Polarization

social cohesion is high, however, the overall group performance can falter and allow a “performance deteriorate” due to the abundant attention to one another rather than the task at hand (Rovio, 2009). In this study, Rovio (2009) used the group polarization phenomenon theory to further explain how team sports are effected by “cohesion, conformity, and groupthink”. Rovio (2009) did this by the means of observing one ice-hockey season and its setting and producing a series of questionnaires that…

Polarization of Political Views Now that the 2016 Presidential Campaign has concluded, did mainstream media polarize the American people? The answer is a very obvious yes. When it comes to the topic of the media and politics, most of us will readily agree that mainstream media has significantly polarized our political perception. Overtime, mainstream media has become increasingly popular. The internet introduced us to a vast amount of political news articles and social networking websites.…

The Pew Research Center reports that “about four-in-ten (41%) [of Americans] say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases” (Fingerhut) and 59% of those against abortion identify as Republican. In the current political climate, the abortion debate has become extremely divisive. But how did it become so polarizing? The Pro-Life movement emerged following the Republican Party’s decision to mobilize and politicize evangelicals after their fight to stop the desegregation of religious schools…

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Rachel Dempsey & Joan C. Williams (2014) shows how gender polarization effects the treatment of women in the workplace. It highlights the problematic situation women often stumble upon of being too feminine or too masculine and thus being perceived as not being professional. For example, one existing event correlated with this ideology was during the 2008 presidential election. In this election, Hillary Clinton was running…

Identity is not the cause of political polarization. It’s emotions. Some people are terrified and disgusted by the demographic and economic trends in this country. They retreat to racial and other tribal identities to feel more secure. But pundits like Fareed Zakaria want to blame identity for the political polarization that dominates the U.S. and Europe. They have it all wrong. In a recent article, Zakaria stated that Partisanship today is more about identity. Scholars Ronald Inglehart and…

Response Paper #2 Gender binaries have created a system of oppression that forces all people into one of two strictly defined gender categories, man and woman. In “Dismantling Gender Polarization and Compulsory Heterosexuality: Should We Turn the Volume down or up?” a journal article from The Journal of Sex Research written by Sandra Lipsitz Bem, she discusses how society created a gender binary system where two and only categories of sex/gender/desire are recognized and the two categories have…

Holmes disagrees. This variation is expressed through the key aspects of political relationships and the temperament of the military as an institution. It is through these trends, that this paper will serve as a demonstration to how the prevailing polarization between Kelsey…

Inequality, Media Fragmentation, And Increased Political Polarization by John Duca looks at the several factors that has increased polarization in the United States. First Duca examined the concept of income inequality. Income inequality is the concept that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and polarization is created from policies that cause that concept to only increase. Duca puts his hypothesis to test by comparing house polarization (Congress) to income inequality trends. “Using…

the equation for piezoelectric polarization as, P_pz=2 (a_s-a_o)/a_o (e_31-c_13/c_33 e_33) (1.6) The total polarization P tot is calculated by summing together the two polarization components: P_tol =〖 P〗_sp + P_pz . (1.7) Total polarization in InGaN and AlGaN as a function of molar fraction is plotted in Fig. 1.6, assuming unstrained GaN is used as substrate. These polarization effects were found to be much…

1.1 Dielectric Materials Dielectric materials are insulating materials that exhibit the property of electrical polarization. Dielectric materials support charge by acquiring a polarisation in an electric field. 1.1.1 Electric susceptibility and permittivity When a capacitor with capacitance C0 is filled with a dielectric material, its charge storage capacity (capacitance) increases to a value of C. Than susceptibility (χ^') of the dielectric materials is given by χ^'= (C-C_0)/C Dielectric…