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Using Sociological Theory to Explain Urban Problems

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

Gangs Explained Through Deviance Sociological Theory

This paper examines in five pages how gangs are explained through an application of the deviance sociological theory that includes...

Urban Planning, the Role of the Public

PG). Those buildings collectively comprise cities, in which increasing numbers of people live. By 2015, the United Nations (UN) ...

The Reason for the Urban Underclass

(Wilson, 1987). Yet, he does not deny that the culture of poverty has a role in addition to social isolation (Wilson, 1987). It s...

Theorists Barry Glassner and Antonio Gramschi

there should be working class intellectuals, and that one way that these workers allowed themselves to be controlled was by not as...

Relevant Theories to Support International Expansion

theory. The foundations of what was to become the theory of comparative advantage start with the Scottish economist Adam S...

Methodologies of Sociological Research

power, which indicate submissiveness, and so on....

Urban Planning & Participation by the Public

associated with collaboration. This paper will provide a brief overview of the process, in addition to identifying lessons and val...

Sociological Research and Grounded Theory

In eight pages a Sociological Review article based upon Richard Ekins' study contained in Male Femaling A Grounded Theory Approa...

Global Warming

There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...

Urban Art as a Reflection of Urban Culture

This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...

Using the Sociological Model to Understand Will Smith’s Life Cycle

second of four children of Caroline and Willard C. Smith; his mother worked for the school board and his father owned a refrigerat...

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...

Cheating Explained Through Sociological Concepts

In five pages this paper uses the sociological concepts of differential association and systems theory to explain cheating as fe...

The Way in Which Technology and Telecommunications Have Transformed Urban Spaces

This 14 page paper discusses the way in which technology and telecommunications have transformed the urban environment, which is w...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Factors Leading to Urban Sprawl

This 8 page paper discusses some of the factors that lead to urban sprawl. The writer argues that urban sprawl can have a negative...

Sociological Theories' Impact On Education

values (Hoenisch, 2005). Durkheim believed that "society can survive only if there exists among its members a sufficient degree of...

Leadership And Motivation Models

models emphasized attitude, such as the degree of concern the leader had for completing the product versus their concern for the p...

Transformational Leadership Path-Goal Theory

This paper discusses two goal theories and identifies the one that his thought to be used by Howard Schultz. They are explained an...

Middle School - Cognitive Development And Technology

Development Institute, 2006). Piaget also noted three fundamental processes that were involved in intellectual growth, assimilat...

Juvenile Deliquency as Revealed in Rebel Without A Cause

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

Sociological Theory, Contemporary Culture, and Technology

the need to separate religion from science, to synthesize the basic principles of the various branches of the sciences into one in...

Jean Watson's Theory Of Human Caring

the concept of paying it forward. Praying forward is that act of doing something kind or helpful for someone else, they, in turn, ...

Theories in Sociological Studies

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...

Applying Ariely's Theories

Ariely offered the Fudge Factor Theory and the theory of ego depletion to explain why good people cheat. This paper provides a bri...

Gordon Allport-Personality Theorist

proprium. Phenomenologically, proprium is the self "is composed of the aspects of your experiencing that you see as most essentia...

Behavior Management - Case Study

The theory is based on the premise that all behavior is learned and it is a result of consequences in the environment. The individ...

Problems with a Duel Remuneration System in a Single Company

to be faced, in order to assess challenges and the best way to deal with them it is essential to consider the background of the co...

The Deviant Behavior of Academic Dishonesty

time or another - displays deviant behavior. Human nature is defined by myriad elements, not the least of which is the social nee...