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The Development of Law No. 29811 On December 9, 2011, under the Presidency of Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), the Peruvian government approved Law 29811 enacting a ten-year moratorium on GMOs. The moratorium was the product of a 20-year process that began in the early 1990s. It included a multitude of stakeholders, including anti-transgenic activists, scientists, non-governmental organizations, farmers and the Peruvian government. It is important to know that up until 2006, the discussions… Read More
Category: Odd & Ends Tags: agriculture, biotechnology, environment, environmental sociology, GMO, GMOs, Master's Research, peru, social science, sociology, stevenson center
Introduction The industrialization of agriculture began to take form during what has been coined the ‘Green Revolution’. Between the 1930s and 1960s, many wealthy and developed countries, became very active in the research and development of industrial agriculture science and farming techniques. One of these techniques was bioengineering. Shortly after the onset of the Green Revolution, the first genetically engineered crop was created. In the early 1970s, a genetically altered bacteria… Read More
Category: Odd & Ends Tags: agriculture, environment, environmental sociology, GMO, GMOs, Master's Research, peru, social science, sociology, sociology of science, stevenson center
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Category: Poetry Tags: haiku, institutional review board, IRB, poem, Poetry, research, social science, sociology
Abstract Deviant behavior is characterized by departing from social norms and values. Each culture has a unique set of ethnics, and the thoughts and actions beyond this set of beliefs are considered deviant. Like the differences amongst these collections of values, so too does difference exist with respects to the individual and type of behavior. Social scientists have worked hard to understand these diversities, and through this hard work, patterns begin to… Read More
Category: Odd & Ends Tags: class, crime, criminal, criminal behavior, criminology, deviance, gender, race, social science, sociology



