Behavior Essays

Beverly Yuen Thompson, an author and associate professor of sociology at Sienna College, details her experience and findings of interviewing tattooed women in her ethnographic study Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women, and the Politics of the Body. Beverly approached her study by conducting qualitative interviews with various heavily tattooed women, …

According to Salant, (1997) says, “The U.S. Coast’s Guard’s expended $380 million of a $4 billion budget in 1997…for hunt and rescuing actions, whereas National Park Services expended $3.4 million, conferring current statistics.” Air Force’s also assisted with rescuing but did not have numbers accessible. I am more in agreement …

The following proposal aims to initiate an investigation into the relationship between public policy and societal trends. The current economic strategy prevalent in the United States is neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is based off of the concepts of privatization and free trade. The rise of neoliberalism in the United States corresponds with …

This literature review is based on peer-reviewed articles that primarily feature goal-setting in a workplace environment, and the benefit setting goals have on the performance and motivation of the employees. The study focuses on Goal Setting Theory, and S.M.A.R.T. goals as these are the two proven metrics for successfully creating …

Civil Engineers are making some of the biggest advances in our society. As I look back and contemplate the last 20 years, it is astounding to note not just the sheer number of new engineering breakthroughs, but also the quantum of advancements on existing technologies that are making an impact …

The term virtue is associated with performing a task well. Simply, a virtue can be viewed as, “an excellent trait of character.” Displaying virtuous traits as an engineer is of crucial importance. From engineering design to general data collection, a primary responsibility of engineers is to complete tasks with technical …

George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the great philosophers of the early modern period. His concern to see reality as lying subjective to human knowledge and interpretation is joined with his religious devotion. Berkeley said that he wrote the Three Dialogues, to “demonstrate the reality and perfection of …

The main idea of this article is that McDonald’s workers will be going on “the first multistate strike in the U.S. specifically targeting sexual harassment” so McDonald’s can handle sexual harassment at the workplace and improve working conditions. How would a functionalist react to the focus of the article and …

The Theory of Reasoned Action (T.O.R.A.) (1967, 1975) created by Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen suggests that people consider consequences of their behaviors before they act on these behaviors. (Raingruber, 2017) They believed that there is a correlation between attitude and behaviors (the A-B relationship). This theory is based on …

The humanistic movement in psychology was founded by two American psychologists, Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow during the late 1950’s. Both of these psychologists took self-actualization, which is the realization of one’s potential, and embraced it as an “empirical principle and and ethical idea” (Lecture). This led to the idea …