injured and that too within the time period of 10 min. What followed the blasts‚ was a complete state of panic & chaos in the city The telephone networks collapsed‚ almost paralysing the communication between panic-stricken victims and relatives‚ and their concerned well-wishers. However‚ the most powerful tool in modern Internet technology‚ social networking‚ came to the rescue. Twitter‚ Facebook‚ Google and other similar networking sites have played a major role in helping the blast victims
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Access the contribution of functionalism to our understanding of the society The key concepts within functionalism are collective conscience‚ that all of society must have shared values and beliefs as it is crucial to achieve social order for the well being of society‚ they believe that this can be achieved through value consensus‚ that for society to live in consensus it must socialise its members into a set of norms and values to ensure society can work harmoniously and to meet it’s basic needs
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Throughout my research I have undertaken a few interviews and a survey on how they feel about themselves and social media. It was interesting to see how people think society has changed our lives. Young teenage girls have or do compare their bodies to other girls and wishing they had something they don’t. I have asked girls how they feel about their own bodies‚ and the results I got were shocking. Girls think that they want something they don’t have and make themselves feel not good enough because
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Functionalism sees society as based on value consensus‚ meaning they see members of society as sharing a common culture. Culture‚ meaning‚ a set of shared norms (rules)‚ values‚ beliefs‚ and goals. Sharing the same culture produces social solidarity‚ binding individuals together‚ telling them what to strive for and how to conduct themselves. Deviance is defined as a disobedience to social norms based on the value consensus‚ deviance is vital within society in order for it to be cohesive and functional
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AP Lang Social media nowadays plays a huge part in society. We use it to blog‚ wiki‚ listen to podcasts‚ communicate‚ share photos‚ and we use it for entertainment. Facebook is one of the largest and most popular social networking sites on the internet with over 604 million active users as of September 30‚2012 (Olanoff). In other words‚ it’s gotten pretty huge since its launch in 2004. Overall‚ Facebook and social media influence cyber bullying‚ lack of productivity‚ addiction‚ isolation‚ an absence
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Harmful effects of pesticides The term pesticide covers a wide range of compounds including insecticides‚ fungicides‚ herbicides‚ rodenticides‚ molluscicides‚ nematicides‚ plant growth regulators and others. Among these‚ organochlorine (OC) insecticides‚ used successfully in controlling a number of diseases‚ such as malaria and typhus‚ were banned or restricted after the 1960s in most of the technologically advanced countries. The introduction of other synthetic insecticides – organophosphate (OP)
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Is social media ruining people by making them less social? It is often thought that social media makes people less social‚ but it actually is not bad for you. Social media is helping many individuals become social. This may be true but social media can affect many people in different ways. Social media is making people more social. To start off‚ social media helps individuals find and make new friends. According to "The upsides of selfies: Social media isn’t all bad for kids" "When it comes
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IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN OUR LIFE “Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online‚ and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down‚ I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine‚ so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote‚ so all my notes are in digital form” are the words of Bill Gates Social media plays an important role in today’s world. It is impossible to imagine a day without internet
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Biofuels: Mandating Harmful Consequences Energy is the common currency of all living things; something all species need. While plants rely directly on the sun for energy‚ humans rely on an array of sources like wind‚ fossil-fuel‚ water‚ solar‚ and more recently biofuels. Of these biofuels‚ which are fuels obtained directly from living plant matter‚ ethanol and biodiesel are the most commonly used. These two sources are typically used to fuel cars‚ trucks‚ aircraft‚ and small-engine machines. Biofuels
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Materials for an explorator y theory of the network society1 ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age‚ as tentatively identi ed by empirical‚ cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world‚ in various cultural and institutional manifestations‚ as the industrial society characterized the social structure of both capitalism and statism
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