...[pic] LIFE STORY BOOK INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION 2. CHILDHOOD 3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT YOU 4. IMPORTANT PLACES THAT MATTER TO YOU 5. HOBBIES AND INTERESTS 6. YOUR BELIEFS 7. COMMUNICATING WITH YOU 8. YOUR FAVOURITE THINGS 9. SPECIAL PHOTOS 10. MY CALENDAR Life Story Work describes a biographical approach, which gives people the opportunity to talk about their life experiences. It involves recording relevant aspects of a person's past and present life with the aim of using this life story to benefit them in their present situation. The potential benefits of Life Story Work as an intervention for people with memory impairment and their families have been recognised for some time, in terms of promoting individualised care, improving assessment, building relationships between care staff and family carers as well as improving communication.(Clarke 2002, Bryan and Maxim) RESIDENT’S NAME: ARTEM GINGER DATE: 6/2/2015 CHILDHOOD What was the date and place of your birth? 11/08/1979 What were your parent's names? Include dates of birth, occupation(s). (Put their birthdays into personal calendar) Father: Victor Ginger, 11/05/1950, teacher Mother: Galina Ginger, 11/05/1956, teacher Do you have any brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews? Include their names, dates of birth, occupations, where they live or used to live. (Put their birthdays in personal calendar) Half-sister: Veronika Ginger, 19/01/1977, engineer, lives in Canada...
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...Cultural Division of a Social Hierarchy In an organized society, class distinctions divide the population accordingly. Class distinctions can be separated by financial status, racism, education,and etc. Social hierarchies greatly impact one's quality of life. In the novel,”The Secret Life of Bees,” by Sue Monk Kidd, portrays issues displayed in social hierarchies. Issues portrayed in class divisions can often be bias or racist towards a certain group of individuals that have certain qualities or skills. Social organizations in the novel are separated into two separate spheres. In the 1960s, social groups were separated into white privilege and african american poverty. In 1964 South Carolina, said classes were often split, unequal and an opinion of the author's own morals. In the 1960s, white and black social classes lived in two separate societies but coincided together. African americans often carried out actions for white families such as hard labour or serving as a help because they are deemed as lower and often demeaned. Monk Kidd writes, “Rosaleen had worked for us since my mother died. My daddy - who I called...
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...Heighten your life through social media Today social networking sites have become instruments of our everyday routines, available 24/7 constantly distributing material from person to person all over the world. They are tools that can be harnessed by anyone to aid in everyday activities whether it be contacting old friends or retrieving information about the nearest job opportunity, social networking sites play a huge roll. The usage of these sites have begun to sky rocket with over 47% of American adults using social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and at least 1.2 billion of them are Facebook users. Billions of people worldwide are actively engaged among these sites and with in them online communities are formed. The occupants of these virtual communities are given the option to develop personal profiles, communicate with past-time as well as new friends, research, and sharing thoughts, photos, music, links and more. That being said our society today has harnessed the aspects of social networking to help increase their individual productivity of life, making social media the number one way of disseminating information around the world. Additionally, small businesses can also benefit greatly from the free platforms offered throughout social media by, connecting with customers, increase visibility of their products or services and obtaining the most suitable employees. In addition, Social networking sites offer teachers a platform for collaboration...
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...A New Society From the reading there are various dimensions of social change which represent the “new society.” Firstly, is the new technological concept, based on the idea of growth, development and constant expansion. It can be seen as the development of an individual or society in a direction considered more advanced than the preceding level. Society and technology are two aspects of humanity that are constantly progressing because of one another. Technology shapes society and social change drives technology, “new information technologies allow the formation of new forms of social organization and social interaction along electronically based information networks.” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2655234) It is a variable in a compound factor in the history of society. The second dimension of social change is globalization. It has become identified with a number of trends, such as the “technological, organizational, and institutional capacity of the core components of a given system.” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2655234) Globalization is the flow of social change. It refers to the “rapidly developing and ever-densening network of interconnections and interdependences that characterize modem social life.” (http://www.pacificdiscovery.org/credit/SEAreadings/Globilization%20and%20Culture%20-%20Tomlinson,%20John.pdf) Globalisation suggests “a world full of movement and mixture, contact and linkages, and persistent cultural interaction and exchange.” (http://www.academia.edu/531131/Tracking_Global_Flows)...
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...1301 July 25th , 2000 Micro level theories aimed at understanding social life at the intimate level of individuals and their interactions. The micro sociological approach places emphasis on face-to-face social interaction, or what people do when they are in the presence of one another. Roles are sets of expectations, rights, and duties that are associated with a given status. The dramaturgical analysis provided by Erving Goffman analyzes everyday life in terms of the stage. Socialization prepares people for learning to perform on the stage of everyday life. Core of this approach is the analysis of the impressions we attempt to make on others by using sign-vehicles like setting, appearance, and manner, teamwork, and face-saving behavior. Human actions are dependent on time, place, and audience and the favorable presentation of self by an individual via the use of impression management. An example for this is even if a couple is not in terms; they still act intimate and conceal their anger in the presence of others in order to save face. In a structural functionalist perspective, the family system regulates sexual activity, provides socialization processes, and transmits culture and the members of the family act their roles as father, mother and child. In dramaturgical analysis humans are like actors on a stage in which there are roles (scripts) and statuses (parts of the play) to carry out. Defining the social situation states that the perception of reality by humans is largely...
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...when it is applied to their studies. Certainly, the access in Internet or in the World Wide Web is easy and there are many benefits can be gained. Nowadays,Social Network Sites are very popular because of its benefits especially in the field of communication. It helps us to keep in touch with our friends, classmates and relatives but they also allow us to communicate with other people who share common interests with us. Almost of the students worldwide do have Accounts in the different social networking sites which are the Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, Google+ and many more. According to Wikipedia social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. Networking sites enable you to be your real...
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...The impact of Social Media Addiction on an Individual’s Social Life & Mental Health and the factors that causes Social Media Addiction Anku Sherpa ACADEMIC YEAR 2014 Data Driven Decision Making Stamford International University ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to understand the factors that causes Social media addiction and the impacts of Social media addiction on the social life and mental health of its users. The research will be conducted amongst users of Social media in Thailand and will highlight whether Socio Demographic factors such as age, gender, level of education and marital status influence Social media addiction. The respondents for the study will be chosen through non probability – convenience sampling and the research will focus on only quantitative approach. Lastly, the research study will also attempt to illustrate whether there is a relationship between Social media addiction and Human interaction and Mental health. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This Thesis would not have been completed with the continual support of our facilitator Dr. Apitep Saekow and we would like to thank him for his continued support and guidance throughout the writing of this research study. Our sincere gratitude also towards the Stamford International University for providing us with an opportunity to conduct this research and providing us with the necessary resources through the Stamford Library. Our Special thanks also goes out to all our friends who helped us...
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...Meagan Donnelly William S. Durden English 102 March 21, 2013 Smartphones and the Social Life On October 17th, 1973 we made a huge leap forward in communication. The first mobile phone call was made by a company known then and now as Motorola. Mobile phones were not widely known of until the mid-80’s and were not even carried and used by many individuals until the early 90’s. Stated by the U.N. Telecom Agency; now, in 2013 103.9% of the United States population uses a cell phone! That means some people carry more than one cell phone and many young children are carrying phones as well. According to Jennifer Ludden, on average a child has a cell phone by the age of eight, and a smart phone by the age of fourteen. Cell phones have now become the main means of communication, and not necessarily through phone calls. People are most commonly communicating through text, whether it be text messaging, emailing, or with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. People are now able to do a countless amount of tasks from their cell phones. You will commonly hear many people say “there’s an app for that!”. Essentially referring to the fact that you don’t need to go to the library or ask a friend for information that you are not knowledgeable of, you can just browse the web on your phone, or download an app that will have what you are looking for. You may be thinking that this gives people more time during the day to do more important daily tasks, like spend time with...
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...internet 10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141922 0066-4308/04/0204-0000$14.00 BARGH MCKENNA Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2004. 55:X--X doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141922 Copyright © 2004 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved INTERNET AND SOCIAL LIFE THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL LIFE John A. Bargh and Katelyn Y.A. McKenna New York University, New York, New York 10003; email: john.bargh@nyu.edu, kym1@nyu.edu Key Words communication, groups, relationships, depression, loneliness Abstract The Internet is the latest in a series of technological breakthroughs in interpersonal communication, following the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television. It combines innovative features of its predecessors, such as bridging great distances and reaching a mass audience. However, the Internet has novel features as well, most critically the relative anonymity afforded to users and the provision of group venues in which to meet others with similar interests and values. We place the Internet in its historical context, and then examine the effects of Internet use on the user’s psychological well-being, the formation and maintenance of personal relationships, group memberships and social identity, the workplace, and community involvement. The evidence suggests that while these effects are largely dependent on the particular goals that users bring to the interaction---such as self-expression, affiliation, or competition---they also interact in important ways with the unique qualities of the...
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...t ra f fic con t rol depends on computers and ra d a r.It also depends, h e a v i ly, on paper and ink. When people talk about the need to TNY—03/25/02—PAGE 9 2—133 LS—LIVE OPI ART R10895—GUIDANCE PROOF TO ARRIVE ON FRIDAY A.M. POUCH!!—#2 O n a busy day, a typ i cal air-tra f fic c on t ro ller might be in charge of a s m a ny as tw e n ty - five airplanes at a time— s ome ascending,s ome descending, e a ch at a diffe rent altitude and tra ve lling at a d i f fe rent speed.He peers at a large,m on och romatic radar con s o l e, t ra cking the m ovement of t i ny tagged blips mov i n g s l ow ly across the scre e n . He talks to the sector where a plane is headed, and talks 9 2 THE NEW YO R K E R, MARCH 25, 2002 BOOKS THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAPER L o oking for method in the mess. BY MALCOLM GLADWELL For “k n o w l e d ge work er s,” piles ofp ap er re p resent the process of a c t ive, o n going thinking. m o d e rn i ze the Am e ri can air-tra f fic - c on t rol sys t e m ,this is, in large part ,w h a t t h ey are re fe r ring to. Wh e n ever a plane takes off, the basic data about the flight—the type of p l a n e, the radar I.D. n u m b e r, the requested altitude, the dest i n a t i on — a re printed out on a stiff p i e c e o f p a p e r, p e rhaps one and a half by six and a half i n ch e s ,k n own as a flight stri p. And as the plane passes through each sector of the airspace the con t ro ller jots d ow n , using a kind of s h o rt h a n d , eve rything...
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...modernize the American air-trafficcontrol system, this is, in large part,what they are referring to. Whenever a plane takes off, the basic data about the flight—the type of plane, the radar I.D. number, the requested altitude, the desLoo king for method in the mess. tination—are printed out on a stiff piece of paper, perhaps one and a half by six BY MALCOLM GLADWELL and a half inches,known as a flight strip. And as the plane passes through each sector of the airspace the controller jots down, using a kind of shorthand, everything new that is happening to the plane—its speed, say, and where it’s heading, clearances from ground control, holding instructions,comments on the pilot. It’s a method that dates back to the days before radar, and it drives critics of the air-traffic-control system crazy. Why, in this day and age, are planes being handled like breakfast orders in a roadside diner? This is one of the great puzzles of the modern workplace.Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per-capita basis, than it did ten years ago.The consumption of uncoated freesheet paper, for instance—the most common kind of office paper—rose almost fifteen per cent in the United States between 1995 and 2000. This is generally taken as evidence of how hard it is to eradicate old, wasteful habits and of how stubbornly resistant we are to the efficiencies offered by computerization. A number of cognitive psychologists...
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...The mass media plays a large role in modern society. Indeed, many have argued that people spend more time in "mass-mediated" interaction than in actual human interaction. The mass media, then, would seemingly be an excellent position to initiate social change, positively affect social problems, and help combat social ills that are considered normal patterns of behavior. Yet, the mass media has largely failed in addressing and helping to solve social problems. As seen through its presentation of the three major variables of race, class, and gender, the mass media has actually served to contribute to the social problems it covers, reinforcing them, and creating an inter-related cycle in which these problems continue. TV has become perhaps the primary vehicle that society receives its information and presents its values and expectations. One of the most important roles television plays is its presentation of news and information. What a station chooses to present as newsworthy can play a strong role in how people view their society and the world around them. Often, television news sources have followed a philosophy of "if it bleeds, it leads", focusing on violence in urban environments. This violence occurs more frequently in black neighborhoods, resulting in what amounts to essentially as a steady, nightly stream of reports on violence in the inner-city by and among African-Americans. In this way, the television media plays a strong role in formulating racial...
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...Various health and social related studies continue to support that social determinants of health impacts the behavior of individuals and families. The determinants of a healthy life is defined based upon specific disciplines such as the environment, health care, education, economic status, and social background. The way in which people live, is highly proven to defend why certain Americans are healthier than others. To further address this public matter, from July to November 2011, the authors of this research conducted six focus groups of which twenty-eight public housing residents in Baltimore, Maryland participated in. The primary purpose of the research was to understand the perceptions of the residents living in a low socioeconomic status...
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...strong sexual content, and graphic violence. But, as I mentioned earlier, that’s what I like about the program. American dad is of course not the only program I watch. Another program if find very interesting is TirsdagsanalysenTM which I watch with my dad every Tuesday. I like to be nuanced in my politician views, and therefore I think it’s a good property, that the program has both a leftist man and a rightist man to comment on the features the host brings up to debate. Watching TV can be both entertaining and damaging. Many teenagers spend their spare time watching a lot of reality programs. In my opinion that’s of course okay, but when you get addicted to a reality-program, and you watch it a lot, it may change the way you have social intercourse with other people. For an example, people who watch Big Brother may start to use the same expressions in their language, as the ones who are attending in the...
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...How tax strategies impact on the Social Economic Problem? We are going to highlight some social issues and whether the tax strategy is effective in dealing with the issues. The issues discussed include the issue of urbanisation on vacant land, child poverty, inflation and unemployment. Issue 1: Tax Penalty: Eliminate Land Speculation and Vacant Land to avoid Poverty The urbanisation level of 56.25% in South Africa has recorded the world highest level in 2001. The “Apartheid City was a political economy of space which was based on two policies, i.e. racially-based spatial planning and development for some at the expense of others”. Cities were purposely designed to push poor black citizens to the margins of the city. Thus, the black population were materially distanced from advantages normally associated with city life”. With the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the new government made a commitment to redress these imbalances and inequality and to create cities that are more equal, inclusionary, productive and sustainable. Although 1.6 million houses have been provided since 1994, they have tended to enforce traditional apartheid planning where the poor are still located on the periphery, far removed from employment and economic opportunities. This has resulted in increased urban sprawl and de-densification. Furthermore, the subsidy on public transport was more than double that spent on housing subsidy but the house prices has increased by an average of 20% per year. Land...
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