Subculture Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

In Argent et al.’s article “The Sponge City Hypothesis: does it hold water?” the concept of the ‘sponge city’ is explored – cities which act as command centers for the surrounding area, providing a haven for culture, infrastructure, and economy. The abstract offers a great refresher for the concept of a sponge city and what it means, as well as the purpose of the article – looking into migration trends within the cities of Tamsworth and Dubbo in order to find out whether or not these two cities could be considered sponge cities, as well as determining what that means for the subject.

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Introduction

Different countries have different subcultures with each subculture demonstrating certain characteristics. The following discussion analysis a sub-culture from Japan called Gyaru.

Description of Gyaru sub-culture

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Gyaru is a Japanese cub-culture generally consisting of young girls. Gyaru is a Japanese name meaning ‘gal’. Gyaru sub-culture originated in the 1970s and always classified as a sign of youth rebellion. Members of Gyaru can be found around the street corners in all major cities in Japan. They are characterized by heavily bleached hair with, mostly with dark brown and blonde shades, extremely decorated nails, and funny makeup as shown in figure 1. Figure 1 shows Gyaru girls with ...

 Why professional bicyclists have recently been descending hills at greater speeds.

Pedaling is a compound sport, which involves competitors, who must compete with a diversity of approaches, numerous environmental factors, and roughness on the ground. The operation on high grounds is an essential ascertaining victory factor in the leading international cycling tournaments. The main forces that a bicyclist must prevail over are; the gravity and air resistance. Air resistance rises exponentially with momentum. When pedaling from a smooth road to an ascending hill, the reduced speed lessens the air resistance to a level where leading other riders offers little benefit. Smaller bicyclists, who prefer to have a higher authority to ...

Sex and sexuality is one of the most important issues pertaining to women and gender studies. While sex refers to an individual’s gender, sexuality refers to an individual’s expression as a human being, which begins at birth and continues until death (Weeks 9). Sexuality is also defined as the relationship between an individual’s gender role and identity, body image, sexual orientation and relationships (Weeks 7). In other words, sexuality constitutes an individual’s values, attitudes, behavior and knowledge, and is mostly influenced by the family, culture and society. Some of the major sources of sexuality are ...

Organization Behaviour

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Motivation is the force that drives people into action and encourages them to exert more effort towards carrying out something. Employees who are well motivated are more comfortable and will have feelings of happiness and fulfilment. Johansson and Heide (2008) points out that besides, being well motivated workers tend to produce high-quality results and are more productive than their counterparts. In the case study, the workforce is less. They are overwhelmed in the course of their duty. They are not able to work overtime because their terms of service are contractual. The ...

The LGBT community is sometimes thought to be monolithic by the outside world because of their shared experience with oppression. However, in reality, the LGBT community—and even the gay community alone—is varied and subject to its own hierarchical structures (Nast, 2002). Nast (2002) suggests that gay white men are predominately powerful in the gay scene because of their inherent racial privilege; these are the most visible individuals in the gay scene as homosexuality becomes more widely accepted, Nast (2002) suggests. Catungal and McCann (2010), on the other hand, suggest that there are restrictions on the visibility of ...

Introduction

Symbolic interactionism is in essence a sociological approach and more critically one considered highly in social psychology. It focuses on the assemblage, negotiations and variations of connotations via social interactions. Symbolic interaction is defined according to Prus (10) as the studying of means with which individuals attempt to comprehend life situations and by extension, how such individuals opt to perform personal activities in concurrence with other individuals in society. Also referred to as interactionism, symbolic interactionism is a core theoretical perspective studied in sociology and relates to the subjective comprehension of the social process, human behaviour and rationality or ...

Movements of inclusion aim to give rights to formerly disadvantaged or ignored groups. This is to help them acquire the same social or political status of the majority, without giving up their exceptionalities or their unique of differences. Social and national inclusion practices involve such groups as immigrants, religious or racial minorities, sexual minorities, people with disabilities and others. However, in contemporary America social and national inclusion practices do not have the promised effect; instead they help to produce forms of exclusion at the same time that they are trying to eliminate the factors that create exclusion. This is ...

Marriage has been traditionally a manner of regulating the relationships between men and women in the Canadian society. As same-sex relationships became more acceptable throughout the Western world, Canada sought to be perceived as one of the most tolerant countries in the world by allowing same-sex marriage in the name of equality. Same-sex marriage refers to gay couples’ right to wed and to take advantage of the social and legal benefits which come from this union. Same sex marriage is legal in Canada since 2005 and gay couples sometimes perceive the right to get married as a very important achievement particularly ...

Maintaining organizational culture is an involving activity. As seen in the case, the department is prone to corruption and subculture. This paper will explore ways in which this can be averted so that the department can become more conducive and maintain required ethical standards. First, I would set re-write the organizational culture. This would be the values, assumptions and beliefs which guide the organization (Neocleous 93).
With this in place, the next step would start the socialization process. This would be through the following stages. Anticipatory, where new staff and existing would be given the standards they are ...

Ernest Hemingway was an American author born in 1899 in Oak Park Illinois to a conservative middle class family in the suburbs of Chicago. At his late teenage years, Hemingway travelled to Europe to serve as a Red Cross office for the Italian army at the onset of the First World War. Later, Hemingway was to travel to different parts of Europe including Germany and France eventually becoming the European reporter for the Kansas City Star Newspaper. Hemingway leaves a legacy of novels such as A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the most famous of all his novels ...

The Kid Super Power Hour premiered on the 12th of September, 1981.It was nominated for a Young Artist Award for “Best Children’s Television Series,” in 1982. One of the actresses, Rebecca Perle won a Young Artist Award for “Best Young Actress in a Daytime Series.” for her portrayal of “Glorious Gal.” . The series finds its roots going back to 1940s Captain Marvel character, The Captain Marvel and Isis television program and the segment that features the students from Hero High is reminiscent of Archie and the Gang at Riverdale High. Many episodes are available for viewing on the Internet and the ...