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The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

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

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...

Autobiography and Analysis

not uncommon for my friends to be beat. During the period, we lived in North Carolina, and it was not uncommon for the children to...

Sociology Applied to News and Music

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...

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...

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...

Technological Change: Anthropological, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...

A Sociological Interpretation of Million Dollar Baby

death, Maggies family comes to see her just to secure their inheritance, something that brings money into the picture. Clearly, th...

A Sociological Analysis of the Criminal Case of Rapper T.I.

Dantzer, 2005). The idea here is that with fewer solid ties to the community, and the lure of easy money, people get lost. They en...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Sociological, Physiological, and Psychological Issues Associated with the Management of Stress

tooth tiger of prehistoric humans stress stimulators. Modern human hunter and gatherers deal with stress agents such as repeatedly...

Family, Marriage, and Adoption's Sociological Effects

In five pages this paper examines how American families and marriages are socially affected by adoption and related issues. Four ...

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...