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Obesity is also seen as a condition that has certain associations with a person's culture, gender, education, 'food pricing', 'availability' of fast food, 'customs of social eating' and advertising (Anderson and Taylor, 2006, p.... The physiological perspective identifies the consequences of obesity as an increased risk of mortality, several co-morbidities like heart disease, diabetes etc.... The physiological perspective on obesity has been helpful in identifying any factors that cause obesity....
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This paper ''Afrocentricity'' tells us that this film completed in the year 2000, offers various insights about belonging to the contemporary African – American community as well as some of the different perspectives associated with this culture.... The work which is done by the filmmakers throughout the entire shoot offers different types of insight into the community that moves beyond the stereotypes of belonging in the African – American scene of contemporary America, both with the sociological differences and with the stereotypes and perceptions often given by the media....
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Developing a sociological perspective Social phenomena are termed as behavior which affects an individual in his or her day to day life .... For instance in Ugandan culture, a woman may be said to be beautiful if she has a full figure.... In the modern world, eating with bare hand has been seen by many as an uncultured and uncivilized act.... However, amazingly even in this day and age, Indians resisted evolution by eating with their hands....
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The paper "Gay Culture from a sociological perspective" highlights that Indian food has become successful due to its spicy element and the younger American generation tends to get adventurous and experience that.... Canada's culture has been influenced by European culture and they tend to be more similar to Europe than America.... American culture however has also seeped into Canada due to the geographic closeness.... The Canadian government does tend to promote cultural protection and limit the effects of American culture on domestic people....
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Historical perspective In Canada, multiculturalism exclusively refers to the concerns and attention given to cultural diversity.... The paper "Does Canadas Official Policy of Multiculturalism Strengthen or Weaken the Countrys National Identity" discusses that among the immigrant countries, Canada is considered the first to be thoroughly pluralistic....
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Changes in society have contributed greatly to changes in sociological theory.... The sociological tools in sociological theory give the society members an idea to explain phenomena in the society.... The paper "What Is a sociological Theory" discusses that these are the significant points that I learned in class.... It explores and understands the function of race in a sociological context.... The term sociological theory has been defined by different scholars in different social contexts....
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The paper "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" cites Miner who described the culture of Nacirema from his sociological lens.... They are a part of the Nacirema culture, and most of the population shows masochistic tendencies.... However, this is only a culture-based belief.... If I see the world through my sociological lens, I come to know that ritual healing has a strong therapeutic effect on the individual and results from social support to cope with stress....
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This paper 'Health Promotion from the Figurational sociological perspective' analyses health and health promotion through the figuration sociological perspective.... Using the sociological perspective, moral panic is a condition where bogus and embroidered information about a certain community or group of people spreads across the society leaving people troubles, with a lot of fear or even sacked.... According to the sociological perspective, the origin of moral panic is the media....
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