Multicultural Approach Doris McMillan ECE 405: Children & Families in a Diverse Society August 29‚ 2010 Definitions of multicultural education vary. Some place emphasizes on the cultural characteristics of diverse groups‚ some emphasize social problems such as those associated with oppression‚ some place emphasize on political power‚ while others on the reallocation of economic resources. Some restrict their focus to people of color‚ while others include all major groups that are different
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Discussion on War in a Sociological Perspective What is War? As far as we know‚ war has always been part of human history. War occurred from time to time‚ in one form or another‚ even throughout our prehistory. What is war? Sociologically speaking‚ war is “organized‚ armed conflict among the peoples of various societies” (Macionis). Differed from gusty conflicts‚ war is well-planned and well-prepared‚ referring to the extension of a serious of disputes‚ if not one. From Sunzi’s The Art of War
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more with a person’s feelings‚ meanings and interpretations of an event. This data is usually in the form of a description from the participants of the study of lifestyles or people’s feelings with direct quotes. I am going to use an interpretivist approach‚ by which it is believed that people’s behaviours are influenced by their interpretations and the meanings they give to social situations. The method will involve the collection of qualitative data by way of micro research using a small number of
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Ajmal Kasab was the only attacker captured alive by police and is currently under arrest. Much of the information about the attackers’ preparation‚ travel‚ and movements comes from his confessions to the Mumbai police. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was born on July 13‚ 1987. He briefly joined his brother in Lahore‚ who worked as a labourer‚ and then returned to Faridkot. He left home after a fight with his father in 2005. He had asked for new clothes on Eid‚ but his father could not provide them‚ which
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Sociological imagination is that idea that you can relate personal troubles to public issues in society. The video provides obesity as an example of a personal issue that can also be viewed as a vast societal problem as well. Like obesity‚ eating disorders like anorexia can be an example of sociological imagination too. Anorexia is a disease that can be analyzed on the personal level while it is under an individual’s control whether or not to eating food. However‚ it can also be examined on a public
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Psychodynamic approach‚ which considers current behaviors have its origins traced back to childhood‚ is one of the explanations for the repeated patterns of interactions and relationships in adult life. This essay aims to discuss the propositions that relationships in adult life are molded by relationships established in early childhood‚ by using the classical Freudian and object relations theories The starting point will be going over the general view of psychodynamics on these propositions‚ and
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Engineering Education A M E R I CA N S O C I O LO G I CA L A S S O C I AT I O N C E N T E R FO R T H E A D VA N C E M E N T O F S C H O L A R S H I P O N E N G I N E E R I N G E D U C AT I O N About the American Sociological Association Founded in 1905‚ the American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good. With more than 14‚000 members‚ ASA encompasses sociologists
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The movie Snowpiercer contains several interesting sociological concepts. The plot of Snowpiercer follows a 2014 experiment to counteract global warming‚ which inadvertently causes another ice age that kills all life on Earth save for the inhabitants of the “rattling arc.” The “rattling arc” being a train that perpetually travels on a globe-spanning track. On the train a class system is put in place where the elites inhabit the luxurious front compartments of the train and the lower class inhabit
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The Gestalt approach was about how people represent a problem in their own minds‚ and how solving a problem involves a reorganization or restructuring of this representation. The first central idea of Gestalt problem solving is how a problem is represented in a person’s mind. This means what do they think about the problem? They would give people a problem and then see how they could figure out how to solve it by restructuring the problem. Then the second idea of Gestalt is insight. Insight is
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birth of a child. Sometimes it is called ’termination of pregnancy’. Some sociologists argue that abortions should be made illegal due to the fact that they rob the fetus a chance at a life filled with pleasurable experiences and other religious sociological factors. On the other hand‚ many sociologists view abortion as a basic woman’s right‚ and if society were to ban abortion they women be robbing women of their natural rights. The discussion of abortion rights has been made highly politicized
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