Social World: An Essay on Ethnicity, Health, and Wellbeing

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WAYS OF LEARNING ABOUT THE SOCIAL
WORLD
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Contents
TITLE.......................................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................3
PARAGRAPH 1.......................................................................................................................................3
PARAGRAPH 2.......................................................................................................................................5
PARAGRAPH 3.......................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................................8
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ESSAY PLAN
TITLE
Ways of learning about the social world
INTRODUC
TION
Hook: interesting
opening sentence
The term social world means a social organization which
does not have any formal, territorial and membership
boundaries. Therefore, the concept of social world
phenomena includes invisible colleges, subcultures, behavior
systems, and similar activities. This includes the cultural
areas which do not require to be physically bounded.
background
information
The social world includes the study of human life which
concentrates on social interactions, society or different
groups. In order to understand the term social world, it is
necessary to understand and know some of the basic facts
about society. The social world does not only mean to get
knowledge about that particular society but to feel and
experience it that what it is (Chambliss and Schutt, 2018).
Mission
Statement; aim of
essay
This essay aims to understand, analyze and getting
knowledge base of one’s social world i.e. how the people
live, what are their culture, ethnicity, health and mental
wellbeing of the people.
PARAGRAP
H 1
What: Topic
sentence
The topic selected for understanding the social world in the
context of ethnicity in the social organization.
Evidence:
Supporting
Evidence
The term ethnicity is more difficult to define because it
cannot be defined with the help of physical cues. The term
ethnicity is defined through shared collective cultures which
include several elements and some of these are language,
literature, norms, religion, practices, customs and also
history. The reason behind the development of these groups
is that unique social experience and history which becomes
a base of the group's ethnic identity. In the social world, the
word ethnicity is defined as a common culture and way of
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life (Stone, 2018). The examples which denote the ethnicity
in the social world are the cultural products, language,
cuisine, art, music and many more. It can be a source of
social conflict as well as social unity. The world includes
thousands of several ethnic groups which can be the largest
ethnic group i.e. Han Chinese and also the smallest
indigenous groups which only consist of few people. But all
these groups has its history, culture, religion, etc. which
makes it different from other social groups and further, the
members get distinct but common identity.
Ethnicity is not a biological trait but members must have
those unique traits to getting membership of that particular
group. Therefore, it can be said that cultural elements
should be taught but not inherited.
Example: provide
other examples or
views
All ethnic groups do not follow the same structure to define
their ethnicity. While some group puts more emphasis on
defining ethnicity through common language while other
groups prefer to define their ethnicity through common
religious identity. This can be explained by taking an
example. For instance, one of the ethnic groups i.e. French
Canadians focuses on language. They use this medium to
connect with the French colonists. They are the first who
settled in Canada in the 1600s and they use it to
differentiate themselves from Scottish Canadians, Irish
Canadians as well as English Canadians. The other ethnic
element which does not use to distinguish it, other people, is
a religion because some of the Canadians are Christians,
Protestant and some are Catholic.
On the contrary to this, the ethnic group of Jews does not
use a common language to differentiate themselves. This is
because across the world they use different languages such
as Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino and many others.
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But they use common and shared religion to distinguish
themselves from one group to another (Lalander, 2017).
Do: Summing up
the paragraph
From the above discussion on the learning of social world
through ethnicity it can be said that ethnicity cannot be
defined through physical cues and the elements which
describe the ethnicity are religion, culture, language,
clothing, art, music and many more. The concept of ethnicity
is described by taking examples of French Canadians and
groups of Jews.
PARAGRAP
H 2
What: Topic
sentence
The topic selected for understanding the social world in the
context of health in the social organization.
Evidence:
Supporting
Evidence
The term health can be defined as the individual’s social,
mental and physical wellbeing. This term is defined by the
World Health Organization and in addition to this, this
organization also say that it is very complex to define the
term health because it does not include physical wellbeing
but it also includes individual’s state of mind the social
environment in which the person lives. In order to
understand the concept of health in the context of the social
world, this means that there is a contract between health
and society. The main objective of understanding the social
world in the context of health is to know how social life
affects the mortality rate and morbidity rate of an individual
(World Health Organization, 2016).
It is very difficult to accept the fact that social culture also
affects the health of an individual. The general physician
views the disease as a medical problem and gives treatment
individually. But several public health scholars and
sociologists observe the frequency of people falling ill belong
to a particular society. In the social world, it is found that the
culture of society affects the health and illness of the people.
Further, the culture outlines the perception of the society
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i.e. how the person becomes ill or healthy (Auerbach et al.,
2016).
Example: provide
other examples or
views
It is a well-known fact that some people are alive or dead
due to serious illness and the physicians try their best to
save them but some of them can be saved and some not.
This can be explained by taking an example of the culture of
Japan. The practice of organ transplant is very less common
in Japan as compared to other developed nations. The
people of Japan did not like to disfigure the dead bodies,
even for autopsies. Even the people of this culture did not
permit to donate the organs even when their person dies
which means that they deny designating themselves to be a
potential organ donor.
Do: Summing up
the paragraph
From the above discussion on the learning of the social
world through health, it can be said that culture or the
environment of society affect the social, mental, and
physical wellbeing of the individual. The concept of health is
also explained by taking the example of Japanese culture
and society affecting the health of the people.
PARAGRAP
H 3
What: Topic
sentence
The topic selected for understanding the social world in the
context of wellbeing in the social organization.
Evidence:
Supporting
Evidence
The term wellbeing means the positive state, enclosing
health as a positive ambition. The term wellbeing is
generally related to health and Ottawa Charter in 1986 says
that health is not a thing of living but it is important to the
resource of everyday life (Health Knowledge, 2019). The
above definition is related to physical health and wellbeing
but we cannot ignore the relation of health with mental
wellbeing. The wellbeing varies from individual to individual
and there are several factors contribute to individual
wellbeing (Reis, 2018).
There are a total of 5 ways through which the wellbeing can
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be improved and these are kept learning, be active, give,
take notice and connect.
Example: provide
other examples or
views
The people having mental health problems uses tobacco all
day and also other substances which cause mental disorder.
These people have more difficulties in accessing their
services.
In addition to this, the condition of the people suffering from
bipolar disorder can be managed through high wellbeings
such as medication or even that person is not currently
experiencing with its symptoms. Although, it cannot be
denied that people who are suffering from mental wellbeing
are not get fully recovered the effect of the disease can be
minimized (Brooks, 2015).
Do: Summing up
the paragraph
The third topic selected for understanding the social world is
wellbeing which is a positive state of being healthy.
Wellbeing is explained in both physical and mental terms
and it further explained by taking an example of different
people who are suffering from a mental disorder and related
disease.
CONCLUSI
ON
Summary of main
ideas
Paraphrase your
mission
statement
In order to understand the main concept of the social world,
the main topics included in this essay are health, wellbeing,
and ethnicity. All these topics emphasize on culture of
different places by taking some examples. The mission of
this essay is to find different ways of learning about the
social world.
Summary of main
ideas
The idea behind the ethnicity is to find out the elements
included in the ethnicity which defines the uniqueness of the
particular society. The idea behind the health is to find out
the impact of culture on the health of people. The wellbeing
is defined as the physical and mental health of the people.
Concluding
remarks/recomm
endations
From the above discussion, it can be said that ethnicity,
health, and wellbeing highlight some of the key important
factors of the social world. However, it can be
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recommended that there are several important factors such
as social class, crime and childhood also plays a key role in
understanding the social world.
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Harvard
Referencing Style
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