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of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

and their relationships with them. Director and screenwriter Peter Bratt aimed his lens at San Franciscos primarily Latino Missio...

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

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

it causes, that is also attractive and why it is so controversial. Finally, an important notion about tattooing is its permanence....

told her son about segregation and advised him at an early age that racial prejudice represented "a social condition rather than a...

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

the haves wielding the greatest power (Macionis & Gerber, 2006). First, there is the predominantly Anglo upper class, in which mo...

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

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

become the individuals they do, noting that a combination of genetic and environmental influences mark the two most significant as...

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...

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

the fact that the human rights field has grown immensely, but what it also does that is not quite as obvious is to suggest that un...

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

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

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...

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

children, who represent forty percent of the growing masses of homeless people (NCH, 2004), are often the most victimized of all t...

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...

boy. That said, there is a lot one can glean from the essay from the fact that gender roles may indeed be socially constructed to ...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

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

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

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

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