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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...

The Real Reason for Sexual Restriction in Society Today

large part of the reason why victimless sexual practices are considered negative have to do with social factors. Societies include...

Wieviorka: "The Making of Terrorism"

4). It becomes, in essence, the opposite of what its adherents want it to be-it becomes a social antimovement. In order to examin...

Approaches to Literacy

productive programs and pedagogies). Proponents of this thinking dont see literacy skills developing in a vacuum unconnected to ot...

Conservation And The Environment

natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

The Sociological Implications of Cloning

genetically superior clone set. There might be a great deal more young women who look like models. In fact, just like Hitler want...

“American History X": Sociological Analysis

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...

Sociological Article Analysis (New Soldiers in the Fight for Human Rights)

the fact that the human rights field has grown immensely, but what it also does that is not quite as obvious is to suggest that un...

The Concept of Community

to other behaviors which identify an individual with a certain group. Groups often identify with one another because they share b...

The Sociological Aspects of Weight Control

because he is becoming obese. His weight has led to a good many physical complications that he is attempting to deal with, but w...

Sociological Issues in "Will & Grace"

the culture, which means that sociologically we are still not ready to look at gay men and lesbians as people first; instead, ``we...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Creating a Sense of Community

describes in his book, neither side truly listened to the other. They were all primarily concerned with converted the opposing sid...

Elderly Divorce

life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...

THE THROW-AWAY WORKER: USE (AND ABUSE) OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING CANADA'S RAILROADS - AN OUTLINE

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

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...

Georg Simmel, Saul Bellow and “Looking for Mr. Green”

postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...

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...

An Analysis of Crime Statistics (1968 through 2008)

an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...

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 Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

Sociological Theory, Contemporary Culture, and Technology

the need to separate religion from science, to synthesize the basic principles of the various branches of the sciences into one in...

The Adult Entertainment Industry as a Noncriminal Deviant Sub-Culture

nudity. Mens bodies, by contrast, are almost never shown nude; if they are, they are usually exaggerated into a "heroic" style. Fe...

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Sociological Themes in the Film “Crash”

his dashboard. There is a common thread between the two men, but Hanson reacts to the fantasy he has constructed, not the reality,...

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....

Modern Great Britain and Family Diversity

In thirty two pages this paper considers postindustrial Great Britain in a consideration of its family diversity including single ...