American life, and are arranged in categories. It thought the goal of the anthology to better understand ourselves interesting at first when I began reading articles that seemed terribly misunderstood. I quickly realized that the point was that our cultural norms and values are often not noticed or realized by individuals within the culture and that our customs can seem extremely bizarre to individuals from other cultures. I have read approximately half of the book at this point and have found it
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Creative and Cultural Industries, MA Module: HUP057N What does a “political economy” approach to study of the Creative and Cultural Industries involve? What are its advantages and disadvantages? ID: 10048001 Anastasia Davydova 1. Introduction The intention of this paper is to define what we mean by political economy? What does this approach involve to study the Creative
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of foreign exchange • The creation of new job and employment opportunities • New infrastructure which is available for non-tourism uses. • Renovation of historic sites as touristic attractions • Support of local festivals and cultural events Cons • Too much profit from the tourist industry goes to foreign investors who own the hotels. • Beaches are being destroyed by pollution. • Large sections of the coastline and reefs have been affected by irresponsible development
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3. Suppose the mayor of Evansville commissions proposals for a fully funded study of “sustainable development in Evansville” to help inform future decisions. As a sociology of the environment scholar, you decide to throw your hat into the ring. Write such a proposal. Begin by reading and thinking about sustainable development. What does it mean? How could it be applied to the small scale of Evansville? How could it be operationalized so that it can be empirically studied? Identify the types
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Generation X and Y in the Workplace In an age of hard economic times, two income families, and the offspring of the baby boomers, Generation X and Y learned to adapt to changes very early in their lives. Instead of coming home to mom sitting in the kitchen with cookies and milk, children were shuffled off to daycare facilities or baby sitters. Others called “latchkey” children, came home to an empty house with instructions to get their homework done, never answer the door, and wait until “mom and
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ethnographic studies is immediately apparent in these reports, as the writers often misinterpreted for various reasons the activities they witnessed in foreign cultures. Ethnography relies primarily on detailed descriptions of the social life and cultural phenomena of a particular group of people. I choose ethnography because even thought I have not been in Hurricane Katrina myself and my family have been in a hurricane while station on the Gulf Coast, and for those that have suffered in Hurricane
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The traditionalists, also called “Veterans, Matures, the Silent Generation and the Greatest Generation,” were impacted by many significant experiences including World War 2 and the Great Depression (WCF, n.d.). Living through those difficult times characterized this generation as hard workers that respect authority and have a strong sense of duty. Having this no nonsense approach to life can affect their career sensibilities. It is common for traditionalists stay in the same job throughout their
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Values In Today’s Society February 16, 2014 Wallace told Whiskey Island, a literary magazine, in 1993, “This is the generation that has an inheritance of absolutely nothing as far as meaningful moral values.” The generation of today is a different generation than many of us have known. Many people these days just care about themselves and the good of them as individuals. It came up in my class’s discussion about success and how we are supposed to strive towards success. Granted this is true,
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Research Methods Sociology and Cultural anthropology both rely on data to analyze their research. Their investigational approaches differ in many ways. This paper will explore the research methods used in sociology and the research methods used in cultural anthropology and also discuss the philosophical justification for these research methods. Sociology explores an individual’s behavior and
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