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Indian Politics and the Significance of Religion

With this, one may be critical of modern life (1008). Further, some thinkers look at Durkheims "social cement " and equate it wit...

Holland, England, and Homicide

In forty eight pages this paper compares the rates of homicide in Holland and England in a consideration of required comparative m...

Empowerment and Social Work

taken into account. This is itself mediates against the dogmatic and prescriptive approach to social work and towards a theoretica...

Sociological Views on the Divination Function in 1 Samuel 28

I bring up unto thee? And he said, bring me up Samuel" (1 Samuel 28:11). Samuel does appear, but warns Saul of his upcoming ruin d...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

Questions on Concepts in Sociology

way, anomie is experienced. To Merton, along with the precepts of his social strain theory, one can say that the way in which the ...

Substance Abuse and Teenagers

ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

Analysis of Four Videos on Gang Behavior

group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...

"Family Guy" - A Sociological Reading

cross-country destination to fulfill a nefarious purpose. Despite being a baby and a dog, Stewie and Brian are both fully articula...

The Adult Entertainment Industry as a Noncriminal Deviant Sub-Culture

nudity. Mens bodies, by contrast, are almost never shown nude; if they are, they are usually exaggerated into a "heroic" style. Fe...

The Self-Control Theory of Crime: Addressing the Criticisms

the extent to which the self-control theory of crime can be said to be valid. This paragraph helps the student give an overview o...

Global Warming

There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...

Application of Benner's Theory to a Classroom

This paper describes the Patricia Benner's Novice to Expert Theory of nursing and Malcolm Knowles' theory of adult education. The...

Overview and Criticism of the Welsh School (Aberystwyth) of Critical Security Studies

where there is the argument for the need to eliminate unjust social relationship, including gender relations and needs to be seen ...

How Children Develop a Sense of Morality

that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...

King's Theory/Diabetic Retinopathy

on very real problems. As Mrs. Jones poor vision is due to diabetic retinopathy, strict glycemic control is crucial in order to sa...

Theory and Practice Relationship

The relationship between theory and practice in education is a long-standing controversy. This is one of the issues discussed in t...

Gang Membership and Criminology Theory

This research paper/essay pertains to Strain theory and Routine Activity theory as explanation for gang involvement among young pe...

Personality Approaches East and West

notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...

A Contemporary Feminist Critiquing of the Liberal Tradition

for the legitimacy of modern civil government is to be found by treating our society as if it had originated in a contract. The a...

Learning Theories and Teacher Practice Within the UK

as: programmed instruction, mastery learning instructional objectives, applied behavior analysis and contracts (Ormrod, 1999). Tea...

Orem, Mid-range & Grand Theories

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

Processes and Theories in Career Counseling

subordinate roles, and achieves goals through conformity. 5) Enterprising -- person prefers verbal skills in situations, which pro...

Basic Economic Theories and Inflation

In nine pages inflation is discussed in a consideration of basic economic theories including predictability, trends, recessions al...

3 Theorists on Psychological Disorders

Three Perspectives: 10 pages in length. This paper examines the theories and treatments of psychological disorders as viewed by t...

Family Structure and Domestic Violence

There is no way to predict which families will suffer from domestic violence and which will not. Indeed the tragedy of domestic a...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Ainsworth/Attachment Theory

following discussion of attachment theory, which particularly focuses on the contributions of Ainsworth, offers an overview of it...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...