Mental status examination

television program “Nationwide” for his study on the decoding model of communication. By interviewing people of various backgrounds, he was able to deduce that meaning-making and social statuses were connected. However, he concluded that using social status alone is not able to decide how people interpret messages in mass media. Still, Morley’s study was used as a stepping stone to more studies concerning the interpretations of mass media. One of these studies was Women Watching Television by…

Depression consists of much more than feeling down. A person with depression can not “snap out it” or change their moods instantly. Depression is a real and serious mental illness that affects an estimated amount of 350 million people globally. It is normal for a person to occasionally feel down, but when those feelings remain for more than two weeks, it is likely a case of major depression disorder. A person suffering from depression struggle with negative feelings that are persistent and…

relationship between socioeconomic status and the health status of individuals, particularly the Indigenous community, it is important to know what a socioeconomic status us. The socioeconomic status may be defined as a social standing of hierarchal class, but by many different health organisations it may be defined as an individuals social standing based on their level of education, income and occupation. The significance that an individuals socioeconomic status (SES) plays in ones level of…

insinuated by a selected few student from TAMU. A small group of approximately twelve white college students approached two African American students from Uplift Hampton Preparatory; a charter public school mainly of students of lower socioeconomic status, and minorities. The article went into detailed interactions of the group of college aged students toward the young group of students from the high school. According to the article and witnesses one of the white woman approached two black…

There were certain behaviors that Toren exhibited that I did not find to be very unusually in a campus culture. The main one being underage drinking, it is an unspoken rule that it is okay to drink before we are twenty-on. A lot of Toren’s drinking occurred in his dorm room, on the rule that what happens behind closed-door stays behind closed doors. “I drank throughout the next two days until I had return from Brazil back to my site and we parted ways (pg. 177).” He had frequently black outs,…

When the topic of the Holocaust is brought up, you automatically think of the concentration camps. Concentration camps were made to keep people who were against Hitler and “different” away. “Different” people meaning Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and criminals. The first camps were established in Germany as soon as Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor on January 1933. Concentration camps were being established all over Germany, and later all over Europe. There were a total of approximately 20,000…

form. This hierarchical form has led to uneven distribution and allocation based on different statuses within society, creating inequality between its members. A status, as defined by sociologist Ralph Linton (1936), is the position a member holds with relation to society; a collection of his rights and duties (113). In addition, status vary from ascribed statuses (those we are born into) to achieved statuses (those we achieve through…

forward and providing depth to the characters as they contrast with one another. Those who are characterized as “prideful” are of high social status and feel the persistent need to preserve that status. To these characters, pride is a sense of authority and superiority. Conversely, those who are characterized as “prejudiced” are either of high or low social status, but jump to conclusions due to their being blinded by contempt for the out-group. The characters that most notably align with pride…

different social economic status, and the war that was going on in Iran. In the book we would see that Marjane was in a country where she would see violence almost daily. Marjane innocence was destroyed by many experiences that she went through as a child, as the differences among social classes, death, and how she was affected by the violence that was occurring. Marjane did not know about the different social economic status that exist in her country. For her, social economic status did not…

Over the past several decades, a disparity in the achievement of low-income schools and high-income schools has slowly hurt the United States. As someone who experienced life near a neighborhood that featured low-income schools, their situation becomes more understandable. The economically disadvantaged students in low-income schools are frequent victims of an issue that has plagued the United States for many years. In these schools, they are presented with many disadvantages that hurt their…