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Essay: sociology of culture contributions and limitations

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Among the benefits that sociology has as a social science, it is a very wide range of research areas, from sociology of work to sociology of education. One of the areas in which I have been going through the university has interested me the most is the sociology of culture, however, we only have one elective in this area and within the more structural areas it is not so recognized. In this essay, I will comment broadly on what is the sociology of culture and what are its contributions to the study of society. The sociology of culture is an area of ​​sociology dedicated to the systematic analysis of culture, usually understood as the set of symbolic codes used by the members of a society, as they manifest themselves socially. In this way, culture is analyzed from the ways of thinking and conceiving the world, the ways of acting, and the material objects that, as a whole, shape the way of life of a group. Within their contributions we can identify the recognition of culture as a factor t...
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Report: The center for gender studies

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Introduction  The purpose of this report is to describe and evaluate my four-week experience at the university's gender studies center and to make recommendations for future students.  About the center  The center for gender studies is a research center of the University of Chile that is dedicated to investigating gender issues, labor relations, motherhood, sexual dissidence, and feminist theories. At the center, 35 researchers work, all women, and the tasks are divided into four working groups: qualitative research, quantitative research, theory analysis and publication of results. In addition to this, the 35 researchers meet every 15 days to discuss new research, ongoing research, and new ideas.  My work experience  My work experience was very enriching, the work team is very friendly, the work environment is incredibly good, organized under the guidelines of horizontality, respect, and communication. In the four months that I was at the center, I was able to ...
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Essay: The effect of social media on teens

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In recent years, the use of new technologies and social networks, the internet, mobile telephony, video games and television have been installed rapidly in our lives. Regarding this, there are many who defend the great educational and communication potential of new technologies, however it has also been shown that their excessive or inappropriate use could be bringing serious consequences. In this essay, I will briefly comment on the consequences that have been identified in the mental health of adolescents as a result of the excessive use and sometimes without adult control of social networks. The foregoing has been investigated under the name of "addiction without chemical substance", this means that those who possess it are characterized by not being able to control the time they spend on the internet and even sometimes many cannot detach from the screen for more than 3 hours. This situation has affected the mental health of adolescents, among the risks are social isolatio...
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which of these five sports is your favorite?

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  which of these five sports is your favorite? - Soccer - Basketball - Volleyball - Tenis - Swimming   sports    People Soccer 6 Basketball 4 Volleyball 2 Tennis 1 Swimming 3 This pie chart shows the spots preference of sixteen students. It is taken from a survey applied today. The survey has five options to answer the question  which of these five sports is your favorite? The green part of the pie chart shows that the 37% of surveyed students prefer soccer. In additon basketball is prefer by 25% of the surveyed, swimming is prefer by 19% of the sample and 13% prefer volleyball and 6% tennis. Based on the graph we can say that the preferred sport is soccer, this may have to do with its massiveness and cultural recognition, on the other hand tennis emerges as the least favorite sport among the options.
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Prison and civilization: Concluding paragraph

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In conclusion, I believe that we should rethink our prison system. Is it focused on social reintegration or only on punishment? What is the moral consideration that we are giving to those deprived of liberty? Besides, I think it is important to reflect on the relationship between crime and the inequality that exists in the countries, and guide the discussion of prison systems towards new forms of reincernment, which include psychological, labor and community accompaniments for prisoners  and also for society in general.
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Obesity as a public health problem

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Obesity should be considered a public health problem, since its existence shows us that there is a cultural problem: how we eat and what we can eat , a cultural problem that requires education, on the one hand, about habits healthy food and how conscious eating is an integral part of a good lifestyle, and on the other, the most important in my opinion, is that it requires a democratization of what we consider good nutrition, since not everyone can access vegetables all week, not everyone has time to plan their meals and not everyone has money to go to the nutritionist. However, there are also those who defend the idea that obesity or big bodies are not always synonymous with poor health, thinness has always been part of the hegemony of beauty, so the existence of big bodies revolutionizes that hegemony and shows that the existence of big bodies not necessarily mean sick bodies. However, with regard to Chile, I do not know how feasible it would be, since economic interests are cro...
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Introductory paragraphs: Immigration in Chile & Chilean education

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Immigration in Chile: Immigration in Chile has been one of the most relevant issues during the pandemic. The health crisis has made it evident that a large number of immigrants in Chile live and work in precarious conditions, generally informal work, without a contract and health insurance. Regarding their quality of life, they live crowded, with very high rental prices, and without social security. So, it is an urgency for the Chilean State improve its migration policies and ensure the well-being of migrants of all nationalities. Chilean education: Some people say that education is the most powerful weapon. Education understood as an important part of the socialization of individuals, and as a vital component of social and cultural capital. Now in the case of Chile we must ask ourselves if this powerful weapon will be a weapon for personal growth and the development of our interests, or a business through which some are excluded for the benefit of others. It seems that d...
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Biodata

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Martina Silva Aguilar is a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Chile. She was born in a small town in the Aconcagua Valley, where she lived until 2017. During high school she attended to Maximiliano Salas Marchant school and had important positions in the local student organization which helped her develop her group work skills and the ability to overcome adversities. Martina wasn't quite sure what she wanted to study, but the career of sociology seemed the closest thing to his ideal of being able to understand how human beings relate to each other and how to be a contribution to the infinite task of improving these ways of relating. She has developed a great ability to speak in public (even if she is nervous), also is a very hard-working and responsible person. In the near future, she would like to work as a researcher being her areas of interest  education, feminism, environment, and social equality. In her free time, she likes to play soccer, dance wit...
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