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Plastic Surgery

plastic surgery as a cultural phenomenon, that is, why people choose to have elective surgery. Types of plastic surgery It is a ...

Assessing Abnormal Behavior

even schizophrenia. While Hippocrates approached the issue with a scientific bent, seeking to use medicinal practices to relieve a...

Struggling Organizations and the Power of Leadership

world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...

Culture in Our Ever Changing World

Part I. Multicultural Social Work...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...

The Evolution of Women's Rights

the Victorian era. Unfortunately, despite attention being paid to the question of womens rights for the first time, the actual soc...

OVERVIEW: WHOLE FOODS

in 1992, and continued expanding both organically and through acquisitions (Biesada, 2011). Its most recent acquisition was that o...

"The Bluest Eye" and Standards of Beauty

animal kingdom besides humans. Nevertheless, these standards can become a problem when they become conflated with racial character...

CULTURE AND ETHICS IN MEXICO AND COSTA RICA

Mexico is quite high in the power distance ranking, suggesting a high level of power, wealth and inequality in society (Mexico, 20...

Cultural Displacement and Dehumanization in Boyden's 'Three Day Road'

in a world where the history of most major nation-states is rife with imperialism and the colonial subjugation of native populatio...

Human Rights as a Cultural or Universal Concept

which even weak legislation can be supportive of human rights in the way that it is implemented and interpreted within the courts....

The Classroom and Cross-Cultural Competency

is especially true when dealing with children or adolescents, for whom cultural acceptance is often a critical aspect of social in...

Family Transferring to East Africa

are not very important to the people. Time is very flexible. 2. Positive and Negative Aspects of Pre-departure Training We can...

Using Cultural Dimensions to Compare Two Different Organizations

a counter or till, only desks and tables with the products (Apple, 2012). The differentiation is based on a premium product, the p...

Prevalence of Divorce, Cultural Assimilation

also more pressure on couples to work out their differences and learn how to live amicably and keep the marriage intact. 2. My so...

Cultural Factors Affecting Drug Counseling

The United States is becoming progressively more multicultural over time. Social diversity is, in fact, something that must be ta...

Assessment of the United Kingdom as an FDI Host Nations for R&D in Biotechnology

development facility. It is assumed that one country that the firm will not consider is Germany. The existing partnership is in th...

THE POPULARITY OF FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

it on her own site - and from there, word-of-mouth helped promote the book. The stories were offered for free, which makes this "r...

Mao's Cultural Revolution and Durkheim

its members a sufficient degree of homogeneity" (Durkheim, 1956). As is obvious, such an ethos was the entire justification behind...

Adjusting to Retirement

research as the "most important predictor of mortality, morbidity and well-being in adulthood" (Lowis, Edwards and Burton, 2009, p...

A Refutation of Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations

There are many theories that attempt to explain the violence that seems to be such an inherent...

Chinese Americans, A Cultural Assessment

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

21st Century Globalization - An Overview

a troublesome income disparity in the local sense in many of the nations where it is most championed, such as the United States, g...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

British Morale in World War II and the Role of Information

the Psychological Study of Social Issues in the 1950s sought to analyze the matter, but faced the endemic difficulty of separating...

Culture and Disadvantage in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

would usually be lag by approximately two years in terms of numeracy (QS A, 2003). The lower performance level has been attributed...

Identity and Puerto-Rican Americans

whole, as the US Census bureau indicates that 25 percent of all living on the mainland and 55 percent of Puerto Ricans living on t...

The Destruction of Native Culture in Australia

of large differences in terms of culture. The view was one of superiority, with the predominantly white immigrants perceiving them...

Diversity

dominant in relation to both numbers and the capacity to maintain status. The vying for power in this country may result in grea...

Cultural Prejudices in Parent Teacher Communication

Interpersonal communication affects practically every aspect of our lives. This is certainly true in the educational arena. Inde...