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Although changes of a physical or psychological nature are constantly taking place, many people are only vaguely aware of them unless they occur abruptly or markedly affect the pattern of their lives. The changes of old age, for example, usually occur at a much slower pace than those of childhood or adolescence. However, they still require ...
Because developmental tasks play such an important role in setting guidelines for normal development, anything that interferes with their mastery may be regarded as a potential hazard. There are three very common potential hazards related to developmental tasks. The first is inappropriate expectations; either individuals themselves or the social group may expect the development of behaviour that is impossible at ...
Having known, since early adolescence, the important role appearance plays in social judgements, social acceptance, and leadership, middle-aged people rebel against threats to the status they fear they may lose as their appearance deteriorates.
For the man, there is the added handicap of competition with younger, more vigorous, and more energetic men who tend to judge his capacity to hold ...
The success of marriage is reflected in a number of interpersonal relationships and behaviour patterns. While these may vary, to some extent, for different people and for marriages at different ages, they can, for the most part, be used to assess the adjustment of any marriage. The most important of these criteria are given and explained below.
Just as the ever-increasing number of vocational opportunities makes vocational selection and adjustment difficult, so does the ever-increasing number of family patterns make marital adjustment difficult. This difficulty is increased when one spouse has grown up in a family where the lifestyle differs markedly from that of the other spouse. A woman, for example, whose childhood home life was that ...
Ethnic groups in the Philippines are classified according to certain physical, cultural, linguistic, religious and geographic criteria.
A. According to distinctive physical traits
Light (1985) gives the following explanations on the origin of prejudice:
In many societies throughout the world, membership in racial and ethnic groups influences people’s social status and roles as they interact with others. Physical characteristics, especially skin color and certain distinctive cultural traits, complexes, and patterns, become badges for social and economic status. Frequently, they establish a person’s or a group’s ...
The classification of people into races and ethnic groups carries deep implications on the social and political life of different racial and ethnic groups. Such classification of racial and ethnic categories have held severe consequences for some groups while elevating other groups into positions of power, superiority and prestige. These classifications led to the notion of racial superiority and prestige ...
Many criticisms against and negative effects of globalization have been pointed out by a number of anti-globalization groups and social movements such as national liberation factions, church groups, left-wing parties, environmentalists, public interest activists, peasant unionist, anti-racism groups, reformists, reactionary and revolutionary groups. The anti-globalization proponents have advanced the following criticisms against the negative ...
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