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Modern and Postmodern Sociology Issues

expressed in a direct cause and effect relationship. Also, the function need not be positive or nurturing. Certainly, Durkheim w...

Is Deviant Behavior Criminal Insanity Or Something That Can be Treated, Punished Through Incarceration?

anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Children begin to feel that no matter what they do, that its okay. Theyre...

Jeffrey Dahmer and Applications of Reckless' Containment Theory of Delinquency and Gottredson and Hirschi's Self Control Theory

as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child-rearing which resul...

Criminal Justice and Various Educational Strategies

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

Deviance Theory of Merton

In five pages this paper considers college campus's sociocultural norms in an application of Merton's deviance theory. One source...

College Campuses and Merton's Deviance Theory

desire for material security, success, and comfort on one hand, and limited opportunities to achieve these things on the other han...

Questions on Juvenile Delinquency

In nine pages this research paper examines juvenile delinquency questions in a compilation of 4 brief essays that include such the...

Overview of Important Sociological Theories

In eight pages sociological theories by Becker, Marx, and Weber are discussed in terms of how they relate to issues including soci...

Robert Beck's A Sociological and Psychological Look at Pimp The Story of My Life

In nine pages Beck's story is examined within the context of psychological and sociological perspectives with social deviance role...

Concept of Deviance

In ten pages the concept of deviance is examined from various theoretical vantage points and includes labeling and anomie theory a...

Overview of Deviance

In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...

Deviance in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

Films of Pedro Almodovar and Luis Bunuel

In three pages three essays compare these great filmmakers in a consideration of such themes as social deviance the 'Stockholm Syn...

Criminal Behavior Explained

In fifteen pages this paper argues that society alone does not adequately explain crime but that this type of human deviance is be...

Deviance Theories and Organized Crime

In six pages this paper applies criminology and deviance theories to Gambino 'family' organized crime group. Six sources are cite...

Prostitution and Theories of Systematic Deviance

In four pages this paper examines prostitution through an application of systematic deviance sociological theories. Two sources a...

Security Management and Social Theory

has decreased 50 percent overall. The psychology has changed and it is working. Enforcement forces in those cities are no longer t...

Theories of Cultural Deviance

Juvenile delinquency is considered in twelve pages within the context of the Theory of Differential Association by Sutherland and ...

Social Theory and Deviance

In six pages deviance is considered through various sociological theories from Sutherland until Becker along with Brown's conformi...

Criminology and Deviance Theories

In ten pages this fictitious case study featuring person arrested for pot possession intending to sell explores various deviance t...

A School Violence Sociological Perspective

In this paper consisting of eight pages the reasons for school violence are explored sociologically and contends that child devian...

Anthropological Views on Deviance

In four pages this paper discusses the text edited by Freilich, Raybeck, and Savishinsky entitled Deviance Anthropological Persp...

Gangs Explained Through Deviance Sociological Theory

This paper examines in five pages how gangs are explained through an application of the deviance sociological theory that includes...

Cinematic Depiction of Deviance

In eleven pages this paper discusses how deviance is cinematically depicted in such films as Leaving Las Vegas and One Flew Over t...

Criminal Justice, Discrimination, and Political Deviance

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. criminal justice system's practice of discrimination and the social and political devi...

Deviance and Homelessness

difficult to define, but certain behavior patterns which fit nicely into psychology manual descriptions, are deemed to be such. Th...

Criminal Behavior and the Role of the Media

In two pages this paper examines criminal deviance and the role the media plays in encouraging this behavior. Two sources are cit...

A Deviance Theories' Study

In a paper containing ten pages constructivist and etiologic deviance theories are discussed along with differences, similarities,...

Deviance from a Victorian View Perspective

see them in the context of the society in which they originated. The Victorian view of criminality The commonly expressed public ...

Application of Criminal Schools of Thought

In ten pages this paper examines criminology in this theoretical overview that discusses conflict, social process, cultural devian...