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    Social psychology focuses on what makes us who we are. Studies how each individual person develops their own set of feelings‚ behaviors‚ and thoughts. Understanding how people use these unique characteristics in everyday life social situations. Social psychologists try study out explain the social behavior of the human mind. In today’s time we have many social inputs on our minds. There are social influences everywhere social networking such has: Facebook‚ Instagram‚ Twitter and other internet sites

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    Three theories that will be explored in this project include: social construction‚ gender and socialization. Social construction refers to the ways in which reality is negotiated in everyday life through people’s interactions and through sets of discourses (AL. James& A. James‚ 2012‚ p.116). Furthermore‚ this theory suggests that we all have different experiences of childhood. The experiences of children all around the world will differ. We cannot assume that children’s experiences of high school

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    Although we may have a low number of citizens averaging the third smallest state population wise we still had several different cultural differences within the community’s. For instance my town we have a steady population of Caucasian people and Hispanic people with a minority of Native American‚ Asian and African American within. The state alone has many more cultural ethnics within but we still maintain a steady bias of Caucasian and Hispanic. The big issue at the time is that in the past Hispanics

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    | The Cultural Dilemma of Native Americans | | | The Cultural Dilemma of Native Americans In this painting by George Catlin titled “Assinneboine Chief before and after Civilization” it shows a very proud Assinneboine Chief standing straight and proud. His clothing expresses his Indian culture as he is dressed in leggings and shirt made of mountain goat skin‚ and finished with a pictured robe of buffalo hide over his right shoulder. Moccasins covered his feet and his tribal headdress

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    The basic objectives of this course: American Cultural Experience was to basically understand American culture better‚ at least that is what I am getting from it. I don’t believe that you can understand another countries culture‚ unless you understand your own‚ so this class is helping me understand my own culture. I believe that the course has addressed questions like “what does it mean to be an American” very well‚ and through that I feel that I am understanding my country’s culture better. One

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    Dealing With Cultural Differences Native American Native Americans have respect of individual differences among people. Their expressions of this value include staying out of others’ affairs and verbalizing personal thoughts or opinions only when asked. In many cultures‚ it’s the man makes the decisions for the woman. They are very religious people who work also with tarot reading‚ and wicca/pagan things. How I would deals with a Native American is to treat them all with respect

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    explanation that childhood is a social construction. Childhood is the time of a person’s life when they are a child. Childhood is said to be socially constructed‚ meaning that it has not been influenced by nature but has been shaped by the quality of family life and the culture within society. The social construction of childhood points out that childhood is dependent on a number of social factors rather than a biological stage. Sociologists argue about what the term ‘childhood’ actually means. They

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    outcome (increased class participation). Validity is in four types and these are: Conclusion‚ Construct‚ Internal and external validity. Conclusion validity tries to find out the relationship between a program and the observed outcome. For instance‚ a connection between Re-entry policy and increased failure rate in schools. Construct validity looks at the extent to which a test measures what it claims or intend to measure. Internal validity refers to how well an experiment has been done and the extent

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    influenced‚ and ever-changing. This is especially the case when addressing one’s culture from an individual‚ identity-based standpoint. Cultural identity As we can see in Parehau Richards opening speech of the 1998 ANZCA conference (Richards‚ 1999)‚ Richards seeks to identify herself from both a Maori cultural and an academic standpoint‚ whilst weaving in the many social groups that have influenced her culture‚ including: * Two lines of tribal heritage * European ancestry * Catholic denomination

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    1. The native Americans survived largely on the resources available in their immediate surroundings. The natives built complex civilizations of great variety that subsisted on hunting‚ gathering‚ and fishing. The varying geographical regions of North America produced many distinct Native American tribes. The cultural features varied enormously from one tribe to another. The Eskimos of the Arctic Circle fished and hunted seals; their civilization spanned thousands of miles of largely frozen land

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