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Socio-psychology and consumer behavior

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"The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson:  often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he/she finds himself and the type of people he/she finds himself that determines how he will act" -Stanley Milgram According to psychologist Gordon Allport,  psychology  uses scientific methods "to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior  of people  are influenced by  the particular , imagined, or implied the presence of other  masses ." Essentially,  psychological science  is about understanding how each person's individual behavior is influenced by the social environment  within which  that behavior takes place. You probably already realize that  people  can have a dramatic influence on the way you act  and also the  choices  you create . Consider how  you may  behave  in a very  situation if you were  on their...

“Tribe of India: Patelia”

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The term 'Patelia' has been derived from the term Patel which locally means 'headman'. The Patelias are mostly distributed in Panchamahal district.  they're  also distributed in Surat, Kheda, Sabarkantha and Ahmedabad districts.  They speak among themselves in Bhili and with outsiders in Gujarati. They use Gujarati script. They also speak in Hindi. T hey are  listed under the category of scheduled tribes;  in  1981 census, their population was 70,230 and in 2001 their population was 1,09,390.  The Patelia are non-vegetarian. They take mutton, chicken, eggs and fish. Maize and wheat constitute the staple diet for them. Rice is taken occasionally. They eat pulses of tur, urad, gram, chawala and moong. Ground nut oil  is employed  for cooking purposes. They consume all the vegetables available in their area. T hey use roots and tubers also which they gather from the forest. Consumption of alcoholic drinks is common among them. They distill liquo...

Social Issues in Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times"

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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame within the  era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and  is taken into account   one in every of  the film industry's  most vital  figures. His career spanned  over  75 years, from childhood which emerged in the  Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. Modern Times was  a  1936 American silent comedy film written and directed by  Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin   during which  his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive  within the  modern, industrialized world. The film could  be considered a  commentary on the desperate employment and financial conditions which people  faced during  the 1936 Great  Depression — conditions created, i...