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Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

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...

Sociology Applied to News and Music

no child support at all? Or that everyone who makes over $50,000 should be forced to pay some maximum amount to make up for the sh...

American Policy in Japan, 1948-1952

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

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...

Are Criminals Born or Made?

that Samenow also addresses. However, Samenow does not often accept that many behaviors are attributable to psychopathy. While gen...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Avatar, A Sociological Perspective

This essay describes "Avatar," a film directed by James Cameron, and consider it from a sociological perspective. Three pages in l...

Economy and State by Bandelj, Sowers

This book review is on Economy and State, A Sociological Perspective by Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers. A summation, critique...

Whites Benefit from Discrimination on an Australian Bus Line

This paper considers the many sociological shortcomings revealed in a New York Times article "When Whites Get a Free Pass" by Ian ...

Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Sociological Explanations of Gender Discrimination

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at gender discrimination. Sociological issues are given emphasis. Paper uses eight sourc...

Sociological Research Method Issues

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at sociological research. Problems with method are illustrated by looking at two key s...

Elementary Students, Gender, and Science Achievement

This research paper describes research that pertains to the gender gap in science achievement that exists between boys and girls. ...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Philadelphia (1994) from a Sociological Viewpoint

This paper begins by presenting a brief summary of the plot to "Philadelphia," a 1994 film. The writer, then, present a sociologic...

Grapes of Wrath (1940), A Sociological Film Review

This paper consists of a film review of John Ford's 1940 film, "The Grapes of Wrath," which encompasses a sociological analysis of...

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...

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...

What Adopted Children Should Know About Their Biological Parents

This paper argues the thesis that genetic and sociological information about birth parents should be available to the children the...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Autobiography and Analysis

not uncommon for my friends to be beat. During the period, we lived in North Carolina, and it was not uncommon for the children to...

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...

U.S. Power and Status

In nine pages this paper presents a sociological analysis of status and power in America. Five sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Othello Defended

In seven pages this paper analyzes William Shakespeare's protagonist Othello in a sociological and psychological defense of his wi...

City Life, Homelessness, Race, and Sociology

In twenty five pages this paper examines issues of race, urban life, gender, and poverty from the sociological perspectives of Ell...

Changes in Clothing for Children

In six pages the eras of premodern, modern, and postmodern are discussed in terms of children's clothing changes with a sociologic...

Society and Tattooing and Body Piercing

is now considered to be part of mainstream culture (Armstrong 236). Iverson contends that the discomfort society has with tattoos ...

Classical Sociology and the Value Free Imperative

the structure of the value-free imperative, values are defined as statements of moral direction that assist in the perception of t...

A Review of Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

views, and also goes on to suggest that his seemingly tenuous perspective on the application of science to social theory is based ...