Core studies summary Holmes & Rahe (1970) stress study |Aims and context (Put aims of study & background history): | | | |The aim of the study is to be able to find a prospective positive correlation between life stress caused by life events and later | |illness.
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Piliavin et al. (1969) - Wanted to investigate factors that influence helping behaviour - Became interested in the behaviour of bystanders following the case of Kitty Genovese in New York in 1964. Not 1 of the 40 witnesses who watched the murder tried to help or call the police over a half an hour frame. This attracted psychologists. - Many laboratory experiments were run to test bystander apathy. This is the phenomenon of when observers of an emergency do not intervene. Social psychologists
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1. Rule in Rylands v Flecther * Rylands v Flecther Facts | * P sued D‚ the mill owner‚ for the flooding caused by the escape of water from reservoir on D’s land. * Noted that the escape is caused by the negligence of the independent contractor‚ hired by D. * However‚ R v F is a strict liability and the negligence of the third party does not exonerate D’s liability. | Held | * Court was of the opinion that obligation on the person who lawfully brings on his land something which
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Lewy et al (2006) study review Background: This study was based by another study done by Avery et al. (2001). The study investigated the relationship of melatonin levels in conjunction with sleep patterns and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of depression that occurs in the beginning and ending stages of winter‚ where the amount of daylight is shorter. This usually occurs in northern countries with colder climates‚ since the production of melatonin is triggered
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com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://org.sagepub.com/content/20/3/372.refs.html >> Version of Record - Apr 17‚ 2013 What is This? Downloaded from org.sagepub.com by guest on May 20‚ 2013 478310 13 ORG20310.1177/1350508413478310Organization Christensen et al. Article CSR as aspirational talk Organization 20(3) 372–393 © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1350508413478310 org.sagepub.com Lars Thøger Christensen‚ Mette Morsing and Ole Thyssen
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surroundings; however he and H. Sacks did not judge the validity of sense making (Baert‚ 1998‚ 85) - just that people did it and acted on it. It is not a question fo right or wrong interpretations and choices (if choices there are) but just how (Cuff et al.‚ 1990‚ 185). Garfinkel was influenced by phenomenology from Edmund Husserl and after Alfred Schutz who used it in interpretive sociology. Garfinkel’s particular aim was to show that social order was locally produced - "just
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R v Blaue Criminal Law 01: Actus Reus Facts The defendant inflicted serious stab wounds on the deceased who‚ knowing she would be likely to die as a result‚ refused a blood transfusion because she was a Jehovah’s Witness and accepting another’s blood was against her religion. The defendant claimed that her refusal to accept the blood transfusion broke the chain of causation between his conduct and her death. Extract There have been two cases in recent years which have some bearing
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Appearance vs. reality explores how the more persistent illusion will triumph over what the individual want to be true. While reality is persistent‚ appearance it is less convincing as it based upon the fragile network of an individual’s values‚ expectation and deepest desires. Pleasantville (1998) directed by Gary Ross examines this idea through the protagonist who escapes his troubles and unforgiving reality to Pleasantville; a fake world that reflects his utopic vision and 1950’s American society
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Running head: Erin Brockovich‚ Andersen v. Pacific Erin Brockovich Anderson‚ et al v. Pacific Gas & Electric Company‚ Superior Court for the County of San Bernardino‚ Barstow Division‚ File BCV 00300 (1993) Christine K. Horold Strayer University Abstract The movie Erin Brockovich (2000) depicts one of the most recognized cases of toxic tort cases in the United States. According to an article in Entertainment Editors “a toxic tort is a special type of personal injury lawsuit in which the
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R v Keegstra 3S.CRD.697 (1990) Issue James Keegstra was a high school teacher at Alberta for 12 years. While teaching‚ he informed the students that the Jews had various evil qualities. Keegstra told the students that the Jews “created the Holocaust to gain sympathy”. Keegstra also claimed‚ that Jewish people wanted to destroy Christianity and that the Jews goal was to create war and revolution. As a result of this propaganda act Keegstra was dismissed. However‚ Keegstra brought his case to the
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