The knowledge withheld in the subject of sociology goes beyond the conventional to provide illuminating and challenging understandings of social desires. ... The desire to conform to the ideas and aspects of others, assimilation, is an inclination for all. ... Everything experienced from birth and onward affects the personality and attitude of a person; books, surroundings, magazines, billboards, and anything involving technology has an especially powerful influence upon our subconscious as the culture sinks in. ...

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As the meditator becomes more advanced, he or she can even unearth thoughts from their subconscious mind and find solutions to their struggles. ... By overcoming one's attachment to desire for things, people, or concepts of the world, they can attain a heightened perspective. ...

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When these children grow up, becoming fathers or mothers, sometimes, they will mimic the actions of their parents subconsciously, and then affect their children. ... Therefore, a married person should not forget this and find excuse to indulge his (her) desire. ... After a long insipid marriage, certain people outside the marriage have attracted their attentions, and then their desires of love have been rekindled. ...

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Morality has been slowly fading away from our culture, and has been replaced by impulsive desires. ... The idea that one's thoughts could be influenced subconsciously became key to how Bernays would change the world. ... In an article in the Harvard Business Review, Paul Mazur wrote, "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. ... Man's desires must overshadow his needs" (Mazur, 1927). ...

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I. A Booming Economy A. The Automobile Drives Prosperity 1. Ford Pioneers Mass Production a. Ford did not originate the ideas of mass production b. Early in the century, only city dwellers could afford cars. c. Ransom Olds had introduced a less expensive car, the Oldsmobile in 1901. d. Ford hired...

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What might seem unattractive, weird, unusual or unpleasant to you could be one person's desires. ... "Women in general, when seen in public places in all their layers of clothing, seemingly modest or only fashionably and conventionally uncovered, appeared as eroticized objects that called for a double vision: underneath the dress was that extension of white teeth, gloveless hands and secretly glimpsed ankles, that thing of beauty and desire.."...

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