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The rapid advancement of digital technology has fundamentally transformed social structures, creating new forms of inequality and social stratification. The digital divide has emerged as a critical sociological phenomenon that reflects and reinforces existing social hierarchies while creating new patterns of inclusion and exclusion. This study examines the relationship between digital transformation and social stratification, analyzing how digital access, literacy, and participation contribute to contemporary forms of social inequality. The research investigates the mechanisms through which digital divides reproduce and transform traditional class structures. This sociological inquiry employs a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative survey data from 500 households across different socioeconomic strata with qualitative ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with 40 participants. The study utilizes Pierre Bourdieu's theory of capital and Anthony Giddens' structuration theory as analytical frameworks. The findings reveal three distinct digital classes: the "digitally privileged" (25%), "digitally struggling" (45%), and "digitally excluded" (30%). Digital capital significantly correlates with traditional forms of capital (economic, cultural, and social), creating compound advantages for privileged groups. The study demonstrates that digital transformation both reinforces existing inequalities and creates new forms of social differentiation. Digital transformation has become a new dimension of social stratification that intersects with traditional inequality patterns. The digital divide represents not merely a technological gap but a fundamental social divide that requires comprehensive sociological understanding and policy intervention to ensure equitable social development.

Background: Hypertension is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases in society. One of the risk factors for hypertension is coffee consumption which is characterized by the emergence of many outlets or coffee shops and is influenced by massive cultural shifts. Objectives: Writing this literature review aims to determine the effect of coffee consumption on increasing blood pressure based on the results of previous studies. Methods: In the preparation of this article using the literature review method from searching articles through electronic databases published in the last 10 years. Results: From the results of the literature review conducted, it shows that there are two conditions where coffee consumption can have an effect on increasing blood pressure and coffee consumption has no effect on increasing blood pressure. Conclusion: Coffee consumption can have an effect on increasing blood pressure due to the presence of caffeine which has antagonistic properties against endogenous adenosine and can stimulate sympathetic nerves. However, coffee also contains micronutrient compounds to provide protective effects against hypertension, such as polyphenols, magnesium, potassium, niacin, and vitamin E. Further research using experimental methods so that clear evidence is obtained from previous studies.

The public perspective of chemistry, considered to be something that has always been associated with B3 or Toxic and Dangerous Substances, in fact this is not entirely true. Instead, our lives are surrounded by various kinds of chemicals. Both the molecules of the elements and the compounds, their existence is very close to ourselves. Inappropriate knowledge and attitudes toward the term chemicals are found in our society. But chemicals are not something that must be avoided, but used with careful rules. In reality, chemicals are very helpful in the various activities of life. Based on this, there should be an education such as socialization to people that chemicals are not always dangerous substances. The data was collected with qualitative techniques, through unstructured interviews related to the understanding of chemicals in the family sphere with some basic questions related to household chemicals as well as socialization activities concerning chemical substances in households to people of RT 05 RW 02 Cirejag Village, Karawang. The interview was conducted to obtain an explanation about how far they understand about the chemical in the household so that the socialization activities held are expected to help correct misperceptions and improve their understanding related to domestic chemicals.                                                                                                                 

This research aims to provide information about Corn Maintenance Strategies in Bahal Batu III. Corn is a staple food along with rice, and can be used in various dishes as a side dish or snack. Corn not only contains carbohydrates, but also contains enough nutrients and crude fiber as a staple food which has a positive impact on health. Corn is also a substitute food or supplement for humans. Using the right amount of fertilizer will make corn plants grow more optimally. Measuring the growth of productive corn plants by applying various types of compound fertilizer to land in Bahal Batu III village and determining the most suitable type of compound fertilizer for the growth and yield of corn plants on the land. The survey was carried out on the land of Bahal Batu III village. Apart from that, corn can also be used as food for the community and has increased the price of corn consumption in society as a whole. Phosphorus is important for plant growth and yield, playing important roles such as encouraging flower and grain formation and strengthening thatch to prevent dropping and improve quality. The research results showed that even with different complex fertilizer compositions, all the parameters observed were plant height, stem diameter, number of leaves, ear length, ear diameter, number of seeds per row, seed weight per ear, and yield potential.

Bekasi City Christian Communication Forum, is a forum for Christians across churches, where this forum is a forum for communication between interfaith and churches in Bekasi, such as from HKBP, GPIB, Bethel, Catholicism, this forum is a center for establishing communication between church residents who experience problems and threats related to intolerance that is rampant, especially in the Bekasi City area. The existence of a Christian education or education that breathes Christian beliefs is very beneficial. Religion began to become a part of the culture of every people. The role of the church, apart from being a message of the gospel to the unsaved, is also very important in building the spiritual life of its congregation in order to grow into a spiritually mature congregation. The objectives of this study are: 1). To find out and analyze the extent of the role of community service through the FKK Christian organization in Bekasi City. 2). To find out and analyze the problems faced, especially by the FKK Christian organization in Bekasi City. In this study, this type of research is descriptive qualitative research, that is, the data collected is in the form of words, pictures, not numbers. The purpose of descriptive research is to make a systematic, factual, and accurate description of the facts and nature of a particular population or area. The results in this study can be concluded that Religion must be a social glue, which plays a role in bridging tensions, maintaining the survival of society when faced with life challenges. In this case, religion plays a role in uniting members of society in the midst of existing plurality. Religion should promote a high sense of tolerance and love, not excessive fanaticism that thinks what we have is good and what else is bad.

The presence of plastic in today's contemporary era, has various functions that greatly help people's lives. Plastic with all its properties, which are more inclined to the many advantages of its use and flexibility so that it is easy to use in various fields of life. With this fact, there are more and more products that rely on plastic as a basic ingredient in the manufacture of their products. This is of course supported by very high market demand, so that all types of production of goods made from plastic are mushrooming. If we return to our original purpose, the creation of plastic was indeed used as a substitute for paper bags, which at that time was experiencing a crisis of threats due to the increasing number of illegal logging incidents, so that there was a potential for the scarcity of the trees themselves. However, the opposite is currently true, where the use and production of plastics is increasingly dominating, making the remaining production waste and waste resulting from its use even more insurmountable. This is compounded by the fact that plastic is difficult to decompose, requiring hundreds of years of time. This, in the concept of a risk society is called the boomerang effect, because something that existed in the industrial era was created as a form of innovation that exists as a solution, but in the modern era like now it has become a separate risk for the surrounding community. For various phenomena as a result of the creation of plastic itself, society does not necessarily let them slowly be swallowed up by existing risks, but there are many efforts to create innovations as a way to protect themselves from various risks distributed by production and the increasingly widespread use of plastic in today's reality.

Mental disorders are one of the public health problems in Indonesia. In general, mental disorders are caused by psychological pressure both from outside the individual and from within the individual. Some of the things that cause this is the ignorance of the family and society about this mental disorder (Hawari, 2007). According to WHO or the World Health Organization (2002) states that the prevalence of mental health problems is currently quite high, 25% of the world's population has suffered from mental health problems, 1% of which are severe mental disorders. The potential for a person to be susceptible to mental disorders is indeed high, every time 450 million people around the world are affected by mental, nervous, and behavioral problems. One form of mental disorder that is found throughout the world is a severe mental disorder, namely Schizophrenia (Hawari, 2007). Schizophrenia comes from two words, namely schizo which means cracked or broken and phrenia which means soul. Thus, people who suffer from schizophrenic mental disorders are people who experience mental fractures or personality cracks. Schizophrenia can arise because of the integration between biological, psychosocial and environmental factors (Sinaga, 2007). In schizophrenic patients there is personal disintegration and personal division. Emotional and intellectual behavior becomes ambiguous (compound), and has serious disorders and has regression or total dementia. Schizophrenic patients escape from the reality of life and remain silent in their fantasy world (Kartono, 2010).