by experts in the respective fields. Furthermore, you will actively participate in the publication of the results and the...
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...Mumbai. International Institute For Population Science, Svkms Nmims University and University of Bombay are three main university located in Mumbai. These three universities off undergraduate, post-graduate and doctorate level education in various fields. Universities in Mumbai are doing two modes in delivering the education such as traditional as well as distance learning programs. Multinational companies are setting up hundreds of R&D centres across these countries to tap into the large local supplies of research. This will improve competitiveness, boost productivity and enhance technological innovation in EMEs in order to achieve strong economic growth. Political environment R&D in Mumbai assessed include business conditions, physical infrastructure, IT infrastructure, financial institution and government support(Nair,2004). Mumbai encourage R&D industry in terms of Technical support, the establishment of the High-tech Development Zone, financial support (Bilbao, Soumitra & Bruno,2013). India then was in a situation that it had joined the WTO but did not fulfil its legal.This will lead to a Industrial concentration. For longterm, it will create industrial advantages. Economic environment Over the last few decades, the expenditure on R&D has a repaid grow.The total investments on R&D in Indian has a grater volatility from 40,000 million in 2007 to over 800,000 million in 2012. Innovation and Technology The...
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...Communication Research students in Polytechnic University of the Philippines-College of Communication which focuses on the use of the media, messaging, and an organized set of communication activities to generate specific outcomes in a large number of individuals and in a specified period of time. To enable to practically apply the theoretical concepts discussed during our class lectures, we, the Communication Campaigns students are being required to conduct an Extension program with the purpose imparting our knowledge and skills to fulfill a significant need from one company or research firm that our department can offer. Our group has planned to conduct a 5-year extension program between the PUP-COC and the Hydra Centaurus Research and Development Inc. We got the information of your company through World Wide Web. We chose your company because you‘re young and start-up company and we wish to be part bringing together your goals and establish a well-known, reliable and reputable market research company in the near future. We believe that through this, we can create strong ties between our college and your research firm through a memorandum of agreement. PROPOSED ACTIVITIES This outline is designed to inform you our Training Plan. Every individual training plan focuses on the specific objectives of the training, the skills to be imparted, the methods of training and finally the tasks to be performed by the trainee. 1. Seminar on Fundamentals of Research This seminar...
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...Ethics in Research and Development Research and Development (R&D) term carry different meaning in diffenent situation. But everywhere it is related with find out somthing new, somthing better and more wothwhile, wich is used to achive particular goal(s). In a product’s or service’s life cycle R&D is considered as the conception stage. It is considered as invested for a better future. Throug R&D new products, service & idea come. Since in most of the cases it is related with something new and better, practice of ethics in R&D is very importent. A good comitment of ethics in R&D can change the life of greater community and an organization can achieve more confidence and trust from society. Research and development conduct to achieve a goal, maybe it is a business goal or non business goal but always it try to shows new way, new concept and new ideal. Two type of ethical consideration is related with research & development; one is in its objective or goal and another is how this objective or goal researcher wants to achieve. For the betterment of the society goal of research should be ethical and through the way researcher want to achieve this goal must be ethical. For example, a researcher may want to innovate a new medicine for lung cancer, oviously the objective of this research is great, if researche can achieve his goal in this case, it will help the humanity. But for conducting this research if researche collect the human lung through killing...
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...opposed to one of integration or consolidation. Based on the viewpoint of literature in both areas, gender research and constraints research could mutually benefit from integration by promoting respective new insights into each area. The authors examined the reasons behind gender researchers’ unwillingness to apply constraints approach and explored solutions to deal with this disparity. I strongly agree with the authors’ assertion that “bring(ing) together information on individual behaviors, negotiation strategies, attitudes, and experiences, along with an understanding of the influence of social structures and sociocultural contexts, should lead to a stronger basis for understanding leisure constraints, an enhanced understanding of this important aspect of people’s lives, and new and innovative directions for future research”(p. 31). However, I would argue that not all of the strategies suggested by them of how to strengthen the alliance between these two areas of investigation would lead to their original expectation. Two broad categories of alliance are created when associating one area of investigation with another. The first category creates broader “container”, which contains both theoretical and conceptual bases of these two areas of research. The second category explores a wider vision, which combines and references understandings drawn from respective areas of research by employing different theoretical and explanatory systems. Shaw and Henderson spared no effort to reach...
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