People’s attitudes are determined more by the immediate situation or surroundings than by society as a whole.
The nature of people’s attitudes is elusive. Social psychologists have long pondered what factors redound one’s personality more, their immediate surroundings or the attitudes of society as a whole. While the mechanism by which one acquires attitudes is best left to sociologists and psychologists to determine, observations regarding the large diversity of cultures and political beliefs across most societies imply that one’s immediate surroundings supersede society at large as a socializing factor.
The United States features awe-inspiring cultural diversity. Even disregarding rather closed communities such as the Amish and Mennonites, it is hard to argue that a Minnesotan and Californian share exactly the same attitudes and values despite pertaining to the same “society”.
Additionally, if one accepts the proposition that society at large determines one’s attitudes, than it would seem natural than one would be hard pressed to explain the striking political differences that exist between members of the same community. How can one reconcile the fact that two neighbours might have radically different views with respect to healthcare and gun ownership if their common societal attachment dictated their political dispositions?
Nevertheless many would argue that society’s role in shaping the individual takes precedence over that of one’s immediate surroundings as most are socialized through institutions that are in the hands of society as a whole. Typically children are required to pass 12 years at schools run by the local or state governments which have a profound effect on their understanding of morality and the world around them, as such, they consequently leave their print on children’s leanings. While this is undoubtedly true, one must remember that children pass their most formidable years with their parents prior to entering the formal education system. It is here, rather than in schools, that children learn to distinguish between wrong and right. While schools may teach pupils about the world, their sense of morality, and consequently their attitudes is taught at home.
Furthermore, one may reasonably argue that a defining feature of a society is that all its members share a common language. This is important inasmuch as a language is an important tool of socialization. Numerous studies have shown that languages shape the manner by which one perceives the world. Therefore through the use of a common language, society leaves its mark on the psyche of its members in a way one’s family or surrounding never could. This argument surely deserves merit, yet it fails to account for the wide arrange of patois and dialects which may exist within a single culture. The lexicon used by a child who grow up in a poor neighbourhood might be radically different that that used by a child growing up in an affluent neighbourhood. This might be extreme enough to prevent the two from understanding one another! Dialects may therefore serve to reinforce regional or socio-economic differences and thus prevent people from being socialized into the hegemonic culture.
It is hard to definitely know what shapes one’s attitudes. The wide differences in political leanings and cultures across a single country nonetheless evince that one’s immediate surroundings have a profound effect on one’s attitudes. This can largely be explained by the role language and early-child education have on one’s attitudes. As such, in order to better understand the individual one must first look to their immediate surroundings for clues.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, furthermore, if, look, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, regarding, so, therefore, thus, while, such as, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3088.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 553.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58408679928 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84932490483 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19107156235 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.499095840868 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 963.9 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.2663310404 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.260869565 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0434782609 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.04347826087 5.21951772744 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270068607975 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0843406011506 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0955691028879 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153453517148 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0961509075499 0.0667264976115 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.38 12.1639044944 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 100.480337079 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.