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Using Sociological Theory to Explain Urban Problems

environmental settings, produce specific social behaviors in people, and can either sustain behavioral problems, or mitigate them....

Using the Sociological Imagination to Interpret a Personal Situation

in society, sometimes, norms are let go of for a variety of reasons. Durkheim (1997) writes: "The hypercivilization... breeds the ...

Sociological Article Analysis (New Soldiers in the Fight for Human Rights)

the fact that the human rights field has grown immensely, but what it also does that is not quite as obvious is to suggest that un...

Wieviorka: "The Making of Terrorism"

4). It becomes, in essence, the opposite of what its adherents want it to be-it becomes a social antimovement. In order to examin...

Conservation And The Environment

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

Approaches to Literacy

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

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Religious Colleges, Nondenominational Universities and Sociological Theory

the individual human action. To explain social institutions and social change is to show how they arise as the result of the acti...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Research on Gangs as it Relates to Critical Theory

religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...

Papua New Guinea Health Care Proposal Sociology

below the poverty line (Papua New Guinea, 2006). The people are in need of better health care and better health care delivery. T...

Sociological Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia and the United States

food, and visual arts, while non-material culture is the unseen - language, music, and literature. In America, buildings are tall...

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...

Bulimia Case Study Sociological Analysis

at meals. Maria sometimes vomits after eating because she feels guilty about how much she is eating. This case study involves a v...

Sociology - Two Essays

to the fact that people learn behavior due to interactions with others (Andersen & Taylor, 2005). Conflict theory, on the other ha...

Contrasting Stranger Next Door by Arlene Stein's Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner

the issue of homosexual rights has been handled in the state as a whole and how she became interested in how "discussions of homos...

Sociological Issues in "Will & Grace"

the culture, which means that sociologically we are still not ready to look at gay men and lesbians as people first; instead, ``we...

Observation Exercise (Sociology)

wearing head kerchiefs and they stood out from the crowd. I noticed many of the people wearing patriotic wear. They either sported...

The Sociological Implications of Cloning

genetically superior clone set. There might be a great deal more young women who look like models. In fact, just like Hitler want...

“American History X": Sociological Analysis

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Women on TV, Then and Now

comedic formula that this was never going to happen. Nevertheless, Lucy and Ricky were happily married, more or less, and offered ...

A Sociological Topic: The Impacts of Deviance on Crime

lower socioeconomic conditions often do not have the opportunities or the resources to move out of that social stratum. Parental ...

The Sociological Perspective Value Clusters and Contradictions

As a discipline, sociology attempts to explain human interrelationships and...

Violence against Women: The Sociological Perspective

looked at the use of sexualized violent imagery in advertisements and came to the conclusion that the use of such images impacted ...

Sunni - Shi'ite Conflicts: The Psychosocial Dimensions

a conflict over the succession of the prophet Mohammed upon his death. At that time, followers of Islam were bitterly divided over...

Analysis of Four Videos on Gang Behavior

group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...

Black and Latina Definitions of Women in Deliver Us from Eva and Real Women Have Curves

simply to, "Just work" (Real Women Have Curves). This suggests that Latinas are expected to know their place - at the lowest rung...

Being a Man in the Films La Mission and The Brothers

and their relationships with them. Director and screenwriter Peter Bratt aimed his lens at San Franciscos primarily Latino Missio...

"Nell" and Insights into Sociology

isolation in the woods comes into contact with the more traditional culture of the people from the nearby town where she is taken ...