...Agents of Society Mashell Chapeyama Zimbabwe There are various agents that play part in the socialisation process in the society. In this essay the writer looks at five of these agents. The writer also looks at the good and bad sides of each of these agents. The agents that shall be discussed are: • Parents • Peers • Religious leaders • Teachers • Friends. Parents Parents are the main agents of socialisation for the children. This is so because the parents spend much of the time with the children, from their tender ages until they are grown up. At home the parents set standards and rules. They insist on certain folkways. Examples include that they must not eat while they are standing. In Zimbabwe parents also teach children moral codes such as clapping and thanking other people. They are taught good ways of treating others. Generally parents set the best guidance to children. This is due to the attachment which parents have with their children as well as the love they have for them. One bad thing in the socialisation that comes from the parents is insisting on certain standards which may not be good for the children. Some religious parents teach their children to disown other people’s religious beliefs. Parents may tend to create stereotypes in their children. They tend to want children to behave in exactly the same ways as they do. Teachers Apart from parents teachers give a lot of socialisation to children. Children believe that teachers are always right;...
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...| Well earned reputation | | Group size tour | 6-20 passengers | Private tour and no limited group size for group travelers. | Privete tour and no limited group size for group travelers. | | Website: China Highlights: http://www.chinahighlights.com/ Haivenu: http://www.haivenu-vietnam.com/haivenu-about-us.htm China Highlights Another competitor that share the same chinese market with us is China Highlights. The company was established in 1998 as a devision of CITS Guilin (a travel agent was founded in 1959). China Highlights is given the big service experiences from CITS Guilin in order to provide the highest quality for international visistors to travel though out China. Aside the support from CITS Guilin, China Highlights also joined in many travel agencies in both china and united state, such as The China Association of Travel (CAT), China National Tourism Association (CNTA), The American Society of Travel Agent (ASTS) and United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA). By those supports from the associations as well as their...
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...Analys the business idea Electronic online shopping: Starting an online store has advantages over having a physical storefront: there's no rent to pay, and you can reach millions of customers from the comfort of your own home. To have a shot at success, however, it's a good idea to put as much thought into starting an online store as you would for any other business. You'll need a great product, a user-friendly website, and a solid marketing plan. Read on to learn how to get started. If you want to start an online store, you probably already have an idea for a great product to sell. Keep in mind that certain things are conducive to selling well online, while other items may be more difficult to sell when they can't be viewed in person. In any case, you should believe passionately in the value of your product - otherwise, it will be hard to connect with customers. Here are some questions to consider: * Is it a physical product that needs to be shipped, or is it a digital product that can be sent through the Internet? * Are you going to have an inventory (more than one) of each product, or will they be one-of-a-kind (e.g. artwork, vintage items)? * Are you going to want to sell a wide variety of products, or do you plan to specialize, like selling just t-shirts or books? * Are you creating the product yourself? If so, make sure you'll be able to keep up with demand. Form a relationship with a reliable supplier. * If you don't plan to make the product yourself...
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... for Travel Agents Totally in the Near Future? Erin Toh Temasek Polytechnic Abstract This paper will focus on the comparison between Retail Travel Agencies (TA) and Online Travel Agents/Intermediaries (OTA); and how the rise of technology has affected the business model and operations of traditional agents. Traditional TA in this paper refers loosely to those with a brick and mortar store, selling travel related services with human touch; while OTA are also selling travel related services, but without a brick and mortar store and solely relies on internet as a selling medium (Bottomley, 1997). The paper will start with an overview of the booming travel industry, followed by the main challenges facing the travel industry, namely labour crunch and human touch, discussed in the context of TA and OTA. An analysis of current consumers behaviour factors as identified by Zhou, Dai, and Zhang (2007), affecting purchase decisions will also be discussed. In addition, traditional TA roles have evolved throughout the years to offer differentiated services in order to keep within the competition. The distribution of travel products has undergone changes and in order to remain competitive, TA must take a page out of OTAs, adapt to technology and online platforms in order not to be rendered obsolete. Keywords: Travel Agents, Technology, Internet, Online Intermediaries, Online agents Will The Advent of Online Intermediaries Diminish the Need for Travel Agents Totally in the...
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...Stay True Travel Staying True to You™ Final Strategic Plan BUS475 Week 5 Professor Dhillon February 14, 2012 Stay True Travel Staying True to You™ Final Strategic Plan Introduction Being a successful business, or corporation, is composed of more than simply having the best logo, slogan, or advertising campaigns, but rather it is about how each individual aspect of an organization is constructed and built from the ground up. With money being tight, budgets shrinking, and uncertainty with job security, for businesspersons and families alike, the tourism industry has had to truly redefine itself and adapt to continue to be sustainable. Travel and lodging has become more than a small room, an uncomfortable bed, continental breakfast, and a free morning paper that it once was. Now, clients seek personalized service, lavish design, and a unique ambiance wrapped up into an affordable package and a uniquely tailored experience. Travel agencies are beginning to face rash decisions with their outdated marketing campaigns, untrendy travel destination partnerships, and ultimately losing clientele because they can no longer do the one, single-handedly simple thing that all travelers wish for: being heard and having their individual wants and needs met without hesitation. Although it may seem as if there are no adequate travel agencies to turn to that can and will meet all needs and wants of the everyday traveler, there is indeed one agency that will not let its clientele...
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...- To be the leaders in relocation service from Russia to Barcelona in a period of 2 years time. - To grow through word-of-mouth recommendations: highly satisfied clients telling other companies and families of their total satisfaction with the assistance they received. - Market Definition Both the world travel market and the relocation market are forecast to expand the percentage annually. One of the markets it has been increased since 2-3 years ago, and this one is the Tourism market, now there are more tourists from Russia, which means a faster economic growth rate of the country. Therefore, what we are planning to do is operate directly with the Russian market to get closer and facilitate the entrance of the country all Russian citizen that will be interested to come to Catalonia. During the current period of strong arrival of tourist from Russia to Catalonia, "4help" can capitalize on the many significant opportunities in the relocation industries. Strategic and implementation Swot / business environment Target Customer Tourist Sector Our company is Closely related to this industry as a result of the Increasing demand of Russian tourists in the city of Barcelona. These tourists are aged between (20-55) years, both male and female of medium income and active lifestyle. Catalonia and Barcelona has become one of the first tourist destinations of Spain. Only in Catalonia since early this year 655.385 tourists has already visited the city. Most...
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...Panache Travel Group Travel Agency - Upscale Business Plan Executive Summary Panache Travel Group (PTG) is a company which specializes in small, escorted luxury tour packages for discriminating clients. It will operate from two bases to better serve customers across the country: one in Salt Lake City, Utah; the other in New York, New York. The founders and employees of Panache Travel Group are experienced travelers and travel professionals who are knowledgeable, capable and passionate about the services Panache Travel Group will promote and offer. Within the growing travel industry, PTG will focus on the niche market of luxury travel. Its primary clients are individuals, couples and affinity groups of high-net-worth who travel for leisure at least once per year. Seeking the ultimate travel experience, the target clients demand the finest quality activities and accommodations accompanied by a superior level of service. PTG will have a competitive advantage over others in this market by providing smaller, more exclusive package tours enabling the clients of these intimate groups to receive personal attention from the travel hosts. PTG will cultivate this niche with one-to-one contact with potential clients; personal contact with sophisticated travel agencies whose primary clientele targets our market; broad out-reach programs through various media; special events; and an inter-active, full-service website. We have all aspects of travel technology available to us through Panache...
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...Agent-based social simulation: dealing with complexity Nigel Gilbert Centre for Research on Social Simulation University of Surrey Guildford UK n.gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk 18 December 2004 While the idea of computer simulation has had enormous influence on most areas of science, and even on the public imagination through its use in computer games such as SimCity, it took until the 1990s for it to have a significant impact in the social sciences. The breakthrough came when it was realised that computer programs offer the possibility of creating ‘artificial’ societies in which individuals and collective actors such as organisations could be directly represented and the effect of their interactions observed. This provided for the first time the possibility of using experimental methods with social phenomena, or at least with their computer representations; of directly studying the emergence of social institutions from individual interaction; and of using computer code as a way of formalising dynamic social theories. In this chapter, these advances in the application of computer simulation to the social sciences will be illustrated with a number of examples of recent work, showing how this new methodology is appropriate for analysing social phenomena that are inherently complex, and how it encourages experimentation and the study of emergence. Social simulation The construction of computer programs that simulate aspects of social behaviour can contribute...
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...FRIMPONG COURSE: DIVERSITY OF PEOPLE AND CULTURES TOPIC: SOCIALIZATION 1.0 Definition / Scope Sociologists, Social Psychologists, anthropologists, as well as Educationalists and Politicians use the word “Socialization” in reference to the process through which an individual inherits the norms, customs and ideologies of the social order they live in. Socialization is necessary for making an individual capable of interacting within the society and a society itself shares the common values, customs, norms, traditions languages etc. Socialization is the process whereby the helpless infant gradually becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of the culture into which she or he is born. Socialization is not a kind of ‘cultural programming’, in which the child absorbs passively the influences with which he or she comes into contact. Socialization is a lifelong process by which one keep learning and developing oneself as a human being. Socialization process is very important as it teaches one to behave in a society. Without socialization, one would not be able to learn the accepted customs, norms, symbols, languages and behaviours. Socialization helps one develop and shape one’s place by learning social skills. Socialization in a layman’s sense is the process of learning from others. This learning process starts right after birth or after the emergence from the womb. It is Socialization that fills the tabula raza mind we come into existence with. Socialization...
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...Position with veil of ignorance. First of all, Rawls believed that the principles of justice should help society to govern its structure and protect the rights of everyone in the society. Then Rawls proposed the idea that justice can be called “fairness”. Since he claimed that the principles of justice should be decided in advance in order to regulate the society more efficiently, a group of chosen people must determine the set of principles of justice. Given the importance of such task, there is no doubt that the group of chosen people ought to have the knowledge in relative fields and the capacity to think rationally in order to make the best decisions, if not for anyone else, at least for themselves. In this case, we refer to the participant with rationality a rational agent. If we assumed that every party were a rational agent, we are, in fact, acknowledging that rational agent would determine the principles of justice with the purpose of maximizing benefits for him and for people with similar background based on the given status quo and specific traits of society he is currently living in. Hence, if we only choose people who are rational, we would face two problems including constant argument, which would fail to deliver any reasonable agreement when rational agents have different background; and the possibility of exploitative agreement when every rational agent comes from similar background. Therefore, in order to nullify the potential negative effects, Rawls introduced...
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...jonker@tudelft.nl Tim Verwaart LEI Wageningen UR tim.verwaart@wur.nl Keywords: trade, culture, agents, uncertainty avoidance, negotiation Abstract A model is presented of the way that our cultural attitude towards the unknown influences the decisions we make in trade. Uncertainty avoidance is one of Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions. The paper presents a model of how this dimension affects trade. This influence has been explicated for the decisions regarding trade: partner selection, negotiation behavior, trust, and the interpretation of the trade partner’s behavior. It has been verified in simulations showing that the generic tendencies as attributed to uncertainty avoidance are reflected in the simulation results. Our approach is an example of instantiating generic knowledge on the influences of culture on decision-making in general. INTRODUCTION The international food economy is rapidly changing. Important issues are concentration and globalization, growing information intensity, consumer demands, and social responsibility [Kinsey 2001]. An important issue in current food trade research is the emergence and performance of international supply chain networks [Lazzarini et al. 2001]. Agent-based modeling extends the understanding of processes in society and economy. It enables simulation of the emergence of macro-level phenomena from micro-level interactions between individual agents [Tesfatsion and Judd 2006]. It is therefore well-suited for modeling the emergence and performance...
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...AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION Agents of socialization can also be defined as those people or groups within our social environment that affects or influence the orientation of an individual’s attitude, behaviour, emotion and self orientation either positively or negatively. They affect us directly or indirectly socially, mentally, emotionally and even on our self development. These groups are responsible for making and shaping our entire life in the society. TYPES OF AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION They are mainly five agents of socialization in the society which affects us on a daily basis, these agents of socialization are; The Family The Religion The School The peer group The Mass media THE FAMILY: The Family is the first group to have a great influence in our lives; they are the first form of socialization experience. The family are people we share the same genetics with in nature, they are people that can be said as the closest relations to us, they are grouped into two categories; Members of the immediate family and members of the extended family. The members of the immediate family consist of the spouse (husband/wife), parent, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters. While members of the extended family consist of the grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew and niece. In general the family members are people that can share personal experiences and information to one and another, which on normal condition wouldn’t share with others outside the family membership...
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...Families Are Not The Only Agents Of Socialization The agents of socialization are the persons, groups, or institutions that teach us what we need to know in order to participate in society. There are four agents of socialization. They include family, peers, school, and the mass media. Of the four agents, family is considered the primary agent of socialization. The other three agents of socialization, peers, school, and the mass media, are considered secondary agents of socialization. Though these are considered secondary agents, they are very important components of socialization. Many people tend to forget about the function and importance of these three agents. It is important for people to realize that family is not the only agent of socialization. Family is the most significant agent of socialization but the secondary agents, peers, school, and the mass media, must not go unrecognized. As earlier stated, family is the primary agent of socialization. This is so because family is one’s first view of social value. This is valid in all societies. Family sizes and structure vary from household to household and from culture to culture. These play key roles on how one grows up and views the world. Families serve as important functions in society because they are the primary locus for the socialization of children. They are also the primary source of emotional support. They often go through the same things at the same time and can provide comfort for one another. This allows and...
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...When discussing various ways that socializing agents contribute to an institutionalized system or social inequality one must first develop a better understanding of what socializing agents are, why they are important, and the effect or impact that they have in our society. Socializing agents teach us what is expected from society and they even help us learn what they norm is in society. Another major role that socializing agents play in our society is by trying to convince us that the unequal system is normal and proper. By doing this we have allowed ourselves to conform and accept whatever it is that they may say. Socializing agents have the ability to teach us that certain inequalities are considered the norm, therefore we accept whatever those ideas are. One example of this is by letting the media and teachers convey to us that it is the norm for some people to be wealthy and other people to be poor. Another example is in a family, when the first child is born they are subjected to high discipline standards, and as time passes and the family continues to grow the last child is raised in what can be considered a much more relaxed environment then what the first child was raised in. In the end this issue can cause tension, anger, jealousy, and even social equality between the siblings, where the first child has the potential to become a follower, or a traditionalist and the last child will be rebellious. We believe what they tell us, therefore inequalities prevail. It is because...
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...socialization process. When one looks at the values of a society and one sees that the media has changed significantly over the past thirty years in terms of sexual content, sexual undertones, and violence. People have become numb to programs and reports that in the past would have created a stir. The media has helped to mold our social mores. When the media presents homosexuality in a more pleasant tone, persons have become more accepting of the stands. Rosie O'Donnell was aware of this when she aired her program about families of gay people on a cruise ship. It was addressed at helping to alter public opinion of what constitutes a family in the 21st century. News shows only present the information that will sell. The media operates on the support of sponsors. If an issue is not going to draw public interest, the media will not present it. The news media also reflects the opinions of the person's who create the news as a team. The fashion industry and product market functions on the media attitude that if the public identifies with a product it will sell. In order to sell products sexuality and music serve to entice the public. Yes, the media has a significant impact on the social values and mores in a society. AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION IN U.S SOCIETY There are four major agents of socialization in the life of many people today. Those major agents are family, school, peers, and mass media. There are also two other agents called religion and workplace. Many people today...
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