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    individualism while Marx's liberty was about giving up certain social aspects of the modern world's liberty. Marx specifically targeted towards abolishing private property which would then lead to political and human emancipation. However, Mill believed that individuals should have the right to private property because liberty was about happiness and pleasure. Mill's equality had a different context from Marx's equality. Mill focused on social…

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    Locke and Rousseau were both concerned about the relationship between liberty and the civil state. The civil state is a potential threat to the liberty of its citizens. For both authors this liberty exists naturally in the state of nature. Both authors use the state of nature to establish that liberty preceded political society and how a properly designed government can maintain this natural liberty. Because their method of deriving the ideal state from the state of nature is the same, the stark…

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    Boudon states there are primary (the possible class subcultural effects in attitudes and values developing from unequal social class stratification or category system) and secondary effects (originate from classes’ different positions of individual pupils within the social class stratification system). He states that working class families have lower ambitions for their children and settle for lower level education and work, but the middle class…

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    of the authors emphasize the key role that supervision has in social work practice, the importance of this kind of work for both specialists, for personal and professional development purposes and also for service users by improving the quality of services provided by social workers. Furthermore, there is an awareness of the need for supervision by social work practitioners and by policy makers in the institutions that provide social services and the institutionalization of such practices (Osvat…

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    Constructivism and Social Constructivism in the Classroom (From: http://marjorieumg.weebly.com/learning-theories.html) For this work, I would like to focus on “Constructivism and Social Constructivism in the classroom” in the scope of this course. In the following sections, I will explain the meaning and the basics of constructivism theory, the origin of it and the starting point of the theory. In addition, importance of constructivism theory will be discussed. Furthermore, the supporters…

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    In the 1930s the social, political, and racial divisions in the United States were on the rise. During this period, the social division was evident in the financial difficulties of individuals that led to a rise in human trafficking. Men and women would ride trains all over the country looking for jobs and many women were in such financial difficulties that they had to sell sex to survive. In response, the Mann Act was passed, which outlawed travel for prostitution and human trafficking.…

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    Throughout the world, society is composed of people with statuses, ranks and positions in which they struggle either to achieve or to stay in it. These social diversities and discriminations identify our society. The inconsistencies between the rich and poor, even in the wealthiest of countries is rising forcefully. Decrease in individuals who are turning out to be progressively “effective” and well off is seen while an excessively bigger populace is additionally turning out to be considerably…

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    completed from the codes of the previous study with 104 therapists (21 male 83 female). A questionnaire was given from different codes such as social support, personal trauma history, affective coping style, self-care strategies, burnout, emotional self-awareness, work environment stressors, resources, and work drain. Social support was measured through a 17-item Social Support Index by McCubbin, Patterson & Glynn (1982) Affective Coping through a 28 item Brief Cope by Carver (1997). Compassion…

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    depressed, three times more likely to use illegal drugs and eight times more likely to have attempted suicide than adults who have experienced acceptance by their nuclear family (Friedman, 2014). This social justice issue is further exacerbated at the macro level. Antigay and antitransgender social prejudice stems from the belief that being gay or transgender is somehow wrong, sinful or immoral. The subtleties of these prejudices can be cunning. For example, there are many public and private…

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    philosophers and liberal thinkers. The Enlightenment and egalitarianism movements prompted philosophical questions about tolerance, social worth, and equality. Stemming from the abolitionist movement, the questioning of a man’s worth bled into other aspects of everyday life, such as the value of a woman and the damaging role that old fashioned notions of gender and social status can play. Two novels that thoroughly explore these new thoughts is Nathan Hawthorn’s The House of the Seven Gables and…

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