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People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

U.S. Civil Right Movement

African-Americans, women, and men without property, had not always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic ...

Herbert Blumer and George Herbert Mead's Theories of Sociology

on the most essential points of his sociological theory, only differing in subtle distinctions regarding the importance of interac...

Michel Foucault, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx on Political Theory

similar: to attain virtue and the happiness which comes from a sense of right living, but such an outcome was seen as more worthy ...

Democracy Theories

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

Sociological Perspective of 911

the rich, United States does not do enough to help the poor, but rather advocates for multinationals. Globalization has seemingly ...

Sigmund Freud v. Erik Erikson

Eriksons theories emphasize that "identity formation" is a life-long process that occurs on what is largely a subconscious level (...

The Central Elements of Chaos Theory

and then interpreted. When the different factors or inputs are altered, the height and distance the item travels will change but n...

A 911 Sociological Analysis

Whether or not the charge regarding globalization is true is besides the point. The people feel that way and are perhaps angered t...

Emile Durkheim and the Social Theory of Lyotard

only give rise to institutions in patches--local determinism" (Lyotard PG). II. EXPOSING POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism was t...

Altruism Defined

Comte was instrumental in relating the correlation between altruism and morality, and therefore replaced the idea of God with Huma...

Industrial Relations and HRM

(Silva, 1997). In todays organization development literature, we consistently find the word strategic - strategic planning, strate...

Canadian Divorce and Theories of Sociology

control, for access to divorce" (Landsberg, 2002). The feminism Landsberg highlights in her article could best be described cond...

Literary Theory and Criticism of the Future

to agree with the first position taken, however. Many who pursue a M.A. are not explicitly seeking a teaching degree, nor a teachi...

C.S. Lewis and Social Theory

Gresham, and took on the role of stepfather to her two sons, Douglas and David Gresham. During his life he formed a...

Marxist Industrialism and the Abolition of Class Consciousness

being misunderstood, it is Marxism. The frequent target of ad hominem attacks, Marxists have had to endure a host of inaccurate an...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Thinking Sociologically

nervous breakdown following the death of his father, thereafter Weber became a hospital administrator, which obviously further inf...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Legal Theory and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines this novel by Herman Melville from a perspective of legal theory. Four sources are cited in the ...

Should Governments be Intervening in the Credit Crunch?

Federal Reserve in the US extended the normal lending period to 30 days at the same time as reducing the discount window interest ...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

Marx and Neoclassical Theories of Labor Markets

capital disparity transfers into variable productivity. Therefore it follows that workers earn different wages" (Darrouzet-Nardi, ...

The Possible Benefits of Reciting Internally

and allocation of labor is governed by a set of administrative rules and procedures" (Doeringer and Piore, 1971: 1).The internal m...

Points of View on the Just War Theory

base their assumptions and conclusions on the notion that a supreme emergency provides a justification for war. He considers the ...

Race and the American Dream

Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...

Body Modification as a Way to Express Individuality

against parents or to be a part of a group. Some may just follow friends, but others get gang tattoos that acknowledge them as a p...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Autism: How Developmental Psychology Can Inform Practice

and after the training sessions, with results being virtually the same (Chin et al, 2000). Theory of mind, the ability to attribu...