Ethnocentrism is the way an individual look at the world from his/her own beliefs in their culture. They feel that their culture, race, or ethnic group is more significant and that their culture is more superior than any other culture of other groups. In feeling this way the individuals will judge other groups, such as their behavior, the language in which they use, religion. How it could be detrimental to society is that it could lead to false speculation about the differences in cultures. It leads to society making premature judgments about other cultures, not knowing all the facts about another culture.
Assignment 1a: Beliefs in Society ”Religion is more a cause of conflict than of harmony in society.” To what extent do sociological arguments and evidence support this view? (33 marks) Feminists agree that religion serves to maintain the status quota, however they believe that means maintaining patriarchy. Feminists most religions as patriarchal, meaning that religion is 'male dominated', they also view religion as actively oppressing women in order to maintain patriarchy. Examples of this include Aldridge's (2007) findings in the Qur'an, noting that women are legally inferior to men and lacking the same rights as their husbands. This example can be seen by feminists as maintaining patriarchy in society so that women have less or different rights to men, meaning that men have more freedom to do what they want, while women are observed much more closely.
The family can be put under a lot of stress and people’s emotions get minimized as the pain of what they live in is denied. The family support system breaks down and children lose sense of what is ‘normal’. As the adults around them struggle to regulate their emotions, the child learns abnormal ways to deal with the chaos around them and struggle to make sense of what is happening around them. The family’s routine begins to revolve around the addict and the children end up fending for themselves. Children in an environment of addiction often find themselves taking on the roles of the adults and take on the stress of dealing with the addiction.
Behavioral Problems: Parental substance abuse can be destructive to a family and the relationship that exists within the unit. Children that are subjected to drugs as a baby has a higher risk of substance abuse, academic problems, behavior problems, and violence. Children who come from families involved with substance abuse often has impulsive behavior (Feaster, 1996). Addiction: “Alcoholism and drugs abuse in a family creates patterns in families” (Substance Abuse Training Tri-Town Head Start, 2007). Children who have parents that abused drugs or alcohol are at a much higher risk of becoming addicts.
The Effect of the Transgender to the Society Recently, the issue about transgender in our society is a big issue for us. This issue can make our society change in the future. There are several effects of transgender to the society. The first effect is Give negative value to society. Transgender is something that difficult to be accepted because the act is in violation of existing law.
While Mary, the mother of Jesus may sometimes be treated as if she had divine qualities, God is the father, a male figure, and Jesus took the human shape of a man. Woman is portrayed as created from the rib taken from a man." (Giddens 1997). Similarly, Karen Armstrong argues that; "None of the major religions have been particularly good to women." She argues that women continue to be excluded from key roles in religion despite the fact that woman participate more in organised religion.
Diagnosing and treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in children Firnley Blouws BED (Psychology) Introduction When we think of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), we think of adults. But not everyone who develops the syndrome is an adult. Many are children, school children. Many of those children have already developed PTSD because of life experiences in the home or in their neighborhoods. Dwivedi (2000) asserts that every child and adolescent encounters stressful events at some point in their life which can have a negative impact on them both physically and emotionally.
Historically in Western culture, God is seen as a father figure, and has been assigned an authoritative male persona. Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Sexism and God-Talk, explains how this tradition has led to a male-dominant society in which women are oppressed.1 She discusses possible social origins, gender biases associated with this patriarchal model, and why it should change. Ultimately she recommends using inclusive language, which involves calling God both he and she, and using analogies that show God as both powerful and nurturing.2 Despite what Ruether proposes, God should not be referred to as a he, or a she, or both, because it is the abstract qualities of God that characterize its uniquely divine and non-human nature. Ruether suggests the origin of God as male could have started with the Nomadic religions, where there was no female role in agriculture, and God was the Sky Father.3 The abstractness of God is very difficult to understand for many people, in an attempt to better understand God and religion, the divine has been given human characteristics that it does not actually posses. These often times not only include gender but also race, even attire depicted through artwork.
What this means is that social deviance on its owncannot offer a complete definition of abnormality because it is inevitably related to both context and degree. Also, attempts to define abnormality through social norms are influenced by cultural factors because social norms are defined by the culture. Disorders are defined or diagnosed in different ways in different places and by different groups. That means that the diagnosis may be different for the same person in two different cultures. This has become such an acknowledged fact that the DSMV5 includes a glossary that describes patterns of behaviour and syndromes that only occur in certain cultures.
Defining Abnormality Defining Abnormality Psychology has many challenges when defining and classifying normal and abnormal behavior because of cultural differences, gender or sexual preferences, and age of the person. A psychologist or doctor should be aware that these three factors and others can and do have an effect on defining a behavior as normal or abnormal. Behavior should be carefully classified as well because one of these factors could make a behavior seem difference and thus make the behavior be defined or classified wrongly. Culture To most it may seem easy to identify normal and abnormal behavior because people live in societies where the culture is the “norm” of everyday life. The fact is that normal and abnormal behavior is different between cultures and this difference makes it challenging to classify what exactly is normal and abnormal.