Sociology

The question this paper is trying to answer is how to help people while they were in distress. Helping people in distress states, "an act governed by ethical norms and precepts taught to children at home, in school, and church." Internalization of these standards is different personality studies show that the way people act in situations similar to this, are going to be different. Testing these acts of helping people and possible situations from a …

…The hurry variable was significantly related to helping behavior, while the helping variable was not. The speech on the parable did not affect the helping behavior of the students either. The students in a hurry were likely to offer less help than the students not in a hurry. That is the strongest relationship of the study. As for the second hypothesis the degree of hurry of students was determines the students helping behavior was supported.