The Social Sciences The social sciences deal in rational ways with human nature, our thoughts and feelings, our behavior, our relationships with one another, and the factors that affect and influence us. ... Our basic customs, of human development, of human social relations, and of the economic, political, social, and cultural systems in which we as individuals live. ... Anthropology deals mostly about the study of human beings in relation to distribution, origin, classification, and relationship of races, physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture. ... The social...

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In Peter Hayes' article, "The Bourgeois Moderation," we are presented with the argument that Macpherson and other scholars' error in the thinking that Hobbes transfers the intense competition of the state of nature into the commonwealth. ... First being the insistence of the natural equality of all people in the commonwealth, second, by including maxims of moderation as part of the laws of nature, and lastly, by emphasizing the need to avoid war except as a last resort. ... While we are viewing the Commonwealth as a society of moderation, we can see how its laws are meant to cont...

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In my opinion, the main problems of exchanging information through the Internet include the possibility of privacy violations and other misuses, and the long-term damaging effects on the quality of human relationships. ... As the ease of sharing all kinds of personal information and expanding social networks increases, so will the indirect and non-binding nature of interpersonal connections. ... Continued use of those services in such ways can eventually render people less appreciative of their relationships, increasing the transient nature of connections among people in general. ... The pote...

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This is not a situation ameliorated just by behavioral assessments and interventions, but a change of the heart that will lead to an understanding of human nature and an acceptance that goes beyond human nature and into the Holy Spirit's inner working in each person. ...

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A spontaneous fictitious backlash occurs in order to protect nature and economic resources from commodification of market units. ... The natures of markets prior to the industrial revolution and the emergence of the capitalist economy where markets in which market prices were determined more by adherence to social, religious and political normative forces than forces of competition in trade (Polanyi; 1994). ... Polanyi argues that negative consequences are inevitable from pursuing this utopian ideal as a struggle for resources in a resource-scarce world will ultimately lead to demise of natu...

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Throughout the history of human being, especially in the modern society, people have long been endeavoring to attain the sacred goal of freedom. The slaves tried every means to escape from their owners even at the cost of their lives; wars broke out in those colony countries to broke the bondage from colonial domination for freedom; it is freedom that serve as the leading spirit in the France Reform; and the spirit of liberty has been written as the declaration of human rights into the constitutions. ... The right of freedom is rather a right that is gifted and regulated by the law than a slo...

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The main focus of this essay will be on cyber communities that offer a different dimension of human interaction from traditional geographically bound communities. ... In contrast, the self-selecting and transient nature of cyber communities affords its citizens virtually unlimited freedom to log-off or block communication with other citizens. ... The one dimensional nature of virtual communities means that their members are not confronted with the realities of issues such as cultural pluralism, for example, and therefore may enhance and reinforce stereotypes and prejudice. ... There is wide...

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Secondly it has been argued that violence is deviant, legally, socially or morally, from the mainstream of human activity. ... This involves the belief that coercive actions of aggression are goal orientated just like other forms of human behaviour. ... It is thought to be a case of "nature plus nurture" rather than either one or the other being the more dominant factor producing a certain type of behaviour (Haines & White, 2008). ...

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Thus, Parsonian theory of structural functionalism is the dominant theoretical perspectives in 1960s in sociology; which motivates the basic powers that shape human performance and the responsiveness given to system prerequisites. ... In fact, these basic requirements can be also led to a serious reconsideration of the nature of organic world and its relation to that of human action, through adaptation, integration and goal attainment extracted by the subsystem of personality and culture to the internal environment. ...

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The western understanding of gender is based on set of culturally determined binary distinctions, such as public versus private, objective versus subjective, self versus other, reason versus emotion, autonomy versus relatedness, and culture versus nature; the first of each pair of characteristics is typically associated with masculinity, the second with femininity. ... Liberal human rights are uncertain and qualified in relation to women because they are based on a male standard, focusing attention on individual instances of inequality rather than on the systemic socioeconomic structures that ...

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Human behavior reporting influences future human behaviors (Jennings, 2005). ... Literature Review It is important to examine the complex nature between factors, outcome and law enforcement effectiveness; this may be done by identifying and examining the moderating and mediating variables which may influence these outcomes. ...

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Though environmentally induced migration has been a feature of human adaptation since the beginning of history, there seems to have been a qualitative shift in its dynamics since the 1990s: "... the situation in the mid 1990s with respect to such movements would appear to differ somewhat from the historical experience in a number of ways: the scale and pace of environmental change has increased substantially; differences between countries in ability to cope with these changes have increased; whereas in the past the migration destination options for environmental migrants have overwhelmingly be...

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Assignment Billig has evaluated Tajfel and Turner's theorising of intergroup conflict as limited because of the emphasis placed on cognitive processes. Discuss Billig's evaluation and assess his arguments for a discursive psychological approach. Response Michael Billig was a student of Henri Tajfel and was originally involved in research to highlight a cognitive approach to intergroup conflict. His research in this area has lead him to a discursive psychological position arguing that the cognitive social approach is limiting in relation to categorisation and does not go far enough i...

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This essay will analyse the 2013 television advert for the brand Coca-Cola and will explore aspects such as audience and purpose, narrative, use of language and visual and technical codes, investigating how they are used to represent and communicate the main message of the advert and promote the product and brand. The essay will also outline aspects of the brand such as core values, personality and image and will observe how these characteristics create the brand's ideology by identifying how they are used within the chosen advert and how they have been created to form a connection betwee...

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