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Sociology Defined

sociology. Sociologys most basic definition is that it is a social science that is "about" people, that it is the study of humani...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

The Djembe, An Overview

This research paper presents an extensive overview of the djembe, which is a drum that originated in West Africa. The paper offers...

Education and Social Theories

This research paper discusses functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism and how these sociological theories impac...

What Adopted Children Should Know About Their Biological Parents

This paper argues the thesis that genetic and sociological information about birth parents should be available to the children the...

Whites Benefit from Discrimination on an Australian Bus Line

This paper considers the many sociological shortcomings revealed in a New York Times article "When Whites Get a Free Pass" by Ian ...

Philadelphia (1994) from a Sociological Viewpoint

This paper begins by presenting a brief summary of the plot to "Philadelphia," a 1994 film. The writer, then, present a sociologic...

Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Elementary Students, Gender, and Science Achievement

This research paper describes research that pertains to the gender gap in science achievement that exists between boys and girls. ...

Sociological Explanations of Gender Discrimination

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at gender discrimination. Sociological issues are given emphasis. Paper uses eight sourc...

Sociological Research Method Issues

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at sociological research. Problems with method are illustrated by looking at two key s...

Empowerment and Social Work

taken into account. This is itself mediates against the dogmatic and prescriptive approach to social work and towards a theoretica...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Essay on the Current American Family

who are producing immoral children. A nationwide poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times in 1996 showed that while people felt tha...

Government Organization and Its Sociological Influences

care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars (Marmor, 2000); far more subscribe to the view that access to healt...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

A Sociological Background Profile Tutorial

Christian principles in the young man and his younger brother. It is recommended that the student who constructs a sociological p...

Crime Sociological Theory

objection to the idea. "...It is too risky to allow mentally ill adults in a residential neighborhood close to schools and senior...

Sociological Views on the Divination Function in 1 Samuel 28

I bring up unto thee? And he said, bring me up Samuel" (1 Samuel 28:11). Samuel does appear, but warns Saul of his upcoming ruin d...

Student Posed Questions on Sociology

which addresses like minded morals and ethics in social struggles. Religion and Social Change Again, if we ask how religion ca...

Nurture Wins in the Nature versus Nurture Debate

in his book Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes US Human, that to see human development as ruled only by genes, w...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

Theories on Conflict

"broadened the Marxian interpretation of social stratification by introducing the concept of status groups parallel to but analyti...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

The Truly Disadvantaged The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy by William J. Wilson

This sociological text by William J. Wilson is analyzed in a paper consisting of six pages. There are no other sources listed....

Violence in Children and Psychosocial Theory

In six pages this paper examines violence and its subculture in a consideration of real life cases and discussion of various socio...

Sicilian Mafia, Deviance, and the Sociology of Crime

In five pages this paper examines the Sicilian Mafia in a contrast and comparison of how the connection between agency and structu...

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff

A Maori, New Zealand dysfunctional home is considered in an overview consisting of 6 pages as it is presented in Duff's text with ...

Workplace Injuries, Worker Reentry, Workers' Comp, and Safety Protocols

In two hundred and fifty pages this dissertation discusses the importance of workplace safety in a consideration of injuries, prog...