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has been stable at about 12 percent of the total population for decades, but it is now growing through immigration. The fastest-g...

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

One of the substance abuse treatment interventions that has been shown to be effective is the Therapeutic Community. Although this...

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

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

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

for himself..." (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). He says that a leader is "the individual supply to meet a collective demand" (Trotsky, 19...

is "chronic economic anomie," which refers to the long term decline of social regulation (Dunman). Durkheim identified this type a...

everyone is unhappy in society and to look at the world as one composed of boxes or cages or bureaucracy seems rather hopeless. In...

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

merit. Indeed, religion is used to control the masses to some extent and people use religion for functional reasons. It helps them...

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

Religious Life, Durkheim relates one of the many ways that he applied his version of functionalism. This text relates the results ...

man. He believed that capitalism is limiting in terms of freedom of expression and so forth. Finally, Weber viewed capitalism as r...

Marx would say that the world is reduced to work for hire with no creativity. Durkheim would say that the world was reduced to not...

This research paper examines eight questions that pertain to issues concerning economic philosophy. The topics addressed include t...

version of a perspective on work that became fundamental to nineteenth-century debates (Dupre et al, 1996). The idea of work havin...

In three pages the times and sociological contributions of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx are examined...

In five pages this paper examines how capitalism, the individual, and society are viewed from the sociological perspectives of W...

In nine pages the influence of various philosophers on the society of Canada are considered and include Max Weber, Friedrich Hegel...

In five pages contemporary relevance is considered in a comparative analysis of the alienation concept of Karl Marx and the anomie...

were "capitalists." There was obviously trade and money and, of course, there were merchants profiting from buying and selling. Bu...

In fourteen pages the sociology of religion is examined in terms of the theoretical contributions of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, an...

can really see what life in modern society is like. Weber was a proponent of understanding ones social structure, cultura...

In twelve pages divorce is examined from the sociological perspectives of Emile Durkheim with studies considered and issues such a...

In twelve pages this paper examines teenage deviant behavior in a consideration of various social factors and how they can escalat...

to live and work together, a society forms and rules and norms of behavior are established because larger groups cannot function w...

into their own with a new wave of feminism. That said, it should be noted that when World War II would begin, women would then beg...

two kinds of privilege; the first is that exercised by an aristocratic class and a monarchy, the second is that exercised by those...