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    A phenomenon which has remained constant throughout history is the evolution of society. This persistent phenomenon helps to constantly reshape society. Helping mold it into a suitable form that caters to the needs of those who inhabit it. The evolution of society may take years, if not decades, to occur. However, during certain moments in history, society has undergone rapid change in short periods of time. These rapid periods of change are often caused by undesirable events that influence the

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    Contextualizing BIRG: Social Identity Theory SIT (Tajfel et al., 1971; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) has been explained briefly in the Introduction, which provided an overview on the nature of its construction (Galang et al., 2015) and its implications on ingroup inclusion, intergroup behavior, and self-esteem (Brewer & Yuki, 2007). This theory is further discussed here, particularly its conception of group identification and esteem, to give context to BIRG and the framework of analysis that will be used

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    contributed to the forming of a gender egalitarian society, I chose specifically the worldview, the mythology and the social structure and mode of subsistence of the two societies and comparatively investigate and analyze it in order to explore the similarities and differences and find the cause of certain phenomenon. The two societies converge in their modes of subsistence, their simple social structures and some aspects of their worldview; however, they diverge in the specific way of the sociocultural

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    The primary thesis of this reading is to define the varying theories of how the body is represented in a social and anthropological context. The process of contextualizing the body has been part of a 20th century movement to better understand how the human body is presented in western society. In the writer’s methodology, theories will be defined by Constructivist methods of evaluating the body, which involves examinations through history, society and culture. The principle argument of this text

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    The 1920s is the important transition in U.S. that American economy began to recover rapidly, as American Dream provided most lower classes the chance to move up social levels, therefore, many people believed in hard work can achieve personal success. F. Scott. Fitzgerald uses George Wilson and Jay Gatsby, who come from the same class level, to explore the different backgrounds result the different achievements.However, comparing their different actions, which showed American Dream actually was

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    Education Inequality

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    educational development aggravates the cut-throat competition in the allocation of high-quality educational resources and even evolves into the inequitable “inside story”, which intensifies the issue of educational equality and leads to a radical social response. This paper mainly studies the issue of educational inequality in China’s contemporary society and briefly analyzes three phenomena and relevant reasons of the educational inequality. Meanwhile, this paper also discusses the relationship

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    in how humans think. It helps create a framework to systematically investigate cognition keeping in mind the social context. In this theory, human development is viewed as a socially mediated process that varies from culture to culture. Lev Vygotsky Lev Vygotsky, a Russian literary critic, educator and psychologist is known as the father of sociocultural theory. According to him, social interaction is the source of learning and development which is not found solely in the mind of an individual.

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    personality; in the novel by Alison Gray “Unique“ the protagonist’s personality is different from that of his identical twin bother. This drastic change happens because of the difference in family functionality, and the social environment that shapes his identity. In real life this phenomenon can be studied in the rare cases of identical twins that are separated at birth. In this novel the main character Dominic is very different from his identical sibling. Even though they are identical they do not have

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    Who has a Bias: Public vs Media Through the advancing technologies of the modern world, information has become more accessible, interactive, and well distributed. People are able to receive all kinds of information via social media platforms, online blogs, televisions, radios, cell phone apps, magazines, newspapers, and etcetera. Those information help people get a better understanding of the world around them. But due to individuality, different subject matters create different responses and opinions

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    Mean Girls Psychology

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    idea of social psychology is very prevalent. Social Psychology can be defined as the branch of psychology that deals with the social interactions, and how people are influenced by those who they surround themselves with. This type of psychology can be applied predominantly to the idea of high schools, especially high school cliques emphasized in movies. A movie that emphasizes the phenomenon of social psychology is Mean Girls that aired in 2004. The scene that embodies the idea of social psychology

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