Stefan-Iulian Tesoi's Blog, page 5
May 26, 2018
Culture of Poverty
Culture of poverty This concept in social theory states that pauper people are most probable stuck to a cycle of poverty unless some outside intervention happens. According to anthropologist Oscar Lewis the poor develop aspirations, a character, a worldview and mechanics that tend to perpetuate their status. Newer research typically rejects the idea that whether …
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May 25, 2018
Free Will in Theology
Free Will in Theology When it comes to the ongoing debate related to free will, religions don’t have a satisfactory explanation for the paradox of the free will, a paradox that arises from the contradiction between an omniscient god that is everywhere, knows everything, present and future, and free will. In the Roman Catholic religion …
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May 24, 2018
Canmethod
We can see from the rising levels of obesity across populations all over the globe that people don’t really like healthy food. “Salad?” “Yuck!”, “Cake?” “Thumbs up!!!”. Since people don’t like healthy food, one of the research themes of psychologists and consumer psychologists in particular is how to get these people to eat more healthy …
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May 23, 2018
Summer Chills
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), a term with a lot of sophisticated words used to describe a common feeling of tingling that starts from the top of the head and continues down the spine. We all know and experienced that feeling, I don’t think that …
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May 22, 2018
Symbolic Self-completion Theory
Symbolic Self-completion Theory This theory states that people tend to acquire and display symbols that are strongly related to what they perceive as being the ideal self. For example, men who want to appear more manly and macho might be interested in acquiring products associated with manliness, a sports car, a watch, a cologne. We …
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May 20, 2018
Concept of the Day: Antipositivism (Interpretivism)
Antipositivism The Scientific Method of investigation goes through a loop of observation, formulation of a question, coming up with a hypothesis, making a prediction based on the hypothesis, testing the prediction, analyzing the results of the test and coming up with a conclusion. Well, antipositivism (interpretivism) states that the scientific method that is applied to …
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Concept of the Day: Directed Mutagenesis
Directed Mutagenesis This is an interesting hypothesis which challenges the standard theory of evolution and the mechanism through which evolution is achieved: random mutations. The directed mutagenesis hypothesis states that evolution occurs in a more “direct” way, that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a certain direction, towards a “goal”. In an …
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May 19, 2018
A Little Bit of Hiking
Went today for a little hiking on one of the hills outside the city I live in. On the way there I could not help but notice how the car traffic increased steadily in the past years. I don’t know exactly the statistics and the car ownership percentage, it’s just an observation. Another phenomenon that …
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May 18, 2018
Reward Theory of Attraction
Reward Theory of Attraction What this theory basically says is that people tend to like (be attracted) to those whom they associate with rewarding events. In other words, people tend to be attracted to those that make them feel good or to those that remind them of people they enjoy being around. If a relationship …
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May 17, 2018
Axiom of Cumulative Inertia
Axiom of Cumulative Inertia The title of this sociological axiom sounds complicated and off-putting but the axiom itself is easy to explain: it basically says that the more time someone spends in a certain place the less likely the person is to move out from that place in the future. Some reasons for this kind …
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