Cultural artifact

I have a friend that experienced a life altering spiritual and physical journey. What she thought would look good on a resume turned into something greater. After she took the plunge in joining the United States Peace Corps, she had many days and nights where she thought about throwing in the towel and returning to a familiar place. Because she felt isolated, and out of place. However, the positive energy she was feeding off from the Tanzanian people never let her quit. She spoke so eloquently…

The story of Wang reveals that CCP did have the ability to mobilize the masses and carry out mass revolution. However, the tragedies of Liu-Wang in the Anti-rightist movement and Wang in the Great Cultural Revolution indicates CCP’s deeds about the women’s liberation and the improvement of women’s rights do not match its words. At first, it incorporated the women’s movement into more extensive mass movement However, after the found of People’s Republic…

SLIDE 1 Today’s marketplace is increasingly diverse. A form of diversity includes the generational differences of the persons employed in the workforce. Because each generation has differs from the next there are challenges in managing the four generations of persons employed in today’s workplace. It becomes crucial that managers and employee alike realize the ways in which the needs of each group of persons differ from the others in order to understand their strengths and weaknesses (Bartley,…

People are categorized by their age from the date of their birth to the current time. Age not only influences one’s life span but the time period they were raised in, the life changing events they’ve gone through and the different lifestyles they became accustomed to. In the United States the generation of Baby Boomers have been overly studied and critique by researchers, with their influx of birth rates from the years of 1946-1964, and their overwhelmingly demand of hospital delivery rooms,…

Exam 1: Bourdieu’s Theory of Capital Bourdieu’s studies resulted in three theories of capital: social, cultural, and symbolic. He also intensely discussed Habitus. Social capital is the value that comes from social networks that allow people to achieve things they couldn 't on their own. Some examples of this is sharing information and resources, providing assistance, and establishing trust. Personally, an example of this is a social group I am a part of. It is a group of about fifty moms who…

more likely to occur in poverty. Which, it is possible for this study to retested where it could prove that crime in these areas is due to blocked opportunity to legitimate means to obtain cultural goals. Schaible and Altheimer’s findings are consistent with Merton’s notion that imbalance in social and cultural structure need not necessarily result in higher homicide rates, but only tends to do so when there is an imbalance in which either means are deemphasized or materialism excessive (2015,…

the family reputation. Economic Capital is when a person has property, stocks, cash, and bonds. Academic Capital is when the parents or the students have a high school diploma, GED, and a bachelor’s degree or higher from a university or college. Cultural capital is knowing different languages, international traveling, and exposure to arts. The students that do not come from much are the humbled students because they lack…

Hmong culture, he was able to properly communicate without being offensive, which contributed to Walt becoming more respected by Sue’s family. This situation presented the importance of individuals becoming willing to adjust their actions to obey the cultural values and beliefs of differing…

From its formation in the late nineteenth century to its downfall in the 1940s, Portland’s Japantown, or Nihonmachi, has served as a safe haven for many Japanese immigrants searching for opportunities in the Pacific Northwest (Katagiri). Because Oregon was a common place for the Japanese to enter the United States, many of the immigrants chose to stay in Portland (Sakamoto). Portland’s Japantown was characterized by flourishing business, schools, and a strong sense of community. Furthermore,…

Every day, those in social science aim to do research while remaining ethical. Some situations involve tough decisions based on ethics, and cannot always be looked at in the cultural perspective of the one doing research. Such cases are beneficial and can help educate others about the decisions anthropologists have to make without being ethnocentric. Two anthropologists, Terry Kelly and Rose Stone, were given tough situations revolving around ethics. In the end, they both made the right…