Index Education & Reference Sociology Results 1 - 10 of 10 Race and Racism – Some Concepts Defined Author : Glenn Murray Despite adamant claims to the contrary, racism continues to plague many peoples around the world. The first step toward resolving issues of racial intolerance and prejudice is to develop an understanding of the underlying concepts and their labels. This (rather long) article touches on the following topics: • Stereotypes, Race, and Racism • Culture and Cultural Imperialism • Nationalism and National Imaginary I hope you find this ar... | Read more... NGOs - The Self-Appointed Altruists Author : Sam Vaknin Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics, do-gooders, and professional altruists. Always self-appointed, they answer to no constituency. Though unelected and ignorant of local realities, they confront the democratically c... | Read more... Lost Relatives and Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide Author : Pete McFraser Lost Relatives and Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide “Collecting Dead Relatives and Sometimes a Live Cousin” and “My Family Tree is Lost in the Forest” are just some of the catchy slogans found printed on the shirts of genealogy enthusiasts. These avid researchers are looking to fill the holes in their family trees. It’s work that most have been at for decades. My wife and I wanted to get started finding our lost relatives, but we didn’t know w... | Read more... The Roman Family Author : Sam Vaknin The father in the Roman family (paterfamilias) exercised absolute and lifelong power over all other family members (patria potestas): his wife, children, and slaves. If the father's father was alive - then he was the supreme authority in the household. Fathers were even allowed to execute their grown sons for serious offenses like treason. Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth gods and the paterfamilias was its priest. The famil... | Read more... Auschwitz Death Camp, Lesson Learned? Author : David Snape Auschwitz was the most notorious of the Nazi labor camps in WWII. There, a man or woman could expect at any moment to be sent to the gas chambers, used for medical experiments or given a phenol injection to the heart which would cause death in 15 seconds. If lucky, they would instead be used for exhaustive labor under the most grueling conditions. A selection committee decided who was fit for labor and who would be used for medical experiments... | Read more... Eulogy For A Good Book: PowerPoint and the Two Reasons You Need to Understand it Author : Jonathan Steele Good bye Moby Dick! Farewell Crime and Punishment! Adios National Geographic and Readers Digest! PowerPoint and the generation of the 7th Millennium rules. If you're a "Baby Boomer", PowerPoint will likely not appeal to you. Perhaps you will even feel it is evil. But I'll give you two good reasons you ought to understand and appreciate PowerPoint. Your children and grandchildren. PowerPoint is the way the Generation of the 7th Millenniu... | Read more... The “Stag Line”: A Cape Breton Dance Hall etiquette (part of Cape Breton Social Culture) Author : Bizbites The “Stag Line”, a male high school dance etiquette, was certainly indigenous to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia Canada. Remember those Cape Breton school dances in the 1960s? The community hall or gymnasium would be dimly lighted by a few flood lights. Whether the music was delivered by a jukebox, a DJ or live band, the use of a color organ and strobe light was prevalent – you had to have colored lights pulsing to the beat of the music.... | Read more... A pre-cursor to Paint Ball? - Lee Hawker – a 1960s Cape Breton Adolescent Hide-'n-Seek Game Author : Bizbites There are segments of sociology, found perhaps only on Cape Breton Island, that need to be recorded, if not studied. The game of “Lee Hawkers” is such a segment; a common summer night cry of “1-2-3 Lee Hawkers” heard from the woods surrounding the New Waterford neighbourhood of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. This game of modified hide-and-seek involving two teams was part of teen years in the mid-1960s. Lee Hawkers was a creative hide-and-s... | Read more... Cultural Traditions In China Author : Richard Monk Unlike the United States which is 200 plus years old, China is an ancient country and civilization. This has led to long standing rules of conduct in society that are of great interest. Cultural Traditions In China China is an ancient country, with thousands of years of history which lay a rich basis for the lives of its inhabitants today. While some of the ancient Chinese myths and cultural traditions have been forgotten or are no longer ... | Read more... Defining Conflict Transformation Author : John Paul Lederach I propose the following definition: Conflict transformation is to envision and respond to the ebb and flow of social conflict as life-giving opportunities for creating constructive change processes that reduce violence, increase justice in direct interaction and social structures, and respond to real-life problems in human relationships. The meaning and implications of this definition will be easier to understand if we analyze ... | Read more...     [ Back ] Top AlphaContent 2.5.4 © 184 - visualclinic.fr

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