Ishi: The Last Yahi and the End of a Culture – Anthropology Fieldwork and the Culture Concept
Week One Movie:
* Man forced into custody
* Elders believed when people died so did their cultures
* Native true culture was changed because of contact with white people/culture
* Surveyors took everything the Indians needed to survive through the winter and took pictures with the fur coat they stole from them
* Custody person spoke a different dialect and was Yahi (Indian/ Yahi people)
* Journey of the dead – extinction of Yahi people
* Journalist went from the ferry (California, San Francisco) to find
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Week One Movie
Man Forced into Custody
- Elders believed that when people died, so did their cultures.
- Native American culture was changed because of contact with white people/culture.
- Surveyors took everything the Indigenous people needed to survive through the winter and took pictures with the fur coat they stole from them.
- The person in custody spoke a different dialect and was Yahi (Indigenous/Yahi people).
Journey of the Dead – Extinction of Yahi People
- A journalist traveled from the ferry (California,
Health Behavior Change Models and Intervention Design
Health Behavior Change Models
Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986)
Core Concept: Behavior is influenced by the interplay of personal factors, environmental factors, and the behavior itself (reciprocal determinism).
Personal Factors
- Outcome Expectancies: Anticipated effects of a behavior (physical, social, self-evaluative).
- Self-Efficacy: Belief in one’s ability to perform a behavior.
- Magnitude: How easy or difficult the behavior is perceived to be.
- Strength: How confident one feels in their ability
Job Evaluation & Performance Appraisal Methods
– Job Evaluation Methods and Techniques
Management Methods
Positions are ranked hierarchically based on their difficulty or relative value to the company. This method is less accurate and suitable for evaluating a small number of jobs when one person is familiar with all of them. Two variations include the alternation ranking method (listing positions from most to least important) and paired comparison (comparing each position against every other one and marking the more important, resulting in a
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Background Information About Critical Sociology
Critical sociology emerged as a response to perceived limitations of positivist sociology. Positivist sociology posits that reality is objective and the researcher’s role is to observe and document societal functions. Karl Marx, a foundational figure in critical sociology, challenged the notion of society as a static, unchangeable “natural” system. Critical sociology, conversely, emphasizes the need for social change.
The Importance of Change
Critical
Read MoreSocietal Consequences of Drug Use and Abuse: A Sociological Perspective
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Societal Consequences of Drug Use and Abuse
The Cost to the Family
It is estimated that in the USA, one in 10 children under the age of 18 lives with at least one parent in need of treatment for drug or alcohol dependency.
Children raised in such homes are more likely to:
- Live in an environment filled with conflict
- Have a higher probability of physical illness, including injuries or death from an automobile accident
- Be victims of child abuse
- Have alcohol or drug problems than children of non-alcoholics.