September 2012 10 Why is nationality important to people? • Individual identity and social identity • Three processes of social identity formation: • social categorization • social comparison • social identification • (Self-)categorization: what is the salient category? 17 September 2012 11 Why is nationality important to people? • Positive stereotyping of “in-group”‚ negative stereotyping of “out-group” • Nationality differences are particularly salient when people have no common
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Consider the argument that people may be acting out of duty/loyalty‚ it seems possible that people will act out of duty/loyalty to a cause rather than another person. Taking care of the environment can be a such cause. This means‚ firstly‚ that that WTP may not necessarily reflect individual well-being. Secondly‚ however‚ it is possible that individuals want environmental policy to take such moral duties into account. Individuals’ WTP for environmental goods is a central concept in environmental
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Amendment was ratified in 1791. In the Constitution it states: “A well-regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed” (Murphy‚ p. 1656). Although we have a split opinion on whether or not guns should be regulated we can argue that gun regulation hasn’t had a steady increase or decline. Factors such as violence‚ lobbyist‚ and Constitutional rights have had both positive and negative impacts on gun regulation. While
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ruler of Thebes‚ Creon. There are other conflicts in this play‚ for example the one between Creon and his son‚ Haemon‚ who ends up killing himself in the end. Hegel states that Antigone is a “tragic collision of right against right‚ with both sides equally justified.” Hegel’s opinion on Antigone is a very accurate summarization of the moral dilemmas in the play. The play opens with a conflict between Antigone‚ and her sister‚ Ismene. Both of their brothers have died‚ in Creon’s words‚ “Eteocles‚
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pornography acceptance in society is somewhat based on personal opinion. A large number of Americans enjoy porn and form part of the billion market‚ whereas others find pornography distasteful and want censorship. There are two sides to the pornography argument‚ those for censorship and those against censorship. I find that censorship‚ or the anti-pornography argument is stronger‚ however‚ I will justly lay down each side of the argument appropriately. Pornography can be defined as “sexually explicit
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Censorship in music has been part of our society for decades. However‚ the reasons to censor the material that is exposed to the public are conflicting and so are the means as to how put in practice a censor to the material. There are arguments for the need of censored lyrics and there is some level of acceptance from artists that audience gets a warning of content before their exposure to it. There are also disagreements to a better way to create labels for the music industry‚ without them affecting
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Expected Benefit argument claims that only self-interest motivates human action. I believe that Psychological Egoism‚ is a true theory that holds strong arguments as to why‚ all human actions are motivated by self-interest‚ because whatever argument is made against this theory can always be refuted back to the idea that any action that
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Dawlyn Dieudonne Professor Mattord English 1101 5 December 2012 The Efficacy of an Argument Against Technology In his online article‚ Nicholas Carr discusses technology and its effect on the human brain. He conducted in depth research on the brain and the way it responds to the use of technology. Carr makes the argument that despite its benefits‚ technology has an ultimately negative effect on the brain. He reports that through several studies‚ researchers have found that although the use
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think about the life they just took. Wallace thinks that boiling these lobsters‚ killing them‚ are very uncomfortable in his opinion. As he thinks about the whole process‚ he also tries to avoid it‚ just how a mother would avoid that she’s killing her child. Sometimes what we accept as normal behavior is not always normal‚ in society there are always going to be opinions on if it is right or if it is wrong. We all here are human‚ when different situations occur‚ we should all be able to put our
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with the advancement of neuroscience. As Papineau highlights “we find it very difficult to absorb this lesson” (Papineau 2010: 5). One argument against this belief is the ‘philosophical zombies argument’ which purports to cause problems for reductive physicalism. In this essay‚ I will argue against this counterargument. Reductive physicalism tries to solve the what Chalmers calls‚ “the hard problem of consciousness” (Chalmers 2010). This tries to answer the question as
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