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The social scalpel according to Zerubavel “Helps us carve discrete mental slices out of reality” (Zerubavel 1991:27). The Social Scalpel also involves language. Language “allows us to detach mental entitles from their surroundings and assign them fixed, decontextualized meanings, it also enables us to transform experimental continuum into discontinuous categories” (Zerubavel 1991:29). Another example from the article of the social scalpel is the process of learning. In this example, it is dealing with the concept of a burger. Adding cheese to a hamburger makes it a cheeseburger, but adding lettuce to a hamburger does not make it a lettuce burger. It is still a hamburger (Zerubavel 1991:28). From this example, it is learning what gives a person or object its identity. In the hamburger example, it is the kind of meat and not the condiments that give the burger its identity (Zerubavel 1991:28). …show more content…

Splitting is the division or separation of people, objects, and ideas that do not fit into the category. Lumping and splitting are exhibited in the reading of Fear from Falling by Peggy Orenstein. An example of lumping in this article which is simple is that the article discusses about the students at Weston school and the concept of a sex. Another example is what all males at Weston get taught when it comes to sexual education. Also, what all the females at Weston get taught when it comes to sexual education. When it comes to all the males being taught about sexual education, the instruction talk about their feelings about sex (pleasure), climax, and masturbation. The males are group into this category to enjoy sex. When it comes to the females at Weston being taught about sexual education, they are taught to avoid sex and to avoid the feelings and desires about sex. The females are mostly taught about their Anatomy and Physiology of their bodies. They are also taught how a female is supposed to

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Lars Eighner goes into great detail in his essay, “On Dumpster Diving”, when discussing about his experiences living on the streets and the ways of Dumpster diving. He called himself a “scavenger” and even though he would rather live a “comfortable consumer life,” he learned so much from being a scavenger. Eighner begins the chapter with the three principles; what is safe to consume, knowing the Dumpsters, and knowing the answer to the question “Why was this discarded?” He then discusses how to identify good or rotten foods; what will leave the person satisfied or have the person end up with botulism. Eighner also states the benefits of knowing the different locations of dumpsters, like his experience with the Dumpster behind a pizza delivery shop.

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Intro The Dust bowl conveyed an enormous agrarian and monetary hit to the Great Plains and destroyed what was left of the United States Economy during the Great Depression. It continued for a decade, 1930 to 1939, and wrecked ranches and lives all over Texas, Oklahoma panhandles, Colorado, parts of New Mexico, Canada, and Kansas. Monstrous dust storms wrecked pretty much everything from harvests, overwhelming ranches, in such a way it crushed the income and careers of thousands of farmers. Cause

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Racism is alive and well in our modern day society. The fact that racism is a prominent form of social justifications cannot be neglected. On the contrary to this, Angeline Price’s article titled, “Working Class Whites,” she argues that racism is gone but this idea of “classism” would be the “last available method of prejudice in our society.” However, Michael Omi and Nell Bernstein think otherwise.

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For Goodness Sex, by Al Vernacchio, is a welcome relief from the two previous books; Girls & Sex and Man Interrupted, as the focus is about sexuality as a whole; gender, sexual orientation, etc., rather than on the culture of females and males. In a chapter titled “Gender Myths,” Vernacchio (2014) asks the question, “male and female, is that all there is” (Vernacchio, A., p. 112, 2014)? In teaching his class on Sexuality and Society, Vernacchio asks these questions and questions similar, demonstrating that he takes into consideration that there are feelings at stake and keeps in mind the human aspect of sex and sexuality as he is intentionally behind challenging students to foresee and develop their sense of values about sex, instead of constantly being “in the moment.”

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Vertical Disintegration: The division of one organization into a few, with each performing activity leading to a single completed product. Vertical disintegration occurs generally because of diseconomies of scale, which are the consequence of inefficiency because of huge size, make it more advantageous than remaining one corporation. OR Vertical disintegration means dividing an industry into several segments, from upstream to downstream, with each firm concentrating on certain functions of certain segments. The firms in the segments comprise supply chains.

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Mirabelli uses example to show the inaccuracies of this claim. The first example Mirabelli presents is the skill it takes to memorize an entire menu. A waiter must memorize the entire menu, as well as have a full understanding of the menu. Mirabelli provides the reader with an example of what happens when the waiter does not have a full understanding of the menu. “Harvey then told me that a customer had asked him about the sauce, and since he could not explain what it was, the customer did not order it” (Mirabelli 150).

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Harold Gafinkel defined ethnomethodology as the study of how people use common sense understating to make sense of life. Ethnomethodology relies heavily on social norms and their obvious presence in a community. Garfinkel, while studying ethnomethodology, performed a series of breaching exercises in which he broke social norms. Similar to Garfinkel’s experiments, the breaking of using appropriate utensils called the observers to question my common sense and understanding of social conventions. The standard belief of what utensils should be used for eating a particular dish was destroyed when I used a fork to eat soup and a spoon to eat a salad.

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Approaches to Victimization The Role of a Drug Dealer A drug dealer is someone who illegally sells drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, meth, etc. Some drug dealers only sell small amounts of drugs and some sell big amounts of drugs. Some are self-employed and or have a plug and some might be part of a cartel.

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A set of characteristics by which something is familiar is an identity. People are able to recognize a chair by its flat surface and the legs that support it, however, humans adapt to this identity. For instance, there may be only one leg, but that does not stop it from being identified as a chair. When talking about humans the basic idea of identity tends to become perplexing. This does not stop oneself from identifying various people.

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Reflection Essay When looking at the essays to choose from this week, the three that caught my eye were Graduation by Maya Angelou, On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion, and On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner. I chose Graduation because I felt I could relate to the author on this topic. The emotions one goes through when graduating to the next step can be powerful and unforgettable. I chose On Keeping a Notebook because, again, I felt like I could relate to this article.

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It is the process of splitting the customers, or potential customers, in a market into different groups, or segments, within which customers share a similar level of interest in the same,

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Thesis Statement: Research has shown that comprehensive sexual education is the best way to educate and help teenagers about topics like sex, sexuality, gender and much more, unlike other biased and inaccurate methods like abstinence-only education. I. Introduction: The two major sexual education programs that are taught in public schools across the US are known as comprehensive sexual education and abstinence-only education. A. Sexual education is an important aspect of a teenagers ' development.

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But, what exactly sex education is? Sex education is the process of developing in young people’s skill so that they can have a clear idea and can make their own choice based on the knowledge they have gained about the sex. Sex education is the process of obtaining information and forming attitudes and intimacy. We live in such society where beliefs about everything have been rooted by superstitious norms and values.

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