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Smiling & Contemporary Society / Issues In Non-Verbal Communication
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In this thoughtful 7 page essay, the writer discusses the meaning of smiling in modern American society and it how it functions differently for different people as an example of non-verbal communication. Of particular interest, is the difference between genders : men are often ridiculed if they smile "too much" whereas women are expected to smile constantly. Some cross-cultural comparisons are also made between perceptions of situational smiling in the United States and Europe. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Smiling.wps

Social Action for Survival: India's Chipco Movement, Malaysia's Penan Movement, and Chico Mendes' Brazilian Rubber Tappers' Movement
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A 4 page overview of these three environmental movements. The author emphasizes that these movements have been the desperate acts of traditional peoples to save their indigenous lands, lands upon which their very survival as a people depends. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPanthTr.rtf

Social Anthropology / Observations of Homosexuals
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A 3 page essay in which the writer reflects upon a one-time experiment-- purposefully observing the style, dress, mannerism, and subculture of homosexuals in New York City's Greenwich Village. Reported on is simply what was seen and observed.. The writer concludes that we cannot make assumptions about people based upon their sexuality and that homosexuals are 'people before they are anything else.' No Bibliography.
Filename: Homoobsv.wps

Social Anthropology: Insight Into Our Own Society and Culture
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A 5 page paper which discusses how the study of social anthropology helps us understand our own society and culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAanthro.wps

Social Darwinism and Australia’s Aborigines
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A 5 page contention that racism has been one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth century in particular the concept of racial inferiority was purported by a number of disciplines. Anthropology, medicine, psychology, and sociology all became vehicles of racism as they proposed and supported theories which perpetuated disenfranchisement and segregation of the aborigines from mainstream Australian society. The premises of social Darwinism held that the fittest would survive while the weaker and inferior aborigines would perish. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPabo6.rtf

Social Institutions and Behavior as Separate from the People Who Support Them
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This 5 page report discusses how anthropologists have invented categories of social behavior or institutions and use them in order to study the pattern of life lived by a group of people even if the individuals within such a group may not necessarily be personally living what the larger group or institution would suggest. Examples of where groups overlap and how people fit into the social framework are presented. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWinsoc.rtf

Social Mobility: Differences in Class and Caste
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A 4 page discussion of the numerous factors which can limit social mobility. While mobility between castes is perceived as impossible in the traditional caste system, it is possible to move within and between classes on the basis of merit and hard work. Even in the class system, however, social mobility is limited by such factors as gender bias, racism, and prejudice. No sources are listed.
Filename: PPcaste.rtf

Social Structure and Subsistence Pattern
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A 5 page address of three specific questions relating to the hunter gatherer vs. pastoralist vs. farming subsistence patterns. No sources are listed.
Filename: PPanthSocStrctr.rtf

Social Systems Distinguished From Culture
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A 5 page definition of these two concepts. Emphasizes that culture is a determinant of microsociological aspects of human interaction while social systems are most often concerned with macrosociological aspects of human interaction. Both culture and social systems are subject to evolutionary processes, however, and aspects of both are intertwined with each other. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: PPsocSys.wps

Socialization and the Individual
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A 7 page discussion of the way cultural factors begin to act on us as children to prepare us for our respective roles as adults. This paper examines the popular concept of the individual in relation to traditional cultures. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PPanthSocialization.rtf