SEARCH RESULTS

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

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...

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

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 ...

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...

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

Schlosser is among one of just a handful of writers to explore this darkest side of the fast food industry, its impact on the most...

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

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

II. The Contributions of W.E.B. Dubois The Souls of Black Folk is probably W.E.B. Dubois most famous work. It provides an over...

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

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

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...

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

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

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...

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

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....

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...

This book review is on Economy and State, A Sociological Perspective by Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers. A summation, critique...

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...

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