... freedom of coming and going." He is a part of the group because he lives among its members, but does not really belong to it in the sense of sharing universal qualities as the others do. Simmel states, "the state of being a stranger is of course a completely positive relation; it is ... certain qualities among them alike, which make them unique from other groups. However, in the case of the stranger, the only qualities he has in common with the group are general qualities as opposed to the more specific traits the group shares which differentiates them from other groups. In Simmel's word...

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... As Christians and people of faith in the God of life, we are called to make some urgent ethical choices. A social conversion towards the common good of all in our society "locally and globally, and towards harmony with mother earth and the environment is necessary. What is becoming clear ... in religious or theological language. In dictionaries of Christian social thought, the term does not exist as a developed concept, and it is not identified as a common experience or praxis. We find in the social Christian literature of the recent years frequent reference to "social evil" and "sinfu...

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... they say, 'Don't do anything more than you have to'" and "It's a good idea to keep to yourself here as much as you can" (alpha = .52). Powerlessness, conceptualized as a generalized sense that one has no control over his or her destiny, was measured at two levels: general powerlessness (e.g., "People can do almost anything in this country if they work hard enough ... the amount of the sentence that an inmate has spent in the prison system (Faine, 1973; but see MacKenzie & Goodstein, 1985). Ramirez (1984) questioned the assumption that there is one common set of inmate subculture norms t...

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... itself as political or violent action leading to social changes. The model is based upon power from below, 'class', and Pahl questions the links of causality in this chain. Pahl notes the flexibility of the applications of this model, to minority groups such as gays, squatters, single parents and any other group which feels it is being oppressed. Furthermore it might ... attitude do not correlate empirically, effectively discrediting traditional class analysists. Classification according to 'lifestyle' might therefore be more appropriate in the current situation. Lifestyle categories are ...

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... in the 18th century - escape Swift's criticisms. This is particularly apparent in the first voyage to Lilliput, as Swift describes the secrecy, gossip and intrigue of the Lilliputian Court; he notes the nature of the royal hierarchy, as the rank and esteem of the royal ministers is established simply by how high they can jump over a rope! Discussions of the political ... the roof downward, pondering how to pull sunbeams out of vegetables, and worrying about comets hitting the earth. The Laputians are clearly intellectually superior, yet they seem to lack all common sense, and all their ...

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... -gender comparison would be that of the house-wife. Still today most men view the role of the married woman as one that involves being a house-wife, in the traditional sense of the term. However, women today certainly would not view themselves in the same manner. The data collected from a comparison such as this could help to dereify this socially constructed ... . Cross-class comparisons is also a comparison commonly used when attempting to expose constructed truths between two classes. i.e. lower-class, upper-class, middle-class. For an example I refer to my lecture notes. Our professor...

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... and gender issues and how they affect our society. For my paper, I decided to do a research on assumptions and stereotyping of ethnicity. Assumption as defined in the March 19, 2001 notes, is something we take for granted, something assumed but not proven, take it to be true in order to move on with conversation, and it sometimes bias us. Stereotyping is ... than this race is an outsider. Does our ethnic background affect the way we live in life, put us where we stand? Stereotypes of minorities in the media are very common nowadays. Television creates and sustains the majority's accepte...

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... "technoscience" we are simply problematizing the distinction with this term. Technoscience is the act, process, and culture of discovering as well as the objects, methods, and things we produce (Class notes, October 21, 2003). Society constructs ideas, perceptions and evidence that shape the way we think and apply knowledge to almost every area of our being how we interact. This can ... Myth of Progress (2003) written by Eileen Leonard she supports my thesis that technoscience is socially constructed explaining that "technology is largely a secondary phenomenon, a construct of society, so...

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