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Physical Therapist Athletic Trainer
1,132 wordsIn ten to fifteen years I would like to be working in the physical therapy industry as a sports trainer. I like the idea of being around sports while dealing with medicine and sport injuries. I have participated in athletics since I was very young and have played contact sports. Now I would like to work in the sport therapy field to prevent these injuries from happening. My goal would be to work with high school athletes anywhere up to professional athletes. The person I interviewed was Norm Paq...
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Men And Women Biological Differences
1,729 words"everyone "does gender without thinking about it" (Judith Lorber, "Paradoxes of Gender, p. 13). When I was young I did not think about my gender role. I did not think about the day to day events in my life that effected my gender. When I look back I can find so many instances of gender in my life. So, I am taking one of the smallest instances because of the many ways it relates to not only gender building, but maintaining. As a child I remember very cold winters in Omaha. My sister and I loved t...
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Social Norm Social Life
2,015 words... rds "boy" and ''man'' with respect to what they say about a person's role and stature in society. Similarly, use of the words "girl" and "woman" has been important to the women's movement. Not only are roles and statuses reflected in language, but language seems to shape a person's identity and sense of self. Language concepts can raise mental fences around the conceptions of self available to us and to others. The concept of "old" as applied to people in our society, for example, has genera...
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Why Foucault Described Modern Society As Disciplinary
1,618 wordsIt was in his book Discipline and Punishment that Foucault outlines his theory that modern society was a disciplinary society. Here he described the disappearance of punishment as a public and violent spectacle which emphasized the infliction of pain to the body, to the emergence of surveillance of the soul which grew up around the development of the modern prison system. During the years 1760 to 1840, public executions gradually disappeared, and punishment instead became hidden, and concealed. ...
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Social Psychology And Breaking Norms
828 wordsIn our society we have a number of society norms that we abide by. For example, there is an unwritten rule of how one should behave in an elevator. For example, it is proper to face front, stand away from strangers, and not to look at others. When a social norm is broken people may respond with alarm, humor, fear, irritation, or an array of other emotions. When you think of a norm, you are probably thinking about being normal. But in psychology terms, norm means, a standard or representative val...
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American Medical Association Quality Of Life
1,375 wordsObesity has become increasingly more prominent in American society. The Unites States has even been termed an overweight nation. Some twenty to thirty percent of American adults are now considered obese (Hwang 1999 and Hirsch et al 1997). With this in mind, Americans constantly look around themselves determining their weight status as well as that of those around them. While some Americans do fit the healthy category, others enter the underweight, overweight, and even obese categories, all of wh...
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American Medical Association Childhood Obesity
1,392 words... wealth of role models society has to choose from adhering to this norm. The Interactions Perspective emphasizes things such as peer pressure, the influence of role models, and the role of peer groups on an individual (Adler and Adler 49). Because people often associate with others who are similar to themselves, the obese person's peer group becomes many other obese people. Often, these people reinforce each other's eating and exercise habits, as well as beliefs concerning obesity. It becomes...
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King Of England Mel Gibson
1,574 wordsThe movie I chose for my sociological movie review was Braveheart. Staring in this movie was Mel Gibson (William Wallace), Patrick McGoohan (King Edward Longshanks), Catherine McCormack (Murron) Sophie Marceau (Princess Isabella) and many more. I chose this movie because it is, hands down, the best movie of all time. It had a lot of good war, love and inspirational scenes to occupy any mind for the full three hours. Braveheart relates to sociology because it talks of social class, right and wron...
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Capital Punishment Moral Grounds
2,579 wordsThesis One: In principle a case can be made on moral grounds both supporting and opposing capital punishment. Thesis two: Concretely and in practice, compelling arguments against capital punishment can be made on the basis of its actual administration in our society. Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. This leads to a...
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Capital Punishment Moral Grounds
2,430 wordsCAPITAL PUNISHMENT Thesis One: In principle a case can be made on moral grounds both supporting and opposing capital punishment. Thesis two: Concretely and in practice, compelling arguments against capital punishment can be made on the basis of its actual administration in our society. Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual communi...
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Small Town College Student
1,030 wordsConforming to Role Model Status Growing up in a small town had its benefits. Everyone knows who you are, friends and family are real close. Life is good. But, with the community being so small you have to watch what you do and say because it gets around. Your everyday life is influenced by one group: your community. Your everyday decisions are affected by your community. I was forced to conform to the status quo. Any deviation from that would result in my being shunned for life. Once I attained ...
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Kind Of People God
1,273 wordsReflection Paper on Shua 1. The movie Shua opens with John 1: 14. This passage is an appropriate opening for the movie because the passage describes Jesus becoming God? s word in the flesh. It describes Jesus as God? s actually son, that Jesus is the savior of the world and through Him we gain salvation. It also says that Jesus is human and he too does make mistakes and has feelings. 2. As the film began, the film felt happy. I thought that the movie was cute and funny. As the film went on, the ...
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Plays A Big Quot Ideal
1,073 wordsIn today? s society men have an attraction towards skinny women. The most gorgeous super models are thin and when other girls look at them, they get jealous. Many girls see this, and view themselves as being overweight and have a complex and a desire, which is to be skinny, this disease is called Anorexia. Anorexia is a disease, which affects mostly women and sometimes men. Anorexia is when you think you are fat, and you deprive yourself of food in order to be skinny. They see themselves as bein...
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Studies On Hysteria Brother In Law
1,824 wordsAristotle once stated in Metaphysics that, All men by nature desire Knowledge. If one accepts the claim that knowledge is power, then it will be logical to assert that all people want power. The person or persons that have knowledge also acquire the power of that knowledge. In Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish he clearly shows the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale, and how these affect society as a whole. Whereas, Sigmund Freud who ...
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High School Dropouts Skin Color
816 wordsOne dark, muggy spring night in the heart of Texas, a black man was drug behind a pickup truck for five miles. He didnt survive the attack against him by two white, high school dropouts. Police believe the only motive was the fact that the man was black. He was different from them and the accepted norm. A black man in what they perceived as a country belonging to white men. These two men took it upon themselves to invade this mans personal space, going as far as killing him. It seems he did noth...
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Things They Carried Convey The Idea
1,515 wordsTim Obrien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. OBrien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressures of war, he makes an effective antiwar statement, and he comments on the reversal of a social deviation into the norm. By skillfully employing the stylistic technique of specific, consc...
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Aint No Good Mice And Men
1,308 wordsWhy We Are Lonely by (your name) Intolerance is human nature; people who are different from or weaker than the norm are victims of intolerance and become isolated and lonely. Those who are in the norm are expected to be strong and not show their feelings. In Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck, the social power group is the white, male workers on the farm. They are younger men, still useful, reasonably intelligent, and average-sized. They exclude people who do not fit their norm, such as Curley f...
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Things They Carried Convey The Idea
1,508 wordsCritical Review: Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. OBrien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressures of war, he makes an effective antiwar statement, and he comments on the reversal of a social deviation into the norm. By skillfull...
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Shopping Malls Social Control
940 wordsSociology 210 Exam # 2 (Essay # 4) When sociologists think of the postmodern society, shopping malls are most likely the first thing to come to mind. It can be easily argued that shopping malls are the cathedrals of postmodern society Times have changed since Marx argued that who you are is what you do or since Durkheim argued that who you are depends on your religion. Nowadays, who you are is what you buy. People all over go to shopping malls to make their lives easier than past generations. Th...
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