____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract This study examines the issue of cultism and gansterism in Nigerian tertiary institution, focused on Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education Oto-Ijanikin and Lagos State University, Ojo as case study. The current aggressive tendencies and violent behaviours of Nigerian students were investigated the genesis, causes and their effect on moral development of the learners were equally considered
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A society, or a human society, is a group of people involved with each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent
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* Civilization Essay * Civilization is the product of the inner human consciousness that projects itself collectively within society. These projections are what we interact with everyday within our own society. These projections are based on the natural interpretation of their respective civilization or culture and the basic walks of life that consume it. For example the existence of laws, arts, religion, and government are the meat and potatoes of civilization without these essential elements
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from different areas of the world. The three main issues of migrating are employment, social integration and language barriers. They must encounter the struggles arising from a change in society and with its advancing development newcomers must bear even greater challenges. However, as the people of our society tend to grow outward in a positive, encouraging and welcoming manner, growing wary through stressful considerations of migration are become less and less of an issue. Immigrants
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Scholar by Day, Porn Star by Night. It is funny to see how much double standards can affect the life of people. Not just double standards between male and female. But elite college institutes set double standards all the time. For instance, person A is a student from lower-middle class America, has straight A’s and graduated valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA. Person B is from an upper class family with over five generations of alumni at the ivy league of choice and has around a 3.8 GPA. Person B
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What is western civilization? Western Civilization is an advanced culture of the Western Europe and North America. Western Civilisation found its way into Nigeria during the period of colonization when Nigerians were subjected into slavery in their own land by the British people popularly called the “white men”. During this period of colonization the white men introduced their culture to Nigerians who then was forced to emulate it, and this culture was way different from their normal culture. Now
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Aaron A. Evans Engl-221 World Literature to 1600 Carol Swain Lewis Ph. D. June 19, 2013 The Mode of Subsistence Most cultural anthropologist will argue that culture and religion are derived from the mode of subsistence. This is to say that culture and religion came from how we have to survive. According to Abraham Maslov’s hierarchy of needs, the first basic need of humans is physical needs. Encompassed in physical needs are food, shelter and clothing. Indeed, without these basic needs humans
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North (1990 p.3) “Institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction. In consequence they structure incentives in human exchange, whether political, social, or economic.” . Nontheless we will consider as good economic institutions the ones that provide security of property rights and and facilitates access to economic resources to different sectors of society. Without property right individual will have no incentives
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this perspective because Gattaca only has two types of societies, valid and invalid. Conflict theorists believe in that inequality exists because those in control of a disproportionate share of society’s resources defend their advantages on everyone else. The society isn’t made by shared values but by the hands of those in power. Those who are invalid are in poverty and suffer and those who are valid have the best of jobs and the best in society. It is appropriate to teach this at the university because
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Technology has been created and evolving since the beginning of history, all the way from the primitive discovery of fire to the advanced concepts of Global Positioning Systems, technology has come a long way and definitely affects every individual of society. Even during the short span of my lifetime, the change of technology has affected my life and how I perceive the world. Growing up in the 90’s definitely showed me that the advancements of technology changed how people lived their lives. During my
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