OT: What do u do?
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Trust that you can pinpoint an exact reason someone behaves the way they do. Psychology is subjective in the kind of approach you use when dealing with others, though, and can account for the reason why people end up becoming more messed up than they did.
You have sociopaths who can and will hide true reasons for their actions, but they only make up less than one percent of the population.
You have sociopaths who can and will hide true reasons for their actions, but they only make up less than one percent of the population.
everything. i mean that.
everything from the dynamics of one on one or small group interaction to the effects of globalization on health care.
or, if you're cool, you can study post-Civil Rights racial politics and political movement and it's relationship with popular rap music....like me.
see...i told you we research everything.
everything from the dynamics of one on one or small group interaction to the effects of globalization on health care.
or, if you're cool, you can study post-Civil Rights racial politics and political movement and it's relationship with popular rap music....like me.
see...i told you we research everything.
if I may speak on this from a sociological point of view...
philosophically speaking we CAN'T know exactly why one individual engages in a particular type of behavior.
what sociologists can do is measure trends. take suicide for example. there are a million different reasons why any one individual will commit suicide. but if you look at patterns of suicide across social groups, there is huge variation BETWEEN groups...(and the variation is also deemed "statistically significant" by a battery of statistical measures - meaning there the probability that the difference is a result of mere chance is close to zero)
non-religious people are more likely to commit suicide than religious. baptists more likely than jews. Americans and other "individualistic" nations more likely than communal groups. emerging capitalist societies more than stable capitalist societies.
"so?"
so if we know what larger social structures have a direct influence on suicide rates, we can PREDICT possible increases in suicide and implement policy or take other social action that might offset increases in suicide.
philosophically speaking we CAN'T know exactly why one individual engages in a particular type of behavior.
what sociologists can do is measure trends. take suicide for example. there are a million different reasons why any one individual will commit suicide. but if you look at patterns of suicide across social groups, there is huge variation BETWEEN groups...(and the variation is also deemed "statistically significant" by a battery of statistical measures - meaning there the probability that the difference is a result of mere chance is close to zero)
non-religious people are more likely to commit suicide than religious. baptists more likely than jews. Americans and other "individualistic" nations more likely than communal groups. emerging capitalist societies more than stable capitalist societies.
"so?"
so if we know what larger social structures have a direct influence on suicide rates, we can PREDICT possible increases in suicide and implement policy or take other social action that might offset increases in suicide.
