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American and Japanese Street Crime

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

Once Were Warriors Cinematic Marxist Analysis

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

Australian Family Sociological Perspectives

work in any given modern society such as found in Australia. However, on the other hand, it can be a basis for understanding the c...

Religion and Sociological Theory

merit. Indeed, religion is used to control the masses to some extent and people use religion for functional reasons. It helps them...

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...

'Teenager Runs Off with Married Man' 2004 Australian Article from a Sociological Perspective

words, society gives lip service to the negative nature of the act, but really does not take the legal part of it seriously. In ot...

Social and Medical Perspectives on Dying

would be no point where it would be judged morally justified to harvest viable organs from donors (Browne, 1983). It often gives c...

The Baseball 'Business' from a Sociological Perspective

makes more money for the team, so while a player may command a million dollar salary, the team owners profit much more than he doe...

Unemployment's Importance

is on the way down, and certainly other economic indicators suggest positive changes, there are still many people out of work. Eco...

America from a Multicultural Perspective

backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the coloni...

The War on Drugs in America and Whether or Not a Problem Truly Exists

while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...

Presidential Elections from a Sociological Perspective

problem is that during the 2000 campaign, some stations projected the winner before polls closed in California. This means that so...

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Criminology Case Study Analysis

she became a prostitute and fulfilled her role as a drug addict who would do anything to get a fix. Of course, labeling theory has...

Homelessness and Sociology

children, who represent forty percent of the growing masses of homeless people (NCH, 2004), are often the most victimized of all t...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this research paper examines several sociological concepts relevant to this 1959 novel including British coloniali...

Sociological Perspectives of Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

two kinds of privilege; the first is that exercised by an aristocratic class and a monarchy, the second is that exercised by those...

Labeling Theory from a Sociological Perspective

Examples the student may choose to use to illustrate the predominance of the labeling theory include two Los Angeles Times article...

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Television Show Extreme Makeover from a Sociological Perspective

are lacking in confidence so they believe what the media offers them. The following paper examines one media television show, "Ext...

Sociology and Why Human Behavior Cannot be Explained by Common Sense

become the individuals they do, noting that a combination of genetic and environmental influences mark the two most significant as...

Environment and Ecology from a Sociological Perspective

functions and being apologetic for slips in bodily control. With the advancement of more liberal attitudes toward profanity, bodi...

Social Group Familiarity from a Sociological Perspective

another on a regular basis where a pattern of expectations and mutual satisfaction of needs emerge" (Wayne State, 1996). Generally...

The Accused (1988), Sociological Perspective

This essay pertain to "The Accused," a 1988 film that focuses on a raped woman and trauma she suffers due to the criminal justice ...

Sociological Perspective on College Drinking

Adolescents and young adults who choose to imbibe do so without considering the detrimental effects of such heavy consumption, ren...

Mass Consumerism's Origin and its Impact

this in more detail the role of consumerism and the way it fits in with mass culture can be used to determine what mass consumeris...

Sociological Perspectives on The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

Deviance and Sociological Theory

upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was una...

Avatar, A Sociological Perspective

This essay describes "Avatar," a film directed by James Cameron, and consider it from a sociological perspective. Three pages in l...

Review of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Schlosser is among one of just a handful of writers to explore this darkest side of the fast food industry, its impact on the most...