Essays on Social System

a) Elements of Ecology In “Kampung Boy”, the author has portrayed an intrinsic biography of a Muslim boy born in Kampong in Perak. How the young boy grows up in rural Malaysia is explained in a vivid fashion, from which the reader is able to draw various inferences on ecological factors and their influence on childhood. The Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model analyses the child development paradigm in a framework of simple yet meaningful relationships with environment. The essay focuses on how these elements have been embedded in the childhood of the Kampung Boy.

The Microsystem

Urie Bronfenbrenner has identified microsystem ...

Consumer culture became a popular topic for sociological studies in the 1990s as academics realized that consumption was noteworthy, independent of its connections. Consumerism is a huge part of our society, so much so that it is difficult to separate it from everyday life as a phenomenon in its own right. There are many different sociological perspectives which can be applied to consumer culture; two such viewpoints are the Functionalist Perspective, which asserts that consumerism is necessary for the good of society, and the Conflict Perspective, which argues that consumerism only serves the corporations selling the products, and not ...

Civil War in the USA 1861-1865 is the biggest event in the history of this country since it has left a lasting mark on all subsequent development of the United States of America. Negro slavery was destroyed in the course of bloody battles in the US. An outstanding role in the struggle for the abolition of slavery played a great citizen of America Abraham Lincoln. He remained in the history as a man who prevented the collapse of the country and freed the slaves. The main cause of the Civil War was the sharpest contradiction between different socio-economic systems ...

Social Exclusion

Social exclusion is referred to the public refusal of individual member if their lifestyle does not meet the regular societal attitudes or if they fail to maintain normal social interaction without necessary material resources and education. Social exclusion is a concept that is used in many parts of the world for the labeling of modern forms of social deprivation and a decline in the margins of society. Social exclusion means non-acceptance of an individual or group of people from the social environment. This may be based on race, ethnicity, language, culture, religion, sex, age, social class, disability, and economic ...

The crisis that is being realized all over the world is not just a financial or economic crisis, but one that emanates from the social system. The perceived injustices, war, crime, poverty, diseases, and environmental degradation can all be attributed to the collapse of the social systems. Countries and individuals have all been caught in the circle of injustices. The growing master-slave relationship with countries doing things as per the wishes of the colonial masters has led to conflicting interests on the part of the parties involved. The conflicting issues have led to the increasing injustices, with human rising ...

Abstract

A look at the problems that face the world which include wars, disease, and injustice among others would prompt a re-evaluation of the social system that is in place. It is evident that the system has not led to an overall improvement in humanity. The common underlying factor among the various social ills that face the world today is the adoption of capitalism as the predominant mode of production and social ordering. The need to outdo the competition and maximize productivity in order to increase profits as the primary motivation for capitalism makes the system susceptible to abuse hence ...

Research Paper

Introduction The social world is as complex as the physical world. Due to such complexity, sociologists have made considerable efforts to explain various social phenomena through different sociological theories. One of the major sociological theories is functionalism, which has its origins in the works of Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim. The functionalist theory explains how societies survive and maintain social stability. It also explores dysfunctional events like suicide. This paper argues that functionalism can provide a reasonable and accurate explanation of the phenomenon of suicide since social factors, like excessive social cohesion or the lack of it and extreme ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Abstract The intensive care unit in most hospitals plays the role of providing care to patients dealing with life-threatening conditions. The technological and other set ups in these hospital units are vital in ensuring that these patients continue to receive the best regarding care while with the intentions of having them emerge with desirable outcomes. There are however challenges relating to the care that these patients receive since, in most cases, they are usually under mechanical ventilation. A patient under this condition faces the risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia if the ventilators are not handled with the required care. ...

Section one

The research below will present a discussion on Samsung as a preferred multinational company that is originally of a South Korean origin. Notably, it is comprised of several affiliated, as well as, subsidiaries businesses that are mostly united under the brand of Samsung. The company has a significant influence on the economy, politics, culture, media and the development of all other aspects of the South Korean state. Essentially, the revenues of Samsung make a huge chunk of South Korean GDP. The company as a global corporation is present in the six out of the seven continents in the entire ...

Introduction

People, as social creatures, tend to unite in groups that have something common: they may have a similar system of values, behavior or lifestyle that is different from the dominant culture to which they belong. In social studies, the word “subculture” refers to a part of a public group that differs from predominant society. This paper is aimed at analyzing subculture of punk, the role of media and style in punk youth subculture. From the perspective of cultural studies, a subculture is associated with a group of people that do not contradict against the values of traditional culture but ...

Literature review – VAP

Part 1

The theory of goal attainment which was developed by Imogene Kings, it focuses on the interaction between patients and the care providers taking care of them. The goals that are focused on desirable patient outcomes are developed by ensuring that there is an existing communication process which ensures that a mutual interaction between nurses and their patients exists (Current Nursing, 2012). This theory can be used as a basis the assessment and the maintenance of desirable, healthy systems that which overall result in patients achieving their wellbeing goals.

Question 1

This theory is made up of a series of ...

Introduction

If a job is well-designed, it may foster employee well-being and engagement, and therefore contribute to work performance that leads to customer satisfaction (Bakker et al., 190). Job design provides a description of the way “jobs, tasks, and roles are structured, enacted, and modified and what the impact of these structures, enactments, modifications, are on the individual, group, and organizational outcomes” (Grant et al., 318). For a period spanning over half a century, job design theories have played a significant role in guiding scholars and practitioners to offer descriptions, explanations, and effect changes in the work experiences and behaviors ...

The nature of poverty and the reasons for its persistence related to the behavior of the individual and the state of the social system. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich shows poverty as an integral part of the capitalist system and evaluate it as a benefit for the whole community eventually led to the problematization special lifestyle in poverty. This led to a search for a cultural mechanism of depletion (displacement to the periphery) maladjusted individuals, which combine and interact with individual and social factors. However, the author believes that the poor are " ...

In today's world everyone is a part of society and has several social roles, directly interacting with other people. A modern democratic society has gradually become civilian. This citizen is not just a person who has legal rights and responsibilities, but also attained a certain level of consciousness. This is a person who deliberately applies to himself, his place in society actively participating in public and political life. The concept of a person is used to characterize the inherent qualities of all the people and abilities. A single representative of the human race, a particular carrier is an individual ...

How conflicts can change the economic behavior of consumers?

If we consider the fast food from the viewpoint of the conflict theory it is necessary to understand that the conflict in society is inevitable and universal, as it stimulates and develops the changes society for the better. The conflict for fast food is considered primarily on the macro level. Manufacture of food products and all associated with the economy, technology and cooking appliances are woven into human relationships. This is the primary material relations of the social world, rather than abstract economic relations of social labor. As an example we can provide a story of a hockey player ...

Segregation is something that has literally separated people throughout history and as the world moves towards a more global and diverse model, the spread of anti-segregation initiatives follow. In a country as developed as the United States of America, and one that has led the way in stifling racial tensions since the Civil Rights Movements of the 1970’s, it seems absurd to think that in today’s racially and ethnically diverse society that these are still problems with segregation. The fact is, not only does segregation exist around the world in less developed countries, but it is something ...

In recent years, the world has turned into regional scenes through a various transformation on the way in which nations, organizations and people function. The advancement in information technology and communication have developed platforms for people to interact with each other throughout the world (Allan, 2006). Specifically, these advancements have a significant role in reducing the world into a global village. Recent technological advancements in mass communication have eliminated the boundaries of time and space, thus assisting people to travel all around the world. Social change has made it possible to understand nations without considering border issues. Through world ...

In recent years, the world has turned into regional scenes through a various transformation on the way in which nations, organizations and people function. The advancement in information technology and communication have developed platforms for people to interact with each other throughout the world (Allan 2010). Specifically, these advancements have a significant role in reducing the world into a global village. Recent technological advancements in mass communication have eliminated the boundaries of time and space, thus assisting people to travel all around the world. Social change has made it possible to understand nations without considering border issues. Through world ...