In his argumentized article, Political Strategist Reed Galen argues that Americans are not taking these current tragedies seriously, and are beginning to dismiss them as if they are a normal thing. Reed Galen supports his argument by stating examples on how people are beginning to treat these tragedies and explain how the respond to them today. Galen's purpose is to inform the reader that people should actually take action on these situations instead of going to social media to give their condolences. Galen uses a serious tone to appeal to all Americans that they have to begin doing something to help.
What is social vulnerability? The idea of social vulnerability inside the emergency management setting was first presented in the 1970’s when emergency managers first realized that vulnerability also encompasses socioeconomic influences that negatively impact resiliency to disasters or emergencies. Form the perspective of an emergency manager social vulnerability refers to the socioeconomic and demographic factors that impact the resiliency of individuals, groups or communities. It has been well established that not all classes of individuals living within a disaster area are affected by the disaster in the same way.
How would you react when faced with a disaster? It is likely you would behave differently than other people in a disaster. This question isn’t difficult to answer after reading “The Forgotten Storm” by Akin E Wallace which discusses how former state senator F. M. Hewitt reacted when he was in De Soto during the time which the tornado stuck the town. Then compared to how Gulfport Mississippi police department maintenance supervisor Terrence Gray reacted in Hurricane Katrina’s wake in “In Katrina’s Wake” by Kelly Knauer.
Natural disasters like earthquakes or hurricanes sometimes cause extreme environments to change, in spite of the fact that most extreme environments have always been this way. In addition to the aforementioned extreme environments, poverty and natural disturbances, can also qualify as extreme environments. Extreme conditions are especially deadly and leave residents vulnerable to the derogatory effects of residing in them. These ideas are very prevalent in the article “In their Own Words: Resilience among Haitian Survivors of the 2010 Earthquake” as they experienced trauma from the earthquake that occurred in 2010. In the article “In their own words: Resilience among Haitian Survivors of the 2010 Earthquake '' by Guitele J. Rahill et al.
Whereas, during a natural disaster it may be difficult to gain access to such resources and therefore, some people can be facing this issue for the first time in their lives. Which can result in conflict and lawlessness taking place. For instance, if a natural disaster was to occur in a less developed country such as Afghanistan, the citizens would not be in a sudden shock if they no longer has access to electricity or any other issues since poverty is issue in the country and they have already adapted into living and surviving in such living conditions that may occur during a natural disaster. However, if such was to occur in Ottawa then it would be a completely different situation since many people might be feeling helplessness and panic due to living
The way in which a society responds to natural disasters is varied. This is not only true for dissimilar disasters among different civilization, even identical natural disasters can be viewed in broadly different lights. In fact, the natural disaster occurring appears to be completely irrelevant. The attitude surrounding the natural disaster is reliant on the society being afflicted.
In “Why No One Helps in a Crisis”, John Darley and Bibb Latane assert that no one helps in a crisis because they are unperceptive, slow to recognize a crisis and diffused of responsibility when others are present in a crisis. Firstly, Darley and Latane explain that people do not help in a crisis because they are unperceptive of their surroundings. People tend to not pay attention to what is happening around them and thus might not be aware that a crisis has occurred. Darley and Latane used the example of a staged crisis whereby smoke was released into the waiting area through a vent and most of the subjects were unaware of the situation they were in until the area became too smoky, causing them discomfort. Hence, this shows that people do not
Unfortunately society is still categorizing people based on their race. As a society and as individuals we develop while growing up directions in what we think about the different races, which lead us to our own opinion what we have. They don’t realize it but behavior like that bring consequences with it. Social construction in races was created by society I recording to defend the inequality in our country. To treat a person based on their skin color differently shouldn’t be happening, but we as a society did assigned and created those different treatment/values in a person and how to interact with others.
Cut-off date 27 February. Part1: Essay. ‘Evaluate the contribution of a qualitative approach to research on friendship’. Part2: DE100 project report – Method.
In this essay I will discuss the risk management in the Haitian earthquake 2010 and the Japanese earthquake and tsunami 2011. I will compare the risk management and mitigation procedures each country had in place and how the natural hazard impacted on their society. I picked Japan and Haiti as it allowed me to compare how a developed and undeveloped country coped when faced with a natural hazard. United nations office for disaster risk reduction (2007) defines disaster risk management as ‘the systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations, and operational skills and capacities to implement strategies, policies and improved coping capacities in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazards and the possibility of disaster.’
Everything we see as reality are just beliefs. With the economy demanding more intelligent and competitive civilians, education is deemed central to people’s lives. However, you don’t need education to continue breathing and your body doesn’t depend on it, so why do you wake up early everyday for classes? Every answer can be questioned with a “why?”, and the point is that there is no worldly force that makes choices but yourself. School is a social construction, and we choose to follow the system that we see appropriate.
Before we explain the concept and idea of social construction we need to first define what social construction is. What a social construction is, is it's a construct of how society should be like. This could be from the race you are, to the gender you should be. Now that we got the definition let me explain to you the idea of social construction.
When playing a team sport, the whole team needs to work together to get the win, a person can not do it individually without the team. A disaster situation is very similar, the goal is for the majority of people to survive. In that case grouping together is more effective than working alone. When people are able to team up and all work toward the same goal, it is more likely that that group gets to that goal in opposition to someone working unassisted. In the book 102 Minutes the authors Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn give examples of how group survival benefited those affected by the attack on the twin towers on 9/11.
After several rounds and a night or two studying- I am ready to approach the sociologists head on. One chapter and 36 pages later I 've decided to take a critical approach to resolve this argument... I would definitely act as the mediator in this situation- understanding that neither sociologist has contributed the most to society or as equally. Each contributed different ideas, concepts, perspectives, approaches and meaning to the scientific study of society. Not only is the modern understanding of soiciology built on the ideas of these somewhat "philosophers" of the science- but each coined unique and categorised methods in explaining the world around us.
Applications of Personal Construct Theory There are certain aspects that Kelly has looked at it in terms of his personal construct theory. He looked at in from the point of view of abnormal development, approach to psychotherapy and the Role Construct Repertory (Rep) Test.
