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and Top-Down community participation works to harvest community involvement in sustainable development and proficient environmental management (Fraser, Dougill, Mabee, Reed, & McAlpine, 2005). This type of model was implemented in communities of Guerrero, Mexico and Managua, Nicaragua through the Camino Verde model (an intervention prototype of the 2004 CIET prevention pilot study). The purpose of the “Camino Verde” model meaning “Green Way” model was to implement green efforts through community

” Although it was not the answer I had hoped for, it was good to have the conversation in person because of the nonverbal messages that I was able to receive. He continued to use haptics (physical touch) and kinesics (his smile) to reassured me (Guerrero, Andersen, & Afifi, 2018). This helped me realize he was being honest, and it also helped me remain calm and collected throughout the rest of our conversation. I believe that if the conversation had been further discussed through the initial medium

Policy, and Social Action, race is defined as a population that shares a set of genetic traits or physical features, and ethnic groups are defined as groups of people who display a set of cultural traits such as language, religion, or diet (Leon-Guerrero, p.65). Now understanding what the race and ethnicity of a person means, the next step should be to understand that these factors should not play into any consideration for any judgement since they are only one part of a person. Unfortunately,

Sharing a social network is a key component of interdependence in relationships. However, maintaining a social network is not always attainable. When individuals who lack a shared circle of friends with their partners, sharing media such as TV or movies may compensate for this. Two recent studies have assessed sharing real and fictional social worlds impact on relationships. The findings indicate that couples who lacked shared friends, sharing media resulted in greater relationship quality as well

indigenous people, and people of mixed races. Moreover, it is important to understand the sociological imagination because it can explain how one makes sense of other ethnic groups, cultures, minorities, and the problems each one faces. As Anna Leon-Guerrero (2016) mentions, this is “the ability to link our personal lives and experiences with our social world” (p. 5). Essentially, it is understanding individual experiences and collectivist ones and combining them together to make sense of society. Furthermore

Hispanic people are people of passion and richness. Throughout their history, they have experienced hard work in the migrant fields, discrimination, and exploitation. When the Depression came, they were accused of taking jobs away from ‘real’ Americans (Florido, 2015), From the 1940’s through today, people still complain about illegal Mexican immigrants who come to the U.S. They claim the immigrants are uneducated with no job skills, stay in poor housing, and lack education. It is against this backdrop

peace. Functionalists also see a society issue as a positive thing, because they focus on how society can benefit from the problem. According to Robert Merton (1957), the structure of a society can have a positive impact and a negative impact. (Leon-Guerrero, A. (2014). Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action. Page 14.) One could agree that child abuse is a dysfunctional social problem, yet a functionalist tries to find how the problem can serve a positive function in society. For example

Ageism exists in the workplace, certain cultures, and social classes and within health care. An example of these negative stereotypes exists within the media. For instance, less utilized older women and men within television and advertisements (Leon-Guerrero). When an older generation actor is utilized in a television commercial, it is generally a negative or their actions are characterized as frail or weak. The aging population often feels a loss of dependency, not because they feel themselves they

Marine Battalion Shoulders the Burden: How Collective Society Failed Suicide is usually perceived as an individualistic act, enacted by an individual who has experienced immense trauma to their psyche. A recent report on the suicide rate within a specific Marine battalion challenges this notion. The veterans in this battalion are an outlier in regards to veteran suicide; however psychology is at work in attempting to explain the reasoning behind these suicides. The devastation the Marines face from

Dixon, Funston, Ryan and Wilhelm (2011) state that members of the homeless population also face cultural and economic barriers when it comes to mental health treatment. For example, they report that some fear that they will be involuntarily committed, that mental health professionals cannot relate to them, or their issues are too complex for professionals to respond to because they may also have alcohol or substance abuse problems to. According to Dixon et al (2011), there is a need for more integration