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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...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Applied Social Research/Whyte and Yin

and racketeering. Whyte readily acknowledges that he had no training in either sociology or anthropology when he began the rese...

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...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

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

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...

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...

TBI and its Effects

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

Presidential Elections from a Sociological Perspective

problem is that during the 2000 campaign, some stations projected the winner before polls closed in California. This means that so...

The War on Drugs in America and Whether or Not a Problem Truly Exists

while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...

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...

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...

Technology and Future Schools

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

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Approaches to Literacy

productive programs and pedagogies). Proponents of this thinking dont see literacy skills developing in a vacuum unconnected to ot...

Elaine Chaika on Speech Communities

In four pages this paper examines speech communities as critiqued by the writings of Elaine Chaika in terms of language's sociol...