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Social Security Reform: Costs and Benefits

Administration, 2005). 1950: The first "cost of living" increase is approved 1975: Cost of living increases become automatic, tied...

Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

NURSING SHORTAGE AND IMPACT ON HEALTHCARE DEMAND

for certainty is that as demand for health care services grows, nurses will be pressed more and more into taking over doctors duti...

IMPACT OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE

In other words, because economics is a social science studying decision-making behavior and the allocation of scarce resources, in...

Corporate Social Responsibility

organization itself. On the surface, of course, corporate social responsibility can be defined simply as the "ethical behavior of ...

Social Separation and Ideologies Regarding Gender, Class, and Race

As Rubin (29) also points out, politicians have engaged in all sorts of acrobatics to negate out the existence of the poor and the...

Social History and Collective Memory

a word or phrase. Analysis of these lieux de memoire can account for the basis from which the collective identity of the group is ...

Exhibiting Social Deviance

glared and showed signs of impatience but said nothing. Perhaps a more direct approach would draw more direct response. Th...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

Health Care Economics and the Impact of Medicare

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

Gender, Class, and Race from a Social Perspective

Much of what Rubin (1994) says is true, of course, but there are also other perspectives available. The author seems to want...

Racism and Social Stratification

who was once homeless. Individuals can go from that lowest category to the highest, but it is very rare. Social stratification is...

Caste and Class Differences in Social Mobility

in the most significant activities possible (student-provided source 2, 254). Societal classification, however,...

The Impact of Trade Reforms and Globalization on Developing Countries

low income countries export only $100 per capita (Nugroho 2002). To bring this into more perspective, there are 1.1 billion people...

The Impact of Alcoholism on Families

placed in foster homes, which they were told would happen if just one more report was filed with protective services. The oldest ...

Mass Consumerism's Origin and its Impact

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...

Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Proverbs and Solomon's Social Background

would indicate that Solomons social background was one that was possessed of education as well as social observations involving go...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

Cultural Impacts of Imported Media

resist imported media is over and is replaced by an interest in the hybridity or interstitiality of contemporary cultures (2001). ...

History of Israel and the Impact of the Exodus from Egypt

it is more than a battle about real estate; it is a holy war of religions and philosophies. A good deal of the Israelis religion...

China vs. U.S. in Social Reform and Politics

who are living the American Dream. What could BE more American than a hamburger, right? Who made that happen? McDonalds and their ...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Social Issues and Photographer Lewis Hine

in 1907 he participated in the Pittsburgh Survey to study the living conditions in that industrial city. In 1908 he became the sta...

Globalization and Social Change

could know about the happening. Never before has this been possible. With this globalization has come significant chang...

U.S. Mentoring Programs and Impact

discussed. By reviewing actual examples of mentoring programs, the impact of such programs becomes more clear and evident. What...

State and Local Governmental Impacts of the Homeland Security Act

come full circle to represent three of the most pressing issues critics contend reflect a botched attempt toward better security a...

Economic Impact of Taxes

that total taxes, which means both state and local, increased over the years: they averaged 24.7 percent of the GDP in the 1950s, ...

Substance Abuse and Emile Durkheim's Social Theories

a biological entity" (Coser, 1977, p. 129). These factors which are external to the individual outlast individuals who die over ti...