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Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

Uncle Tom's Cabin as Social Protest

smack of soap opera, the basic facts that she relates relative to the horrors of slavery are accurate and relatively unembellished...

Computers Enhance Social Skills

isolate the children from each other but since few classrooms have one computer per child, the opposite has happened. Children clu...

Family, Violence, and Social Work

Therefore, a revised definition of family emphasizes not the unit itself but the quality of relationship that exists within that u...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

Social Engineering of Adam Podgorecki

social changes" (Podgorecki, 1990, p. 62). The concept of sociotechnics was first introduced into the Western scientific community...

Passion of the Christ

aids come across to the audience as decent people whom at least attempt to save Jesus from death (Cunningham, 2004). The gift of l...

Community Nursing/Social Ecology Model

p. 379). Bronfenbrenner in the 1980s expanded the focus of his model to consider "external influences that affect the capacity of ...

Cognitive Development and Social Development

Olga, May 2009, Gender Differences and Cognitive Correlates of Mathematical Skills in School-Aged Children, Child Neuropsychology,...

Effects of an Older Population

is, the generation of Americans born directly after World War II who are now entering their retirement years (Takamura, 1999). Thi...

RESEARCH IN MOTION: SOCIO-CULTURAL FORCES

about our industry, company and products? Basically, cell phones have moved from being a luxury item less than 15 years ago to bei...

Research on the Effects of Alcohol

designed to do. These researchers believe they may have discovered something new about the transport process and recommend their c...

The Connection between Race, Religiousity and Intimate Partner Violence

the three hypotheses used in this study. Theoretical Perspective The theoretical perspective identified in the study relates the...

The Causes of and Solutions to Russia's Social Inequalities

Soviet infrastructure near the end of the 20th century, the Russian economy has undergone many interesting changes. From an outsid...

Three Film Classics and Social Issues

love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...

Those Who Use Marijuana, Those Who Don't and Attitudinal Variations

came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...

Australian Statistics and Semiotics

of the words and the sentence construction. This is made up of three aspects; the build up of semantic representations, th...

Eight Questions on Health Status

disease, parents first must have access to health care services and then utilize such services. Marshall (2003) points to the im...

Future Educational Social Trends

and speculations that have been put forth about handling the problems facing US public schools. Throughout the country, school di...

Tobacco Culture in Virginia's Chesapeake Society

gentry (Vaughn, 2004). In other words, the Chesapeake, as Englands first major experiment in North American colonization, was a "t...

Social Constructivism and Grounded Theory

might seem to be compatible, they may, in the long run, not work out too well together. Before we begin this paper,...

Continuing Oppression of Disabled Individuals

specific individual. According to Joseph Shapiro (author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement)...

Overview of Educational Research

in scientific research demonstrates the validity of the qualitative approach: Criterion Quantitative Research Qualitative Research...

Aggression Considered in Three Views

can result in aggressive responses" (FAT, 2004). A triggering event can frequently be something insignificant, such as a joke, ges...

Japan and Abortion

of her people when she states that "Fetuses should be buried properly in accordance with socially accepted ideas even when they ar...

Principles of Univariate Data Analysis

of measurement are called into question. Parameters must be set. However, the researcher could choose to report more than just t...

James Scott's Hidden and Public Transcripts Regarding Power Use

they present a public transcript that is the result of a power disparity. When a student agrees with a professor in an attempt to ...

Durkheim and Marx on Equality and Liberty

predominating fact peculiar to these ages is equality of conditions, and the chief passion which stirs men at such times"(2002). ...

Viagra and Sexual Dysfunction

well (Auerbach, 2002). Indeed, impotence is a topic which men experience great difficulty talking about and even physicians ofte...