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Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

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

Are Criminals Born or Made?

that Samenow also addresses. However, Samenow does not often accept that many behaviors are attributable to psychopathy. While gen...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

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

Approaches to Literacy

productive programs and pedagogies). Proponents of this thinking dont see literacy skills developing in a vacuum unconnected to ot...

Conservation And The Environment

natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...

The Real Reason for Sexual Restriction in Society Today

large part of the reason why victimless sexual practices are considered negative have to do with social factors. Societies include...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

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

A Sociological Analysis of Hannibal Lecter

in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...

Technology And Cultural Change: Three Sociological Perspectives

once-omnipotent mode of communication known as TV. Television has been an untouchable resource of information and entertainment f...

An Sociological Analysis of Modern Canadian Life

not find her life exciting ("A Day in the Life of a Canadian Girl," 2006). She is in her thirties and most likely single ("A Day i...

A Sociological Look at Epilepsy

other words, the symptoms are treatable, but it is sometimes difficult to cope with the stigma and how people look at someone affl...

A Sociological Analysis of the Janet Jackson Incident

Jackson family that invites confrontation, paparazzi and law enforcement? In some ways it seems as if this situation, and the situ...

A Grand Forks, North Dakota Casino Proposition Sociological Analysis

A family may be seen as a system. A business may be seen as a system. In this case, a community is used. Various concepts exist ...

The 'Hooking Up' Trend from a Sociological Perspective

the 1960s, there was a strong anti-war movement and a strong movement against anything consider to be conservative or an instituti...

Sociological Model Strengths and Weaknesses

to a problem. For example, if someone wants to lose weight, therapists sometimes ask what they gain by being fat. The individual i...

Sociological Structure in the Cat's Cradle

a life of fear and torment, yet this is nothing more than a fa?ade of assurance. The people have no idea that each and every enti...

Sociological Phenomenon of Serial Killing

of the subject. He notes that many earlier studies tend to focus on a psychiatric model (such as Abrahamsen, 1973) or with what he...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Drug Abuse Sociological and Psychological Causative Factors

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

Changing Behavior and Sociological Comprehension

that refers to the contrasts of the static, or in place aspect, which is a feature of situations and structures, and the dynamic a...

Exercise in the Sociological Imagination

that I have many troubles, mainly I feel tired of what I am seeing. People coming in here seem to be worse off. They have no ide...

The Sociological Impact of Biotechnology

The writer discusses Brave New World and Gattaca as a starting point to discuss common fears of advanced biotechnology. The paper ...

A School Violence Sociological Perspective

In this paper consisting of eight pages the reasons for school violence are explored sociologically and contends that child devian...

Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Aging in the United States

1997). Why Colonel Wyatt (retired) provides an example of self-actualized retirement years, the aging process is far more complica...

Sociological Analysis of El Salvador's El Mozote Massacre

In twelve pages this paper applies theories by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx to this El Salvador massacre. There are m...

Sociological Analysis of There are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz

In seven pages this text is reviewed within racial and social contexts and explores the overall cultural implications of the famil...

Hartford, Connecticut from a Sociological Perspective

In a research paper consisting of seven pages Hartford is examined in terms of its social institutions such as religious groups, e...

Sociological Issues Regarding Primary versus Secondary Child Care and Working, Single Mothers

In six pages this paper examines the shift from primary to secondary child care necessitated by working mothers in society, with m...

Anomie Sociological Concept

In five pages Emile Durkheim's concept of anomie is examined through several examples, organic and mechanical solidarity is explai...

Alcoholism Sociological Perspectives

In nine pages alcoholism is sociologically analyzed with sections including social problem statement, paternal relevance, proble...