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    Social Media connecting everyone or creating an illusion: An Annotated Bibliography Research Question: In what way does social media allow us to connect? Social Media has deteriorated writing yet has succeeded in connecting All four authors agree that social Media has allowed students to connect in way that were previously unheard of. The internet has a strong way of rewarding continual use, human interaction is one of those rewards. The frontline video showed social media’s ability to have individuals

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    these harmful affections is “social inequality” in each diverse society. Social inequality occurs when resources in each society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. The United States contains one of the most common social inequalities for its population and that is “social stratification and mobility” and the government should strictly investigate this social inequality for people who

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    of these emissions does not directly fall on those who conduct the production activities responsible for the emissions but on the entire society, especially the future generations. Diagrammatically, this situation can be represented by a marginal social cost (MSC) higher than the marginal private cost (MPC), figure 1. Meaning that the costs of production of the polluting firms are less than the costs that spill over onto the society due to polluted air, consequences for the health etc..Thus if the

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    Concept below Social Construction Social construction originates from a human attempt to come to terms with the nature of the world realities. Social construction is a general term that represents a sociology perspective that concentrates on the development of different sociology phenomenon as described in the social context. Social construction theory questions the different assumptions held by the quality of items, concepts and issues that human beings try to resolve each day. The theory instead

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    “Social Inequality is characterized by the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. It contains structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods, wealth, opportunities, rewards, and punishments. Racism, for example, is understood to be a phenomenon whereby access to rights and resources is unfairly distributed across racial lines” (CollegeMagazine: 2017). In the U.S many ethnic minorities encounter discrimination

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    and although the records of that trial are not as clear, it appears that the judge ruled in favor of Giovanni. Brucker uses these individuals and their story to analyze renaissance society as a whole. Throughout the book, he emphasizes the strict social hierarchy and expectations of each class. He argues that although theoretically the same rules applied to every stratum of renaissance society, the standards to which each person were held and limitations they faced greatly depended on their class

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    by Kory Floyd, an ingroup is defined as “A group of people with whom one identifies.” An outgroup is conversely defined as “A group of people whom one does not identify.” Henri Tajfel first coined this terminology while he was working to devise his social identity theory. These ideas of classifying people into ingroups and outgroups can lead to many

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    Similar to music, dance is usually centered around social events such as in the movie where the community would come together and dance at events where the mayor would speak and in events associated with the marriage season. Personal experience of this dance phenomenon in Arab culture in Egyptian weddings has shown me way too well how serious dance is to the culture. One of the particular dances shown in the

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    Psychological Effects of Social Media In the past few years, the use of social media has been on the rise. There is Facebook, myspace, twitter and Instagram as well of others. The social media use has brought so many changes in the communication and interaction patterns of people. Facebook, the biggest social media website, has over one billion users and the number is increasing trend as time goes by. There have been studies in the past that have attempted to discuss the impact that social media has on the

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    become an observer of. There were many compelling observations I made which caused me to realize the amount of connections this course has to everyday life as a student and member of society. In this day and age, our interactions, daily vernacular, and social presence have all been affected and in some ways shaped by media. There was some very fascinating knowledge I was able to gain during this activity that I found extremely important was body language and the physical reactions people had throughout

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