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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...

Analysis of Four Videos on Gang Behavior

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

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 ...

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...

"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 ...

Statistical Analysis and its Applications

typically found to occur. The findings suggested that the majority of individuals chose to leave their childhood faith before they...

Sex and Renewable Energy Statistics

determine that the government is able to invest resources into the development of those new energy technologies which will yield s...

Goodfellas, the Media, and Sociology

time period and the Mafia subculture into which the boy is being indoctrinated. Another scene that contrasts Henrys family life w...

The Self-Control Theory of Crime: Addressing the Criticisms

the extent to which the self-control theory of crime can be said to be valid. This paragraph helps the student give an overview o...

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...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

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. ...

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 ...

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....

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...

Student Posed Questions on Sociology

which addresses like minded morals and ethics in social struggles. Religion and Social Change Again, if we ask how religion ca...

Nurture Wins in the Nature versus Nurture Debate

in his book Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes US Human, that to see human development as ruled only by genes, w...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

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...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

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...

America and Catholicism

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

Sociology Defined

sociology. Sociologys most basic definition is that it is a social science that is "about" people, that it is the study of humani...

Review of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Schlosser is among one of just a handful of writers to explore this darkest side of the fast food industry, its impact on the most...