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A Personal Perspective of Why a College Education is So Important

In this three page essay the author presents their own perspective of why a college education is critical. Written with some refe...

Important Social Theorist Harriet Martineau

in this way she is like Comte and Spencer in choosing society but unlike them in her addition of feminist ideals such as the femin...

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....

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Dr. Martin Luther King's Ideologies and How They Contributed to His Murder

told her son about segregation and advised him at an early age that racial prejudice represented "a social condition rather than a...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

Nurture Wins in the Nature versus Nurture Debate

in his book Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes US Human, that to see human development as ruled only by genes, w...

Theoretical Perspectives on Work Culture and Sociology

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this research paper examines several sociological concepts relevant to this 1959 novel including British coloniali...

2 Sociology Research Articles Reviewed

per hospital, and all hospitals varied. The researchers could do little but note observations and then identify similarities and ...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Issues Pertaining to Interpersonal Relationships

try to get some more rest at night); and that Jim needs to spend more time with the kids, and not use his extra time to simply rea...

Homelessness and Sociology

children, who represent forty percent of the growing masses of homeless people (NCH, 2004), are often the most victimized of all t...

Great Britain and Achievement in Education

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

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

An Examination of a Serial Killer

games with police, but one important question lingers. What makes serial killers kill? It is a hard question to answer as there...

Terrorism from a Sociological Perspective

from Middle English and means "to frighten, to cause one to tremble or be afraid, or to flee; or to arouse a state of intense fear...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

A Sociological Study of the Caribbean

"class, race, gender, politics (and) region"--but always in order to reflect on the qualities that make the Caribbean a particular...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Karl Marx and Max Weber

that a student writing on this subject examine the ways in which authors answer such questions. In terms of Marxs inattention to i...

Once Were Warriors Cinematic Marxist Analysis

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

Australian Family Sociological Perspectives

work in any given modern society such as found in Australia. However, on the other hand, it can be a basis for understanding the c...

American and Japanese Street Crime

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

Structural Functionalism and 4 Sociological Readings

reality, public opinion and opposition that makes a specific action a crime, not the act in and of itself (1984). This is an insig...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Technology and Future Schools

were infants. To reflect this savvy technological knowledge, teachers and theorists have determined yet another need for change. A...

Social Construction, Social Shaping, and Technological Determinism

the process of change, and that technology is an instrumental component in the transformation of organizational and social structu...

'Boy Set on Fire' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Evaluation

The reaction to the incident says much about the people, but it also conveys a clearly human experience. One might expect a cultur...