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Sociology Defined

sociology. Sociologys most basic definition is that it is a social science that is "about" people, that it is the study of humani...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

Government Organization and Its Sociological Influences

care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars (Marmor, 2000); far more subscribe to the view that access to healt...

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...

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...

A Sociological Background Profile Tutorial

Christian principles in the young man and his younger brother. It is recommended that the student who constructs a sociological p...

Crime Sociological Theory

objection to the idea. "...It is too risky to allow mentally ill adults in a residential neighborhood close to schools and senior...

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...

Student Posed Questions on Sociology

which addresses like minded morals and ethics in social struggles. Religion and Social Change Again, if we ask how religion ca...

Parole, Probation, and Sociological Factors

twenty-five years. Last year just under 2.1 million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 m...

Sickle Cell Anemia and its Biochemistry

cells which carries oxygen throughout the body, is spherical and soft and as such is ideally suited to traverse the sometimes cons...

Specific and General Deterrence Criminological Theories

other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...

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...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

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...

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...

Sociologist Nancy Kleniewski's City Definition

that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...

Cooley and Mead, Critical Theory and Functionalism

is highly involved in sociological perspectives. Yet it also differs from both the conceptualizations of Cooley and Mead and that ...

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...

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...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

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...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Issues Pertaining to Interpersonal Relationships

try to get some more rest at night); and that Jim needs to spend more time with the kids, and not use his extra time to simply rea...

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...

2 Sociology Research Articles Reviewed

per hospital, and all hospitals varied. The researchers could do little but note observations and then identify similarities and ...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

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...

Structural Functionalism and 4 Sociological Readings

reality, public opinion and opposition that makes a specific action a crime, not the act in and of itself (1984). This is an insig...