The study of conformity involves why people are likely to change their behaviors or beliefs as a result of real or imagined group pressure. Your textbook describes three types of conformity. Conformity has been a huge contributor to such groups that may be considered as cults. Define how conformity is utilized in cults, sororities, fraternities, sports, or even in the workplace. If your employer has a policy that employees must wear business attire when making a presentation to clients, which type of conformity is implied: compliance, obedience, or acceptance? What about the situation led you to your conclusion?
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The two religions with the largest number of followers are Christianity (31.2% of the global population) and Islam (24.1%) Many (most?) of the leaders within each faith are male. Focusing on the world’s two major religions, how is religion used to oppress women? How does this religious control impact women’s access to other human rights?
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2. In what way is the notion of the unconscious one of Freud’s most significant discoveries? What are the implications of this concept for clinical practice?5. How is anxiety explained from a psychoanalytic view? Identify the three types of anxiety.
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How are the environment and environmental issues gendered? Provide examples of how a history of colonialism contributes to the ongoing environmental issues facing many countries today and how that contributes to environmental issues being gendered.
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Write an explanation of one of Feldman's Free Lunch cases and why it shows that the original formulation of Utilitarianism is imperfect. You will want to walk through the examples slowly in order to explain why Utilitarianism concludes what it does about the situation and why that is counterintuitive. You may use Feldman's made up numbers to illustrate the case, but you do not need to draw any graphs or tables. (~ 1 page)
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Hellenistic Greece
1. How is daily life of the Greeks changed as they shift from the polis to the Hellenistic City?
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In roughly 2-3 paragraphs, evaluate the theory of virtue ethics. To do this, you will need to
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Describe the effects of chemical and radiological WMD as opposed to the effects of biological weapons.
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Explain the age-graded theory, be sure to provide an example. Lastly, how does marriage impact potential criminal behavior?
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Describe the effects of chemical and radiological WMD as opposed to the effects of biological weapons. Which do you believe poses the most serious threat?
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How has industrialism affected gender roles and stratification?
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How does Reagan's Speech against Communism reflect the changing values in the United States during the 1980s? How can you tell?
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. Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical (Congressional) Reconstruction
Black Study
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1.What is an example of “flourishing under fire “ and resilience from you own experience? (Can be yourself or someone you know.) Describe in some detail.
2. What might explain (internal or external causes) the basis of this resilience? What helped you or the person you describe make it through the experience and what did you learn from this experience?
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