Personal Space Most social situations North Americans require a comfort zone of six to eight square feet per person‚ and any violation of that buffer can trigger a reaction (Bowen). “People use avoidance responses‚” says Robert Sommer‚ a psychologist at the University of California-Davis and author of the book Personal Space (qtd. in Bowen). But where does the standard of personal space come from? According to Sommer‚ “a comfort distance for conversation varies from culture to culture
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Enforcing Cultural Codes: Gender and Violence in Northern India Author(s): Prem Chowdhry Source: Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol. 32‚ No. 19 (May 10-16‚ 1997)‚ pp. 1019-1028 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4405393 . Accessed: 28/03/2013 01:16 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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INTERNET ASSIGNMENT WEEK 5 Racism and prejudice has been present in almost every civilization and society throughout history. Even though the world has progressed greatly in the last couple of decades‚ both socially and technologically‚ racism‚ hatred and prejudice still exists today‚ deeply embedded in old-fashioned‚ narrow-minded traditions and values. Racism is a case of misplaced hate and ignorance‚ being not only discriminatory‚ but also seemingly foolish with disregard of all human
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Student’s name Course Professor’s name Date of Submission Social Networking Social networking mainly involves social interactions among different people from various parts of the world through an established platform of social networks. Mostly‚ social relations is based on people who‚ for instance‚ share beliefs‚ interests‚ backgrounds‚ activities or real life connections. Social networking is primarily web-based; therefore‚ users interact over the internet by use of instant messaging‚ emails
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Chapter 1 * Sociology helps people gain insight into themselves and into society‚ so they can live more satisfying‚ self-determined‚ and responsible lives * Paying attention to and making sense of the social world in a sociological way = being sociologically mindful * To be mindful of a thing is to see and appreciate its unique qualities. Ex: mindful of a person = beyond stereotypes and prejudices * People have to be understood in terms of ideas‚ feelings‚ desires‚ bodies‚ and habits
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This Term paper is made possible through the help and support from everyone‚ Including: parents‚ teachers‚ family‚ friends‚ and in essence‚ all sentient beings. Please allow us to dedicate our acknowledgment of gratitude toward the following significant advisors and contributors: First of all we would like to thanks the Almighty ALLAH‚ Who gave us the opportunity and strength to complete this paper successfully. Especially we would like to thank Mr. Asheek Mohammad
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statistics that are mainly based on police records where crime is reported to the police‚ and then the police records it and keep the records to provide measure of trends in different types of crime. Official statistics on crime are published by the Home Office. These records provide official accounts and indicate the police workload as well as being useful for an analysis of patterns of particular crimes. However‚ even though the police have a statutory obligation to record crime‚ some go unrecorded just
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deposits as soon as possible because as your office has bills to pay there needs to be sufficient funds to cover all expenses. Also your office does not want to wait depositing any checks because they person who wrote the check might not be good with their money. If the check is not deposited in a couple of day the person who wrote it might spend the money thinking they had more than they really did. The less time you cash deposits remain in the office the less time someone dishonest would to steel
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