THE ROLE OF A FAMILY IN THE SOCIETY
Darya Shilyaeva
(The Department of Social Education, group 241)
Family is a classical example of social institutions. It is the major institution of socialization of young generations. For every person a family carries out emotional and recreational functions protecting a person from stressful and extreme situations. A cosy home and a realization of the need of the person in confidential and emotional dialogue, sympathy, empathy and support - these are important conditions that allow a person to be more protected from conditions of a modern restless life.
Families can be different: full and incomplete, having many children or socially unsuccessful. A modern family differs greatly from the family of the past. Relationship between children and parents changes within recent decades, becoming more and more emotionally psychological.
The family provides physical and emotional development of a person. In infancy and early childhood a family plays a defining role which can't be compensated by other institutes of socialization. Primary school chuldren and teenagers are influenced by leaders but then the role of this function of a family decreases. The family plays a leading part in the intellectual development of a child. A family plays a great role in the social development of a person.
GENERATION GAP
Nadezhda Baturina
(The Department of Social Education, group 241)
Young people nowadays do not directly accept the standarts of their parents who believe that they are right because they are older. Young people in their turn can not accept the values of their "fathers". All these differences create a generation gap when young people and adults do not understand one another. As a rule adults dissatisfied with their own lives, teach the young how to live. The majority of young people do not want to live in the past. They have their own ideals. I think that parents will never understand their children. And children, in their turn, shock their parents with their dress, language, behavious. The existence of subculture which is specific for every generationis a form of protest of the young people against the values of the adult world. Traditionally young people adressed their elders for guidance. Today the situation is different. Sometimes young people share information and experience with their parents. I think that it's not bad, especially when adults really try to understand what is going on in the lives of their children. Moreover, young people grow up so quickly that they almost do not have time to enjoy their childhood.
HOMELESS CHILDREN
Marina Gorchakova
(The Department of Social Education, group 241)
I want to tell you about homeless children. Being homeless is a specific social status. Homeless children don't have permanent residence and lack attention from parents and teachers. They don't study at school. 10% of homeless children work. They usually clean or carry things. But many of homeless sell drugs. Such children sleep in the underground, railway stations, cellars and attics. In summer they can spend nights in city parks. One of the mail tasks of a social teacher concerning the issue of homeless children is to talk to pupils and their parents preventively.
ALEKSANDER FLEMING AND HIS INVENTION
Helen Chebysheva
(The Department of Social Education, group 241)
Alchemists of the Middle Ages searched for Уa philosophical stoneФ, and sometimes found medicine saving human life.
For the last 100 years people managed to get over many illnesses and increase much life expectancy. A lot of inventions in the field of chemistry and medicine could by right be called the most significant events of the XX century. But, in opinion of physicians, penicillin became the main medical, chemical and biological discovery of the XX century.
Today it is impossible to imagine our life without antibiotics, helping to struggle with the majority of infectious diseases. But in the beginning of the century when the world has not been amazed yet by two world wars and bloody revolutions, awful tragedies and accidents, the main reasons of death were various and invincible at that time infections.
The Scottish researcher Alexander Fleming who noticed in 1928 that the mould is capable to kill bacteria, began an absolutely new scientific direction. The invention of penicillin has marked a new era in medicine Ц the era of antibiotics.
Only in 1943 a miracle-medicine began to be used purposefully. In the heat of the second world war the USA began its industrial production. In 1944 Professor Fleming received a title of baronet and began to be called sir Alexander. In 1945 he became a Nobel prize winner and was recognized by scientific organizations, universities, the governments, and also monarchs, many thousands patients and their relatives.
THE INVENTION OF AN ERASER
Nina Kalutskaya
(The Department of Social Education, group 241)
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