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U.S. and Domestic Violence

only the persons, place, or things the violence is inflicted upon, but also victimizes the witnesses to such occurrences. With ...

Conflict Theory of Karl Marx and Terrorism

In their work delineating the importance of group identification in negotiating international agreements, Rao and Schmidt (1998) n...

The Impact on the Quality of Life for the Tube Fed Elderly

quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelm...

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...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Dan Quayle Article Critique

popular as a lifestyle choice amongst Americans. He refers specifically to these changes as being "dysfunctional", rather than as ...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

Social Welfare, Capitalism, and Social Darwinism

and order and to a very limited degree, certain property rights (Boland, 1995). While there are a number of definitions and persp...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its Social Criticism

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

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 ...

Australian Social Classes and Health Care Inequalities

conflict theory reflects the basic elements of social life (Turner, 1974; Chambliss, 1974). Human nature is defined by myri...

Social Forces and Art

piece, you would have found a tastefully printed card at your table announcing Manuel Lucero is Washing Dishes. You could have wal...

Communism's and Social Democracy's Fate

form constitutional governments that, in turn, formed nations. This great upheaval brought about large economic entities based in ...

Social Stratification and Inequality

rewards of the position must be sufficiently high that this induces people to fill this position despite its complexity. This view...

Economic Frustration and Frustration-Agression Theory

As this suggests, the experience of being an American immigrant often includes "traumatic confrontation" with authority figures (P...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Is Conflict Necessary for Endogenous Social Change

The writer looks at the concepts of exogenous and endogenous social change. Focusing in the latter the writer considers whether so...

Choosing Social Issues for Corporate Social Responsibility

issues such as supporting farmers of shade-grown coffee; obviously, this is of relevant concern to their coffee-drinking patronage...

Communnication, Technology, and Social Changes

and the society. The Planned Parenthood Federation could produce a short documentary that reports the services they provide that a...

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

How Health and Social Influences May Prevent Economic Development

corruption have prospered. Therefore, corruption alone cannot be seen as a source of constraint. Sachs (2006) notes that the per c...

Incontinence and the Elderly

was that the method was based on the assumption that all the relevant information would be obtained by these experts (National Gui...

Redefining Privacy in Social Networks

century, certain technologies have become an ubiquitous aspect of modern life. Chief among these technologies is that of social ne...

Social Networking and Transformational Leadership in Learning Organizations

of information among employees at all levels of the organization, to develop organizational knowledge in the most broadly effectiv...

The Family System in Society

families, something unheard of in the past. Also, the dual career couple is the primary family working pattern today (Elloy & Flyn...

Development of American Social Welfare

feeling persisted in the US that anyone who was willing to work would be able to find a job (U.S. Society, 2004). The Great Dep...

Social Policies and Social Exclusion

an affluent, professional, middle-class black family is significantly less than that suffered by an unemployed black family living...

The UK's Social Exclusion Unit and Child Poverty

within flourishing communities. As Toynbee (2004) notes, without including all the indicators of social inclusion in the broader p...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....