Archive for the ‘social approach’ Category

Changing jobs and approaching social security tax maximum. Will they still deduct SS tax?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

I have a tricky situation at hand. For 2007, the social security deductions from income are 6.2% upto the first 97500 of the income. So, the maximum SS tax one pays per year is $6045.

I was with employer A till August. After that I moved to employer B. My SS contributions at employer A were $5800. Now, my question is, how would the employer B come to know that I am nearing the maximum Social Security contribution and they should stop SS deductions after that? How would B know that I have already paid $5800 while at emplyer A?

Employer B won’t know, and has to keep taking out social security until you reach the limit with them. You will have excess social security withheld but will get that as a credit on your 1040 return when you file it.

explain the social approach to mental illness within psychology?

Sunday, October 11th, 2009


not to discriminate the person as an ill person.
the best to treat with love and affection.

explain the social approach to mental illness within psychology?

Sunday, October 11th, 2009


not to discriminate the person as an ill person.
the best to treat with love and affection.

How do you approach new people on Friendster or other social networking sites?

Saturday, October 10th, 2009


send them a message and include a note about something you noticed on their profile that you both have in common or that you found interesting about them. If they don’t respond leave them alone, or you’ll come off as stockerish. I actually met my current boyfriend on facebook by sending him a message as a thank you for joining a club i had made and i included a note about where he had done undergraduate work. I didn’t think he would really respond with anything, but he did and we’ve been together ever since.

How do you approach new people on Friendster or other social networking sites?

Saturday, October 10th, 2009


send them a message and include a note about something you noticed on their profile that you both have in common or that you found interesting about them. If they don’t respond leave them alone, or you’ll come off as stockerish. I actually met my current boyfriend on facebook by sending him a message as a thank you for joining a club i had made and i included a note about where he had done undergraduate work. I didn’t think he would really respond with anything, but he did and we’ve been together ever since.

Do most social guys approach women they like?

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Do most social guys approach women they are interested in?.If they don’t why?
For example the two of you have spoken once… all he does is stare at you when you are not looking.He is usually surround by girls but doesn’t have a girlfriend(yet) looks at you differently but doesn’t approach you.

Not necessarily.

social demand approach

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

criticism of the social demand approach of human resource planning or manpower planning

this is the trend as governance is getting too complex and highly variegated and can be confusing. with the world in such econ ups and downs, planners hv to consider viability of every enterprise ensuring its success and to cut down wastage, duplication etc. there’s always a cost to such things.
do u have a particular issue that needs to be addressed?

Can anyone describe Goffman’s dramaturgical approach to the body and social interaction?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

10 points if you can make answer succinct & less than 30 words!!!

Thanks heaps

Sorry, 30 words seemed impossible…this still leaves A LOT out in regards to success/failure of actors, etc.

Goffman’s Dramaturgy (Symbolic) uses the metaphor of the theatre as he explains how people interact in everyday social life (performance) from birth. Actors use their body language, attitude, appearance, etc. within society to portray themselves in a good light enforcing societal expectations (roles, labels).

Can anyone describe Goffman’s dramaturgical approach to the body and social interaction?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

10 points if you can make answer succinct & less than 30 words!!!

Thanks heaps

Sorry, 30 words seemed impossible…this still leaves A LOT out in regards to success/failure of actors, etc.

Goffman’s Dramaturgy (Symbolic) uses the metaphor of the theatre as he explains how people interact in everyday social life (performance) from birth. Actors use their body language, attitude, appearance, etc. within society to portray themselves in a good light enforcing societal expectations (roles, labels).

outline one assumption of the socialapproach i n psychology and descibe how the social approach could exlplain?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

obedience.. ie milgrams study

The situational/contextual account of Milgram’s study (1963) says that obedience is due to someone’s surroundings, not their personality, and argues that obedience in such situations may be synthesised in a lab. Milgram’s study seeked to show that maybe we are all capable of terrible actions (e.g. when the Germans killed shedloads of people in the war) under the right circumstances.

Milgram’s study involved advertising for participants to take part in a ‘memory’ experiment and paying them $4 an hour for their time. The participants were given the role of ‘teacher’ who was required to ‘punish’ the ‘learner’ for every incorrect answer that learner gave. The punishment was a supposed electrical shock which increased with every wrong answer. There is a lot more interesting detail to be read about this bit but I suggest you look it up yourself. There’s no shortage of interesting detail in sociology and psychology textbooks. (NB// the ‘learners’ where only actors and not really getting shocked)

Milgram predicted that the majority if ‘teachers’ would stop shocking the ‘learner’ well before the maximum voltage which would have been lethal had it really been administered. Yet 65% of ‘teachers’ obeyed the experimenter and continued to the highest shock level. Therefore, people would obey a malevolent authority even when it collided with a moral prohibition of hurting and even killing others. This reflected the power of social influence on obedience.

The social explanation for this obedience is that as children, we learn to act as agents of authorities. Obeying these authorities is our moral imperative. Thus, we become used to having other people in authoritative positions, telling us what to do.

As a result, if what we are doing for this authority goes against our morals, we locate responsibility for our actions in that authority, not ourselves. This is because by obeying, we are not acting on our own initiative.

Obedience increased to 93% in Milgram’s studies when the responsibility for actually flicking the switch that supposedly administered the electrical shock was removed. That is, when direct responsibility was removed, obedience was increased.