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Four Types of Social Provisioning in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...

Arguing the Position of the Outsider

blinker when he pulled over, exacerbating the police officers agitation over the event. John, not suspecting a problem, took ou...

Reality and Language

stand for, the anger of your assailant. "In other words, the knife in my wall has become an objectively available constituent of t...

Social Problems Rooted in Social Stratification

is shaping this violence. Some groups on the other hand may not actually participate in violent acts but they may idly support su...

Shortcomings of Social Security

Act provided only retirement benefits and only to workers (Steinbrink and Cook 209). One of a multitude of little known facts pert...

School Violence, Poverty, Racism and the Nation's Schools

as a whole, or toward an individual because he (or she) is a member of that group" (Spencer, 1998, p. 25). By and large, schools ...

William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

be one of the social issues that Ross recognizes, but the ways in which corporations function in modern society are inherent to th...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...

Connection Between Social Participation, Concept of Self, and Young People

unprotected sex, drugs, theft, driving too fast, and thrill seeking. According to Lynn Ponton, author of The Romance of Risk: Why ...

How Social Interaction and Social Structure Shape Personal Experiences

seem to be too concerned with how the situation turned out; this, as I see now, was because he had a queue of others just waiting ...

Political Society Order and the Philosophy of John Rawls

is contrasted with "conservative" or "right-wing" ideologies. Within the broader context of political theory. "liberalism" has a d...

The Nature and Function of Humor

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

Greek Tragedy Characteristics of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

August 7, 1945 Edition of The New York Times

dangers inherent in the use of nuclear energy. In an inside article, there is an attempt to explain, in a rudimentary way, the sci...

American Scene Painting Art Movement

critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...

Social Inequality and Social Stratification in Raleigh, NC

culture founded on avarice. Politically, it seems to accepted as socially correct in many circles to argue that the poor deserve t...

Alcohol and Changing Attitudes

Quite clear in the first of three representations, the macaw is blurred in the second appearance and completely distorted in the t...

Policy Formulation, Globalization and Rational Choice

Hollis (2003) also makes the point that with the advent of increasing globalisation, it is no longer possible to assume that...

Social Work and Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development Model

1972). The rest of the stages, and their specific crisis, are as follows: the preschooler stage (years 3-5)-- initiative v. guilt;...

Roger and Me by Michael Moore

Moores documentary follows this dictum and offers scathing social commentary, demonstrating the flaws in the capitalist system, wh...

Globalization and its Effects

as officially achieving "mature" status. Singapore began its quest for modernization and sustainable development in 1960. ...

Comparative Metropolitan Research of Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington

fastest growing fields" (CANMET, 2003) there is good reason to believe Vancouver will continue to seek out viable options for its ...

Columbus B. Hopper and Johnny Moore's Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

those results in greater depth. It must also be remembered that as an integral part of the study it cannot be avoided that the res...

Social Construction, Social Shaping, and Technological Determinism

the process of change, and that technology is an instrumental component in the transformation of organizational and social structu...

Qualitative Research and Ethnography

fact that there is a larger number of women than men in part-time jobs within an organisation might reflect personal choice on the...

Social Concept of Social Stratification

the first case we deal with increases of wealth, power, or occupational standing of social groups, as when we talk of the decline ...

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...

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...

Social Engineering of Adam Podgorecki

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