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Carol H. Weiss's Theoretical Contributions

as integral parts of the policy process (1977). By looking at policy and policy makers, Weiss blends the role of the social scient...

'Aggressive Panhandling' Provincial Law Opposition and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

In eight pages this paper considers a fictitious 'aggressive panhandling' opposition provincial law within the context of the Cana...

Organizational Change Management

In twelve pages case studies and such theorists as Senge and Lewin are examined in this consideration of organizational change and...

Society and Humor

Twains Letters From the Earth or John Irvings The World According to Garp. While authors have used humor to convey various points,...

Civil Disobedience and Socrates

In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...

The Lazy Poor

write off or simply looking good in front of others. Rather, the helper feels better about themselves. Helping feeds the ego. Howe...

Armstrong's Argument Compared with Descartes' Metaphysics

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

Culture of Poverty

In seven pages this paper examines the 'culture of poverty' as defined by Oscar Lewis and considered by theorists Charles Murray a...

Thomas Hobbes' and John Locke's Views and the 'Opposing Appetites' of Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this report contrasts Machiavelli's social opposition theory with the perspectives of political theorists Thomas Hob...

Consideration of Biblical Theology in the Old Testament

In fifteen pages Old Testament theology is considered in various sections that include models, debates, and a discussion of theori...

Psychologists George Kelly and Sigmund Freud

simple desires for food or sex, neurotic compulsions, or the motives of an artist or scientist. And yet, we are often driven to de...

Comparative Analysis of Thorndike and Skinner

human knowledge and behavior that has had a direct effect on education. Skinner focused on the ability to study behavior and like...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Marx, Goethe, Galileo, and Machiavelli on Belief, Identity, Nature, and Power

In fifteen pages this report examines how these theorists perceive these concepts as reflected in their respective writings. Five...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment and Politics

out to apply the critical method to the problem of government in The Spirit of Laws (1748). The result was a complex comparative s...

Overview of the Labeling Theory

According to Bartusch, "The delinquent label, in turn, influences the self-image of the youth, who comes to view himself or hersel...

Business Management History

In twelve pages business management is examined in this evolutionary history that includes a discussion of such important theorist...

Organizational Management and Philosophies of Chester I. Barnard

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages the early 20th century organizational management theorist Chester I. Barnard is considered...

Joseph Nocera's 'Money Revolution' Theory

In five pages this paper examines 'The Money Revolution' described by economic theorist Joseph Nocera in a consideration of Americ...

John Maynard Keynes and Institutionalist Economics

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the institutionalist consistencies in Keynesian economics in a comparison with vie...

George Caspar Homans and Social Theory

This paper considers social theory in eleven pages with views of social theorists including George Caspar Homans examined. Ten so...

Military Philosophies of Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares these military theorists in a consideration of their works and the differences and...

Individualism and Collectivism

In eight pages basic concepts are first defined before an individualism defense is offered with the incorporation of such authors ...

Poverty and the Social Theories of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx

In fourteen pages this paper evaluates the applicability of the sociological perspectives of theorists Marx, Weber, and Durkheim t...

Dialectical Thought According to Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin

In five pages Horkheimer's dialectical thinking is examined in terms of design and application by two additional theorists from th...

Was Walter Benjamin a Marxist?

Hannah Arendt believed that Benjamin progressed from "half-hearted Zionism" to a "half-hearted Communism" during a time when confr...

Theories of Vygotsky and Piaget

In twenty pages this research paper discusses these influential theorists in a contrast and comparison of their theories that expl...

Theories of Personality by B.F. Skinner and Sigmund Freud

In ten pages this paper examines the personality developmental impact of heredity or biology in a consideration of these theorists...

The Impact of Fear on Social Behavior

This research paper examines the issue of fear in politics and society. The author references theorist Mark Edmunson and discusse...