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The impacts or effects of social media Social media is a medium to socialize with each other and done online. That allows humans to interact with each other without being limited space and time. Social media can be grouped into several mjor parts namely, social networks, discuss, share, publish, social game, virtual worlds and the others. Social media also has and important role to play in today’s society of online communication, interacting online with friends, giving information, adding…

In a study of the Social Control Theory, Josine Junger-Tas was able to use a sample of 75,000 to gain a better understanding. After much research, Josine was able to develop a more defined meaning of the concepts in Travis’s Hirschi’s theory. Such as the concept of attachment being only to significant others, commitment to the conventional subsystems, involvement in conventional activities and beliefs in the conventional norms (Junger-Tas 10). She developed a consensus of Hirschi’s theory after…

There’s no denying it, social media has taken over our lives. Nowadays it’s impossible to find someone that isn’t connected to facebook or twitter or instagram, etc. Undoubtedly, this has influenced our behaviour drastically, especially for the younger generations. The real question is, are these changes for better, or for worse. The Good Social media allows us to connect with virtually anyone. It “meets our basic need for a sense of belonging” says JoAnne Cantor, Ph.D. “Hearing from our…

spatial and social segregation that occurred. The ideological systems that allowed social and spatial segregation to arise in the industrial city is in rapid increase of the population, the growing industrial capitalism and the formation of separate classes. The segregation of race and ethnic groups occurred in the apartheid city was due to social, political, spatial and economic ideological systems. Space within a society cannot merely be defined as a neutral medium in which economic, social,…

Social stratification in America, the hierarchical ranking that society assigns based off of rights and prerequisites of different positions, has caused economic inequality to sky rocket. By 2004, America’s top 1 percent of earners obtained 16 percent of the country’s total income, double their 8 percent share twenty years prior. By such a hefty economic boost for the nation’s top earners, it begs to question what the other 99 percent of earners should obtain, and how their net economic loss to…

Recently, we have seen a shift in literature from the socialization-approach to an institutional perspective when trying to explain the origins of social capital. There is an increasing recognition that the welfare state plays an important role in social capital creation. More precisely, it is argued that the capacity of citizens to establish social trust and their preparedness to engage in cooperative behavior is highly dependent on the efficiency and trustworthiness of bureaucratic…

Definition of social injustice and ageism: Social workers are the protectors, supporters and enforcers of social justice. This profession values the need for equality and establishes methods to intervene with individuals or groups of people who face injustice. Many theorists have defended different definitions of social justice primarily classifying them into “libertarianism, utilitarianism, and egalitarianism”. The libertarian theory of justice puts emphasis on the aspects of attaining…

life that characterize an individual, a group or a family is “Social class”. Social class is a group of individuals who are characterized by their way of life, their behavior, their interests, their actions, their vision of the world. Henslin defines Social class as “Large numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and education, and who work at jobs that are roughly comparable in prestige”. So, there are different kinds of social class. Henslin goes further when quoting Karl Marx,…

Social Determinants Social determinants are the conditions in which people are born, where they live, grow, age and work. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of power, money, and resources at local, global, and national levels (Social determinants, 2015). Many factors are considered when determining what affects the health of individuals as well as entire communities. Health is affected by environmental and circumstantial factors. It is largely influenced by income, education…

Tupac Shakur as a 17 year-old black male before his rise to fame as a rapper, songwriter and actor is recorded expressing his ideas of social equality. He shares that instead of more reading, writing and arithmetic there should be classes about drugs, real sex education, scams, religious cults, police brutality, class apathy, racism in America, why people are hungry, he continues and states that the things that helped him are things he learned from his mother and off the streets…