Asian Social Science December‚ 2009 Factors Effecting Drug Relapse in Malaysia: An Empirical Evidence Fauziah Ibrahim‚ PhD Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia E-mail: ifauziah@ukm.my Naresh Kumar‚ PhD Faculty of Economics and Management Universiti Putra Malaysia E-mail: naresh@putra.upm.edu.my Abstract It has been noted that many drug addicts relapse to drug use after discharged from successful treatment and rehabilitation programs. Thus it is imperative
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How do people explain their own and other people’s behavior? ‘Behaviour’ is a term defined by psychologists as an act done by an animal in response to any stimulus provided by the outside world. An assumption held by many social psychologists when attempting to explain the reasons behind the action of people’s behaviour is that we try to find certain reasons that explain our own and other people’s action towards an environmental stimulus. This is also known as the theory of attribution‚ ie. We
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the Study Broadly defined‚ the social environment consists with social relations between and among individuals and groups of individuals‚ from small interest groups contained of a few individuals to whole nations. Individuals interact with others in their particular social environment directly or indirectly by observing the dealings of others. People develop the capacity to estimate their behavior by experiencing the costs of having acted in ways that break social norms which is the expectation of
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Social Attitudes Attitudes‚ or a person’s internal/mental beliefs about a specific situation‚ object or concept can greatly influence behaviours. From simple‚ nonharmful situations such as the choice to not wear orange because you do not like the colour to much more destructive attitudes such as racial prejudice‚ attitudes can lead our thoughts and actions. Social influences can affect human behaviour by changing our attitudes. This can be a positive change‚ such as opening up a closed-minded
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Personality is an aspect of a person or an individuals’ character as to how he or she reacts to and interact with other people. In psychology‚ an individuals personality are the sum total of the mental‚ emotional‚ physical and social characteristics. For this assignment‚ we are required to take the personality test and write a comprehensive analysis of ourselves and match our personality to the most suitable job based on the big five-personality model‚ which are extraversion‚ agreeableness‚ neuroticism
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Social Science Report Made in April 2014 by: Aldo Leka student nr. 352468 Andre Wilmerink student nr. 354535 Table of contents Target group segmentation Player persona Creative thinking Intellectual property Moodboard Conclusion Target Group Segmentation Target group: crafty world Who are they? The “crafty world” are young people (between 20 and 30) that are raised in a simple family. They come from anywhere where there are medium prosperity
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Robert Allen 11500024 Root metaphors as an aid to understanding organizational behaviour and their relevance to organizations in a knowledge based economy. Introduction The use of root metaphors to provide insight into organizations seems to be seen as a useful if limited way of understanding their complex natures (Morgan‚ 1997) (Andriesson‚ 2008)‚ which may have been more suited to the industrial age. The rise of the Knowledge Based Economy (KBE) and post-industrial organizations pose further
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This paper will address two situations experienced by me and they will be related to aspects of these theories in the Organizational Behavior book. What is interesting to demonstrate the importance of aspects related to this issue in our day to day. The criterion chosen to begin this self reflection paper was not based on the chronology of events but the degree of importance they had in my life‚ in order to my professional and personal growth. I’ll start this self reflection paper with the
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in organization. Organizational Behavior is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human behavior in organizations. Behavioral Science or Organizational Behavior is not an elemental subject‚ rather than it is like a compound subject‚ with integrated weaving of various disciplines. The scope of organizational behavior is in all three dimensions i.e. individual‚ group and organization. Also there are various different directions and dimensions to study of organizational behavior. Moreover
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Research and the Sciences There has long been an ongoing argument: Is social science scientific? Which approach is better in conducting natural sciences and social sciences? It is believed that ’hypothetico-deductive’ approach may be applicable to the natural sciences while it does not relate well to the social sciences. By analyzing research from different levels‚ this essay presents a judgment that social sciences are sciences. First of all‚ the concept of research and science are given. Secondly
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