Society, attitudes toward

An eloquent account of the present status of society s attitudes toward science and the dangers we face when reason gives way to the myths of pseudoscience. New Age thinking, and fundamentalism. 

Crowfoot was not promoted to Reader until 1957, and, even then she was not provided with modern lab facilities until the following year. The academic pinnacle of success, an endowed chair, was offered to her in 1960, but it was provided by the Royal Society, not the University of Oxford. Worldwide recognition of her work on the determination of the structures of biochemically important molecules came in 1964 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. However, indicative of the attitude towards women scientists, the news was announced by the Daily Mail newspaper as Nobel Prize for British Wife. 63... 

For our purposes, abnormal behavior can be defined as behavior differing from the accepted cultural standard as a result of an inner conflict or crisis in the life of the individual, regardless of the standard of normative behavior in the society in which the life-crisis occurs. One of the basic distinctions between normal and abnormal behavior lies not in the outward manifestations of the conflict, but in differing cultural attitudes toward the life-crisis and its resolution. 

Many Americans use alcohol or other drugs. But the country s attitudes toward such use, especially regarding illicit drugs, are far from permissive. Society s proposed and actual solutions to drug use in the United States have far-reaching legal, social, and financial implications. Which stand out to you ... 

Inasmuch as the harmful effects of the use of marihuana are daily becoming more widely known, and since it has been classified as a narcotic by the statutory laws of seventeen American States... the United States Government, will unquestionably be compelled to adopt a consistent attitude towards it, and include it in the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Law, so as to give Federal aid to the States in their effort to suppress a traffic as deadly and as destructive to society as that in the other forms of narcotics now prohibited by this act. 

See the American Chemical Society National Benchmark Survey, July 2000 for a summary of the public s attitudes towards chemistry, chemicals, and chemists. 

Too often our reluctance to peel away the labels we use is hazardous to ourselves and to society at large. An example of the dangers of media and public confusion about instincts is the insidious shaping of public attitudes towards criminality. If it s believed that a moral instinct is already hard-wired at birth, and it s also believed that hard-wiring of such social... 

Tools are among the most archaeologically valuable artifacts. Their intrinsic value seldom approaches the expense of excavating and conserving them. However, as bearers of information, tools contain and convey information about the nature of the problems they were made to solve. Just as important, tools provide evidences of the definition of those problems and the choice of solutions. The choices we make of methods to accomplish goals and solve problems reflect our society s methods of problem identification and solving, and its attitudes toward materials and the proper ways to deal with them. Tools are excellent reflectors of patterning. 

To the extent that people have characteristics that set them apart from others, the truly liberal and humane attitude toward these differences can only be one of acceptance. Sartre describes this in terms equally applicable to so-called mental patients. In societies... 

American attitudes toward China from the nineteenth century until the Second World War had been broadly paternalistic, assuming a special friendship with the Chinese people. However, the situation altered dramatically in 1949 and 1950, when the communists won control of the mainland in the civil war and Red China subsequently allied itself with the Soviet Union. The communist victory seemed to signify Chinese rejection of American values and the American model of civil society, a rejection that gained enormous salience in the context of the rapidly developing Cold War. The Sino-Soviet alliance dramatically confirmed America s loss of China to its main enemy."- After the Second World War, the Soviet... 

Unhealthy psychological status. All workers in the coal mines have such characters. Because some are influenced by society, family and other factors, they will be agitated and distracted. It shows that they do not have a correct attitude towards work they often have bad moods they suffer a lot of working pressures and have unsafe mind they have insobriety and acts especially when faced with so many insipid operations. They may have mental fatigue that leads to the colliery accidents. 

The close-knit nature of Palestinian society has kept the towns traditions ahve throughout the history. The social conservatism of the Palestinians contributes to women s privacy. For example, men avoid entering to and gazing at women s settings without permission or a prior announcement. They do this for both rehgious reasons and because of social traditiore In addition, people s emphasis on social rules that influence women s privacy based on religion and tradition is stated explicitly. Because of the importance attributed to women s privacy in the life of Palestinian society, these values influence Palestinians attitudes toward their physical environment. 

It is also not impossible that increased consumption of red wine is associated with higher status in society, and this higher status is also reflected by a more careful attitude toward health-related issues. The fact that those people who drink red wine regularly enjoy better health and higher standards of life is a statistical correlation. This says nothing about causes and effects. Another similar example people... 

Monetisation raises some ethical questions - e.g. on putting value on safety and loss of Ufe, and whether it is representative for the companies and society s attitude towards risk to use the expected values when dealing with safety risks or enviromnental risks, or if we should be more risk averse for such consequence categories. 

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