Introduction This case study will be looking at a 15 year old boy named Bill‚ who has an extensive history of drug related crimes‚ including theft. Bill is currently serving a two year sentence in youth detention‚ however he has previously had community based sentences and other contact with the criminal justice system. Bill has a serious substance abuse problem which began at the age of 9 years old. Bill first started using cannabis‚ however went on to using LSD‚ ecstasy and heroin at times‚
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Communication Theory and Social Change Robert T. Craig University of Colorado at Boulder A keynote presentation to the Indonesian International Conference on Communication Universitas Indonesia‚ Jakarta 22 November 2010 The theme of this conference‚ “Global Challenge to the Future of Communication: Digital Media and Communication Freedom in Public Discourse‚” is fundamentally concerned with communication in relation to social change. In this paper I reflect on communication theory as an element
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Mary fisher promotes the theme of freedom by having a self determination to have power to speak up for herself and for everyone about the issue of HIV and AIDS so everyone should be aware on this issue. She wanted to help the world to be safe because everyone is at risk of getting HIV or AIDS. Mary Fisher made a speech about HIV and AIDS because she wants to raise awareness so she can help everyone to know about it. Since Mary fisher has HIV‚ she wants to tell that everyone is risk at these kind
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Introduction to Social Comparison Theory Social comparison theory‚ first introduced by Leon Festinger explains that individuals have an inherent need to evaluate themselves and their place in the world (1954). Individuals look for external standards upon which they can compare themselves and in the absence of objective measures‚ people look to their social environment. The theory posits that individuals compare themselves to others‚ and that through these comparisons they develop self-evaluations
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this simple process‚ YOU just used the social judgment theory! The beginnings of social judgment theory can be traced to early experiments on attitude and persuasion in social psychology‚ but it was first given its foundations with the work of Muzafer Sherif and Carl Hovland in 1961. Sherif and Hovland explored social judgment theory further in their 1961 book‚ Social judgment: Assimilation and contrast effects in communication and attitude. Social judgment theory claims that there are
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Biosocial Theory and Social Structure Theory The discussion of the biosocial theory and the social structure theory in criminology has churned for years and has stemmed from the idea of nature or nurture. These two theories were derived and heavily influenced by the Darwinian theory of Pangenesis and natural selection; in the earlier times of this debate‚ the dominant view was the biosocial theory which claimed crime is the product of biological and environmental factors. After the emergence of sociology
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Social learning theory is defined as the way people learn through observing other’s behaviors‚ attitudes‚ and the outcomes that follow those behaviors. Social learning theory is a way to explain human behavior in terms of constant interaction between cognitive‚ behavioral‚ and environmental influences. In class‚ Professor Gleason related the social learning theory to how children learn appropriate or acceptable gender behavior. The three ways a child can learn the proper norms for his/her gender
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Family Social Science Theories Structure-Function Theory - views the family as a social system with members who have specific roles and functions. Systems Theory - describes families as a unit of the whole composed of members whose interactional patterns are the focus of attention. Developmental Theory - emphasizes how families change over time and focuses on interactions and relationships among family members. Interactionist Theory - focuses on the family as a unit of interacting personalities
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Combating Adult Obesity: A Social Cognitive Approach to Reduce Local Obesity Overview of the Program Focus The health crisis of obesity is becoming an epidemic in the United States. Currently in America‚ more than two thirds of all adults are either clinically overweight or obese (The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases‚ 2012). Within the population of obese individuals nationally‚ adults within the age group of 40 to 59 have the highest prevalence rate of obesity
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Humanistic Theory vs. Social-Cognitive Theory Rebecca Chaplin 8/9/2009 In this paper‚ I am going to compare and contrast the two personality theories humanistic and social-cognitive. These two theories are not generally paired up when comparing and contrasting personality theories because they are very different. I am going to compare and contrast these two because I find them the most interesting of all the personality theories. Let us start with the definitions of humanistic and
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