SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Sociological Theories of Truancy

Essays 421 - 450

High School Alternatives

In an analysis comprised of nine pages the Newark New Jersey's 'Cities in School' program is discussed with the 'Burger King' acad...

Academic Performance and Drinking Alcohol

In this paper consisting of six pages the linkage between academic performance and alcohol consumption is reinforced by literature...

A Principal's Story and Campus Violence

In five pages the violence that occurs on campus is examined within the context of the book along with an analysis of the sociolog...

The Widening Swath of A.I.D.S.

This five page paper analyzes the spread of AIDS from a sociological perspective. Four sources are cited....

The Djembe, An Overview

This research paper presents an extensive overview of the djembe, which is a drum that originated in West Africa. The paper offers...

What Adopted Children Should Know About Their Biological Parents

This paper argues the thesis that genetic and sociological information about birth parents should be available to the children the...

Sociological Explanations of Gender Discrimination

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at gender discrimination. Sociological issues are given emphasis. Paper uses eight sourc...

Sociological Research Method Issues

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at sociological research. Problems with method are illustrated by looking at two key s...

Elementary Students, Gender, and Science Achievement

This research paper describes research that pertains to the gender gap in science achievement that exists between boys and girls. ...

Economy and State by Bandelj, Sowers

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

Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Avatar, A Sociological Perspective

This essay describes "Avatar," a film directed by James Cameron, and consider it from a sociological perspective. Three pages in l...

Grapes of Wrath (1940), A Sociological Film Review

This paper consists of a film review of John Ford's 1940 film, "The Grapes of Wrath," which encompasses a sociological analysis of...

American Ways by Althen

Althen's book entitled American Ways is discussed. This book portrays the white, middle-class perspective. This paper takes a soci...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Philadelphia (1994) from a Sociological Viewpoint

This paper begins by presenting a brief summary of the plot to "Philadelphia," a 1994 film. The writer, then, present a sociologic...

Whites Benefit from Discrimination on an Australian Bus Line

This paper considers the many sociological shortcomings revealed in a New York Times article "When Whites Get a Free Pass" by Ian ...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

Working Women on Barbados

means suits and high heels, yet their work is paid roughly the same as factory workers. This means that, in order to maintain the ...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Violence and its Sociological, Biological, and Psychological Roots

is almost a learned behavior, not socially speaking, but psychologically speaking. It is the human minds reaction and perhaps solu...

Sociological Perspectives on Stepparenting

as well as the proximity and consistency of other support factors in their life. A quick divorce and an even quicker remarriage ...

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...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, and Karl Marx

faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark ...

Social Inequalities' Definition, Identification, and Measurement

not the working class but the middle class that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Social historians and political sc...

Sociological Perspectives on Euthanasia

suicide that addresses euthanasia falls under the anomic class of suicide. "According to Durkheim, this anomic suicide occurs when...

College Classroom Analysis and the Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism and Structural Functionalism

a bit of wisdom that is attached to the structural-functionalist school of thought. In looking at the college classroom from the f...

Sociological Effects of Single Parenting

parents were to divorce when the time came that their relationship was no longer considered beneficial. "For many children, the e...

Food Choice and the Sociology of Eating and Food

the trends associated with the British social research programs which examine the nations diet and the differences in the status o...

3 Sociological Views on the Shortage of Nurses

many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of the fact that their ...