Essays 271 - 300
the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...
TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...
"broadened the Marxian interpretation of social stratification by introducing the concept of status groups parallel to but analyti...
games with police, but one important question lingers. What makes serial killers kill? It is a hard question to answer as there...
promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...
in his book Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes US Human, that to see human development as ruled only by genes, w...
the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...
works is quite appropriate. The Souls of Black Folk provides an overview of how the black man is seen in American culture. At lea...
a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...
is highly involved in sociological perspectives. Yet it also differs from both the conceptualizations of Cooley and Mead and that ...
that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...
of the subject. He notes that many earlier studies tend to focus on a psychiatric model (such as Abrahamsen, 1973) or with what he...
cells which carries oxygen throughout the body, is spherical and soft and as such is ideally suited to traverse the sometimes cons...
other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...
try to get some more rest at night); and that Jim needs to spend more time with the kids, and not use his extra time to simply rea...
contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...
author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...
the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...
the individual human action. To explain social institutions and social change is to show how they arise as the result of the acti...
the issue of homosexual rights has been handled in the state as a whole and how she became interested in how "discussions of homos...
A family may be seen as a system. A business may be seen as a system. In this case, a community is used. Various concepts exist ...
at meals. Maria sometimes vomits after eating because she feels guilty about how much she is eating. This case study involves a v...
to the fact that people learn behavior due to interactions with others (Andersen & Taylor, 2005). Conflict theory, on the other ha...
having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...
to a problem. For example, if someone wants to lose weight, therapists sometimes ask what they gain by being fat. The individual i...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
twenty-five years. Last year just under 2.1 million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 m...
care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...
a life of fear and torment, yet this is nothing more than a fa?ade of assurance. The people have no idea that each and every enti...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...