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Cultural Analysis in Bourgois' "In Search of Respect"

thematic focus to the text, which is the exploration of the cultural and social forces that led to the development of crack dealin...

Social Programs and Supply Side Economics

the debt crisis. To be sure, the United States economy is currently locked in a major predicament. The government continues adding...

Social Stratification and Paradigms

is inevitable as long as some roles are valued more than others. As Davis and Moore point out, social inequality can be viewed as ...

Emile Durkheim and the Social Theory of Lyotard

only give rise to institutions in patches--local determinism" (Lyotard PG). II. EXPOSING POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism was t...

Daycare Facilities and the Workplace

be providing. When parents have to leave their young children in such circumstances, they often cannot give full attention ...

Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...

Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...

Culture of Mexican Americans

The irony of the great American dream becomes quickly apparent. Never-the-less, Mexicans continue to seek that dream as a means o...

Perceptual and Spatial Divisions and Distinctions Among Social Classes

of the educational realm and explains the superiority of the performance between many children of privileged backgrounds. One good...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Athletic Competitions and Allowing Anabolic Steroids

Today, many young people are experimenting with steroids. A study done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield found that about 1 million a...

Pop Art in a Social Context

Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense" (Pop art, 2006). The art of the Impressionists a...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois' Different Ways of Achieving the Same Objectives

equated with a turn the other cheek ideology. This is a biblical principle that embraces the idea that despite the fact that one i...

Justice Defined

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Wealth

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

Life in the Medieval Era

1431) and Jean Foissart ( c 1330 - c1404). Yet we will see different pictures of the same society from their point of view as we ...

Social Psychology and the 1999 Movie The Matrix

In classic science fiction style, the common people have no idea that they are nothing more than blips in a global virtual-reality...

C. Wright Mills' Sociological Perspectives

In fourteen pages this paper examines The Sociological Imagination in an overview of the social science perspectives of C. Wright ...

Rationally Analyzing Public Policy

In five pages the framework developed by Fisher is applied to a rational analysis of public policy with practical, social, and rea...

Multiculturalism Perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Susan Moller Okin

In six pages Young and Okin's perspectives on multiculturalism regarding women are examined and the ways in which they critique th...

Theory and Social Control

Social institutions, such as organized religion, the family, educational institutions, and political groups were radically questio...

Economic Justice Theories

In five pages this paper assesses Nozick and Rawls' perspectives regarding social economic justice. Three sources are cited in th...

Social Policy Foucauldian Analysis

In seven pages social policy analysis from a Foucauldian perspective is discussed in pro and con arguments. Four sources are cite...

Private Property and Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...

Mary McCarthy on the American Dream of Willy Loman

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Foods That Are Genetically Engineered

Sunflower oil producers once again are in trouble, and no one knows what effect - if any - that genetically modified foods have on...

Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Neo-Marxism

economic advantage to such a system. In spite of Marxs (1998) negative claims with regard to the influence of capitalism, it can ...

A Historical Perspective of Gender Inequality from the 1990s

that the bible does make careful distinctions between the role that women and men each play, but these are not ontological distin...

Globalization and the Workplace

For example, the decline...

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...