Oral Exam: Definition of the 4 notions Myths and heroes: A myth can be defined as a story about gods or heroes, it can be a popular belief or a tradition or a false notion. A hero can be a mythological figure, a person who is admired for his or her achievements, a superhero or maybe a role model or an icon. Examples can be: - a patriotic or national hero (sportsman, politician, human rights defender.....) - a fictitious hero (superhero or film star) - an icon or role model (fashion, tv, music)
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how higher mental functions developed historically within particular cultural groups, as well as individually through social interactions with significant people in a child's life, particularly parents, but also other adults. Through these interactions, a child came to learn the habits of mind of her/his culture, including speech patterns, written language, and other symbolic knowledge through which the child derives meaning and which affected a child's construction of her/his knowledge. Kristopher’s
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317 words (0.9 double-spaced pages) Rating: Red (FREE) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There are many differences between macro and micro-level theories. Micro-level focuses on individuals and their interactions. For example the relationship between adult children and their parents, or the effect of negative attitudes on older people. Some criticize on micro-level theories becuase they focus on what older people do rather than on social conditionsand policies
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are the three contemporary theoretical perspectives in sociology? a. Functionalism, conflict, and postmodernism b. Functionalism, feminism, and conflict c. Functionalism, conflict, and social learning d. Functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionism 2. True/False Norms provide guidance so that we can align our actions with those of others when situations are unclear or ambiguous. a. true b. false 3. Which sociologist proposed that forming a triad by adding one person
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The Importance of Effective Communication Introduction People in organizations typically spend over 75% of their time in an interpersonal situation; thus it is no surprise to find that at the root of a large number of organizational problems is poor communications. Effective communication is an essential component of organizational success whether it is at the interpersonal, intergroup, intragroup, organizational, or external levels. In this chapter we will cover the basic process of communication
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Social Classes Societal Problems There are three major sociological paradigms that directs the way society thinks. These paradigms are functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction. The first, functionalism, is a theory that suggests that each aspect of society serves its own purpose in order to make the society run. An example of functionalism would be that you have a government that imposes taxes on its citizens. Those
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According to Holt (2004), the marketing practices employed by many corporations fail to achieve their potential within a given market because of the simple oversight that they do not put the targeted consumer culture first. Holt (2004) argues that cultural relevance drives brand preference, not the other way around. The consumer culture is therefore decisive when branding, and the branding approach must be adapted to the current consumer culture stimulations in order to be effective (ibid). Broadly
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In Waretown High, symbolic boundaries are most obviously drawn between the preps and the las chicas. Preps refer to white, middle-class girls, characterized by good academic performance and enrollment in the college-prep curriculum. They usually plan to attend four-year college after graduation. Las chicas, on the other hand, are Mexican-American settled-living working-class girls who are usually tracked into vocational courses. Teen pregnancy is more common among and more often associated with las
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a Pakistani named Changez and an unnamed American in a café in Lahore.. The Reluctant Fundamentalist uses a variety of narrative strategies that contribute to the novel’s atmospheric world. This essay is going to focus on the metaphorical and symbolic techniques used in the novel and analyze the connection between them. It will also elaborate how does the metaphor relate to the first-person narrative in the novel and how do these two methodologies work together to derive the deeper meaning of
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at which most people think meaning is determined, however, as we can see in the above defining of the levels, it is all the levels that contribute to meaning. Semantic processing determines the possible meanings of a sentence by focusing on the interactions among word-level meanings in the sentence. Discourse While syntax and semantics work with sentence-length units, the discourse level of NLP works with units of text longer than a sentence. That is, it does not interpret multisentence texts as
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