Conformity is a form of social influence, when we conform we act and think like members of our group. Often people even alter or change their personal beliefs to match those around them. When we conform we feel pressured to fit in with others, to be a part of the majority. While we ...
We thoroughly understand that ‘what the West means in a given context […] depends entirely upon who is invoking the term and for what purpose’ (McNeill 1997, p. 514). We started by discussing their perception of HK. There was a consensus among participants that HK constituted a hybrid ...
2011). The term sex may be defined as the biological features of being female or male, whereas gender may be defined as a personal sense of being a man or woman, as influenced by a range of social and cultural factors (Griner et al...
Barbara Rogoff, a leading sociocultural theorist, coined the term ‘cognitive apprenticeships’. Rogoff found that an Indigenous group of people in Guatemala learn very different to westerners. They learned through one-on-one interactions with their parents and family members during daily work. Instead...
the national language(s), history, and culture or of different forms of cultural conformity, such as the ‘assimilation’ evaluation in France (Hajjat,2012). Accordingly, I examine the degree to which earlier naturalisation practices entailed ideas about applicants’ suitability identifiable in the ...
The ASA staff have brought the matter to the Committee on the Status of LGBT Persons in Sociology, but there wasn’t consensus there. They propose (and are planning to implement), the following scheme: female male transgender-female transgender-male other: ___ prefer not to answer I am ...
Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA Jered Abernathy & Brent Simpson Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 84 Legon, Accra, Ghana Charity S. Akotia & Adote Anum New School of Economics, Satbayev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan ...
Since the late 19th century, genital modifications (female and male) have been an important research subject in anthropology. According to a comparative and constructivist perspective, they were first interpreted as rites of passage, then as rites of ins
s ability to question the dominant views. It is believed that what an organisation may lose in the short term in terms of efficiency can be regained in the long term in innovation. In other words, ignorance can be emancipatory (McGoey2014). Instead of sowing insecurity, the emancipatory ...
“Greek society holds the opinion that gay men are –I’ll use the term– sissies, men who behave like women, women who aim to seduce other men into becoming gay. Society believes that all gay men are engaged in the arts or work in television… and I believe that gay individuals are ...