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Social Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Homelessness and Social Problems

the main causes" (Morris, 1998, p. 241) to which women attribute their homelessness. Families with children, a population that re...

Social Problems of Child Prodigies

the Tonight Show audience with a blazing solo (Jerome, Cheakakos and Horsburgh 131). At ten years old, Jacob signed a contract wit...

Social Problems Associated with Interfaith Marriages

In four pages this paper examines interfaith marital unions in terms of the social problems encountered with such issues as child ...

Financial Problems and the U.S. Social Security System

possible minute to jump into action. However, there is not much more time available if something is ultimately going to remedy th...

Social Problems Experienced by Battered Women

There are social pressures and prejudices which battered women face. In this twenty page research paper that includes fourteen bib...

Social Problem of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary world and the social problem of marriage. Four sources are cited in the biblio...

Intelligence and Social Problems Such as Poverty

In eight pages the perspectives of Charles Murray, and author of The Bell Curve, are considered in a discussion of the relationshi...

PRC and its Social Problems

The People's Republic of China and the social problems it struggles with are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages with...

Public Education and the Impact of Social Problems

In six pages this paper discusses public education and the hefty price tag that is attached to societal problems in a consideratio...

Social Problems and Substance Abuse

In twenty pages this paper discusses growing welfare costs, crime, and teenage pregnancy in this consideration of the social probl...

Social Problem of Teenage Alcohol Use

In seven pages differential association and functionalism are among the theories examined in this sociological consideration of te...

Social Problem of Teen Pregnancies

In eight pages this paper examines the social problem represented by teenage pregnancies in a consideration of many adult males in...

Case Studies: Caterpillar And Harley-Davidson

burst. The world went into a serious recession. To compound this event, the company suffered a 205-day strike by UAW workers (Bart...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Tourism and Social Problems of Mauritius

to diamond cutting, gold and diamond jewelry imports, textiles, golf, spa, diving and windsurfing. Interestingly, Mauritius has b...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

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

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...

Alcoholism: A Significant Social Problem

those that imbibed but also those that did not. This means, of course, that those who imbibed consumed much more than 7.1 gallons...

A Social Problem That Cannot be Solved, Drugs

This paper argues that the US War on Drugs is a total failure and that this social problem will not be solved using this approach....

The Social Problem of Teen Pregnancy

rose from 40.5 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 in 2005 to 41.9 births per 1,000 in 2006--a 3 percent increase" ("National Camp...

Three Typical Social Problems

for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...