Noise your concern

Masakit na pananalita

20 words to change you life

China's claim to Scarborough shoal is baseless

China's claim to Scarborough shoal is baseless. Click on the link and read full article.

Future of Crime

The future of Crime by Marc Goodman. Watch.

Contemporary Health Studies

As a course leader of an undergraduate degree in health studies, I was often asked by students if I could recommend a really good book that would cover the key things that they needed to know when they were starting their 3 year degree programme. I wasn’t able to make such a recommendation at that time. Yes there are some books that touch upon relevant material, but many did not entirely cover the curriculum that I was delivering, and many were written in styles that I found unenticing hence my reluctance to provide a single recommendation.

Is China Buying the world?

How to make optimism work for you - NYT

His approach to life could serve as a battle plan for the millions of recent college graduates now searching for work in an unforgiving job market, as well as for older adults trying to re-enter the workplace after a long hiatus and those who lost jobs and must now reinvent themselves. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/how-to-make-optimism-work-for-you-2/?smid=FB-nytimes&WT.mc_id=BL-E-FB-SM-LIN-HTM-070512-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click

Higgs Boson, being sure

Daughter talks about fame and power

This is an article written by Sue Erikson Bloland. She is the daughter of Erik Erikson. My father was a tall man with an impressive shock of white hair, which gave him a distinctive and dignified look. He had kindly eyes and a gentle face. He appeared to be the quintessential father figure: concerned, compassionate, and knowing. With the advent of his fame he acquired a larger-than-life social aura, a special air of confidence, which nourished people's fantasies about him and suggested that he felt as wise and as comfortable with himself as they perceived him to be. His words, even his most casual remarks, were heard as profoundly meaningful, because of the reverence accorded their source. And people often felt deeply understood by him even in the course of a brief conversation -- the profundity of his empathic responses was magnified by his aura.

SO 101 Read Higgs boson article

Read the article by Randy David on Higgs boson God particle. A two page reflection paper on the said article will have 2 plus points. This is an optional paper. Deadline respectively in synchronize with your class schedule, 24 and 25 July, class hours only.

Higgs boson God particle

The God particle, written by Randy David A few days ago, my 11-year-old granddaughter, Julia, who is in Grade 6 at Miriam, a Catholic school, came up to me asking: “Lolo, why did God create the world?” It was a question her teacher in Christian Living Education had given to the class to think about over the weekend. “Hmm, let me see,” I said, quite flustered, but trying not to show it. Click on the link for the full article.

Socialization Model

What is Crime

A crime is a deviation from the social norm that is of such magnitude as to go beyond what would be considered bad manners or odd behavior. Societies respond to such exceptionally deviant actions by creating laws to curb and sometimes punish them. There is no universal agreement between the societies of the world about what constitutes criminal behavior or how it should be dealt with. Sufficient ethnographic data have been collected over the last century to show that societies with different kinds of economies have radically different sorts of laws and legal concerns. Some activities that are defined as serious crimes in foraging societies are often not thought of as criminal at all in large-scale agricultural ones. The reverse is also true. The way these two dissimilar kinds of societies deal with crime is radically different as well. In order to understand these differences, it is necessary to examine their concepts of what constitutes crime and their approaches to dealing with it. Click on colored link

Social Control, Law and the Pastoralist

Social control entails rules of behavior that should be followed by the members of a society. Some of the rules of conduct fall into the realm of good manners as the culture defines them. As such they describe behavior that is socially desirable but not necessarily compulsory. Other rules of conduct are not optional and are enforced by laws. In complex, large-scale societies, laws are usually written down formally so that they can be known clearly to everyone. This is not the case with laws in small-scale societies such as those of foragers, pastoralists, and horticulturalists. Their laws commonly are much more informal, being rarely written down. Since they are part of the evolving oral tradition that is familiar to members of these societies, there is no need to explain them to anyone. However, people visiting from other societies are not likely to know what the laws are until there is a dispute.

Symbolic Interaction theory

Symbolic interactionism, or interactionism for short, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. This perspective has a long intellectual history, beginning with the German sociologist and economist, Max Weber (1864-1920) and the American philosopher, George H. Mead (1863-1931), both of whom emphasized the subjective meaning of human behavior, the social process, and pragmatism. Although there are a number of versions of interactionist thought, some deriving from phenomenological writings by philosophers, the following description offers a simplified amalgamation of these ideas, concentrating on points of convergence. Herbert Blumer, who studied with Mead at the University of Chicago, is responsible for coining the term, "symbolic interactionism," as well as for formulating the most prominent version of the theory (Blumer 1969).

Cognitive learning theory

Cognitive learning theory

Cognitivism

Reinforcement theory

Principles Of Reinforcement There are three basic principles of this theory. These are the Rules of Consequences. The three Rules describe the logical outcomes which typically occur after consequences. 1. Consequences which give Rewards increase a behavior. 2. Consequences which give Punishments decrease a behavior. 3. Consequences which give neither Rewards nor Punishments extinguish a behavior. Click on the link for full text.

Cambodia's love huts

Fil-Chinese Stereotypes

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/42341/chinese-and-filipino-in-the-world-of-dangerous-stereotypes

Socialization theory by Treynor