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Culture of Poverty

In seven pages this paper examines the 'culture of poverty' as defined by Oscar Lewis and considered by theorists Charles Murray a...

Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment and Politics

out to apply the critical method to the problem of government in The Spirit of Laws (1748). The result was a complex comparative s...

Consideration of Biblical Theology in the Old Testament

In fifteen pages Old Testament theology is considered in various sections that include models, debates, and a discussion of theori...

Thomas Hobbes' and John Locke's Views and the 'Opposing Appetites' of Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this report contrasts Machiavelli's social opposition theory with the perspectives of political theorists Thomas Hob...

Comparative Analysis of Thorndike and Skinner

human knowledge and behavior that has had a direct effect on education. Skinner focused on the ability to study behavior and like...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Armstrong's Argument Compared with Descartes' Metaphysics

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

Marx, Goethe, Galileo, and Machiavelli on Belief, Identity, Nature, and Power

In fifteen pages this report examines how these theorists perceive these concepts as reflected in their respective writings. Five...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Management Theory According to Taylor and Fayol

(1999). Ever since Taylors methods of "working smarter" brought him fame at the turn of the century, the societys appetite for gre...

The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes

Barthes was addressing "the trivia" of society in a serious way; we would be surprised to see how some of these same themes appear...

Emile Durkheim's Sociological Contributions

In six pages this research paper discusses the sociological contributions of theorist Emile Durkheim. Six sources are cited in th...

Sony and the Marketing Strategy of Michael Porter

In eleven pages this paper examines how business theorist defines globalization and then applies his Five Forces Model to an analy...

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Sigmund Freud on Crime

In twelve pages the crime views of these three influential theorists are compared and contrasted. Thirteen sources are cited in t...

Developmental Psychology Overview

he was also popular in Europe (1997). Erik Erikson would begin to study psychology, with the help of Anna Freud, in the latter par...

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....

Comparative Views of Marx, Mill, and Rousseau

of restriction on freedoms provided by the first amendment is that one cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Why? While people ...

Theories on Conflict

"broadened the Marxian interpretation of social stratification by introducing the concept of status groups parallel to but analyti...

Karl Marx and the Criticism of Karl Popper

with the use of a random sample, one can say that a conclusion may be drawn. If it is found that children will think like their pa...

Learning Perspectives

functional literacy in the workplace. The learning process, then, is conscious and applicable, and can be understood relative to ...

Identity Issues and Gender

of philosophy, identity is a concept that goes rather deep. It relates not only to who a person is--his or her ethnicity, history,...

Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud

to the fact that mitigating factors defined by either pain or pleasure in childhood often shaped behaviors in adulthood. ...

Singapore's Necessity for Creativity and Business Innovation

busiest in the world (CIA, 2005). One of the advantages the country has with trade is the geographically strategic position as a f...

Dreams and Their Psychological Importance

the views of Winson (1990), as well as Gottesmann (2002) and Schulze(2004), can be valuable in determining the link between the t...

International Environment and Acquiring a Second Language

In five page this paper examines ESL issues and the impact of globalization with theorists such as Jim Cummins and a critique of a...

Questions on 10th Century Psychology

as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly unique to human beings. In Interpretati...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

Krickett Carpenter Case and Its Implications

lost his or her memory, only to meet up with the same people again? There are unusual stories about coincidences and how people wi...

Critiquing Postmodernism

started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...

Children and Play

their child, where the mother has a greater knowledge of child development they are also more likely to place the play level at sl...