...Some minsters have touted this connection as the mixing of the sacred and the profane. This realization has peaked my interest in the areas of the sociology of religion, as well as how religion can not only be influenced by popular culture, but also how certain facets, such as film and music, can function as a religion for some people. In support of my study of the sociology of religion and the classification of religion, I have read and studied the books and articles composed by Johnathan Z. Smith. Despite my own research, it was not enough to satisfy the questions that I had. Therefore, I knew that I had to take my education to the post-secondary level, to provide myself with a better opportunity to find the answers to my...
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...Anna Pfalzgraf LSFY 199 Domski 13 September 2015 A Rising Mindset; Reflection of Student Readiness Survey All my life I have had a burning passion for learning, exploring, and having new experiences. I am constantly working on expanding my comfort zone and working to be held accountable for being bold personally and academically. My student readiness survey was spot on and matched my personality traits exactly. I was not surprised by this because I think one of my strengths is knowing myself really well. I have a high level of self-awareness and strong sense of being emotionally connected. This works to my advantage because I am able to be honest with myself, in result providing me accurate and effective answers from the survey. For instance, on my survey in response to “It is important to me to finish what I start” it said my responses suggested that I have had some success in persisting and overcoming obstacles to accomplish my goals; to consider building on these successes by practicing coping skills that have previously worked. I agree with this response because more often than not I am able to adapt to any situation and be flexible enough to find a way to make sure everything gets done. Since this is not the case every time, I do need to build on these skills. I know that I am able to accomplish this, so, exactly what my survey said to do; use what has been successful to me in the past and try to put that into practice every time. Another example I thought to be accurate...
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...Tuesdays 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to help you learn about the Sociology of Religion, with special attention paid to contemporary issues in religion and society in the United States. This course will set out to explore the various rituals, values, and customs that a society embraces, and through this, find the hidden meaning behind the cultural knowledge that these values, rituals and customs provide. While people use these values, rituals, and customs to interpret the world around them, it will be our job to discuss the implications and unconscious assumptions that these interpretations provide using a number of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. TEXTS AND READINGS REQUIRED • Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments (2nd edition) by Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos Jr., and Peter Kivisto, ISBN 978-0-7425-6111-3 • Additional readings to be posted to Blackboard SUGGESTED • Durkheim, Emile. 1965. Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. New York: Free Press. • Marx, Karl and Frederich Engels. 1978. "The Communist Manifesto" and “the German Ideology,” in The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. Robert Tucker. New York: W.W. Norton. • Weber, Max. 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner. • Weber, Max. 1978. "Religious Groups (The Sociology of Religion)". Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. • Geertz, Clifford. 1973. "Religion...
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...Gender Identity Paper Brandie Thurman PSY/340 May 25, 2013 Dr. Stephanie Sencil-White There are many biological, psychological, and sociological factors involved in the formation of gender identity. Gender identity is not completely understood as it is much more complex than the joining of a sperm and an egg. For many people, the terms “gender” and “sex” are interchangeable. Biological sex and gender are different; gender is not inherently connected to one’s physical anatomy as biological sex is. When one thinks’ of the term “gender”, we are referring to the role and personalities one assumes within society, for example in American culture females tend to be perceived as more nurturing and males are aggressive and dominant. Hormones and behavior affect gender identity in significant ways each with a distinct purpose. To understand the difference of biological sex and gender, nature versus nurture, and how the environment has an effect this paper will review and explain the interactions between hormones and behaviors and how those interactions affect the determination of gender identity. Gender development starts at the point one is conceived. Gender identity is defined as an individual’s self conception of being either male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex (Britannica, 2013). Gender differences exist in nearly every social phenomena and for most persons, gender identity and biological characteristics are the same however there are some circumstances...
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...epistemologies. This key question is posed in different ways: Is there a specifically feminist method? Are there feminist methodologies and epistemologies, or simply feminist approaches to these? Given diversity and debates in feminist theory, how can there be a consensus on what constitutes “feminist” methodologies and epistemologies? Answers to these questions are far from straightforward given the continually evolving nature of feminist reflections on the methodological and epistemological dimensions and dilemmas of research. This chapter on feminist methodologies and epistemologies attempts to address these questions by tracing historical developments in this area, by considering what may be unique about feminist epistemologies and feminist methodologies, by reviewing some of sociology’s key contributions to this area of scholarship and by highlighting some key emergent trends. The chapter begins with a brief overview of the theoretical and historical development of feminist epistemologies, followed by a similar overview of feminist methodologies. The final section discusses how feminist 36 epistemologies and feminist methodologies have begun to merge into an area called feminist research and details some key pillars of contemporary and emergent work in this area. FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGIES Twenty-five years ago, Lorraine Code, a Canadian feminist philosopher, posed what she called an “outrageous...
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...Final Assessment HCMG730 HCMG 730 Ethical and Legal Perspectives in Health Care February 17, 2014 Final Assessment 1 Introduction The United States has been known for its role in different research. The era of the 1960’s proved to bring some interesting practices in society. It was a time that curiosity found its way into science, psychotherapy, and experimental social pleasure. The 1960’s the United States saw the government; specifically the CIA conduct experiments on the hallucinogenic drug, LSD. They used a host of individuals from the military to the mentally ill. In an effort to justify the experiments they relied on earlier research and the potential for military warfare. Researchers did not inform participates of the fact that they were taking LSD. To add to the lack of honesty and integrity they were not aware it would expose their gametes to possible damage. Researchers also used information of participates data forms to track individuals thought to be dissident during a period of wars. After all the experiments and chances taken by research subjects; they compromised lives and future generation and made LSD illegal in the latter 1960’s. Final Assessment 2 1. To what extent did the government have...
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...Information Literacy in Higher Education: Consensus, Collaboration, Capability, and Cultural Considerations The 21st century is a rapidly-evolving era of global communication, information, and technology. In 1989, information literacy was defined as an individual’s ability to recognize the need for information, and to possess the skills to retrieve, comprehend, critically evaluate, and apply the acquired information (Association of Colleges and Research Libraries, 1989). Since that time, the Information Age has been over-shadowed by the dawn of the Digital Age. In higher education, the Digital Age has led to such a vast and complex array of choices in the types of materials available, literature search format options, and information navigation technologies, that most colleges and universities are simply unequipped to meet the literacy needs of their students (Li, 2007). In 1992, the National Adult Literacy Survey revealed that approximately 70 million adults ranked in the lowest level of literacy testing, and estimated that by 2030, that number would grow to nearly 118 million (Olson, 2007). Information illiteracy in American schools is a result of the inability of librarians and faculty to resolve issues, such as consensus, collaboration, capability, and culture when planning information literacy training programs. The differences in role perception between librarians and faculty may explain some of the difficulties in reaching consensus and collaboration in...
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...Introduction to Sociology SOC 110 Catalog Description: As an introductory survey of sociology, it is designed to give a broad overview of the field of sociology. It focuses on all aspects of society, culture, social interaction, institutions, group processes, social control, diversity and inequality based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, etc., and the causes and nature of social stability and social change. As a three hour credit course, SOC110 provides the equivalent of 45 hours lecture or classwork. Students are expected to complete an additional 90 hours in homework, study time and completion. (3 credits) Course Objectives: 1. Students will be able to analyze and explain how groups, societies, and cultures address human needs and concerns. 2. Students will be able to describe the importance of cultural unity, diversity, and globalization (NCCS Standards 1.1 and 1.9). 3. Students will be able to understand sociological concepts and apply them in describing the interactions among individuals, groups and institutions (NCCS Standards 1.5 and 1.6). 4. Students will be able to identify and analyze historical change in social institutions, the organization of power, and social movements (NCCS Standards 1.2 and 1.6). 5. Students should be able to explain and apply modes of inquiry drawn from the social sciences in the examination of persistent issues and social problems. Competencies: ▪ The student should be able to define important sociological concepts...
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...HLSC120: Society, Culture and Health eLearning Lecture Enhancement eModule Module 2 – Week 2 by by Dr Monica Nebauer (Queensland) Revised 2014 Introduction Welcome to the second of six eLearning Lecture Enhancement Modules for this unit. As explained in your first eModule, the purpose of these eModules is to extend the content of your weekly two hour lecture, to create knowledge links for you to the Seminar Questions that you and other students will be planning to present in your Student Seminars, and to help you enrich your learning as you develop your reflective learning and writing skills. In this eModule, you will be able to explore further: social changes from world globalizing processes, health care and globalizing processes, and finally, globalizing processes and cultural diversity in Australia. As you will be aware there is one Reflective Learning and Writing proforma on LEO that you are asked to use for your Reflective Learning and Writing task (2,500 words). At the end of this eModule (look under the green box) there are five questions from which you can choose a question to answer for your second assessment task. Learning Outcomes and Graduate Attributes The Learning Outcomes (with numbering from your Unit Outline) that will be addressed in this eModule are as follows – 1. explain changes in contemporary Australian society, culture and health related to world globalising processes; 2. discuss the impact of societal changes and an increasing cultural diversity...
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...RUNNING HEAD: AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLES 1 African American Struggles Shaneisa Smith Soc 308: Racial & Ethnic Groups Risa Garelick November 23, 2011 AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLES 2 African American Struggles African Americans are knows to face various issues throughout their lives. From being discriminated against, to trying to fit into society, African Americans still have problems because they are considered to be the minority (McGhee, 2010). African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendents of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States. Most African Americans are of West African descent and make up the single largest racial minority in the United States (African American Studies, 2001). Due to the fact that African Americans are minorities, they face problems in today’s world. Unlike the civil rights movement in the 1960s, African Americans today are not fighting for basic civil rights such as the right to vote and the right to attend non segregated schools. Many of the challenges are more subtle. The struggle would involve things like fighting negative stereotypes, pushing against institutional barriers that have been strengthened by those in favor of maintaining a historical precedent...
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...difficult than numbers to understand. Recruiters often indicate that they wish new managers possessed stronger people skills. Alumni often affirm that they too wish they had stronger people skills. The aim of this course is to provide you with some of these skills so that you can become a more effective manager and leader. However, management is not a science. Nor is it a profession. It is an art – a craft that is developed over a lifetime. This course is therefore not designed to offer you a magic formula for how to manage an organization. It is designed to provide tools to help you better understand why people in organizations do the things they do and how to influence these behaviors. We will use theories of management, economics, sociology, psychology, and philosophy to help us discuss individual-, team-, and organizational-level behaviors. The format for this course will be highly interactive in order to provide a rich learning experience. We will do this through the use of debates, role-playing, simulations, and case studies. Each of these experiences will provide opportunities to reflect and analyze in order that we may walk away with new ways of looking at the world around us. We will have few traditional lectures and those that we do have will be short ones that serve to synthesize a class discussion or exercise. This means that the majority of our class time will require the inputs of the entire class, so...
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...Running head: FINAL PAPER- DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL Final Paper Deviance and Social Control Sociological Foundations Oklahoma Wesleyan University Matthew Charles Colaw November 16, 2010 Abstract This paper is covering the different forms of deviance and social control. The word deviance is defined by actions or behaviors that violate a cultural norm. Deviance can be a formal crime or an in-formal act that is not perceived as normal in the culture. Each culture or group in this paper has different sets of norms and moral standards. This paper will discuss deviance within cultures and that many cultures can have different views on deviance. Social control is developed within a culture to punish the deviant acts. These topics will be discussed in the paper. Deviance in text book and from the internet source refers to any violation of a culture’s norms. This violation of cultural norms could be as insignificant as simply speeding a few miles an hour over the speed limit or a major crime such as murder. Deviance is further explained when Howard Becker stated, “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.” Each culture has a set of cultural norms and when an action or behavior causes a negative connotation in this culture it becomes deviant. (Jim Henslin, 2010) (Robert Keel, 2007) In the textbook it discusses different cultures and how certain acts are deviant. The...
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...called Narcissus. So attractive was this man that all the girls fell in love with him. He was aware of his charms and this made him arrogant and proud. Despite the efforts of the ladies to win his affections he ignored their overtures. One day as Narcissus was walking through the forest he stumbled upon a clear pool of water. As he knelt to drink - for he was very thirsty- the loveliest sight that had ever appeared captivated his attention. He immediately fell in love. So great was his attraction that he could not leave the pool and his appetite vanished. Before long his health deteriorated and he began to fade. In the end he died staring at this image in the pool. Narcissus experienced unrequited love as he had fallen in love with his own reflection! Narcissism i.e.; being obsessed with...
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...CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP CLASS FINAL ESSAY 9 Kenny Violette Mid-America Christian University October 2013 A BRIEF OPENING COMMENT I would like to take just a moment to speak about John C. Maxwell’s book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.” (Maxwell, 2007) It has been my privilege to read many insightful and inspiring books associated with my journey toward the final goal of getting my degree. My desire is that you might hopefully understand my heartfelt appreciation of the use of Maxwell’s book as part of our curriculum. Of all of the textbooks used in all of the classes I have taken this is absolutely the best textbook I have had to work from. I have only read two other books in my life, scripture notwithstanding, that have engrossed me the way that Maxwell’s has. Both of these other books were introduced to me during a time that I was working towards licensure as a Clinical Pastoral Chaplain. One of those books was by James W. Fowler titled, “Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development” (Fowler, 1981). The other book was written by Douglas John Hall and is titled “God & Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross.” (Hall, 1986) The reason I bring these books up is because I wanted you to understand the bearing this book has had on my life. Thank you for introducing me to John C. Maxwell. Maxwell highlights the quote at the top page 14 in which he says, “The Only Thing A Title Can Buy Is A Little Time-Either To Increase...
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...Recruiters often indicate that they wish new managers possessed stronger people skills. Alumni often indicate that they too wish they had stronger people skills. The aim of this course is to provide you with some of these skills so that you can become a stronger manager and more dynamic leader. However, management is not a science. Nor is it a profession. It is an art – a craft that is developed over a lifetime. This course is therefore not designed to offer you a magic formula for how to manage an organization. It is designed to offer you some of the tools that you will need to better understand why people in organizations do the things they do and how we can influence these behaviors. We will use theories of management, economics, sociology, psychology, and philosophy to help us discuss individual-, team-, and organizational-level behaviors. The format for this course will be highly interactive in order to provide a rich learning experience. We will do this through the use of debates, role-playing, simulations, and case studies. Each of these experiences will provide opportunities to reflect and analyze in order that we may walk away with new ways of looking at the world around us. We will have few traditional lectures and those that we do have will be short ones that serve to synthesize a class discussion or exercise. This means that the majority of our class time will require the inputs of the entire class...
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