...of the termination of life. The term entails much more from a societal standpoint, however, than the absence of the life force which we equate with the living entity. Death is a process in which the living end their societal obligations. With the slow subsidence of those particular obligations,...
...the validity of Eco's argument that all of social life is a sign system. Paul Ekman devised a Facial Action Coding System (FACS) which correlates facial expression with the muscular action that results in that expression. He, along with other researchers, has identified nineteen different...
...culture to the next, one is struck with the complexities of each society. How did each culture decide upon its values, customs, and priorities? What sort of environmental factors influenced their development? Between the Islamic, Asian, Latin and Precolumbian societies, for example, there are...
...of providing an example to the world of a multicultural country. It is a country, however, with many distinctive interests and foci. Sometimes this results in a degree of fractionation. Indeed, our society is increasingly at odds within itself as to how to describe and account for the variety of...
...the Intermountain Acoustics? For the past two years, Pam Mills has been playing stand-up bass for the bluegrass group "Intermountain Acoustics." She is a dedicated researcher and teacher in the world of natural and ecological history. While passionate about her work, she is even more...
...throughout her history. The city is a holy place for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. During her heyday Jerusalem was the largest Holy Sanctuary of the world, hosting hundreds of thousands of people during the important religious holidays. Unfortunately, history has wielded a heavy hand on...
...Proper Attirbution A Qualitative Analysis of the Social Environment at a McDonald's by Kathie Easter, , June 1998 I chose to do a qualitative analysis of the social interactions at a local McDonald's due to another paper which I recently completed on George Ritzer's notions of...
...Deaf B Anastasia, - December,1998 The deaf view themselves more as a subculture than as a group with a handicap (Pad-den & Humphries, 1988 cited in Hallahan et al, 1994). Authors contend that although some may wish to debate that fact, whether or not deafness is a...
...Life of an Imperial Monument: Hagia Sophia after Byzantium highlights many of the cultural and historical aspects of Hagia Sophia since Mehmed II’s conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Necipoglu comments that her purpose for the article is to fill in many of the details which have been...
...Littlejohn and Cynthia Lont discuss various concerns within the area of social science and cultural studies. Bakhtari addresses the difference found in management styles between Middle Eastern immigrant managers in the U.S. and U.S.-born managers which are shown to be significant. Curtis...