IHSS Blog 2019-2020

Jordan Chase  The Presentation of self in everyday life This article explores the ideas of Erving Goffman's 1959 book  The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman likens social interactions to a play at the theater with people playing different roles and audience members as people watching how we interact with each other. he compares front stage to how people act when in public or with other people. and backstage to how people act when they are by themselves (more relaxed) Goffman also states that when people interact socially they are  engaged in the process of "impression management,"    which means that they act in a way that avoids embarrassment this is done by making sure everyone has a complete understanding of the situation and can and will act accordingly. Goffman also writes how " Appearance functions to portray to the audience the performer’s social statuses... Manner refers to how the individual plays the role and fu...

Jordan Chase Pirate slang and how its preserving old language The way that we think of pirate speak can be attributed pirate-themed amusement rides, books and films, like Treasure Island and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. This article debunks the origins of some words and phrases in current english that originated from pirates. The article details the origins popular phrases and sayings. for example shiver me timbers comes from wood referring to wooden appendages (peg legs) etc. This article is really cool because the words that that they used hundreds are still being used today. its also very intriguing  to see how the different words evolved and changed over the course of history. Its always good to know where words come from and what they originally meant so that they gain more meaning and people have a better understanding of them. 

Jordan Chase  Economic Availability of Alcohol and Alcoholism Incidence Rates in Russia The objective of this study was to determine the correlation between the affordably and ease of   access to vodka to alcoholism in post-soviet Russia. Russia is Russia has one of the highest   incidence of alcoholism (alcohol dependence) in Europe. Alcohol morbidity and mortality rates respond directly to price and availability of alcohol.  So, the results from this study suggest a reverse relationship between the  affordability  and  incidence rate.  The findings  point to the complex relationship between alcohol  affordability  and long-term alcohol related outcomes. The data gathered from 1991 to 2015 does not support the claim that the affordability of vodka causes increased incident rates. from 2003-2015 the incident rate steadily decreased while the affordability increased completely contradicting p...