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African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

American Society and Collectivism v. Individualism

In five pages the ongoing debate between these two opposing philosophies are considered in a discussion of the high value on indiv...

The Disney Culture

This 8 page paper discusses the Disney Culture and its relationship to Walt Disney, its founder. The writer discusses Disney's mis...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

The Balance Between Society and the Individual in Urban Society

This 5 page paper argues that the urban environment is in reality a delicate balance between society and the individual. The write...

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...

Norms and Divorce

in raising children. And, we cannot assume that the divorce rate today, though statistically higher than in the past, is a new thi...

Functionalist Ethnographic Application

In a paper consisting of five pages the functionalist theory of George Homan is applied to an abortion clinic ethnographic analysi...

Early American Women

the revolutionary era helped shape a new consciousness of women s political worth and capacities; this made their official exclusi...

Social Change and the Catalyst of Deviance

In eight pages deviance is examined in terms of functions and how norms violations may perversely actually contribute to the order...

Sexuality and Gender

by women". "The categories of womens speech, mens speech, and prestigious or powerful speech are not just indexically derived fro...

Romance, Desire and Social Norms

than she is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball ...

American Colonies' Divergence from England

any legitimate claim upon the land, the New World was not uninhabited and European settlers necessarily had to contend with and ad...

Society and Sociolinguistics

of distinguishing cultures within the larger diaspora through linguistic boundaries. What is Language? Language in...

Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

Subculture of the Amish

encourage that they remain distinct and separated from the mainstream world. Although there is considerable interaction between s...

U.S. Culture and Its Subcultures

the nuclear family. The travelogue is admittedly shaped by a Memphis environment that allowed black and white to peacefully meld ...

Wolfgang's Theoretical Perspective on Homicide

This research paper pertains to Marvin Wolfgang's theoretical perspective on homicide and focuses on his Subculture of Violence th...

Medication and Cultures

This research paper describes how health beliefs and cultural views of medication influence health behaviors. Three pages in lengt...

Comparing the Christian and the Buddhist Belief Structure

to being divine. However, they may pay reverence to images of Buddha (Gyatso, 2001). Buddha is seen as a teacher or a guide with B...

Jamaican Culture & Health Beliefs

A 5 page research paper that discusses Jamaican culture and health beliefs....

How My Life Was Changed by Buddhism

because of the construct of human nature, and the constant conflict caused by physical needs, sexual urges, and the desires for lo...

Police Profession and Subculture's Dark Side

entrenched police culture, call for fresh approaches to managing for ethics in police work. Gaines and Kappeler (2002) argue that...

Beliefs and Teachings of Islam

of Jesus Christ (Injil) and the Quran" (Wenner, 2001). They believe in prophets who are individuals that God speaks throu...

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The writer analyzes the book The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which argues that American culture is deteriorating....