Reaction Paper Week 7 In the article Acculturation and Alcohol Treatment in Ethnic Minority Populations: Assessment Issues and Implications‚ the authors research the impact of acculturation on the drinking behavior of minorities‚ specifically older Latino veterans versus older White veterans. In the article‚ acculturation is defined as “ the exchange of cultural features from the continuous firsthand contact of one group to another.” The authors conducted a study that looked at the relationship
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they allow individuals to escape from the mundane aspects of daily life into higher realms of experience. Sacred rituals and ceremonies are especially important for marking occasions such as births‚ marriages‚ times of crisis‚ and deaths. Durkheim’s theory of religion exemplifies how functionalists examine sociological phenomena. According to Durkheim‚ people see religion as contributing to the health and continuation of society in general. Thus‚ religion functions to bind society’s members by prompting
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Alissa L. Munez Dr. Trinidad MBA- Colegio de San Juan de Letran Portfolio Management Reaction Paper Natural Disasters and the Philippine Stock Exchange Index: A Garch-M Analysis by Adrian P. Gallido‚ Ph.D. and Martites A. Khanser‚ D.B.A This study examines the effect of earthquakes‚ tropical cyclones and volcanic eruptions on the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) over the period of 2 January 1985 to 30 December 2010. In the context of the Philippine Market‚ the composite index can be seen
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The history of Vietnam is one of great struggle and conflict. For centuries the vietnamese people have had no choice but to change their society by force in order to gain their own freedom and independence. Pivitol events in Vietnamese history such as the Battle of Bach Dang in 939 and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 are examples of how the conflict theory brought change to Vietnamese society and culture. For centuries Vietnam had been under Chinese rule. The Vietnamese people were an oppressed
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Class conflicts of power and status as well as economic class can be seen with the discussion of enforcement of marijuana. Conflict theory can be applied to the changes (legalizing marijuana) in the social structures as this theory argues that people “pursue their interest in conflict with others and according to their resources for social organization” (Collins 414). Pertaining to a conflict theorist perspective‚ the social problem of legalizing recreational
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Conflict/Marxist Theory –Vold distinguishes between Marxist and Conflict perspectives‚ and lumps "post-modern" perspectives in with Conflict. Explain the differences between these two "critical" views of crime‚ particularly on the issue of social power (be sure to include Sellin‚ Vold‚ Quinney‚ Black‚ Chambliss & Seidman). How does one go about "testing" conflict theory? What‚ according to Vold et. al are the limitations of Conflict Theory? Finally‚ Post-Modern theory suggests that "domination"
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Lecture 10 Conflict theory of Karl Marx Sociology developed in Europe in the 19th century‚ primarily as an attempt to understand the massive social and economic changes that had been sweeping across Western Europe in the 17th-19th centuries. These changes were later described as ‘the great transition’ from ‘pre-modern’ to ‘modern’ societies. [pic] Ontological assumptions of Marxist Theory: • structuralism‚ • conflict‚ • materialism Epistemology of realism Marx counts
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Thorsten Sellin. Culture conflict and crime. American Journal of Sociology‚ Vol. 44‚ No. 1 (Jul.‚ 1938)‚ pp. 97-103. Sellin argues that to study the concept of “culture conflict‚” or conflict of conduct norms‚ one must establish establish the relationship between a norm conflict within the person or group studied and the violation of the norm. “Culture conflict” occurs when the norms or a group or individual conflict with society’s conventional norms or rules. As existing research does not clearly
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Finally‚ this essay utilised conflict theory to explain homelessness. This essay broke down and applied conflict theory to several aspects of what causes homelessness such as drug use as a result of alienation caused by exploitation in the competitive capitalist system. Unemployment was analysed as a contributing factor to
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PEREGRINO‚ Marianne ECON103 MK2A REACTION PAPER UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES According to Philstar.com‚ unemployment rate in the Philippines rose to 7.5 percent in April from last year’s 6.9 percent. The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said the country’s unemployment rate increased by 0.6 percent due to a lower level of employment amid a slightly higher labor force level. Majority of the unemployed were high school graduates (31.7 percent)‚ college graduates (21
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