...a variety of traditions. Every concept of culture varies, which establishes the diversified nature. Along with diversity, lies the indisputable trait of versatility. A single host or individual has the ability to encompass more than one culture at a time. In the world today, culture most commonly sprouts from heritage and where one is born. It is thus carried on through the specific groups, generation after generation. Examples of prominent and active cultures are Chinese, Indian, Spanish, and Italian. Specifically focusing on the Italian culture of this era emerged a reality TV series known as Jersey Shore. Jersey Shore taints this culture through stereotypical extremities and contrived situational settings. It is evident the “culture” promoted within Jersey Shore is solely focused on irrelevant activities towards the genuine Italian culture. The cast of the show embraces a set of norms and values which are indubitably barbaric in relation to a universal lifestyle. Throughout the show, these specific norms and values are ultimately established through basic communication and understanding of each other’s personalities as well as social motives. Norms authorize a set of behavioral expectations within a certain group. Of course, the cast of Jersey Shore retains an exceedingly skew array of norms in comparison to realistic society. Immediately as the...
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...time at school. Students taking part in drinking at college can be traced to a number of different factors: peer influences, fraternity and sorority involvement, social norms, etc. These influences all affect a student’s motives for drinking in college. When college students drink, it is usually not in a safe, appropriate way. Binge drinking has become common on the college campus. The risks of this type of drinking have an impact not just on the college student. Other students, family, and anyone in general feel the effects of this type of drinking behavior. “Alcohol identity also predicted engaging in behaviors that place the student at much greater risk for personal injury, harm to others, and legal consequences—binge drinking, drinking games, drinking intentionally to intoxication, and drunk driving.” (Casey & Dollinger, pg.18, 2007) The outcomes of alcohol consumption have many different outcomes for each student, and the root of this drinking can be attributed to many different factors. The explanation of how college facilitates certain drinking behaviors is not a simple one. There are many factors that go into why college students begin to drink. Greek life, peer pressure, and social norms all play a part in alcohol consumption for students. In a study done by Christy Capone, Mark Wood, Brian Borsari, and Robert Laird in 2007, the results concluded that affiliation with fraternities and sororities increased the likelihood for drinking. “It appears that formal (and perhaps...
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...| Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 | Sociology 100 | | John Max | | STRAYER UNIVERSITY 12/8/2012 Professor Taylor, Grace Individuals born prior to 1966 had the right to drink alcohol legally in the United States at the age of 18. In 1984 the United States changed its legal drinking age from 18 to 21. The legal drinking age in the United States of America should be lowered from the age of 21 to the age 18. Americans today are mature enough at the age of 18 to drink responsibly. Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 will have a positive outcome for American society. Lowering the legal drinking age affects the country as a whole, as well as many countries around the world. When considering the issue in a global perspective view, the United States is only one of four countries that have a drinking age as high as 21. In just about every other country around the world there is little or no social pressure to drink. In the countries where the legal drinking age set to 18 irresponsible behavior is never tolerated. Young people learn at home from their parents and from other adults how to handle alcohol in a responsible manner. Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development states that development occurs in stages. The second stage which is known as the conventional level appears in the teenage years. Kohlberg believes that in this stage young people lose some of their selfishness as they learn to define right and wrong in terms...
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...Annotated Bibliography Labrie, J. W., & Cail, J. (2011). Parental interaction with college students: The moderating effect of parental contact on the influence of perceived peer norms on drinking during the transition to college. Journal of College Student Personnel, 52, 610-621. This article emphasized the fact that students tend to increase alcohol consumption during the first year of college. Research has shown that peers influence these decisions but, more importantly parents play a significant role on educating young adults on the dangers of alcohol. In this particular study a research project was conducted on incoming college freshman. Incoming college freshman were required to fill out an online questionnaire about their current drinking behaviors, intended drinking over the first semester, and how often they contacted their parents. Individual alcohol use was measured by questions on frequency of consumption. Intended alcohol use was assessed through questions involving how often a week that particular student anticipated drinking. Parent student contact was measured by asking how often students contacted their parents. They were asked separately for mother and father. After measuring these values, results showed that parents who have frequent conversations with their children about...
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...Binge drinking is a pattern in which a person drinks excessively and it could make their blood alcohol concentration (BAC) go up to 0.08 grams percent or above(CDC, 2014).Binge drinking starts when a woman consumes 4 or more drinks in 2 hours and 5 or more drinks for men. Young adults from ages 18–34 are more likely to binge drink (CDC, 2014). College students who are knowledgeable about binge drinking can help themselves avoid the consequences that come with it. Some consequences from binge drinking are death, injury, assault, and sexual abuse (“NIAAA”, n.d.). It is important to avoid binge drinking because it could cause health problems such as cardiovascular disease, depression, seizures, and high blood pressure. Binge drinking could also...
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...3200 Journal Article Review * ARTICLE INFORMATION: Yanovitzky, Itzhak, and Jo Stryker. "Mass Media, Social Norms, and Health Promotion Efforts: A Longitudinal Study of Media Effects on Youth Binge Drinking." Communication Research 28.2 (2001): 208-39. ProQuest. Web. 3 Sep. 2013. * TOPIC/THEORY: The article is about the effects media has on society’s perception of binge drinking among young adults. “The study examines the validity of a norm-reinforcement approach as a complementary model to direct media effects on health behavior change.” The ideodynamic method and a time-series regression were applied in this experiment. * RESEARCH QUESTION OR PROBLEM: The study was conducted to see if media’s efforts to persuade youth to stop drinking are effective. As stated in the article, alcohol is the most widely used and abused drug among youth in the U.S. The authors set out to address two concerns. First, the believability of the norm-reinforcement approach compared to other paths of media effects on health behaviors. Second, the credibility of a direct or indirect path from media representations of risky behaviors compared to social expectations. * METHOD: The researchers considered four factors in order to test their theory. First, they surveyed high school seniors on their views of drinking. Second, they looked at news coverage of binge drinking between 1978 and 1996. Those newspapers were chosen to represent coverage of alcohol abuse in the national media environment...
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...found by simply just knowing the right person. Massive amounts of coca, marijuana, and opium are grown in Latin America, processed in refineries, and smuggled into the United States. Hundreds of tons of cocaine alone are produced and smuggled into the United States each year (Office of National Drug Control Policy 2003a). Since drugs and alcohol are so easily accessible and the way that people like to fit into group norms, we are experiencing problems with multiple drugs and alcohol in the workplace. Alcohol is a serious problem in the workplace and I’ve seen firsthand what it can do to a team of workers if it’s not managed properly. Since alcohol is the most accessible and has been around for thousands of years, I’d like to focus on it and the problems it causes within the workplace. The use and abuse of alcohol is the nation’s most serious health problem (SOC 402. McGraw-Hill Create p. 55). About 62 percent of Americans identify themselves as drinkers, 23 percent say they sometimes drink more than they should, and 30 percent say that drinking has been a source of trouble in their families (Pastore and Maguire 2009). A national survey found that alcohol use and impairment affects 15 percent of the workforce (Frone 2006). Some drink before work and...
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...Max Levin Individual Speech Imagine you are hunkered down behind an outcropping of rocks taking heavy enemy fire. Your world is being turned upside down and you cannot figure out where the shooting is coming from. You stay low and pray that you will not be struck by a bullet. Thankfully the shooting eventually stops and you escape with only a few minor wounds. You go back to camp and tell your comrades about your near-death experience. At this point you are still on edge and need help calming down. A drink of alcohol would do just the trick. However, you are just an 18 year old adult and not a 21 year old adult so you cannot legally consume alcohol yet. But don’t worry, you can still fight and die for your country. How can we possibly send 18 year olds to war, but not allow them to drink alcohol? To adults under the age of 21, alcohol is seen as a forbidden fruit. Since they cannot legally have it, they want it that much more. So when they are granted an opportunity to drink, they do so in a dangerous way. This binge drinking is where many alcohol related injuries come from, and what must be decreased. According to our laws, an 18 year old has enough maturity and judgment to drive a car, sign a legally binding contract, perform jury duty, and vote. Why shouldn’t they be able to decide if they want a drink or not? The drinking age should be lowered to the age of majority, which at this time, is 18. This decrease in the drinking age will allow young adults to safely consume...
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...They will also be encouraged to add important personal days like birthdays, vacations and parties. The calendars will then be used to create timeline follow-backs (TLFB; Sobell & Sobell, 1992) of their drinking behavior for the previous 90 days. Through charting which days they drank and the number of drinks on each day participants will become more aware of their own drinking behavior through identifying and confronting it (LaBrie, Cail, Pedersen & Migliuri,...
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..."DO SOCIAL PRESSURES INFLUENCE STUDENTS DRINKING HABITS AND THEIR PROPENSITY TO OBEY?" BY KHANDAKAR ROMENA HAQUE Abstract This reports focus is to find out if students in Waltham Forest College conform to peer or social pressure with relation to drinking alcohol. The results of this study have shown that whilst participants may not like to admit it, with the right line of questioning it can be shown that they conform to society norms or peer influences and disobey religious rules and laws when it comes to drinking alcohol. 60% of students drinking alcohol do so, as a result of socialising with friends with a high number stating it is to 'fit in' to their peer group. Contents Introduction Page 4 Methods Page 5 Results Page 6 Discussion Page 9 Conclusion Page 11 References/Bibliography Page 12 Introduction Are our behaviours and actions individual decisions based on our own thoughts and opinions? Or are they influenced some way, and if so by who or what? There have been many studies by psychologists such as Jennes (1932), Asch (1951) and Kelman (1958) on conformity and have largely resulted in the same argument. People conform to a majority influence. Deutch and Gerrard (1955) suggest that there are two reasons that we as individuals conform. Normative Social Influence (NSI) argues that the desire to 'fit in' and 'be liked' and not to be rejected influences us to conform to the majority, Informational Social...
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...The Examination of the Willingness of the Individual in Taking Apart of Australia’s Drinking Culture (Title) Keaton Hanly n9261605 PYB 307 Deanne Armstrong Thursday 1-2pm (?) Words Abstract: Introduction: In Australia, binge drinking “…refers to drinking heavily over a short period of time with the intention of becoming intoxicated, resulting in immediate and severe intoxication.” (DrugInfo) In order to be a binge drinker one would have to drink… “more than four standard drinks at any one time.” (DrinkWise) However, binge drinking isn’t just defined as drinking four standard drinks at one time, it can also refer to drinking “...continuously for a number of days or weeks, occasional or irregular bouts of heavy drinking or drinking to deliberately get drunk.” (DrinkWise) The growing trend of binge drinking has led it to become a social concern for Australia., especially in the younger generation. According to the Australia Bureau of statistics, “In 2011-12 almost three times as many men than women aged 18 years and over consumed alcohol in quantities that posed a health risk over their lifetime (29% compared to 10% respectively)…” (ABS) The problem with binge drinking is that it can cause many different health problems, such as short-term or long-term health problems. Some short-term health problems caused by binge drinking are hangovers, headaches, nausea, shakiness, vomiting, memory loss, and potentially overdosing from alcohol due to alcohol poisoning the blood...
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...correlation between binge drinking and social relationships with traditional and non-traditional college students, ages 18-24? Stephenson, Shamiya Dr. Gray Seminar in Sociology 12.8.2013 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..........…….3 Chapter I…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…...........3 Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter II …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..…..4 Literature Review……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………5 Theoretical Framework………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Chapter III…………………………………….………………………………………………………………………………………..………..9 Methodology………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Findings…………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………….…………………………11 Conclusion…………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………14 Works Cited….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………15 Survey…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..16 Informed Consent………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..20 Annotated Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….21 Abstract This research shows how binge drinking impacts college students peer relationships. Binge drinking is defined as the most common excessive method of drinking in the United States....
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...thus his actions strayed away from the social norms, paying for merchandise, and his actions were coined as deviant. But because the deviant behavior only took place one time, Benny strictly only participated in primary deviation; he learned from his mistake. Secondary deviation refers to “the ways in which stigma and punishment can actually make the crime or deviance “become central facts of existence for those experiencing them, altering psychic structure, producing specialized organization of social roles and self-regarding attitudes” (Lemert, 1967). This is best exemplified by Lindsey and Tiffany (high school sophomores) who are best friends, both of which were raised to not participate in partying and drinking alcohol. Tiffany begins to befriend “the party crowd” and soon partakes in drinking alcohol along with other illegal actions.Lindsey, who feels as if she is losing her best friend, attends the next party, gets drunk, and disappoints her parents who find out the next...
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...improving the air, climate change, environmental justice and building stronger tribal and state partnerships (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2010, para. 1). The simulation states that Alumina Incorporated is in a situation that the company may perhaps have an issue with harming the environment because of allegation made by Kelly Bates. The allegations are Alumina Incorporated dishonored particular environmental discharge norms during an (EPA) Environmental protection Agency compliance evaluation five years earlier. Alumina was ordered to clean up the water plants and the Alumina promptly complied with (EPA) Environmental Protection Agency. A new report was generated and statement shows that Alumina Incorporated to be in compliance with (EPA) Environmental Protection Agency (University of Phoenix, 2008). Kelly Bates makes a claim that her ten year old daughter is suffering with leukemia due to the polluted water Kelly believes is from Alumina Incorporated. Kelly states Alumina has been in violation for ten years the norms of the environmental as a result of the allegations Alumina is position into a complex situation...
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...as substances that alter a person’s thoughts, emotions, behaviours and perceptions; which can lead to abuse and an array of social and personal issues. Alcohol is often more harmful then some illicit substance such as cocaine or heroin, yet alcohol is legal, relatively inexpensive and widely advocated. Australia’s unhealthy relationship with alcohol has lead to a culture of excessive alcohol consumption, which has significantly impacted on many individuals and groups in society. Alcohol in Australia is so culturally accepted that it is often not even considered a ‘drug’. Such an excessive and acceptable drinking culture has resulted in increased health problems and many premature deaths. Alcohol is currently one of the leading causes of illnesses in Australia. In 2010...
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