Category: Family
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Cross-Sex Friendships: The Main Benefits
Although this is a subject of a very long debate, I believe that men and women can form platonic friendships. In the clip from “When Harry Met Sally,” Billy Crystal’s character, Harry, claims that the reason men and women cannot be friends is that sex always gets in the way. He reasons that although they…
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My First Day at College
Of all the enemies of people, the worst is a human itself. This is the way people think when they refuse to communicate with others, though they do not air it and maybe even don’t think of it directly in this precise form. But it is still there. And the less we try to consider…
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Sociological Imagination and Prejudgment Analysis
Table of Contents Prejudgment Scenario Background Interaction Description Reflection and Takeaways References Prejudgment Human perception is largely based on experience, but the latter is not always first-hand. Sometimes, it is the stories we hear or the lack of experience that lies in our subconscious and determines the way we perceive certain people, events, or objects.…
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My Best Friend For Life: Explaining Realtionships
Every day, I sit at my computer at a specific hour and log into MSM Messenger. As the icon comes to life, I see that my cyberfriends are now online and ready to chat with me. These people have never seen me in person and I have never seen them either. Sometimes, we don’t even…
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Family Health Assessment
Introduction Family health assessment is an integral part of the healthcare practitioner’s activity. Health problems in general and chronic diseases, in particular, have an impact not only on a patient but on his or her family life as well. Health assessment demands skills and knowledge from healthcare practitioners to evaluate the health condition of family…
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Discussion of Motherhood in Sociology
Table of Contents Introduction Concept of Motherhood Patriarchal Ideology Modern Ideology Conclusion References Introduction In modern sociology, motherhood refers to the social structures, experiences, and expectations associated with childbearing and being a mother. At the same time, this term differentiates becoming a mother as a biological fact and mothering as practices involved in childcare from…
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A Modern Family Institution in America
It is hard to disagree that socialization is an essential process that should properly appear in children’s lives. It allows individuals to function effectively and successfully in their social worlds and learn about various social expectations. Family is considered the primary one among many agents of socialization, including social media, peers, parents, school, religion, government,…
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Change of Family Standards in the 21st Century
If I were a sociologist, I would devote my scientific career to the study of modern family relationships. In our time, rapid changes are taking place in all spheres of human life. This applies to science, art, technology, communication, and, undoubtedly, building family relationships. Some consider the accelerating pace of change to be positive, while…
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Essay “Joyas Valodoras” by Brian Doyle: Meaning of Love
In his essay Joyas Valodoras, Brian Doyle reflects on the relationship between hummingbirds and their hearts, the lives of humans, and blue whales. The work is a profound reflection on life and death and the experience that a real living being experiences in the interval between these events. The essay is a statement about the…
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Sports Chaplaincy in a Fatherless Age
In chapter 6, ‘Doing Sports Chaplaincy in a Fatherless Age,’ the various themes include fatherhood and fatherless biblical overview, fatherlessness in the contemporary era, and the duty of sports chaplains in caring for players’ souls. According to the biblical overview, God’s fatherhood is a significant belief and story throughout the biblical canon, and the traits…