Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Social sciences

A person might be ill in one respect but well or healthy in others, it means that illness and health there are not opposite, so illness is not a lack of health and being healthy does not mean a person is well in all respects (psychologically and physically). WHO defines health like a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In the last 60 years, psychologists use the Disease Model, making miserable people less miserable. However one of the challenges of psychology nowadays is to discover how to promote health to get better people’s lives, it calls positive psychology. So the aim of this essay is to know how to promote health.

Martin Seligman proposes different techniques,... Continue reading "Promoting Health: Positive Actions and Behavior Change" »

Historical Development of Literary Theory

Literary Science vs. Literary Studies

• Restrictiveness
• A search for models, patterns, and schemes in the literary work
• Repetitiveness
• Making theory firmer, more coherent
• Borrowing from linguistics
• (For example, Structuralists in the mid 20th century)

Interpretation in Literary Theory

Monistic Systems

• Psychoanalysis (relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes)
• Hermeneutics (holy texts)
• Phenomenology (experienced

Democracy

A democracy is a political system that empowers individuals to participate in the governing process. There are two primary types of democracies:

Direct Democracy

In a direct democracy, citizens directly participate in making laws and governing. Ancient Athens serves as a historical example, where citizens could attend assemblies and directly influence decision-making.

Representative Democracy

Representative democracies involve citizens electing representatives who make laws on their behalf. Spain and the United States exemplify this system, where citizens vote for legislators who then enact legislation. In the US, even the president is chosen by electors representing the citizens' wishes.

Other forms of democracy include:

• Deliberative Democracy:

Practical Questions

Propose flexible methods for learning operations based on the properties of numbers and compare them with standard algorithms. Analyze children's productions and strategies. Propose/analyze "racons" to work on division, justifying them from mathematical, educational, and curricular perspectives.

Division Corner

Through the drawing of flower petals, we'll distribute them in equal parts without any remainders. Last question: How many petals does each flower have? Is that the only possible solution? (Materials: worksheet with flowers printed or paper to draw, paper cut-outs of the petals)

Solving

24 petals = 6 flowers of 4. They do one, then the next, and then the next = commutative property.

Parts of Each Activity

• Name
• Description
• SC
• Structures
• Metaphors
• Properties
• Representations
• Re/

Basic Concepts

Imagism

Imagism is considered the first important school in modernist poetry written in English. It rejected didacticism—poetry that tried to teach something—oversentimentalism, artificiality of diction (pomposity), and the constraints of meter and stanza. It aspired to less didacticism; morality was not stated; fewer feelings and more intellectualism; plainer language, closer to everyday diction; and free rhythm, meters, and stanzas.

The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation is a group of American writers who lived through World War I. They were lost in the sense that their inherited values were no longer relevant in the post-war world and because of their spiritual alienation. They did not feel that they belonged to the US or anywhere else;... Continue reading "Exploring Modernist Poetry: Imagism and The Lost Generation" »

Determinants of Health

Social Determinants and Health and Disease

Influencing Social Determinants

The way of life and the health, healthy life styles

Determinants of Health:

• Factors which, combined together, affect the health of individuals and communities → whether people are healthy or not, is determined by their circumstances and environment
• E.g. as where we live, the state of our environment, genetics, our income and education level, and our relationships with friends and family
• Note: the more commonly considered factors such as access and use of health care services often have less of an impact

The determinants of health generally include:

• The social and economic environment
• The physical environment
• The person’s individual characteristics and

The Strategy Concept - 5 Ps

1. For McDonald's, the egg comes first. False
2. Honda did not go after the biggest market. True
3. Mintzberg's five P's are all true definitions of strategy. True
4. Raises intriguing questions about intention: Perspective
5. Not one of Mintzberg's 5 P's: Perception
6. An ingrained way of perceiving the world: Perspective
7. Consistency in behavior: Pattern
8. Some sort of consciously intended course of action: Plan
9. Really just a specific maneuver: Ploy
10. A product or market: Position
11. The most difficult to change: Perspective
12. The most powerful: Perspective
13. Focused on direct competition: Ploy
14. The achievement of consistency: Pattern
15. Encourages us to look at the survival of the fittest: Position
16. How leaders try to establish direction for their organizations:

Cont 4: New Movement Shift from Faith to Science

It started questioning what’s happening around him/her. Nature went from being feared and respected to something to be tamed and subdued. During the period of conquest, modern anthropology was birthed. Michel Eyquem put forward a very important aspect at the basis of modern anthropology, which is relativism (written by looking at cannibalism). It is the belief that there is no absolute truth, only the truth that a particular individual or culture happens to believe.

Second Shock: Raw Materials to Semi-Finished Products

The industrial system experienced a revolution in each country, leading to more factories and increased human labor. This enabled another idea of evolutionism to appear (Darwin)... Continue reading "The Evolution of Anthropology: From Faith to Science" »

Impact of Factories on Society

The establishment of factories was a pivotal development during the Industrial Revolution, profoundly transforming daily life and society. This document examines the most significant impacts of the factory system, focusing on both the economic shifts it brought about and the severe conditions endured by child laborers.

Economic Shifts and Urbanization

Factories played a crucial role in the burgeoning economy. Prior to their advent, economies were predominantly agrarian. The rise of factories spurred mass migration to cities for various reasons. Initially, factories offered abundant job opportunities with relatively good wages, leading to increased wealth generation. However, as factory efficiency improved and automation... Continue reading "Industrial Revolution: Factories, Economy, and Child Labor" »