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Review of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Schlosser is among one of just a handful of writers to explore this darkest side of the fast food industry, its impact on the most...

America and Catholicism

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

Sociological Perspectives on The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

Mass Consumerism's Origin and its Impact

this in more detail the role of consumerism and the way it fits in with mass culture can be used to determine what mass consumeris...

Industrial Districts, Industrial Clusters, and Influences

of these factors, the others are "university-private sector-government, inter-industry, high level of associative activities, avai...

Economics and Globalization Q and A

to do as they like. Clearly, with the new international economy driven by globalization, an individual nations rights and abiliti...

Social Group Familiarity from a Sociological Perspective

another on a regular basis where a pattern of expectations and mutual satisfaction of needs emerge" (Wayne State, 1996). Generally...

Sociological Perspective on College Drinking

Adolescents and young adults who choose to imbibe do so without considering the detrimental effects of such heavy consumption, ren...

The Baseball 'Business' from a Sociological Perspective

makes more money for the team, so while a player may command a million dollar salary, the team owners profit much more than he doe...

Unemployment's Importance

is on the way down, and certainly other economic indicators suggest positive changes, there are still many people out of work. Eco...

America from a Multicultural Perspective

backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the coloni...

Violence and its Sociological, Biological, and Psychological Roots

is almost a learned behavior, not socially speaking, but psychologically speaking. It is the human minds reaction and perhaps solu...

Sociological Perspectives on Stepparenting

as well as the proximity and consistency of other support factors in their life. A quick divorce and an even quicker remarriage ...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

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

A 911 Sociological Analysis

Whether or not the charge regarding globalization is true is besides the point. The people feel that way and are perhaps angered t...

Emile Durkheim and the Social Theory of Lyotard

only give rise to institutions in patches--local determinism" (Lyotard PG). II. EXPOSING POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism was t...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Advertising Markets and the Food Industry from a Sociological Perspective

or may not are becoming more diverse in the industry the concept of diversification is what is appealing to consumers (Franklin, 2...

Sociological Effects of Single Parenting

parents were to divorce when the time came that their relationship was no longer considered beneficial. "For many children, the e...

Herbert Blumer and George Herbert Mead's Theories of Sociology

on the most essential points of his sociological theory, only differing in subtle distinctions regarding the importance of interac...

Twenty First Century Relationships, Marriage, and Family

same question this paper will answer. Sociological versus Psychological Studies During the 20th century, a variety of tool...

Sociological Views on Sexual Harassment

resent the fact that they cannot date people they meet at work easily. In fact, some companies have rules against dating, and to m...

Dying, Death, and Sociology

of life has been a standard for measuring a patients outcome. Indeed, while there may be medical procedures still to be applied t...

Sociological Perspectives on Euthanasia

suicide that addresses euthanasia falls under the anomic class of suicide. "According to Durkheim, this anomic suicide occurs when...

3 Sociological Views on the Shortage of Nurses

many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of the fact that their ...

Deviance and Crime from a Sociological Theoretical Perspective

media reports on these acts and at the accompanying punishment, at once educating the citizenry by restating the rules of that par...

Thought or Perspective in Regards to Race Relations

into the culture of the dominant people. In essence, the culture of the minority is curtailed and extinguished. The reason this co...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones from a Sociological Perspective

he learns his true parentage and realizes his potentialities; he discovers what he really is, himself for himself alone. . . his e...

School Deviancy and Crime

a perspective, and as such will act accordingly. As two authors note, "Until we make schools engaging learning communities whose m...

Sociological Perspectives on Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

section, the author paints a tragic portrait of inner city life that is characterized by violence, cruelty and desperation. For ex...