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Be it a modern society or the traditional one, drugs will always deteriorate the standards, norms and values and culture of every society. Children are regarded as the hope of tomorrow, however when drugs directly attack the hope, the whole society is at stake.

The percentage of children involved in drugs intake is rising day by day. According to the survey made by the National Centre on Addiction and substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, the percentage of middle school students infected by drugs have raised to 28% while those of high school students have raised to 62%.

Causes of Drug addiction

Drugs addiction can be caused due to en number of things loneliness, unhappiness, depression, divorced parents, mounting route towards crime, major illness or sometimes death in the family. However the prime causes are genetic make-up, peer pressure and personality. Disease like diabetics have hereditary background, drugs too have hereditary background. If any of the parent has a history of drug addiction, chances of child involving in drug addiction increases. Peer pressure and personality go hand in hand. It is said that ‘bad company corrupts good character’ similarly peer pressure forces the person into drug addiction however I feel a person with a strong personality can resist to the evil peer pressure.

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My favorite subject in my first junior college was political science, but in the second year thought it was quite boring. I don’t know why but the statistics of the elections, the articles, the amendments and the rights the duties which interested me so much started irritating me in the second year. On the contrary economics was the subject I hated a lot in first year but in the second year I just loved studying it.

With a sole mind I tried to find the reasons for liking or disliking a subject. The prime reason I could think of was the professors; sometimes when a particular subject is boring, professors try different techniques to make the teaching process more effective and interesting. However when an interesting subject is thought in an ineffective and boring manner, students drop their interest in the subject.

Students also find some subjects interesting just because they like the subject itself, for instance- some students are fascinated by the poetry, so they like literature. Some students like to have a deep insight on the historical facts so they like history. Some students just love the chemical equations so they love chemistry. (more…)

Behavioral science is the study of the behavior, but is it as simple as that? Studying a behavior is no joke. Behavioral science basically studies the behavior of both the human and animal in the controlled and naturalistic world. Thus we can say behavioral sciences studies organisms’ behavior. It’s split between neural decision science and social communication science.
Neural decision science studies the link between biology and decision making while social communication sciences studies the link between communications and individual relations through social interactions.

Neural decision science covers subjects like Social Psychology, Cognitive Theory, Psychobiology, Management Science, Social Neuroscience, Ethology while social-communication science covers subjects like Anthropology, Organizational Behavior, Behavioral Finance, Social Networks, Memetics, Organizational Ecology.

Behavioral sciences prove really useful in management studies. Management basically means managing people and when you study human behavior it’s easier for you to manage them. Thus a management program includes subjects like organizational behavior or organizational finance.

In order to pursue a career in behavioral sciences you must possess certain skill. Human nature is dynamic and unpredictable but a behavioral scientist must adapt and understand the dynamic changes in the society; be it individual, group or social changes. Conversation is very important for a behavioral scientist in order to understand his subjects and thus require superior interpersonal communication skills. While studying organizations, behavioral scientists must understand the professional ethics of the organization on one hand while maintain the integrity of the profession (behavioral science) on the other hand. Data analysis is yet another important function in behavioral science. Behavioral scientist needs to analyze the data through advanced computer applications to test the data and convert it into theories. A behavioral scientist must contain good presentation and writing skills to facilitate their findings and research to lay person or a vast audience lacking behavioral science knowledge. Human behavior is dynamic and thus creating a fixed theory for a behavioral scientist is not possible thus in order to create a theory he has to be on field , critically evaluate the problems and solve them, as the problems change the theory also changes from time to time. While creating the theories a behavioral scientist must compare his research with other behavioral scientist in order to get an effective theory, thus a behavioral scientist must possess superior project management skills.

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