Comparing Family in Breathing Lessons, Homesick Restaurant, and Acciden

Family Instability in Breathing Lessons, Homesick Restaurant, and Accidental Tourist  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚           The perfect, suburban family has become a prominant theme and stereotype in American culture.   Families from the works of Anne Tyler represent the exact opposite of this cultural stereotype.   None of Tyler's novels contain families with faithful, domestic wives, breadwinning husbands, and 2.3 well-behaved, perfect children.   Tyler kills this misconcieved stereotype in Breathing Lessons, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and The Accidental Tourist.   Anne Tyler grew up with her parents on a series of experimental communes, so she developed a different perception of family life.   She observes domestic life from the view of an outsider looking in.   Minor-- and sometimes major-- flaws characterize the average family in Tyler's novels because many of today's families are imperfect.   Because of her communal upbringing, she observes family life more honestly than do writers who romanticize family life. Tyler's novels show that the picture most people see when t hey think of the typical American family is shifting from the Cleavers to the Simpsons.      Ã‚  Ã‚   Anne Tyler was born in Minnesota in 1941, but much of her childhood was spent moving around.   Tyler never spent a minute of her childhood living in the type of suburban household so typical of the 1940's and 1950's. Because large, domestic Southern families surrounded her as she grew up, she was somewhat of an outsider in society.   Tyler's unorthodox upbringing caused her "...to view the normal world with a certain amount of distance and surprise, which can sometimes be helpful to a writer"(Crane 2).   Tyler realistically depicts family relationships without over-exaggerating them.  ... ...--- .The Accidental Tourist.   New York: Knopf, 1985.  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   -----.Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.   New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1982. Yardley, Jonathan.   " Anne Tyler's Family Circles."   Washington Post, August 25, 1985, (pp. 311-313). Mathewson, Joseph.   " Taking the Anne Tyler Tour."   Horizon, Vol. 28, no. 7, September 1985, (p. 313). Demott, Benjamin.   " Funny, Wise and True."   New York Times Book Review, March 14, 1982, (p. 432). Updike, John.   " Bellow, Vonnegut, Tyler, Le Guin, Cheever."   Hugging the Shore:Essays and Criticism, New York: Knopf 1983, (pp. 434-435). "A Glance: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant."   Available [Online], April 23,1999, http// www.Amazon.com. " A Glance: Breathing Lessons.   " Available [Online], April 23, 1999, http// www.Amazon.com." Crane, Gwen.   " Anne Tyler."   Scribner Writers CD, (pp. 1-19).

Samsung Company Analysis

Introduction Samsung Electronics is one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers; Samsung Electronics is also South Korea's top electronics company. It makes many kinds of consumer devices, including DVD players, digital TVs, and digital still cameras; computers, color monitors, LCD panels, and printers; semiconductors such as DRAMs, static RAMs, flash memory, and display drivers; and communications devices ranging from wireless handsets and smart phones to networking gear. The company, which is the flagship member of Samsung Group, also makes microwave ovens, refrigerators, air conditioners, and washing machines.Nearly half of sales come from the Asia/Pacific region. Top industries for Samsung Electronics Co. are memory chip and module manufacturing, communications chip manufacturing, wireless telephone handset manufacturing. ? Samsung is no longer the company that it used to be, it is a company that has put in a lot effort and money for changing its reputation. Today, Sam sung is striving and growing into one of the most successful companies ever. It has an extensive product line that caters to many different people. It no longer operates on low profits; it’s striving on the highest.Sales Preparation MarketValue160834. 8asof 2012-11-09 FiscalYear-EndDec 2011 Sales (mil)104,155. 453 2011 Employees101,970 EmployeeGrowthPercent6. 6% Assets (mil)101,260. 188 NetIncomeGrowthPercent-25. 94% SalesGrowthPercent5. 2% Income Statement201120102009 Revenue$104,155. 454$99,004. 037$77,007. 137 GrossProfit$26,216. 298$30,225. 083$18,331. 443 OperatingIncome$10,088. 036$13,163. 092$5,445. 767 NetIncome$8,646. 132$11,674. 559$8,277. 33 Diluted EPS$28. 8$39. 04$27. 96 SWOT analysis A good SWOT analysis can help the company and competitors place themselves in the market wisely.Therefore, let us look at the SWOT Analysis of Samsung to give an idea of how the company is operating in the world. Strengths †¢ Samsung has a wide product range, which allows them to grab ample market share from various markets. This allows Samsung to not only earn a high return but it also allows them to diversify their risk and failure †¢ According to many magazines, Samsung holds a significant portion of the market share in nearly all its products. †¢ Samsung is a reputed name and many people are familiar with it around the world. †¢ Samsung has won many awards on its high quality products. Samsung has the ability and resources to use the latest technology and offer new and exciting features frequently. †¢ Samsung has won many awards due to its ability to make innovative, sleek and slim products †¢ Samsung has set up many production plants in low cost locations, thus they save on cost of production significantly. †¢ Samsung recently has attracted ample positive press, thus its reputation continues to grow and has a positive impact on the operations of the company. Weaknesses †¢ Samsung never introduces a new design on its own, it always waits to attack it’s competitors.Thus, it missed the first mover advantages. †¢ Samsung does not charge high price for its products, therefore often people relate the low price to begin a supplier of low quality products. General perception supports that the higher the price, the higher the quality of products. †¢ Many Samsung products are not user friendly, therefore consumer often hesitate to switch to Samsung products even if the price and quality is exceptional. †¢ Samsung does not focus on a specific niche; it offers its products to the mass market only. Samsung does not create its own software therefore it often relies on other sources to complete the products. †¢ Samsung faces immense competition from new companies and online companies. †¢ High set up and operation cost for such a company. Opportunities †¢ Samsung should make an active effort to offer unique products to customers, in order to grab more market share. †¢ Samsung could start creating software’s for their hardware devices and reduce outsourcing. †¢ Samsung could launch sub brands to the company, with new and improved strategies. †¢ Samsung could launch in countries to tap the needs of consumers. Samsung could open more stores to serve more customers. †¢ Samsung could make an effort to launch creative products first, rather than after its competitors. †¢ Samsung could increase its product variation in its products. †¢ Samsung should participate in product development and attract more customers. It should also consider participating in various events to attract attention. †¢ Samsung could offer additional services to retain existing customers and attract new ones. †¢ Increase in the need for mobile phones, Samsung could exploit this need well.Threats †¢ Samsung has linked product lines, which means that if one product line fails due to its own reasons other product lines will also suffer. †¢ Samsung is very scattered; it controls and operates different products while its competitors use their resources and effort on one segment only. Diversification takes a lot of effort and attention. †¢ Samsung has set up production plants in low cost areas, which are subject to ample political and economic instability. These instabilities can have an impact overall company it the crisis gets unmanageable. Samsung is facing threats from many other low cost companies. †¢ Various companies have realized the importance of advertising, therefore Samsung will be subject to a lot more competition as advertising creates and draws attention of consumers. †¢ Countries all over the world are experiencing a high cost due to high inflation rates in most locations. †¢ Many government legislations are now active against the innovative technology due to health and mental concerns. Samsung vs. others On the Kazakhstani market Samsung has various competitors as LG and Sony. All three companies are strong, despite Samsung takes almost a half of market share. Still Samsung has lots of thing to work on here, in Kazakhstan. I have made an analysis of all three web sites of Samsung, LG and Sony, compared them and indicated Samsung’s weak sides. Samsung. com/kz Samsung doesn’t have a local web site in Kazakhstan. While entering it for the first time system asks to indicate your location. When choose Kazakhstan, Russian language is chosen by default. It is also worth to mention that in Kazakhstani version of website Russian is the only language, Kazakh is not represented.Generally web site is not very easy to use, even though most of major stuff represented on the main page. The problem is that in order to find an item customer is really has to search for it, using all these tabs and vertical search. Customer cannot just browse web site without knowing what exactly he wants. The main page represents new Samsung products as Samsung Galaxy Note II , Smart TV sets, etc. After clicking on the product you’d like to buy it immediately redirects you to product’s profile page where presented all the information about it, including Store Locator.The problem with this locator that it works only in huge cities, engine does not allow to narrow search to smaller towns or districts. So, for example, if I live in Almaty and I want to buy smartphone, web-site will give the list of all distributors located in Almaty, not the nearest to me. Also, it doesn’t show the prices and discount that different distributors have. Instead they offer to call them by ourselves. The possible reason to this is security issues that require lot of financial investments.Also profile page contains the feature called â€Å"Compare with other devices† where you can choose up to 5 devices and compare it in terms of technical characteristics. But this is all that Samsung offers as pre-order feature. They do not have any video review of p roducts, 3D models of them, panoramic photos and many other things that could possibly engage them with new customers. Samsung actively works on creating local brand communities as on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. With help of those communities they try to engage together all Samsung current and possible customers.Another option that web-site introduces is collaboration with KupiKipon company, which provides coupons and discounts on selected Samsung production. To become a participant, customers, firstly, have to enter into Samsung Premium Club, only then all features as KupiKupon will be available, as well as many other options like discounts for AirAstana, service of Toyota service Center, etc. Sony. kz Web site of Sony has Kazakhstani domain and as well as Samsung’s web site, it has not got any possibility of changing language to Kazakh or English. Web site is also quite easy to use, I would say much easier than Samsung’s.When customer wishes to buy something every step is structured and clear, so search engine is well organized and works nice: 1. He has to define what exactly he wants to buy. Whether it is TV or Walkman 2. He is given a list of different series of different price categories. He has to make another choice. 3. Then system provides him with a list of all, for example, Walkmans of specified prices and year of production. Price is also included but in rubles, not in tenge. The feature of comparison of different phones and cameras also presented on this web site.Sony also does not have feature of buying online and store locator, no list of distributors and anything that could somehow get interest of Kazakhstani customers, seems like the web site is made for Russian customers with domain name . kz. Sony runs technical and customer support program that allows Sony production owners to upgrade, fix their gadget almost for free. They have created various brand communities in different social network in order to gather together their o ld and new customers, organize contests and actions. LG. kzThe web site of LG is pretty similar to Sony’s, especially in terms of search engine: it is very easy to use it. First of all the structure of site is very different from previous two: it all compact and arranged from left to right, so we do not have to scroll page up and down. The main page is divided on three parts: left, central and right. The first ad the last never changes, like a banner ad, they represent the list of production, vertical search and news and actions respectively. The central part is the most active, like a working are, where customer can look through products he chose, compare them and make a final decision.But in comparison to Sony and Samsung only limited line of production is presented on their web site – only latest models. As LG has a domain name . kz, still default language is Russian and no possibility to change if to any other, only if change the location. Also as two previous web sites, LG does not have an option of buying production online (direct distribution). As it was mentioned earlier, this option might not be used because of very high financial expenses. So web site has only one direct task – to introduce new production to public. As well as Sony, LG has not got any information about it distributors or shops.LG works a lot on CRM: they create brand communities on different social networks, provide customers with free OS upgrades and free application for their phones, microsite for SMART TV owners. Also they were the only who presented option for slow Internet connection, possibly aware of bad Internet in Kazakhstan. Customer relationship management (CRM) We are looking on internet strategy of Samsung Company. So, CRM in this case should not only manage a company’s interactions with customers, clients, and sales prospects, but also use technology, internet to organize, and synchronize business processes.The goal is to find new clients, an d safe those which company already have. Looking on the brochure that we received from representative of Samsung in KIMEP, we can make conclusion that now we know some characteristics of described printers, but nothing where to buy it. So, customer have to do it own research, to find where he could buy a product in which he is interested. Moreover, the lady that was representative is just from event agency. She cannot tell anything about the product in which students were interested, but which were not presented on the stand and material she learned.This small research showed us how it is hard for customers find the shop were to buy the product they need. For sure it is cheaper to pay once lady from the agency for representing the material, rather than open department dealing with this. But, we thing department will be more productive, because they can answer on more questions, than just learned. Or not spending more money lady-representative can refer to the site, where customer ca n find more information about interested product. Also, site should be written on the brochure. RecommendationsWhile researching Samsung site, we found that company does not represent online shopping or delivery services as all sales go trough distributors and Samsung don’t interfere into contact between customers and dealers. Samsung has no official shop in Almaty or any other cities of Kazakhstan. As we understood their main aim is dealing with promotions, PR, advertisement and publicity. In Kazakhstan many products that are resell by disturbers always have special additional price that have a huge difference between initial and final prices.It would be a good idea if Samsung on their site near the products placed their prices so customers will know at first hand the cost of the product. On the other hand it could cause discontent of distributor since clients choose negotiated price of other dealers or no profit will be gained. Samsung in advance can discus and find the opt imal additional price for distributors so both customers and dealers will be satisfied. Here is the situation; Customer is surfing Samsung site to find the product he or she liked and willing to by right away.Site provides all dealers addresses and contact numbers and this entire list is about50 shops around one city. Customer need to find on the Google maps of any other gadget where these shops located. While processing all the Almaty streets aspiration can go away and company loosing a potential client. We suggest directing present location of the customer and pick out top 5 closest shops to get product they like. No need for searching and finding out which store is right next to your location. This novation facilitates search and willing to own Samsung products.Any tracking for products creates a desire to possess and enjoy them. Samsung can create online delivery through dealers just right on their site. No potential customer is missed and no dealer left without profit. This abi lity gives a client to choose any dealer and store he liked and order the product without leaving home. Another convenient option would be listing all Samsung goods dealers have in the moment. It can ease life and prevent the buyer in the way there will be no need to have a long ride to the store and find out that good you need is out of stock.Very often happens the situation when a client came to buy a Samsung product but because it is out of stock shop assistance offer goods of other companies, which is detrimental for Samsung sales. The main aim of dealers is to make a potential customer buy and if there is no special product he or she needs they can easily find a substitute as the world of technology is extensive and easily replaceable. Process improvement What makes Samsung's potential customers to enter the site and search it further? Most important page on the whole website is main page. It makes client be interested in products company offer.In our previous group research of Samsung we found out that main page of the company is not attractive at all. Here are some solutions how to make it more catchy and favorable: 1. Customers should be informed with updated news or special offers the first thing. Samsung needs to update this information daily so buyers see that company is alive, it is operating ever day and care to hold customers on the site. 2. We noticed a very huge mistake of designers of the site that all pictures allocated are so not real and it’s hard to see how actual products look like.Nowadays, most of the sites that provide any selling activity make the goods look very realistic as if you are shopping in the mall and see the product, e. g. 3D pictures can create this visual effect. 3. Forum is also another important part of the web site as here customers can discuss their complaints, whether they like the product or they don't, get some new ideas to improve the site and marketing strategy. It brings benefit to both visitors and compa ny. Visitors can find for themselves the product that suits them the most, advantages and disadvantages, write critique, review and so on.Company gets new ideas, fix errors or mistakes, and see how people react to some updates of the goods system. 4. Our group has conducted an independent research about Samsung and LG companies to understand how these two companies maintain customer relationship management and meanwhile provide service for its customers. We have gone to one of the retail stores representatives of both Samsung and LG which is serving as distributor at the same time and pretended to be secret buyers. We were just like ordinary buyers who were interested in purchase.As the result, we created a list of statements and criteria that for our opinion are important when choosing an electronic company. In the table below we have rated them on the following criteria and identified to what extend do we agree with the following statements about Samsung and LG customer service re presentative. SamsungLG GoodAveragePoorGoodAveragePoor Selection of productsVV Quality of productVV Price of productVV AdvertisementVV Recommendation of friends and relativesVV Store layoutVV Guarantees/WarrantiesVV Online shop VV Convenient LocationVV Brand name recognitionVV Service CenterVVAgreeNeutralDisagreeAgreeNeutralDisagree The staff is friendlyVV The staff is patientVV The staff is politeVV The staff is responsiveVV The staff has listened carefullyVV The staff has sufficient product knowledgeVV Conclusion Samsung is well known company. We think that using our small research and recommendations this company will be closer to customers by itself, not just through retailers. Solutions about their web site will make company more attractive to customers. Finally, brief information about the company in the beginning of the paper will help reader to make clear understanding about company products and processes.

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Healing the Emotional Scars of Antwoine Fisher - 727 Words

Antwoine Fisher was a man who was in the navy who had issues of aggression among his shipmates that would use vulgarity in their language that made him upset to the point that made him get into physical confrontations. He was a sailor with violent outbursts and tendencies. Although he was aware of being at risk of being kicked out of the navy for repetitive fighting, he was given the opportunity to see a naval psychiatrist. Making it difficult to open up to the doctor, Antwoine eventually did and reveals disturbing truths of his past life. He had issues that the average child would not experience, an example would be his childhood. In his childhood, he was bounced from foster homes where not only did he get habitual emotional abuse he was belittled by his caregivers at a very young age. After he decides to open up to the doctor, he begins to face his reality and locate the family he has never met. The focus of this paper is to identify the major problems he has experienced, the social and environmental factors that had an influence in the mental issues he was facing and is still battling today. First of all, Petty Officer Fisher was a single man with no children that served in the Navy. After admitting to assaulting a superior officer, disciplinary action was taken, that required him to perform 45 days of extra duty including restricted boundaries. Fisher had a history of inadequate impulse control. Now let’s have a look at the way he functioned. As an

Sociological Perspectives A Social Problems -Myassignmenthelp.Com

Question: Discuss About The Sociological Perspectives A Social Problem? Answer: Introduction Sociological imagination basically refers to the capability of watching the connections present between the larger forces in the history and the personal experiences. These are basically the intersections of history and biography. Through sociological imagination, the management in which the choices and the individual behaviours of the individuals are shaped based on the economic, historical, cultural and political forces can be analysed. In this context, C. Wright Mills (1959) gave a better explanation on sociological imagination, where he stressed on the individuals gaining an understanding on their own experiences and gauging their own fate by locating himself with the period in which such individual is. This discussion is concentrated on providing a deep insight on this very statement made by Mills. And in doing so, the problem of unemployment, which affects the society at large, and also is a personal problem for the writer, is detailed upon. In order to analyse the problem of unemployment, the theory given by Mills would be applied, which would enable in understanding how the individuals live and the manner in which the future is anticipated, based on the social environment affecting the individuals and others in same manner. Analysis The individuals face a number of social problems. For instance, a number of individuals are unemployed and poor, have family problems, have poor health, commit crime, or drink too much. When such cases are heard about, it can be easily blamed upon their difficulties. However, a different approach is taken under sociology, where the focus is over the problems of the individuals which are often stemmed in the problems of the society itself. In this regard, Mills (1959) has provided key insights and has made a classic differentiation in between the public uses and the personal troubles. The personal problems are the ones which affect the individual alone and are blamed on their moral or personal failings. Examples of it include divorce, unemployment and eating disorders. Public issues, on the other hand, are the ones which are present in the culture and social structure, and are the social problems which affect a number of individuals. The sociological imagination is a concept through which the possessor is able to gain an understanding on the large historical scenes regarding the meaning of external career and inner life for a number of individuals. This allows them to take in accounting the manner in which the individuals in the welter their daily experiences often become a false conscious of social positions. In such a muddle, the frameworks of the modern society are sought out and the range of individuals is formulated. Through the use of such means, the individuals personal uneasiness can be focused, in terms of their explicit troubles, and the publics indifference is transformed in involvement with the public issues (Mills, 1959). In this imagination, the first fruit and the first lesson in social science is found in the notion that the individuals can understand their experiences and can determine their fate by locating themself in the period in which such individuals are. By doing so, the individual can know their chances in life by being aware of those faced by the individuals based on the situations present. It has been stated that this is a terrible lesson, while some have deemed as a magnificent one. The capacity of men for their wiling degradation, supreme effort, for glee or agony, for sweetness of reason or pleasurable brutality is not known. Yet in the time, it has become a common knowledge that each individual knows about the limits of human nature, which are quite broad. It has been known now that each individual lives from a single generation to the next, in certain society, where they live a biography and live it with certain historical sequences. Through the living of such individuals, a contrib ution is made towards shaping of the society, and during the course of history, the society is made, through the pushes and shoves to it (Mills, 1959). In this very context, there is a need to consider unemployment. A city of 100,000 individuals having a single person as unemployed would be deemed as the personal trouble of the individual and for the relief of the same, there is a need to look at the skills of such individual, his character and the immediate opportunities with that individual. However, when it comes to the nation having fifty million employees, and fifteen million unemployed individuals, this would become an issue and a solution cannot be found in the range of opportunities which are open to an individual. When such happens, it becomes a public issue due to the structure of opportunities having been collapsed. Both the range of possible solutions and the correct statement of problem require a consideration of the political and economic institutions of society, in place of the character or personal situation of individuals. So, where only a handful of individuals are out of work, it becomes fair to say that the unemp loyment is a personal issue. Though, when a high number of individuals become out of work, as have been the case since the economic downturn of 2008, the same becomes a public issue. At such instances, the causes are not present in the individuals who are unemployed, but in the social and economic system of the society (University of Minnesota, 2018). In context of the modern day issue of unemployment, without the sociological imagination, an individual who losses their job in this economy would be helpless and would feel like they had been a lousy worker or were disposable. Later on, where the person would search for a new job, it would become extremely difficult for them, due to the increasing cuts being made by businesses, for saving money, and the employment opportunities becoming scarer. As a result of such rejections, an individual would feel trapped as is stated by Mills (1959). Though, with sociological imagination, the individuals who became newly unemployed would be able to see that the unemployment has become a global issue. This would allow them to place their own experiences in bigger picture, and would make them more inclined to battling these issues. This is due to the fact that each individual makes a contribution towards history, every minute of the day (University of Minnesota, 2018). It has been further suggested by Mills (1959) that the sociologists could make use of the sociological imagination for the purpose of examining the issues being faced by the society from an outward viewpoint. Particularly in the context of unemployment, the sociologists would be able to observe that in a nation of one million people, where five hundred individuals are unemployed, it would be a less urgency based issue in comparison to five hundred individuals being unemployed where the community has only one thousand individuals. This insight is particularly helpful in context of the social structure and is beneficial for the society as it helps in bringing down the self-conscious view of the individual which he holds of himself, as being an outsider. This would also allow for a higher attention to be paid on the societal problems of the individuals. In order to solve the personal disagreements, there is a need to look beyond these. The very notion of sociological imagination is a helpful instrument, which allows the individuals to feel more comfortable, and like it home, in the society where they are present. In addition to this, for the individuals who believe strongly in social and political activism, the motivation which the sociological imagination brings forth would be a very refreshing change from the inert attitude present in the nations like US. Where a higher number of individuals would be able to vote or where they held certain opinions on the issues of controversy, like unemployment, the general population would be able to attain changes and would be better in comparison to the political and financial elites having the entire control (University of Minnesota, 2018). In US, the high unemployment rate stemmed from the major economic downturn which took place in 2008 which is a leading example of proving the viewpoint of Mills. There were millions who lost their job, even when it was not their own fault. Even though some people were unemployed owing to their lack of good working habits or laziness, a more structural explanation was focused on the absence of opportunity for explaining why there were so many individuals who had no work. And upon the same taking place, unemployment was best understood as a public issue in place of being a personal issue. The unemployment of an individual can be solved through their skills and abilities and by increasing these. However, where the same is a problem of millions, it goes beyond the hands of the individuals and requires policies to be drafted in order to solve the public issue, thus highlighting the social elements being involved, which are bigger than the individuals (University of Minnesota, 2018). Unemployment is an extremely negative experience which remained private till it portrayed the feelings of personal failure as being a commonality when an individual loses their job. However, where the rates of unemployment go as high as 30%, as is the scenario in the majority of European nations at present, to deem it as a weakness or character flaw is unreasonable. This is because the majority of individuals in the society are facing this very issue and there is a need to ask regarding whether there is something in the very structure of society which is contributing to this problem. A range of nations today can define unemployment as a public issue owing to the economic downturn, which resulted from the subprime mortgage industry. Thus, unemployment, despite its private features, is to be deemed as a social problem, in place of being something which is born out of the personal shortfalls of the individual (Isaksen, 2013). However, it is important here to state that the notion of sociological imagination cannot be made use as an excuse for a person for not trying hard in achieving success in life. There would be a misuse of this by certain individuals as a manner of running away from their personal responsibilities. Though, in a majority of situations, an individual would fail even when they tried to do every right thing, for instance, working very hard, getting proper education and attempting to get a job. Even though a number of individuals could be lacking the ability of attaining success, it remains crucial to identify the root cause of this problem in terms of the structure, for instance, the discrimination of certain groups, exploitation of labour force, and inefficient political solutions. As such issues like these can never be resolved on an individual level by the person. This requires the application of sociological imagination in the day-to-day lives, which allows them in changing their pers onal situation and which ultimately helps in creation of a better society (University of Minnesota, 2018). Conclusion Thus, based on the discussion undertaken in the previous segments, it can be concluded that sociological imagination, as propagated by Mills (1959), presents the distinction between the personal problems from the social issues. This helps in making differentiation between when a problem would be blamed upon by the individual himself, for their laziness or incompetence; whilst social issues are the problems faced by a high number of individuals, and solving which require societal measures. This was specifically highlighted through the example of unemployment. When an individual or a handful of individuals are unable to get a job, it remains their personal problem. But, when this problem is present in a large number of individuals of the society, the unemployment in such cases become a social problem. The economic downturn of 2008is a leading example of unemployment being deemed as social problem. This led to the unemployment being deemed as a social problem, in place of the same being deemed as a private problem, as was taken to be in general. Thus, sociological imagination helps in getting clarity on when a particular issue transitions from being a personal issue to a social issue. References Isaksen, J.V. (2013). The Sociological Imagination: Thinking Outside the Box. Retrieved from: https://www.popularsocialscience.com/2013/04/29/the-sociological-imagination-thinking-outside-the-box/ Mills, C. W. (1959).The sociological imagination. operating: Oxford University Press. University of Minnesota. (2018). Sociological Perspectives on Social Problems. Retrieved from: https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/chapter/1-2-sociological-perspectives-on-social-problems/

There Are Many Types Of Cults In The World, Cults Are Essays - Cults

There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. Every person in the world has been in contact with them in one way or another in many cases you cannot see them. The closest cult we know of is on Rice Lake called the Moonies led by Reverend Myung, where I have currently visited. Cults can be involved in churches and even are earliest religions are called cults. Cults are not the strongest groups' sects are the strongest group. When you join a sect you cannot get out of them but a cult you can leave without having any problem or commitment. Sects will not let you out because many times it's illegal and they are afraid that you will say something to the public. Cults sometimes are illegal to. Religious cults are in every town and village there is no definition of a cult that is accepted by sociologists and psychologist or religion many types of activities will take cult like structures, an example would be any popular trend like physical exercise this is called the physical fitness cult. Famous athletes are a big figure when it comes to cults, many times Movie stars, professional athletes will endorse a product and a trend will start, making it turn into a cult. Also people who generate beliefs of something like flying saucer, aliens or any unknown figures can be cult. In religion when people call a church they are referring to a sacred organization having a highly structured or formalized dogma and hierarchy, but also allowing a bit of flexibility about membership requirements allowing you to go to a church and leave church when you want to. Although sects are against church attempts to accommodate to secular society. Sects believe that they are protecting a true faith or belief. Sects tend to stay away from world events , and also they believe in a strong strict behavioral code and demand a commitment out of their people. The differences between cults and sects are sometimes the same. Many scholars do not make distinctions between the two. Cults are different because they do not expect as much commitment. Many times' cults do not expect couples to become apart. Cults do not last as long as sects. Many times' cults survive through a decade, and also cults allow you to come and go as you want. Leaders of cults build around a charismatic leader who has a lifestyle dedicated to a specific spirituality group that they know other people will follow. The word Mormonism began as a small cult then grew bigger until it became a sect and eventually into a church. All the new religions followed the same thing by beginning small and getting bigger than becoming a church. Cults go back as far as we know of life, cults began to get bigger and be known throughout the world in the late 1960s and early 70s as people were better educated and better understood how they were formed and how they were run and people began to join. During this time Youths and middle class people began to join cults because of the in thing to do and they felt more secure about themselves. Cults really started to fascinate people when Jimmy Jones cult began in November of 1978 when all attention was focused on the mass suicide in Jonestown, a similar event happened in 1993 when federal agents engaged in a shoot out with cult leader David Koresh. Modern cults have many different practices and many different ways of leadership. Some cults have a flexible functional leadership, like the groups in the charismatic movement coming from the mainland Christian religion, other cults have people who run and orchestrate cult events, like Reverend Myung Moon leader of the unification church. The reason people are attracted to modern cults because it puts emphasis on community and on direct experience with the divine. In cults' participants often find a level of social support and acceptance that they do not find in a nuclear family. This makes and generates a sense of belonging to something profound and a feel of being somebody. People who often join cults such as this, join because they think they are getting something the world did not give them. Several factors have been looked at to figure why people like are modern youths join cults. Factors that were looked at were drug's war assignation of many unpopular presidents. Cults have been questioned about brainwashing people, and found it to be true. Cargo cults are usually neutralist and