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Topics of Sociology and Theory

for a time. It appears that Marxs ideas come from life experience and his own prejudices as well as sociological observations in t...

1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal in Slavery by Nat Huggins

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...

Totalitarian Model Testing

be found in existence in each. These conditions include: * Domination by a single political party; * Consistent deference to one ...

Brazil's Urban Life

Emilia Viotti da Costa's The Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil: A Problem of Social Mythology is referenced in this consideration...

Alexis de Tocqueville According to Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper speculates on how Tocqueville's Democracy in America may have been reacted to by Emerson. Two sources ar...

Postwar France and Democracy

very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

Democracy Problems of Zimbabwe and Zambia

original named Northern Rhodesia while it was administered by the South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the Un...

Defining a Fair Society

Some values to emanate from democratic societies include the right to be heard, the right to the pursuit of happiness, and all the...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Democracy Threatened by Internet Voting

to push one button but their finger made its way to another, or perhaps the computer will crash in the middle of a vote five minut...

Caribbean Revolution and Democracy

states was that new governments that came into being as a result of the dissolution of the Soviet block, such as East Germany and ...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

What's Wrong with Democracy (Book Review)

geared for someone who already knows much about Athens. That said, this will appeal to those with much knowledge about the roots o...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

"The End of Democracy?"

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

Democracy and Education by John Dewey

educated people, saying they live in "ivory towers" and dont understand whats going on in the real world.) Dewey believes that the...

Democracy and Mexico

if it failed; 2. a high level of economic development; 3. a favorable international political environment, with outside assistance...

Comparing Race Matters by Cornel West with Democracy on Trial by Jean Bethke Elshtain

scholarly texts of this type. Both Elshtain and West have much to say and are never shy about saying it. A debate between these ...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

Brazil's Democracy Obstacles

that Brazil has instituted some democratic reforms (Baiocchi, 2003). Yet, problems from the nations past invade the resolve of the...

E-Voting and a Compromised Democracy

is, is rather frightening. Yet, e-voting has received much acclaim throughout the world. French MP Andr? Santini claims that E-dem...

Democracy Determinants in Countries

government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendments of the Constit...

Race Matters by Cornel West and Democracy on Trial by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Tenured at the University of Chicago, Elshtain is a Spellman Professor of Philosophy and Political Ethics. Her views, consequentl...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

Hans Herman Hoppe's Democracy the God That Failed

he illustrates how based on the Ricardian Law of Transformation, one can explain why there have been rising levels of crime, loss ...

Richard Sclove's Democracy and Technology

villagers is that before a new technology is adopted, there is an enormous democratic discussion as to its implications and introd...