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An Examination of a Serial Killer

games with police, but one important question lingers. What makes serial killers kill? It is a hard question to answer as there...

Symbolic Interactionism Article Evaluated

boy. That said, there is a lot one can glean from the essay from the fact that gender roles may indeed be socially constructed to ...

Marriage and Sociology

The primary reason for dating, though it is strictly on a subconscious and biological level, is to find and obtain a mate for the ...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Karl Marx and Max Weber

that a student writing on this subject examine the ways in which authors answer such questions. In terms of Marxs inattention to i...

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...

Visionary Theorist W.E.B. Du Bois

works is quite appropriate. The Souls of Black Folk provides an overview of how the black man is seen in American culture. At lea...

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...

Sociology - Two Essays

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

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

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

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...

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...

Education and Social Theories

This research paper discusses functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism and how these sociological theories impac...

What Adopted Children Should Know About Their Biological Parents

This paper argues the thesis that genetic and sociological information about birth parents should be available to the children the...

Elementary Students, Gender, and Science Achievement

This research paper describes research that pertains to the gender gap in science achievement that exists between boys and girls. ...

Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Whites Benefit from Discrimination on an Australian Bus Line

This paper considers the many sociological shortcomings revealed in a New York Times article "When Whites Get a Free Pass" by Ian ...

Economy and State by Bandelj, Sowers

This book review is on Economy and State, A Sociological Perspective by Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers. A summation, critique...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Global Warming

There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...

The Djembe, An Overview

This research paper presents an extensive overview of the djembe, which is a drum that originated in West Africa. The paper offers...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

Modern Great Britain and Family Diversity

In thirty two pages this paper considers postindustrial Great Britain in a consideration of its family diversity including single ...

Applied Social Research/Whyte and Yin

and racketeering. Whyte readily acknowledges that he had no training in either sociology or anthropology when he began the rese...

John Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

The Adult Entertainment Industry as a Noncriminal Deviant Sub-Culture

nudity. Mens bodies, by contrast, are almost never shown nude; if they are, they are usually exaggerated into a "heroic" style. Fe...

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Canadian Sociology

Marxs concept of class structure because it is the classic exploitation of labor by management. It relates to Taylorism because of...

Looking at Canadian Sociology

hours, so that the employee is always kept off-balance and unable to protest effectively. Jobs in this system are simple tasks and...