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Criminology Research and Investigation of Differences V

have their place and are crucial in other disciplines (Creswell, 2003), but to have value in criminological research, subjects "mu...

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...

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. ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this research paper examines several sociological concepts relevant to this 1959 novel including British coloniali...

2 Sociology Research Articles Reviewed

per hospital, and all hospitals varied. The researchers could do little but note observations and then identify similarities and ...

Human Explicit Memory and Advancement of Converging Scientific Evidence

this topic, the term "awareness" generally refers to explicit memory (Sigalovsky, 2003). Implicit memory refer to "change in perfo...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

Science and Hasty Generalizations

is important that qualitative researchers must therefore allow themselves periods away from their fieldwork for things such as ref...

Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Climate and Society by James B. Elsner and A. Birol Kara

fields, both authors are no doubt responsible for the consideration of the intended governmental and decision-making importance th...

Extra Sensory Perception and a Scientific Argument Against It

primary methods employed for studies concerning ESP has been the "forced-choice" procedure, in which participants were asked to g...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

An Artificial Intelligence Overview

in the form of mere "intelligence." Their bodies were physically dead, but they were supposedly alive in cyberspace. This brings u...

Antarctic Research and What is Learned from the Connection Between Politics and Science

the changes in the worlds political and economic foundation (Elzinga, 1991). Looking at the area today, there are twenty four co...

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...

Human Behavior and the Effects of the Full Moon

very ancient ancestors, experts theorize. Experts tracked the biorhythms of various individuals and found that the new moon and th...

The Central Elements of Chaos Theory

and then interpreted. When the different factors or inputs are altered, the height and distance the item travels will change but n...

Proof, Empirical Evidence, and Scientific Theory

a further truth, it is only common sense that the empirical evidence gathered up to that time is the evidence that is taken to be ...

Connection Between Mood and Exercise

(2001). All would wear heart monitors and were instructed to maintain a target heart rate by pedaling at a particular speed (2001)...

Experiments in Sociology and Method Applications

hypothesis. Suppose someone wonders whether or not girls who have grown up in broken homes are more likely to use illicit drugs; i...

Scientific Method of Inquiry

natural phenomena consists of four steps: 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon of group of phenomena. 2. Formulation of...

Science and the Underdetermination of Theory by Evidence

underdetermination. The scientific process is characterized by two separate yet integrated approaches. These approaches are that...

Dieting

days and will lose between two and seven pounds. However, as soon as the client goes back to eating normally, all of the weight is...

American Policy in Japan, 1948-1952

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

Moral Analysis & Stance

through experiments with mice; they specifically worked to correct the gene that prevents the growth of tumors (Aldhous, 2006). Sc...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

Kuhn's theory of the paradigm shift

which contradicts the paradigm, and which cannot be explained within the terms of the paradigm. This gives rise to further researc...

Comparing Structuralism, Functionalism and Evolutionism

A 3 page research paper that briefly contrasts and compares these three early psychological theories, which were formulated soon ...

Research and Statistics in Psychology

psychological research" (Greene and Oliveira, 2006, p.3). And the aim of psychological research is to "test psychological theories...

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...

Implications of X26 Tasers in Excited Delirium Deaths

this case reveals how X26 Tasers are being implicated in deaths attributed to excited delirium. Is this implication justified? F...