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    attitudes in an attempt to change the person’s self-concept because it is dyfunctional to the society and to the individual. Resocialization - is the process of learning new habits‚ attitudes‚ habits‚ beliefs‚ values‚ behavior and social roles different from that the person had in the past to fit into a new status or role that the person may or my not like to have that can happen at any

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    Consumerism‚ corruption‚ and the corporate hegemony To live on the earth‚ for survival‚ we must consume foods‚ essential products or services. Nothing is wrong in it and this is not consumerism. In fact‚ the working definition of consumerism is the consumption of products or services for fulfilling the artificial demands created in the human psyche. In the myth of consumerism‚ by consuming products and services the individual perceives that eventually he/she will be gratified and integrated. Unfortunately

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    home • about • lecturers • students • HRM as I see it Home / Student zone / Chapter summaries Part one: The arena of contemporary human resource management 1 The nature of contemporary HRM 2 Corporate strategy and strategic HRM 3 Human resource management and performance Part two: The micro context of human resource management 4 Work and work systems 5 Organizational culture and HRM Part three: Employee resourcing 6 Workforce planning and talent management 7 Recruitment

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    and discourage people from undertaking real economic activities. Profit earned from money that is loaned to debtor is considered as interest or usury. Riba gives a picture that money itself can earn profit (in the form of interest) by lending it to who needs it. The Quran forbids the charging of interest or riba on money lent. There are general consensus among Shariah economic scholars that riba is not only restricted to usury but encompasses interests as well. Legally‚ from the Islamic belief‚ riba

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    UNDERSTANDING JESUS: CHRISTOLOGY FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE Until recently‚ traditional Christian theology was interpreted only by white males. In a modern world things are changing. In her book Consider Jesus‚ Elizabeth Johnson states that women “are waking up to their own dignity and finding their own voice” (page 97). Despite the feminist theology movement that Johnson describes‚ sexism and male dominance is embedded in the culture of the Catholic Church. Women will have equal rights

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    College campuses are among the most racially diverse settings in our segregated society. For many students‚ especially non-Hispanic whites‚ college represents the first time they have come into significant contact with members of other groups. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen‚ this paper explores the effects of campus diversity and interracial contact on the racial and ethnic attitudes of white students over the course of four years in college. While the percent black on campus

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    objective of this individual assignment is to use ones social imaginative skills to analyze and interpret two events‚ a global event and personal event and then give our social perspective of both the events. Global event For the global event I have decided to write about the global economic crisis and my social perspective of its causes and effects in Dubai. In order to do this let me first give you a small description of UAE and Dubai. It was in 1975 “the crucial states of Persian gulf had

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    Bourdieu 1986. The Forms of Capital Source: Knowledge Policy‚ proofed/corrected this html version (1) by comparing it with a .pdf image of the article from a book found at: The Eltan Burgos School of Economics. First published: Bourdieu‚ P. (1986) The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.) Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education (New York‚ Greenwood)‚ 241-258. Originally: in “Ökonomisches Kapital‚ kulturelles Kapital‚ soziales Kapital.” in Soziale Ungleichheiten (Soziale

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    My research topic is on distracted driving and how Max Weber would view this issue from a symbolic interactionist perspective. My research question is: who is more likely to be a distracted driver? Fortunately‚ I have researched this topic last year in another class. I believe that distracted driving is a major problem in the United States and there should be more laws that prohibit distracted driving. I am interested in researching who is more likely to drink or text while driving. My hypothesis

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    limitations an individual confronts when attempting to observe a particular social interactive setting in an objectionable perspective. The setting I chose to observe was in notorious drug related area in main street‚ Worcester. I was in my vehicle across from a place where drug occur at 3:00 pm on Saturday. Today there appears to be more action taking place than what I usually observe from my car while I’m passing through this neighborhood. One can see how a behavior is considered deviant‚ but the question

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