Since technology is both scarce and valuable, its presence causes innate feelings of jealousy, stress, and violence; furthermore, technology is not a necessity, but a luxury rather. ... Technology's scarce and novel nature enables members to develop obsessive feelings of stress, jealousy, and violence; therefore, the price paid for technology carries greater weight than its advantages. ...
Some sociologists see society as composed of many groups in conflict, competing for scarce resources. ... They view society as being composed groups competing for scarce and valued resources such as property, prestige and power (Baker et al, 1993). ...
Sociological Perspective A Mr. Berger summed up the sociological perspective by seeing the general in a particular. Seeing patterns and noticing the behavior of different people are characteristics of sociology. Human behavior is not what people decide to do, nor does society shape our lives. ...
Given the rise in global instability emanating from religious radicalization, terrorism, poor leadership, poor sharing of the scarce resources, and poor human management policy, this study seeks to evaluate importance and place of five fundamental values in the contemporary society. ...
Thus members of complex societies must perform more specialised tasks and as a result of these tasks becoming more specialised, rewards in unequal amounts in order of importance must be given out in order to fill these positions where talents may be scarce and to give people the motivation to fill these positions in society. ...
In a social-economic system which relies on the allocation of scarce resources, on the compatibility of individuals skills in the workforce, leadership skills and overall survival instincts, gender plays an important role in all these components. ...
They created intergroup behaviour without competition for scarce resources or any social interaction or economic self interest Brown (2007) puts forward that the evidence suggests "that in-group bias is a remarkably omnipresent feature of intergroup relations" (Brown 2007 p138). ...
When large segments of populations are displaced by natural or man-made disasters, people become separated from time-honored roots of language, culture, and social bonds. As a result, displaced peoples are forced to create new social and economic relations in the areas to which they re-locate, as we...
