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

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

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

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

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

et al, 1998, p. 883); and marital problems: establishing whether specific traits of each individual is the motivating factor behin...

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

control, for access to divorce" (Landsberg, 2002). The feminism Landsberg highlights in her article could best be described cond...

Mills view of homosexuality and same sex marriage be? How would one construct an argument against the morality of homosexual sex ...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

boy. That said, there is a lot one can glean from the essay from the fact that gender roles may indeed be socially constructed to ...

by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...

it causes, that is also attractive and why it is so controversial. Finally, an important notion about tattooing is its permanence....

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

told her son about segregation and advised him at an early age that racial prejudice represented "a social condition rather than a...

entertained an Indian couple at her home and the table conversation focused in the institution of marriage. Smita, the Indian wife...

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

and their relationships with them. Director and screenwriter Peter Bratt aimed his lens at San Franciscos primarily Latino Missio...

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

merit. Indeed, religion is used to control the masses to some extent and people use religion for functional reasons. It helps them...

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...