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Social Construction, Social Shaping, and Technological Determinism

the process of change, and that technology is an instrumental component in the transformation of organizational and social structu...

Social and Medical Perspectives on Dying

would be no point where it would be judged morally justified to harvest viable organs from donors (Browne, 1983). It often gives c...

America and Catholicism

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

Unemployment's Importance

is on the way down, and certainly other economic indicators suggest positive changes, there are still many people out of work. Eco...

America from a Multicultural Perspective

backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the coloni...

Symbolic Interactionism Article Evaluated

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 ...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

American and Japanese Street Crime

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

Once Were Warriors Cinematic Marxist Analysis

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

Homelessness and Sociology

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

Great Britain and Achievement in Education

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

Theoretical Perspectives on Work Culture and Sociology

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

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

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

The Notebook Film Psychosocial Analysis

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

The War on Drugs in America and Whether or Not a Problem Truly Exists

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

Deviance and Sociological Theory

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

Criminology Case Study Analysis

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...

Dr. Martin Luther King's Ideologies and How They Contributed to His Murder

told her son about segregation and advised him at an early age that racial prejudice represented "a social condition rather than a...

An Evaluation of Tattooing

it causes, that is also attractive and why it is so controversial. Finally, an important notion about tattooing is its permanence....

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

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

Exploitation of Children in the Art World: Is it Art or Pornography?

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

Canada, Social Class, and Inequality

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

Sociological Theories' Impact On Education

values (Hoenisch, 2005). Durkheim believed that "society can survive only if there exists among its members a sufficient degree of...

Applied Social Research/Whyte and Yin

and racketeering. Whyte readily acknowledges that he had no training in either sociology or anthropology when he began the rese...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

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

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

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

Sociology Applied to News and Music

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...

Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

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

Sociological Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia and the United States

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