In western cultures divorce is more common and it’s acceptable for people to get married multiple times. However in non-western cultures divorce is frowned upon and is therefore much less common, which makes it appear that arranged marriages are better for long term relationships. A research study which involved using a questionnaire on people from different cultures to determine whether they felt happy in their relationship or not was performed. Using questionnaires is a cheap and easy way of gathering information for lots of people, however as western questionnaires were used we cannot be sure if the results for the non-western cultures are due to how those people actually felt or if its due to how the question can be answered as its culture bias. Also the participants could show social desirability if they are aware of what the investigators are looking for.
Overpopulation is another idea used to blame the “third-world countries” while countries in Western Europe have a higher density. After ridding themselves of colonies, western nations used neoimperialism to gain money and materials from less developed ones. By using the power
After this law there was an increase in lone parent families, cohabiting and even same sex couples, this was because it started to be more socially acceptable and married couples didn’t have to be forced into a relationship if they weren’t happy. However, The New Right did not like the idea of having lone parent families, they said that lone parents (mostly mothers) cannot discipline their children properly and are a burden on the welfare state as they need to claim benefits due to the fact that they are not working so they can’t support their children. Conservatives see marriage as the essential basis for creating a stable environment for bringing up children, so I don’t think that they are very happy with the fact that family diversity is such a big deal in our society nowadays as they have a very traditional view. Similarly to The New Right’s view, Chester in 1985 claimed that people aspire to be in a nuclear family because that is the way that most people in the UK have been brought up, he also claimed that most people live in a household headed by a married couple and will most likely be the head of a nuclear family in the future. He believes that the nuclear family is the ideal type of family where the husband is the breadwinner and the wife is the housewife
These relationships are most likely to be non voluntary such as arranged or forced marriages. These marriages however are more than just two people getting married, it is argued that these marriages are more about two families joining one another and becoming one, in some cases extended family are likely to be living together. However, the other type of categorised culture is an individualistic culture. The western societies tend to be this culture and consist of having the emphasis on an individual’s freedom, achievements and rights. These kinds of relationships are normally voluntary and formed for an individual’s happiness rather than for the happiness of a family.
Additionally, living-wage laws allow workers more time to spend with their families. On the other hand, Richard Berman states that living-wage laws are ineffective in helping the working poor because higher-skilled workers would strive for jobs once occupied only by low-skilled workers. Although living-wage laws might not eradicate poverty, they are necessary to protect the workers from being underpaid. In addition, they would keep the working poor from government assistance and they would create a stronger sense of family unity in working class neighborhoods. Not only would living-wage laws protect workers from being underpaid and
In the Han and Roman empires, the two cultures felt extremely different about their attitudes towards technology, but even within the cultures themselves, these attitudes were not necessarily the same. Hans believed that while technology was primarily for the lower class people, upper class people should invent these, and sometimes use them. However, the Roman empire seems to be thoroughly divided on their attitudes towards technology. Some of the documents seem to think that technology is not for the upperclass, and is in fact vulgar, but others seem to think that it is beautiful and useful, created by the lower class but used by both. The first four documents are from the Han dynasty, and two of them are from government officials, which would probably mean a weak bias on their part towards the government.
The Han see technology as a way to help people work less and get things done quicker, but the Romans had an opposite thought, they didn’t care about the common people like the Han, the upper class Romans were using the technology to benefit themselves not the commoners, both the Han and Roman both find technology appealing. The Han viewed technology as a way to help people with their work; they invented stuff like paper and etc. These inventions were mainly used to help people and fix the problems in their society. According to document 1, the Han government used technology to get rid of disasters like flood, this shows that they cared about their people enough to get rid of flood for them, it’s seemed like the Han mainly built their technology to help their people. In document 2, Haun Guan showed why technology is used to aid the Chinese, he talks about the problem that the people were having without the proper technology or without any technology such as iron tools that the workers uses.
Some of them made people obedient to the political views of the leaders, others denoted or elevated individuals depending on their gender and social status, and some just remained neutral. The Chinese political and social structure was mainly (but not completely) affected by the government rulers (due to non-religious belief systems like Legalism and Confucianism), since they had greater influence on the government than the religions, while in India, vice versa, the religions shaped the social and political order more than the ruling class (due to the absence of non-religious practices). The Mandate of Heaven, the reason of the major changes in the Chinese society, gave the godly right of ruling to the Emperor, similar to the Pharaohs of Egypt, which were considered and treated like gods. Along the Silk Roads (the longest and the most used trade route which connected multiple empires together through trade), ideas similar to that were spread and shared among the cultures resulting in the outcome that is seen today as
The decline has cause many smaller companies to push their company less and not worry of about effectiveness and stock prices because there is less push from takeovers. This can be bad for investors. In the end I don't think takeovers are such a bad thing because it can force businesses to really push to achieve higher stock prices but sometimes these takeovers can lead to putting employees and the smaller company at high risk. When Executive Turns Buyout Adviser, Alarm Bell Go
Moreover as both heterosexual and homosexual men age they tend to look for younger partners and concentrate on physical attractiveness rather than financial status. Waynforth and Dunbar's research aswell as Kenrick et al's are subject to a lack of generalisability as this type of self-advertisement is typically western and both pieces of research were done either on small sample sizes or to a restricted areas such as New York. The psychical attractiveness of potential partners can indicate healthy genes that can be passed on the next generation, in short-term relationships males 'lower their standards' in terms of physical attractiveness as a way of having a larger selection of females to have short-term relations with and then males show a decreased level of attraction to females which allows them to move on and continue to spread their genes. The notion short-term relationships only benefit males is an effect of gender bias as Greiling and Buss suggest that females also profit as they can switch easily to a more suitable and successful mate. Waynforth (2005) found that in short-term relationships males with prominent masculine features such as a squared jaw and symmetrical faces were preferred as symmetrical faces can indicate a strong immune system and therefore healthy genes, asymmetrical facial features can indicate abnormal genes and therefore are less desirable in short-term