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the haves wielding the greatest power (Macionis & Gerber, 2006). First, there is the predominantly Anglo upper class, in which mo...

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

This book review is on Economy and State, A Sociological Perspective by Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers. A summation, critique...

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

and their relationships with them. Director and screenwriter Peter Bratt aimed his lens at San Franciscos primarily Latino Missio...

entertained an Indian couple at her home and the table conversation focused in the institution of marriage. Smita, the Indian wife...

a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

children, who represent forty percent of the growing masses of homeless people (NCH, 2004), are often the most victimized of all t...

she became a prostitute and fulfilled her role as a drug addict who would do anything to get a fix. Of course, labeling theory has...

Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...

upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was una...

boy. That said, there is a lot one can glean from the essay from the fact that gender roles may indeed be socially constructed to ...

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

no child support at all? Or that everyone who makes over $50,000 should be forced to pay some maximum amount to make up for the sh...

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

food, and visual arts, while non-material culture is the unseen - language, music, and literature. In America, buildings are tall...

become the individuals they do, noting that a combination of genetic and environmental influences mark the two most significant as...

liberal origins, the conservative had developed their own distinctive view of Social Security, which can be summed up in a single ...

while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...