Labelling

One Drop Rule The One Drop Rule enforced the idea if someone had any African-American ancestor, that automatically made them completely African-American in race. In the article, Commentary on the Meaning of Race in Science and Society, author Harold Freeman emphasizes that no matter how remote the ancestor is, people still had to identify as African-American. Freeman also describes further that no one can ever un-African-American themselves, unlike how someone of Asian or Native American descent…

She had the foresight to garner opinions and recommendations of IT experts to make our website professional. For example, she encouraged us to use the Dublin core of labelling online archival items which ensures that the archived photographs can be searched for on a web browser. She had the analytical insight to incorporate special features not found on most other online photo archives: a forum section, which enables the…

It is a widely known saying that a photograph is worth a thousand words; however often without some text accompanying the image and providing insight into the events depicted, a photograph can struggle to accurately express meaning. They can be hard to read as a lot of the time events captured by a camera are complicated and it is not always so simple to comprehend the stories behind them. One photo like this is the one above taken by Magnum photojournalist Thomas Hoepker on September 11th after…

Biological/Medical and Psychosocial models are the two major theories about the origin of mental illness. The biological/medical model sees mental illness as a discrete group of symptoms - genetic and neurochemical changes in the brain – which have universal properties that are common to everybody. This mode attributes mental abnormalities to biochemical, genetic, or physiological causes. This theory is strong supported by outcomes from research done on identical in the studies of…

Our society has many faces; we wake up every morning seeing different kind of people with different kind of colours, different kind of ethnicity and different kind of “races”. Our world is based on how we lived it and throughout history, many changes has occur, when it comes to stereotypes, prejudices and forms of discriminations. Many events have occur where some “races” are superior then others and many people have been racial profiled over many things and we see things a lot throughout…

The above-mentioned health determinants often result in health inequalities, these are unfair gaps in health due to socioeconomic inequalities, lifestyle behaviours, education and access to health services (PHE 2016b). A genetic factor is also accountable for weight gain, over 200 genes identified as playing a part in the regulation of body weight (Braun and Anderson 2011). Additionally, obesity and depression are co-related making an obese person 55% risk of developing depression over time,…

this scope, biology has a lesser part to play in specific emotional experience as it simply provides a general starting point. Indeed, Shott views all emotions as being physiologically similar, with differentiation being dictated through cognitive labelling. Further to this, the author views ‘emotion’, ‘feeling’, ‘affect’, and ‘sentiment’ as terms which essentially describing the same thing (Shott, 1979, p. 1319, para.…

From January to May of 1939, one of the most controversial psychological experiments to date was conducted on twenty-two orphans (Reynolds, 2003). The aim of the study was to test the effect of positive and negative speech therapy (Reynolds, 2003). It has since been notoriously nicknamed The Monster Study. The children were divided into four groups, two groups of five stutterers and two groups with six fluent speakers (Ambrose & Yairi, 2002.). Throughout January and May, each student had…

In this essay I will reflect on the few assumptions and understandings I had about crime and see how they have changed. Upon arriving at De Montfort University to study Criminology and Criminal Justice, I had average knowledge about crime and punishment i.e. insight into biological and psychological perspectives of crime having studied A-level Law and Psychology beforehand. However I did expect to delve so deep into the history and other aspects of Criminology during this first semester. During…

insistence in the reinforcement and propagation of hegemonic discourses of Orientalism. What ‘labels’ does news media use to present refugees? Research suggests that news media has been complicity in the creation and reinforcement of their negative labelling of refugees due to the medium’s uncritical reporting of official government reports, their need to cater to their audiences’ concerns and their own political agendas (Bennett et al., 2013; Bradimore and Bauer, 2011; Doherty, 2015; George,…