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    Social etiquette, social norms, or however one might describe it is an evolutionary trait which continuously shapes society. Referred to as an unspoken code of conduct, in society social norms often dictate how people interact with another. From dawn to dusk individuals use social cognition, a process in which a person uses their surrounding environment to make judgements. Across countries this concept assists communities in achieving their daily goal, person a must do what he can to survive…

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    does technology cause hazardous outcomes to natural resources? 3. What are the effects of latest technologies to man and his culture? 4. How does newly-innovated technology affect man’s health? Outline I. Technology isolates people from their society. A. Technology minimizes people’s social interactions. 1. Technology minimizes the bond between members of the family. 2. Technology diminishes intimate relationships among people. 3. People prefer more in communicating other people through…

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    Culture refers to the consumers’ beliefs, traditions, customs, norms, and values obtained from the family and other institutions in the society. This has a great influence in a consumers’ preference. Social aspects refer to the status and role of people in the society. For example, a manager and a construction worker have different needs. Similarly, the buying patterns of a housewife are different from that of a working mother. Personal factors include age, lifestyle, occupation, civil status,…

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    The culture is a set of beliefs, values and rules that is presented by members of the community, and it's the tradition that characterizes all societies from each other. Culture is that reflect properties of the Civilization and intellectual that are characterized by a society. In many societies there are a culture encounter which is focuses on the study of cultural identities and symbolic representational and interpretational forms through an international, cross-cultural and global perspective…

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    sense of right and wrong. Humans are not born with the idea of looking out for the welfare of others, we naturally want to satisfy ourselves. Respect and rules are important, in running an orderly society. Many leaders will demand respect, earning respect far succeeds that of demanding, in ruling a society. Morals give us a sense…

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    Peers. Miller (2000) stated that, “collective behavior is a term sociologists use to refer to a miscellaneous set of behaviors in which large numbers of people engage.” Collective behavior refers to relatively spontaneous and relatively unstructured behavior by large numbers of individuals acting with or being influenced by other individuals. Relatively spontaneous is defined as, “somewhat spontaneous but also somewhat planned” (Giddings 1908), while relatively unstructured means that the…

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    than bad. Technology has been a number one priority to most of the human race for a long time. We might not think about it but to the French in the late 1700’s the Guillotine was the latest technology. They made that a staple in their society and it changed their society for the worse. In Fahrenheit 451 the government gave people a certain technology to use. These people in turn gave up their social lives and some of their freedom. This can be seen as another form of government control. Why is…

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    disorderly, including violence, destruction of property and clashes with those who enforce law and order. (Andrews, 2014, p. 288). Ideologies such as “conservatism” and “radicalism” hold opposing views as to how they perceive “riots” and their effect on society,. We can look at riots from particular perspectives by examining social order and disorder through “riots” and their relationship to the political ideologies of “conservatism” and “radicalism”. These two ideologies have decidedly…

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    “Funny, but the Bill of Life was supposed to protect the sanctity of life. Instead it just made life cheap.”― Neal Shusterman, Connor, Unwind. The society of the novel, Unwind, written by Neal Shusterman, utilize unwinding on children aged 13 to 18. All unwinds believe that their life is valuable and should not be ended at such young age. Unwinding, the term used for separating one’s body parts, was a solution made to stop the Heartland War. The war was fought due to the issue between pro-life…

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    novel, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”, explores the demise of communities throughout history and how such a thing could occur. He believes, as can be inferred from the title of the book, that societies primarily fail as a result of the decisions they make in response to other issues. In the prologue, “A Tale of Two Farms”, Diamond presents his definition of a collapse, his framework for analyzing a collapse, and how he compares the stories of societies against each other.…

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