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Emile Durkheim's Suicide and the Response of Anthony Giddens

which are used to record suicides are in themselves a distinct phenomenon which can be used to examine societies. Furthermore, Dur...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

Ramifications of Social Judgment Theory

level of "ego-involvement" impacts the size of latitudes, in other words, how flexible people are in listening to persuasion (Boot...

A One Act Play Biff and Buffy

thought it was like at home holding open your bedroom door. Biff (Goes to his back pack on the floor and takes out the text): Oka...

Plato and Aristotle on Good

idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...

Financial, Business, Economic News and Their Linguistic Features

field of linguistics explores the nature of human language and languages, seeking to describe what human languages are like, how l...

William E. Paden's Religious Worlds

of Paden as it addresses comparative perspectives, we look at the notions of Jaffee (2002) who specializes in comparative perspect...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

John Stuart Mill's Difference and Agreement Methods Employed in the Social Revolution Studies of Theda Skocpol

known to the unknown and from "facts observed to facts unobserved" (Mill). Induction theory also rests upon the invariable anteced...

An Examination of Human Rights

academic degrees, but cannot find a job in a shaky economy, might feel that way about accepting a job that only pays a minimal amo...

Chief Executive Officer's Organizational Management Tools

Achievement Theory and Maslows Hierarchy of Needs (reviewed below). Content and process theories are both in place to explain what...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Social Impact of Utopia by Thomas More

he was chosen as reader at Furnivalls Inn and reappointed for three successive years - a considerable honor for such a young man" ...

Henry Sidgwick's Theories and Arguments

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

Democracy Theories

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

Summary of Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman

the book follows the television series on which it is based. There is a chapter for each of the ten episodes. The first chapter, ...

Social Inequalities' Definition, Identification, and Measurement

not the working class but the middle class that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Social historians and political sc...

Children Between Ages Six and Nine and Maria Montessori's Educational Theories

walked across the room -- the child stopped, walked across the room to the same point, and then came back and finished the work....

Ideas from The Social Contract

of sorts, between the people and the legislators. General will, then is the majority desire for a certain way of life or course o...

Contemporary Life and an Application of Virtue in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

warning regarding change: "Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, t...

Comparing Marriage in Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' with Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'

with that described in her "Vindication". Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Dolls House" in 1879 during a time when womens rights were ...

Arguments of Henry Hazlitt

so on until that $250 is keeping everyone in business. The hoodlum who broke the window becomes an instrument of spreading busines...

21st Century and the U.S. Social Security System

Silent Generation born 1925 and 1942 would save money in reaction to their parents poverty and they reaped the rewards of Social ...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

Individual and Social Order According to Sigmund Freud

is less than advantageous for the individual. In better understanding this element, or connection, we present the following excerp...

Meaning and Philosophy

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

Herodotus and Plato on Gyges of Lydia

about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supern...

Social Interaction and Visual Impairment

or guilt, or they may find the child unresponsive. The child cannot discern visual cues, such as gestures, facial expressions, and...

Plato's Republic and Five Essay Questions

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...