Societies: Shopping
Shopping plays an important role in our lives. It is interesting to study the psychology of shopping, i.e. what makes the customer buy this or that thing. Shopping is a competition and communication between the salesman and a customer. When the buyer comes to a store there should be some very strong factors which would urge him to make a purchase.
The process of shopping is a complicated process which is going beyond just acquiring a new thing in exchange of money. This is a communication mixed ...
Societies: Poverty
In 1960’s, a discouraging fact came to be known: Between 40 and 50 million Americans were considered to be poor. Consequently, social scientists examined a new notion of the culture of poverty. The culture of poverty did not encompass all poor people by any means. Katz states “Rather, it placed in a class by themselves those whose behaviors and values converted their poverty into an enclosed and self-perpetuating world of dependence” (The Undeserving Poor)
In 1980s the term “underclass” appear ...
Societies: The Sami People
The Sami people are indigenous inhabiting the Northern parts of four countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia (the Kola Peninsula). In earlier times Sápmi (the land of the Sami) covered a much bigger part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, probably also more of Northern Russia.
Archeological evidence suggests that people along the southern shores of Lake Ääninen and around Lake Ladoga reached the River Utsjoki in Northern Finnish Lapland before 8100 BC . Other experts trace the Sami presence ...
Societies: Legalization of Marijuana
The problem that is going to be addressed in this paper is controversy that surrounds much debated issue of legalizing and declassifying marijuana, on the level of State policy. It’s been observed that Drug Prohibition laws proved to be really ineffective in government’s war on drugs. The time came when we need to ask ourselves – if this policy doesn’t result in reducing the number of drug related crimes, why have it in the first place?
Conservative politicians say it’s unthinkable t ...
