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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...

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...

Environment and Ecology from a Sociological Perspective

functions and being apologetic for slips in bodily control. With the advancement of more liberal attitudes toward profanity, bodi...

Analysis of Four Videos on Gang Behavior

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

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...

Sociological Themes in the Film “Crash”

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

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

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

The Adult Entertainment Industry as a Noncriminal Deviant Sub-Culture

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

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Sociological Theories' Impact On Education

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

Applied Social Research/Whyte and Yin

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

John Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

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

Sociological Theory, Contemporary Culture, and Technology

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

Observation Exercise (Sociology)

wearing head kerchiefs and they stood out from the crowd. I noticed many of the people wearing patriotic wear. They either sported...

The Sociological Implications of Cloning

genetically superior clone set. There might be a great deal more young women who look like models. In fact, just like Hitler want...

“American History X": Sociological Analysis

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...

Bulimia Case Study Sociological Analysis

at meals. Maria sometimes vomits after eating because she feels guilty about how much she is eating. This case study involves a v...

Sociological Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia and the United States

food, and visual arts, while non-material culture is the unseen - language, music, and literature. In America, buildings are tall...

Research on Gangs as it Relates to Critical Theory

religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...

Papua New Guinea Health Care Proposal Sociology

below the poverty line (Papua New Guinea, 2006). The people are in need of better health care and better health care delivery. T...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Religious Colleges, Nondenominational Universities and Sociological Theory

the individual human action. To explain social institutions and social change is to show how they arise as the result of the acti...

Contrasting Stranger Next Door by Arlene Stein's Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner

the issue of homosexual rights has been handled in the state as a whole and how she became interested in how "discussions of homos...

Sociology - Two Essays

to the fact that people learn behavior due to interactions with others (Andersen & Taylor, 2005). Conflict theory, on the other ha...

Sociological Research Study Planning and Conducting

This paper examines how a student can plan and conduct a single working mother sociological research study with data collection an...

Society, Race, and Racism

discern race visually is not true, and at least not at first glance. There are many light-skinned black people in the world for ex...

911 and Hostile Behavior from Sociological Perspectives

sad truth may suggest just the opposite. It is also valuable to consider the perspective offered by Oliver Cromwell Cox who note...