SUSTAINABILITY AND CITY DEVELOPMENT A critique of the Implementation of the Abuja master plan By DANMOLE‚ Taibat OLAITAN M.Sc; RTP Department of Urban and Regional Planning‚ University of Lagos‚ Akoka-Yaba‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria (Being paper presented for publication by Environmental Conservation Research Team‚ FUT- Akure - Sept 2004) ABSTRACT Rapid urban expansion without effective environmental consciousness means that in virtually every urban
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Social Media and Social Issues – A study on the role of social media in shaping and publicizing Social issues Mohana Sudhan Mayilsamy‚ Assistant Professor‚ School of Communication‚ Dr. G. R. Damodaran College of Science‚ Avinashi Road‚ Coimbatore - 641014. e-mail:sudhanwarrior@gmail.com‚ Mobile: 9944223455‚ Fax: 0422-2591865. Abstract Social media‚ especially social Networking Sites are turning up as an essential mode of interactive and informing media in the recent past. Especially
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New Girl and the Social Penetration Theory In a new sitcom called New Girl‚ Jess‚ an offbeat young woman‚ decides to moves in with three men that she has never met before after experiencing a bad breakup. Even though she does not know the group of men‚ she takes the chance to get to know them better through an interview to discuss her interests in becoming the new room mate. In this famous series‚ Jess‚ the three men‚ and Jess’ model best friend Cece come together in an unusual fashion and transcend
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American Exceptionalism and Social Welfare Development The term American Exceptionalism‚ introduced by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1931‚ was based on the idea of America being built on individualistic‚ anti-government beliefs and attitudes‚ with special attention directed to personal freedoms and rights (Skocpol‚ 1992). The weakness of government caused by the decentralization of its power‚ slavery‚ increasing immigration‚ as well as cultural and racial discrimination played a crucial role in the
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Head: SOCIAL ORGANIZED CRIME Social Organized Crime Your Name Here University of Phoenix Instructor Social Organized Crime Social organized crimes utilizes many different terms‚ definitions‚ and theories. One term that is used frequently is “social institution‚” and throughout this assignment The term will be defined in great detail to help understand how it does relate to organized crime. Also some theories will be
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John Locke’s Social Contract Theory Jon Bartholf CJA530: Ethics in Justice and Security October 10‚ 2011 Cristina Payne Abstract The Declaration of Independence‚ written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776‚ incorporates many of the views and ideas of John Locke‚ an English philosopher‚ and his writings of the Social Contract theory. Within the theory‚ Locke states that society should be afforded certain unalienable rights (life‚ liberty‚ and happiness) that give authority and control to the people
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Negative Effects of Social Media There are always two sides of every coin. Social media is just a tool or mean for people to use. It is still up to the users on how to use this tool (just like a knife‚ can help you to cut food or hurt others). Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted a study on "The Future of Online Socializing" from the highly engaged‚ diverse set of respondents to an online‚ opt-in survey consisted
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maximization and the traditional economic theory of Becker and Stigler does in fact provide an adequate explanation based on set universal preferences with efficiency determining the price of commodities‚ I prefer to view it as a function of a socially constructed framework of choice. Berger and Luckmann’s social construction theory presents the opportunity to more fully understand the background of these athletes that shapes their decision-making process. Not only
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at the theories of social change. There is no one way of looking at the effects of sociological change so I will be looking and explaining at two theories‚ namely the conflict theory by Karl Marx and Darendhoff and the second theory called the socio-psychological theory by theorists McClelland‚ Hagen and Weber. “Social change is the significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time (Harper‚ 1993:04)”. Harper (1993:05) goes on to explain that Conflict theory The conflict
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The aim of this paper is to critically consider to value of taking developmental approach to understand adolescent psychotic disorder. Therefore‚ firstly self-social development of adolescent will be outlined and it will be followed failure of self-social development‚ which is argued to be leading psychosis. Then‚ adolescent egocentrism will be discussed and how failure in adolescent egocentrism
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