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Examples of particular in the following topics:

• Groups

  • Perceiving society as a composite of groups allows for one to generalize about a particular person.
  • If you know something about which groups a particular person belongs to, you may import certain character traits to that particular individual.
  • In this way, groups operate as a cognitive heuristic, meaning that people use groups as a shortcut to use generalized information to learn about a particular person.
  • Legitimate heuristics tend to just be those that import positive generalizations to a particular person.
  • Stereotyping is when one makes generalizations about a particular person in a negative way based on their perceived group identity.

• Culture

  • Culture is the set of beliefs, values, symbols, rituals, fashions, etiquette, foods, and art that unite a particular society.
  • Culture elements are learned behaviors; children learn them while growing up in a particular culture as older members teach them how to live.
  • It is tempting to associate a particular society with a particular country, but this isn't always the case.
  • Material culture consists of the goods used to exhibit particular cultural behaviors.
  • Symbolic culture consists of the belief systems that found and motivate life in a particular culture.

• Social Movements

  • Social movements can advocate for a particular social change, but they can also organize to oppose a social change that is being advocated by another entity.
  • Therefore, it may represent only one part of a particular social movement.
  • Thus, promoting veganism would be considered the social movement, while PETA would be considered a particular SMO (social movement organization) working within the broader social movement.

• The Ecclesia

  • Churches typically tolerate no religious competition, and serve as the guardians and guides of spiritual life for a particular group of people.
  • Ecclesias are also typically not the sole religious body in a particular societal space.
  • In Catholic canon law, a particular church is an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or an equivalent figure.

• Beliefs

  • People with pluralist beliefs make no distinction between faith systems, viewing each one as valid within a particular culture.
  • People with syncretistic views blend the views of a variety of different religions or traditional beliefs into a unique fusion which suits their particular experience and context.
  • Adherents of particular religions deal with the differing doctrines and practices espoused by other religions in a variety ways.

• Language

  • This definition stresses the fact that human languages can be described as closed structural systems consisting of rules that relate particular signs to particular meanings.
  • Languages, understood as the particular set of speech norms of a particular community, are also a part of the larger culture of the community that speaks them.

• Socialization and Human Sexuality

  • Rather, an individual is taught sexual norms of their particular cultural and historical moment through socialization.
  • This is not to say, of course, that all adherents to a particular faith stringently follow the faith's guidelines, but rather that individuals growing up within a particular religion are instructed on how to behave sexually.
  • The laws within a particular jurisdiction simultaneously reflect and create social norms regarding sexuality.
  • Sodomy laws, or laws prohibiting particular sexual acts between two consenting partners such as anal sex between two men, were on the books in most American states for decades.
  • Pornography presents another way in which individuals are socialized towards particular sexual practices through the media.

• Combining multiple views

  • Each matrix reports on the full set of a single relation among all the actors, as perceived by a particular respondent.
  • In creating a single summary of the relations, we could select the perceptions of a single actor; or, we might want to focus on the perceptions of the pair of actors involved in each particular relationship; or we might want to combine the information of all of the actors in the network.
  • Slice selects the perception of one particular actor to represent the network (the dialog then asks, "which informant?").
  • If we had a particular expert informant we might choose his/her view of the network as a summary.
  • Intersection LAS constructs the output matrix by examining the entries of the particular pair of actors involved.

• Fieldwork and Observation

  • Ethnography is a research process that uses fieldwork and observation to learn about a particular community or culture.
  • In participant observation, the researcher immerses himself in a cultural environment, usually over an extended period of time, in order to gain a close and intimate familiarity with a given group of individuals (such as a religious, occupational, or sub-cultural group, or a particular community) and their practices.

• The Law as an Instrument of Oppression

  • The term may be applied either in reference to a particular event or act, or to a larger status quo.
  • Misuse and abuse with regard to a particular case or context may represent a systemic failure to serve the cause of justice.
  • Oppression is rarely limited solely to formal government action: An individual may be the particular focus of oppression or persecution, and in such circumstances, have no group membership in which to share, and thus maybe mitigate the burden of ostracism.