Cultural Theory of risk

One of the most severe yet preventable health problems in the world is cigarette smoking. It is the second globally leading risk factor for death after high blood pressure (Lim et al., 2012). The consumption of tobacco is currently the single preventable cause of death (World Health Organization, 2011). By 2030, over 500 million people may die due to tobacco which contains active drug nicotine. To understand the factors leading to tobacco use it is most important to consider the enormous health…

important key concepts and theories relate to the child development with the special focus on risk, protective factors, and resilience of the children. Most of these theories are put forth by psychologist and that has clinically experimented in different settings. For the purpose of better understanding on the theoretical perspective of this study, here explains the psycho social theories, behavior and social learning theories, biological theories, cognitive development theories very briefly and…

support needed to carry out a major conflict. On the contrary, the cultural mode, detailed in the following paragraphs, claims that the tendency toward peace derives from the political belief that democracies should be friendly towards one another in order to preserve democracy in the international sphere. This theory proposes that democratic states do not enter violent conflicts with other democratic states; however, the theory does not apply to relationships between democracies and…

The articles focusing on diverse theories of assimilation being a natural element in the immigration process such as Milton Gordon’s “Assimilation in America: Theory and Reality” which will contribute the concepts “Anglo-conformity” and “cultural pluralism” as they assist Yezierska’s directive of assimilation in America. “Spatial Patterns of Immigrant Assimilation” written by James P. Allen and Eugene Turner will propose the significance of “cultural assimilation” constructing Sara’s identity…

“universalistic social theory” that “mistakenly absolutizes the trajectory, the historical experience and future expectation of Western (…) modernisation” (Beck, 2016, p.258). Related to the question of modernity, they both bring a critique of the Eurocentrism of social theories and the requirement to fundamentally restructure social sciences but the arguments underpinning such advocacies are different for the two…

states have the risk of falling into a cycle where they cannot further develop. The pre-requisites for the emergence of democracy are the categorizes of the bellicist theory containing political conflict, economic, and cultural theories; and the existence of stabilized institutions within the state regarding rule of law, the state, and accountable government. One of the main reasoning and identifiable pre-requites for the emergence of democracies relates back to the bellicist theory. The…

Culture in an organization often stands to be the vision of an organization. It is to no surprise that in different organizations, the culture of each can vary from one to another. Without a solid or definitive culture, or even a culture that is firm, the organization often that not do not have an identity of its own. It will merely be just a profit chasing brand or label. Given that most companies largely have their own culture, often managers look to implement change or alter the culture of…

In the book “Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory”, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new aspects of Foucault thoughts. She then rethinks and rewrites the theorists ethical work after these discoveries. In this book Huffer writes that Foucault recasts the Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviant, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality (Huffer, 2009). Sampling from unpublished…

dispel pejorative myths of clinical work with African Americans (Boyd-Franklin, 2003). African Americans make up approximately 13.3% of America (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2015). Moreover, in the United States, African Americans make up a distinct cultural group, in which there is an aggregate of diversity. Characteristics such as, socioeconomic status, level of education, religious affiliation, acculturation, and geographical origins, should collectively be considered in any discussion with…

Examining Barriers to Cross Cultural Communication Introduction The increase in globalization and internationalization has seen a rise in the movement of students across borders. In particular, students from China, India, and South Korea are making their way to countries such as the United States. These students enhance the amount of diversity present in classrooms and campuses and widen the understanding as well as an appreciation of the differences that exist. However for the vast majority of…