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Minorites. Chapter 2 Log Book/Journal -The Thomas Theorem: Drawing upon
my work related experience again, I see this on daily basis ...
... In this article, there was evidence provided that supported the argument that the
concept of merit was faulty, translating characteristics of minorites into an ...
... the cosby show used the above facts about the reality that how popular culture affects
race and racial minorites group and how people perceive what they see on ...
... In a fashion similar to that of those who are incarcerated, the number of minorites
on death row is less than that of Whites, the majority in the United States ...
... The demand of the Minorites that the Church should live in poverty as it did
in the days of the apostles was not pleasing in such a crisis. ...
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Chapter 2 Log Book/Journal
-The Thomas Theorem:
Drawing upon my work related experience again, I see this on daily basis while focusing on the therapeutic treatment of my clients. When children/adolescents are faced with consequences directly relating from their personal behavior, that situation becomes extremely concrete, extremely real in their sometimes-myopic thought process. The odd thing is that even when faced with dire consequences, they tend to revert back to behavior that is pre-learned and possibly negative in nature.
-Ethogenesis:
This process by which a culture will drop certain aspects of their own heritage in order to prescribe to their new heritage in which they live. The notion that cultures remain steadfast in their overall heritages and ignore the new set of ideas, beliefs are somewhat ludicrous and impossible to achieve. One culture living and interacting in a new, different culture will assume, take certain aspects of said new culture into their own, whether its done consciously or subconsciously.
-Convergent Subcultures:
I understand this idea in terms of sociological survival and wonder if the name is synonymous with a ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality but with a different twist. Some cultures that understand that they are low on the “pecking order” might link themselves with the major, dominate culture at that time and in so doing, take certain aspects, ideologies as their own. It seems Darwin could have inspired this ideology.
-Amalgamation Theory:
My grandfather’s family was from Naples, Italy. Growing up and spending copious amounts of time with him I never knew that fact, he didn’t deem it important enough talk about. Our last name originally was spelled ‘Nuzzalo,’ but out of sounding too Italian my grandfather changed it in order to blend in to the new American landscape. My grandfather never claimed to be Italian,...
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