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Psychological Concepts: Functionalism and Skinner

Part 2. What theoretical concepts are attributed to B. F. Skinner? Which one of these concepts had the greatest effect on the fiel...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

Social Problem of Teenage Alcohol Use

In seven pages differential association and functionalism are among the theories examined in this sociological consideration of te...

Functionalism and Conflict Theory in the Middle East

The Middle East conflict has been an intractable one for decades. This paper uses functionalism and conflict theory to understand ...

Looking at Society from 3 Sociological Perspectives

In five pages society is glimpsed from the perspectives of symbolic interactionism, conflict theory, and functionalism. Six sou...

Scientific Functionalism Versus Empiricism

This paper addresses the statement: functionalism is a scientifically suspect theory, quite apart from concern about its empirical...

Functionalism and Other Perspectives in Communication

This paper examines various types of communication. The author distinguishes between functionalism and critical or interpretive s...

Theories of Anthropology

In a paper consisting of seven pages Emile Durkheim's functionalism, Julian Steward's cultural anthropology, and Franz Boas's psyc...

'Ethnomethodology,' Hegelian Marxism, and Robert K. Merton

In seven pages and 3 parts this research paper discusses such sociological issues as ethnomethodology, Hegelian Marxism characteri...

Heroism and Sports

that no two people define heroism in just the same way. Merriam-Webster defines a hero as a person who is admired for his achieve...

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...

The Functionalist Views of Durkheim and Parsons

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

Religion and Sociological Theory

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

Sociologically Analyzing Poverty

also are affected. Although one can say that poverty is a situation that should be eradicated, the truth is that there are differe...

Sociology Q and A

of psychology so the attraction to social factors is often minimized. Another reason why Freud was influential in terms of soci...

Cultures and Treatment of the Elderly

is well known that in Asian countries, as well as Asian communities in the United States, the elderly are treated with respect. Ye...

The Concept of Global Stratification

fact, stratification is likely a significant catalyst in this attack against America. In respect to stratification, Farr (2003) e...

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...

Functionalism and the Media

that the function of homeless shelters should be to provide an avenue out of homelessness. Instead of providing this, she argues t...

Functionalism and Representationalism

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

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 ...

Substance Abuse and Teenagers

ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...

Culture and Philosophy

their anxiety in significantly negative ways. Diversity in the type of sport is yet another critical consideration when it comes ...

Black Elk Speaks and Themes of Structural Functionalism

are most often found within family units and the social roles each member of the family plays within the unit in order to increase...

White Males and Reverse Discrimination

both the Constitution and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court set a precedence with regard to quotas in acade...

Questions on Religion Answered

defined by the functional role of that state, rather than by proposed intrinsic features of that state. As this demonstrates, neit...

Conflict Theory of Karl Marx and Terrorism

In their work delineating the importance of group identification in negotiating international agreements, Rao and Schmidt (1998) n...

College Classroom Analysis and the Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism and Structural Functionalism

a bit of wisdom that is attached to the structural-functionalist school of thought. In looking at the college classroom from the f...

What Is The "Self"?

dictate perception and self, which represents "a choice, where we may intend our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, ...

Functionalism and the Relationship between the Individual and Society

(Edwards and Neutzling, 2001). Radcliffe-Brown, who is probably closer to what we want to look at, studied social structure, and ...