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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...

3 Technology Questions

has strong a weak forms (Cross et al, 1974). Question 2 The open source software movement may be seen in relation to the way th...

Social Informatics

on social development, the hard model is that which states technology is the dominant impact on social development (Pacey, 1983, C...

Poverty and Working Out of It

one gains a significantly better perspective of how greed and lack of social conscience reflect povertys primary causes - as well ...

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 ...

The Origins of Racist Attitudes in Modern Times

of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many mo...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Determinism and Free Will

as long as there are no restrictions that keep us from doing so. We are, in other words, only as free as our environment and reali...

Shyness And Social Anxiety Disorder

contract, not smiling at appropriate times (Bressert, 2006). The incidence of shyness is much less than that of social phobia bu...

The Significance of Social Networks for the Communities of China

people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Criminological Theories

commit violent criminal acts" (Nottingham Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface). Furthermore, according to "gen...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Society and Free Will

In three pages this paper exmaines individual responsibility and social determinism as discussed in articles written by Walter Sta...

Technological Determinism

of those who pursue technological determinism in its most extreme form believe that society is determined by technology -- that ne...

Theory of Technological Determinism

In eleven pages this paper examines technological determinism in this consideration of 3 articles which contain supporting argumen...

Communications Theory and Media Change

but which are also "cumulative and significant" (Chandler, 1995). According to cultivation theory analysts, television viewing p...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....

Biology as a Determinant of Action

The writer discusses the role genetics plays in determining behavior, and indicates that while social models and genetics together...

'Moses and Monotheism' by Sigmund Freud

In five pages social amnesia is examined in terms of the evidence offered by Sigmund Freud in his work....

Iris M. Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference and Susan M. Okin's Justice, Gender and the Family

home. Labor divisions are held in check by the marriage contract and the historic or traditional nature of the family. 2.In Chapt...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Analogy, Plato, and Rousseau

a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...

Social Change and Brown v. Board of Education

considerations based on race. The now infamous Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896 ruled that the provision...

Social Responsibility and Libertarians

Libertarianism and social responsibility are two major theories of political organization in the world today. Libertarians stress ...

Walter Moseley, Toni Morrison, and Social Commentary

In five pages the social commentary featured in Walter Moseley's White Butterfly and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are contrasted...

Concepts of Insider and Outsider Cultures

In sixteen pages this paper discusses minorities and social mainstream individuals in a consideration of what is meant by 'insider...

Social Problems, Social Conflict and “Humanistic Theories

This paper examines social problems' causes and effects from a theoretical perspective in five pages....