The Sociological Perspective: How Society Shapes Our Lives
Is the Decision About Whom to Marry Just a Matter of Personal Feelings?
Why do couples like Tonya and Dwayne marry? Everyone would reply, “People marry because they fall in love.” Most of us find it hard to imagine a happy marriage without love. But, there is plenty of evidence to show that if love is the key to marriage, Cupid’s arrow is carefully aimed by the society around us.
Society has many “rules” about whom we should and should not marry. The law rules out half the population by banning people
Read MoreTypes of Research Studies
UNIT VII: DESIGN METHODOLOGY
The determination of strategies and procedures to follow to respond to the problem and test hypotheses.
UNIT VII: Type of Study
The general outline or strategic framework that gives unity and coherence, sequencing and practicality to all activities that are undertaken to seek a solution to the problem and objectives. The type of study is defined from the stage of preliminary identification and formulation of the problem and objectives to address these.
CLASSIFICATION OF
Read MoreThe Fifth Discipline: A Guide to Learning Organizations
Chapter 1: What are Learning Organizations?
1. What are learning organizations?
A: A learning organization continuously expands its capacity to create its future. All members are active participants in the learning process.
2. What is a basic innovation?
A: A basic innovation is an idea, product, or process so impactful that it creates a new industry or significantly transforms an existing one.
3. What component technologies help innovate learning organizations?
A:
Systems Thinking: Understanding
Social Stratification and Inequality: A Comprehensive Overview
Social Construction of Meaning
Schemas
1. Person Schemas: Cognitive structures that describe the personality of others and organize our conception of them.
2. Self Schemas: Structures that organize our conception of our own qualities.
3. Group Schemas (Stereotypes): Schemas regarding the characteristics of a particular social group.
4. Role Schemas: Attributes that are typical of persons playing a particular role in a group.
5. Event Schemas: Schemas for events like weddings, funerals, and job interviews.
Read MoreSystematization of Communication & Levels of Analysis
Systematization of Communication and Levels of Analysis
Information
A set of signals, data, and evidence of qualities and circumstances of people, objects, phenomena, processes, etc.
Communication
The process of transmitting information between a sender and a receiver using a common code.
Knowledge
The action and effect of finding out the qualities and relations of information.
Phases of Communication
- All communication involves a process with five phases.
- In any communication, the agents (transmitter and
Understanding Human Development: A Guide to Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology studies the individual mind (thinking, memory, attention), stressing that it undergoes changes throughout a person’s life – physical, social, cultural, emotional, cognitive, and so on.
Development:
Development refers to the changes in behavior, thinking, acting, feeling, and experiencing throughout a person’s life. It encompasses:
- Growth: Quantitative changes, such as increased body mass.
- Aging: Morphological changes, both biological and those not related