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    The Serial Movers

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    Jennifer Zapata May 2‚ 2013 Trevor Dodge Writing 121 The Serial Movers “I don’t want too! Seriously Dad‚ why are we always doing this?! It’s not fair! I don’t want to leave my new friends! They just started liking me!” I scream as loud as my eleven year old lungs will let me. “You will make new friends‚ you always do! Stop complaining‚ you’re just a kid. Let the adults handle this.” My dad groans as he heaves up a thoroughly used-to-many-times box. “Come on sweetheart

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    Social Theories Of Aging

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    Social Theories of Aging Introduction The fundamental biological problem that all theories of aging seek to explain was stated very elegantly in 1957 by Williams when he wrote‚ "It is indeed remarkable that after a seemingly miraculous feat of morphogenesis‚ a complex metazoan should be unable to perform the much simpler task of merely maintaining what is already formed." The difficulty in attempting to establish an understanding of aging is that it is not a single physiological process. It is

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    Social Exchange Theory

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    The Social Exchange Theory was created by researchers John W. Thibaut and Harold H. Kelley‚ was an attempt to everyday interpersonal relationships. This theory‚ with backgrounds in sociology and economics‚ appeals to so many because of it simple answers to human interaction and intentions. The social exchange theory is very rational and considers humans to be rational in every thought they make. It examines human behavior through costs and benefits of being in a particular relationship. The theory

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    Social Penetration Theory

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    Founder of the theory The founders of the theory were Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor. Altman is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Utah whereby Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas‚ Arlington. Altman and Taylor developed this theory to provide an understanding of the closeness between two individuals. Apparently‚ social penetration is defined as a process that moves a relationship from non-intimate to intimate. The theory states that this

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    The Social Identity Theory

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    A social identity is an element of a person’s self-concept‚ which is a derivative of a supposed membership in a certain significant social group. The social identity theory‚ as at first put together by John Turner and Henri Tajfel in the 70s and 80s‚ was able to introduce the idea of a social identity as a means in which to give an explanation about inter-group behavior (Kolak & Martin‚ 1991). The social identity theory can best be described as a speculation‚ which is able to predict specific inter-group

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    Social Conflict Theory

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    criminology is a theoretical perspective in criminology which takes a conflict perspective‚ such as marxism‚ feminism‚ political economy theory or critical theory. The focus of critical criminology is the genesis of crime and nature of ‘justice’ within a structure of class and status inequalities. Law and punishment of crime are viewed as connected to a system of social inequality and as the means of producing and perpetuating this inequality.[1] Critical criminology sees crime as a product of oppression

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    Theory of Social Development

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    Theory of Social Development Full Outline of the Theory in Brief N. Asokan Table of Contents Chapter I Introduction Chapter II Infrastructure Chapter III Levels of Comprehension‚ Enjoyment‚ Values‚ Attitudes and Motives Chapter IV Model of Nine Levels of Growth Chapter V Conclusion Chapter I Introduction For the scholar‚ development is a particular activity of society seen in certain periods. For the social being it is an ever-present‚ non-stop activity

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    Classical Social Theory

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    Classical social theory Main article: History of sociology The first “modern” social theories (known as classical theories) that begin to resemble the analytic social theory of today developed almost simultaneously with the birth of the science of sociology. Auguste Comte (1798–1857)‚ known as the "father of sociology" and regarded by some as the first philosopher of science‚[4] laid the groundwork for positivism - as well as structural functionalism and social evolutionism. In the 19th century

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    Social Contract Theories

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    Angie Z. Tutorial Section: D115 December 6‚ 2010 Compare and contrast the ‘social contract theories’ of Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls. Which theory is more persuasive? Be sure to explain what Rawls means by ‘the original position‚’ and the ‘veil of ignorance‚’ and why those concepts do not figure in Hobbes’ theory. Social Contract Theory holds that the only consideration that makes actions right is that action is in accordance with an agreement made by the rational people for governing their

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    Social Constructivism is a theory of knowledge and the acquisition process involved (Serving History‚ 2010). The social constructivist theory was developed mainly to describe the way in which people come to describe and explain the world in which they live‚ including themselves (Gergen‚ 1985).The formation of the social constructivist theory is most often attributed to Jean Piaget. Piaget derived this theory by investigating the evolution of knowledge‚ though mainly scientific knowledge‚ by observing

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