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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...

Family and Sociological Theory

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

Comparing Grecian vs, Chinese Cultures

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....

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...

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...

Holland, England, and Homicide

In forty eight pages this paper compares the rates of homicide in Holland and England in a consideration of required comparative m...

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...

Technology and Future Schools

were infants. To reflect this savvy technological knowledge, teachers and theorists have determined yet another need for change. A...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Indian Politics and the Significance of Religion

With this, one may be critical of modern life (1008). Further, some thinkers look at Durkheims "social cement " and equate it wit...

'Medication Shortage' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

In three pages this paper analyzes an article on shortage of medication from an Australian sociological perspective. There are no...

Essay on the Current American Family

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

Sociological Implications of Elmer-Dewitt Cloning Article

mainly, helping infertile couples have a batter chance of conception that had been experienced in the past. In other arena...

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...

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...

Questions on Concepts in Sociology

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

Comparing John Stuart Mill and Mary Wollstonecraft's Ideas About Female Emancipation

live up to its promises. Mill realized that the male had practically unlimited power over the woman and that the institution of ...

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...

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...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

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

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...

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...

Empowerment and Social Work

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

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...

Analysis of Four Videos on Gang Behavior

group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...

Black and Latina Definitions of Women in Deliver Us from Eva and Real Women Have Curves

simply to, "Just work" (Real Women Have Curves). This suggests that Latinas are expected to know their place - at the lowest rung...