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life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

describes in his book, neither side truly listened to the other. They were all primarily concerned with converted the opposing sid...

values (Hoenisch, 2005). Durkheim believed that "society can survive only if there exists among its members a sufficient degree of...

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

and racketeering. Whyte readily acknowledges that he had no training in either sociology or anthropology when he began the rese...

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

the need to separate religion from science, to synthesize the basic principles of the various branches of the sciences into one in...

nudity. Mens bodies, by contrast, are almost never shown nude; if they are, they are usually exaggerated into a "heroic" style. Fe...

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

his dashboard. There is a common thread between the two men, but Hanson reacts to the fantasy he has constructed, not the reality,...

Marxs concept of class structure because it is the classic exploitation of labor by management. It relates to Taylorism because of...

hours, so that the employee is always kept off-balance and unable to protest effectively. Jobs in this system are simple tasks and...

who are producing immoral children. A nationwide poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times in 1996 showed that while people felt tha...

The reaction to the incident says much about the people, but it also conveys a clearly human experience. One might expect a cultur...

the process of change, and that technology is an instrumental component in the transformation of organizational and social structu...

made even in consideration of the fact that alternative families differ in several respects from the traditional concept of a nucl...

If they did leave the confines of the house, they were required to be escorted by male slaves or by male members of the household....

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

no child support at all? Or that everyone who makes over $50,000 should be forced to pay some maximum amount to make up for the sh...

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

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...

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

taken into account. This is itself mediates against the dogmatic and prescriptive approach to social work and towards a theoretica...

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

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

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

way, anomie is experienced. To Merton, along with the precepts of his social strain theory, one can say that the way in which the ...

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

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