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Robert K. Merton's Social Strain Theory

In seven pages the delinquency social strain theory of Robert K. Merton is examined in this overview. Seven sources are cited in...

Dividend Policy, Capital Structure, and Principal Agent Theory

In nine pages this paper considers Miller and Modigliani theories in a discussion of capital structure, hypothesis of shareholder ...

Can Depersonalized Bullying in the Workplace be Explained by Critical Management Theory?

and Clegg and Dunkerley (1980) who sought to study organizations using this paradigm. The Marxist approach is one that embodies so...

Modern Developments within Organizational Theory

are significant limitations, and the most common approaches appear to be building on existing theories in order to better than, as...

Cognitive Growth Theories

a term applied to the education of handicapped children who had neurological, sensory, cognitive, and/or physical handicaps (Gindi...

Social Bonding Social Control Labeling

an outcast. They are not allowed to bond back into the society so they become more entrenched in crime (OConnor, 2006). Hirschi...

2 Crime Theories Compared

typically combined with estate forfeiture, so the condemned mans wife and children were destitute. This is the sociopolitical cl...

How Can Nations Gain Competitive Advantages

the industry. In Porters model the government is viewed as a catalyst to strengthen an industry. Porter also identified innovati...

Websites on Nursing Theorists Margaret A. Newman, Betty Neuman, and Virginia Henderson

are not listed on this introductory website. This theory remains relevant to contemporary nursing practice because it is client-c...

Hubbert's Peak

(The Coming Global Oil Crisis 2003). Some Middle Eastern countries said their oil peaked in 1970, which allowed OPEC to create an ...

Dividend Policies and the Interpretation of Dividend Signaling

the firms performance (Lintner, 1956, p98). The basic hypothesis, based in research with a sample of 28 firms and interviews with ...

Communications and Consistency Theory

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

Examination of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

wide variety of facts better than any other theory. It is also true that some scientific theories are better at providing an expla...

Addiction Behaviors and Two Psychological Theories

up with them. They will become compulsive and obsessive about getting their drug or drink. Classical conditioning theory would e...

The Application of Realist and Liberalist Approaches in International Relations

This is a generally pessimistic approach to international relations, with statism being any central tenet of the theory, with the ...

Bowen Family Systems Theory

family in terms of being an emotional unit and utilizes systems thinking to provide insight and understanding of the complex inter...

D.M. Thomas' The White Hotel

as he attempts to free it of earlier layers of rationalization and interpretation" (Rosefeld 1). Psychoanalytical investigations,...

A History of Temperament Theories

1995; Classical Astrology, 2003). If the person were healthy, there was a balance among these fluid substances (Heineman, History,...

Communication and Learning Theories

the connection between the process of communication and the individual communicating, whether a general organism or a human being,...

Pervasive Developmental Disorder and a Group Centered Perspective

to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider the views of theorists like Erik Erikson, who recogniz...

US as an Agricultural Leader

In five pages this paper discusses how the US is an agricultural leader in an overview of developmental, ethical, and economic the...

Justification of War

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

Caring Theory, a Critique

nurse-patient relationship, the nurse gives without the expectation of reciprocation (1991). Thus, a patient need not return the f...

Advance Organizer Teaching Procedure

In this overview that consists of ten pages there is a discussion of David Ausubel's learning theory along with the subsumption/as...

Theories of Chaos and Numbers

In ten pages this paper examines chaos theory in an overview that includes history, theorists, mathematics, and also discusses suc...

Creationism Theories

In eight pages this paper examines creationism in an overview of gap, scientific creationism, catastrophism, and progressive creat...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Theories on Personal and Group Development

A leader is one who can effectively bring opposing views into submission to his own while still recognizing and honoring differenc...

Commercial Environment and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory

role in the company itself as the system, but also may also change the commercial environment which will impact on other firms (Je...

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...