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Cultural Anthropologists Culture Shock
2,842 words... arch, yet the well-defined methodological component of the discipline. The steps involved are establishing rapport in a new community, learning to act so that people go about their business as usual, and removing oneself from the everyday cultural immersion in order to intellectualize what one has learned, to put it into perspective, and write about it accordingly. There is a fine line between participant observation and field research, although the results of both show distinct differences....
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Differential Association Theory Police Officers
1,391 wordsWilson and Kelling's article Broken Windows is an interesting take on crime prevention and the psychology surrounding it. There take on crime preventions strays from the idea of police allocation based on crime rate and the use of foot patrol versus the use of squad car patrol. The thesis offered by Wilson and Kelling in the article Broken Windows is that we must return to our long-abandoned view that the police ought to protect communities as well as individuals (Wilson 15). Wilson and Kelling ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Medical Examiner
1,351 wordsThe issue of whether or not to legalize physician-assisted suicide has been front and center as a public policy issue around the world. Many proponents and opponents are largely operating on assumptions as to why people participate in physician-assisted suicide with only a limited amount of support for their attitudes. Not only do those that support physician-assisted suicide often assume that people participate in it for primarily rational and medical reasons from usually physical illnesses. Op...
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Sources Of Information True Belief
1,390 wordsIn Knowledge and Skepticism, Nozick provides an explanation of knowledge as tracking, of how belief should and should not vary with the truth of what is believed. Nozick pursues this explanation to reveal that global skeptical arguments do not follow from particular skeptical possibilities. Nozick offers an account of propositional knowledge based on tracking, interestingly without inclusion of the traditional justification condition. Noting that a subject S may arrive at the belief that p via m...
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Foundational Ism Basic Beliefs
1,507 wordsHowever, Craigs methods of objection to Nozick's theory are fruitful at least in three ways. First, on the proposed generalization of Craigs hypothesis, Ss belief that p has some positive epistemic status just in case S is a creditable informant with respect to the issue whether p. But if S is a creditable informant, then there is something about her that makes her so. This helps to account for the widespread intuition that to possess an epistemic status with respect to a particular proposition ...
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Informants Fieldwork Memoirs Brothers And Informants Fieldwork Memoirs Ethnography
2,047 wordsThe Dynamics of Power in Ethnographies Ethnography is an anthropological research method that relies on first-hand observations made by a researcher immersed over an extended period of time in a culture, with which he / she is unfamiliar. The ethnographic method requires the researcher to closely observe, record, and engage in the daily life of another culture, and then write about it in descriptive detail. Confronted with situations and ways of life foreign to them, ethnographers assume a sense...
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Foundational Ism True Belief
2,974 wordsIn Knowledge and Skepticism, Nozick provides an explanation of knowledge as tracking, of how belief should and should not vary with the truth of what is believed. Nozick pursues this explanation to reveal that global skeptical arguments do not follow from particular skeptical possibilities. Nozick offers an account of propositional knowledge based on tracking, interestingly without inclusion of the traditional justification condition. Noting that a subject S may arrive at the belief that p via m...
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Tells The Story Cosa Nostra
1,883 wordsThe Mafia is a secret criminal organization that has great economic and political control over large parts of Sicilian society and operates both criminal and legitimate enterprises in the United States. It is believed to have started during Sicily's late Middle Ages, beginning as separate bonds of strong-arm enforcers hired by local landowners. It eventually evolved into a network of independent groups governing in rural areas. With the Sicilian immigration of the late 19 th century, the Mafia b...
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Correlation Coefficient Native Language
1,233 wordsSemantic Fields and Polysemy: A Correspondence Analysis Approach Semantic Fields Studying semantic fields or literary themes in texts quickly confronts the researcher with a paradox. A computer string search will produce a list of the frequencies of words potentially related to the semantic field. But polysemy the fact that many words have multiple significations means that there is an un-measured difference between the potential and the real allusions. The semantic field of solitude or loneline...
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