Social tension

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy begins what many will see as an era of heightened violence and social tension. 

Steady state adjustment after disturbance is quite important in social sciences. Disturbances of even minor magnitude in temperature, climate and social tensions can easily shift the system to a new steady state. However, disturbances of major magnitude may take a longer route following a complex mechanism to reach a new steady state. 

This program, an expression of national concerns as expressed in political discussions, serves to reduce social tensions and to protect the environment. The presence of vast CW stockpiles is undesirable in many respects. 

Conners Teacher Questionnaire. The TQ form was designed to obtain teacher evaluations of children up to age 15 in terms of their interactions with peers and their ability to cope with the school environment and requirements. There are 41 items, and the first 39 have a four-point scale. Question 40 deals with the teacher s evaluation of the child s severity of illness, and question 41 deals with global improvement in four different areas. This test is used once at pretreatment and as needed afterwards. It takes about 15 minutes to complete and covers either the present or any interval period up to one month. A shorter 11-item PTQ is often used after the initial use of the 41-item TQ. The five subscales included are conduct, inattentive-passive, tension-anxiety, hyperactivity, and social ability. 

Many of the risks associated with genetic testing involve the emotional, social, or financial consequences of the test results. People may feel angry, depressed, anxious, or guilty about their results. In some cases, genetic testing creates tension within a family because the results can reveal information about other family members in addition to the person who is tested. The possibility of genetic discrimination in employment or insurance is also a concern. 

Weisfeld, G. E. (1972). Violations of social norms as inducers of aggression. International Journal of Group Tensions, 2, 53—70. 

The juxtaposition of roles is telling. This distancing from the perceived policing role of social workers was commonly emphasized by all of the practitioner groups. Nonetheless, occupying this more trusted position brought with it the difficulties of having to blow the whistle on the parent once it was considered that the adult s behaviour was at odds with the welfare of the child. It was a tension that social workers were acutely aware of... 

GAD differs from other types of anxiety disorders because, although the anxiety is present most of the time, GAD patients do not fear specific events such as social situations or having a panic attack (as in social anxiety or panic disorder). GAD is distinguished from normal worry or anxiety because of its long-term duration. GAD is frequently the underlying cause of many symptoms, including irritability, insomnia, headache, and muscle tension. This can often make it very hard to diagnose. A person with GAD will often go to his or her family physician and complain of nerves. ... 

About one-third of all adults suffer at some time in their lives from states of anxiety and tension that can considerably impair their quality of life (Lader, 1981). The majority of these individuals seek medical help sooner or later, about half of them within a year after the outbreak of the symptoms. Statistics from the UK show that some 10% of these patients are referred to a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists consequently only see a small proportion of patients suffering from states of anxiety, generally the rather severe, chronic, neurotic, perhaps socially decompensated cases. The remaining 90% of patients mostly turn to their general practitioner they are predominantly persons who react to burdensome circumstances with acute anxiety or stress symptoms. States of this nature are generally known to wane after some 6 weeks, although this remission can be facilitated by taking a tranquillizer. 

Kristina M. Lybecker focuses on the tensions inherent in the socioeconomic construct that is today s pharmaceutical industry. On the one hand, it has a social contract to develop medicines that enhance the health of the public, but on the other it seeks to maximize profit. Lybecker explains the major challenges facing the industry today, such as longer drug development times, rising R D costs, generic competition, and parallel importation. 

Since the notion of social cohesion is so elusive anyway, another example may be more helpful. One might think that overt conflict within an organization is bad for its efficiency. Yet the alternative may be worse. If all conflict is suppressed, tension accumulates until one day the organization breaks down. It is much better if the members can let off small puffs of steam at regular intervals than to have the whole engine explode. Can we conclude, therefore, that the function of conflict is to keep the organization in good shape and that conflict is explained by that unintended consequence ... 

It is a sort of molecular sociology Non-covalent interactions define the intercomponent bond, the action and reaction, in brief, the behaviour of the molecular individuals and populations their social structure as an ensemble of individuals having its own organisation their stability and their fragility their tendency to associate or to isolate themselves their selectivity, their elective affinities and class structure, their ability to recognize each other their dynamics, fluidity or rigidity of arrangements and of castes, tensions, motions and reorientations their mutual action and their transformations by each other. 

The second tension we saw was between those who defended a clear-cut demarcation of the work of experts and regulatory policy makers on the one hand, and those who questioned the wisdom of this insistence. This divide ran roughly along the split between natural scientists and social scientists, but the two did not coincide completely. 

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