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Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Religious Colleges, Nondenominational Universities and Sociological Theory

the individual human action. To explain social institutions and social change is to show how they arise as the result of the acti...

Deviance and Sociological Theory

upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was una...

Sociologist Nancy Kleniewski's City Definition

that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...

Cooley and Mead, Critical Theory and Functionalism

is highly involved in sociological perspectives. Yet it also differs from both the conceptualizations of Cooley and Mead and that ...

Wieviorka: "The Making of Terrorism"

4). It becomes, in essence, the opposite of what its adherents want it to be-it becomes a social antimovement. In order to examin...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Using the Sociological Imagination to Interpret a Personal Situation

in society, sometimes, norms are let go of for a variety of reasons. Durkheim (1997) writes: "The hypercivilization... breeds the ...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Family and Sociological Theory

made even in consideration of the fact that alternative families differ in several respects from the traditional concept of a nucl...

Suicide And Sociological Theories

what choices they believe they have to better their lives; as such, they become all the more vulnerable to being influenced in the...

Society and Explanations Offered by Sociological Theories

that tries to explain incidences in daily life in respect to resources like money, time, organizational skills and so forth. Ones ...

Sociological Theories of Structural Functionalism

at the functions they serve. Guns serve the function to protect or to allow an individuals to lash out at society. A wife serves t...

Using Sociological Theory to Explain Urban Problems

environmental settings, produce specific social behaviors in people, and can either sustain behavioral problems, or mitigate them....

Sociological Theory Application

In a report consisting of four pages a young girl that prefers nontraditional activities such as male sports is considered through...

Crime and Sociological Theories

In four pages this paper examines 5 sociological cures for the crime that plagues society and includes social bonding and differ...

Sociological Theories and Mass Media

This research paper pertains to the way in which media influences society from the conflict, structural functionalist and symbolic...

Ainsworth/Attachment Theory

following discussion of attachment theory, which particularly focuses on the contributions of Ainsworth, offers an overview of it...

X- AND Y-THEORY AND LOGISTICS

empowerment and the taking of responsibility. Though it might seem as though these two are at the opposite end of the spectrum, le...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...

Life and Concepts of Karl Marx

that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...

Answering Questions Science Cannot Through Religion

authority in all human action and interaction. But it is important to understand that regardless of the passage of time and the a...

Pledge of Allegiance, 'Under God,' and Newdow v. U.S. Congress

its adherence to the so-called Exception clause of the Constitution, a clause tested through three separate theories: the Lemon t...

Freudian Analysis of a Psychiatric Case Study

mind is comprised of Id, Ego and Superego. He is perhaps best known for his claims that psychoanalysis is the key to understandin...

Contemporary Muslim Turkey and the Religion Theory of Karl Marx

in a system and was so closely linked with economics that it was largely used as a buffer for those in the oppressed lower classes...

God's Existence Arguments

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

Education, Religion, and Theories of Emile Durkheim and August Comte

forces replace supernatural beings as the explanation for "original causes and purposes of things in the world" (Ritzer 90). The...

Religion, Illusion, and the Theories of Sigmund Freud

the thanatos. Freudian theory holds that human personality is divided into three subsystems, the id, the ego, and the super...

Comparing the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

Psychopathology and Religion

In fifteen pages this paper examines theories by Viktor Frankl and Albert Ellis in a consideration of whether or not religion repr...