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Elderly Divorce

life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...

Canada, Social Class, and Inequality

the haves wielding the greatest power (Macionis & Gerber, 2006). First, there is the predominantly Anglo upper class, in which mo...

Exploitation of Children in the Art World: Is it Art or Pornography?

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

An Analysis of Crime Statistics (1968 through 2008)

an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...

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...

Creating a Sense of Community

describes in his book, neither side truly listened to the other. They were all primarily concerned with converted the opposing sid...

Georg Simmel, Saul Bellow and “Looking for Mr. Green”

postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Autobiography and Analysis

not uncommon for my friends to be beat. During the period, we lived in North Carolina, and it was not uncommon for the children to...

Sociology and Why Human Behavior Cannot be Explained by Common Sense

become the individuals they do, noting that a combination of genetic and environmental influences mark the two most significant as...

Communication and its Drama

this research with our own contemporary observations we can produce a valuable insight into the consistency of communication both ...

Patient Outcome and Defining the Contribution of Nursing

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

Canadian Divorce and Theories of Sociology

control, for access to divorce" (Landsberg, 2002). The feminism Landsberg highlights in her article could best be described cond...

Evaluating The Protestest Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

of the group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim fo...

Twenty First Century Alienation

psychologically, socially and spiritually. Still, while some people feel fulfilled, a majority appear to be alienated. The main ...

Ethnicity and Health

more difficult to conduct trials in populations with varied ethnicities. She states that "other studies have shown that the effect...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

An Internet Society

In 6 pages a theoretical consideration of what would happen if everyone across the globe had Internet access with sociological and...

Experiments in Sociology and Method Applications

hypothesis. Suppose someone wonders whether or not girls who have grown up in broken homes are more likely to use illicit drugs; i...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, and Karl Marx

faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark ...

Working Women on Barbados

means suits and high heels, yet their work is paid roughly the same as factory workers. This means that, in order to maintain the ...

Social Inequalities' Definition, Identification, and Measurement

not the working class but the middle class that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Social historians and political sc...

Emile Durkheim and the Social Theory of Lyotard

only give rise to institutions in patches--local determinism" (Lyotard PG). II. EXPOSING POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism was t...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Mortality's Realization and its Human Impact

out doctor-assisted suicide. "We rarely go gentle into that good night" (Nuland, 1995, p. PG), because the body typically goes th...

'Ethnomethodology,' Hegelian Marxism, and Robert K. Merton

In seven pages and 3 parts this research paper discusses such sociological issues as ethnomethodology, Hegelian Marxism characteri...

Violence in Children and Psychosocial Theory

In six pages this paper examines violence and its subculture in a consideration of real life cases and discussion of various socio...

Elaine Chaika on Speech Communities

In four pages this paper examines speech communities as critiqued by the writings of Elaine Chaika in terms of language's sociol...

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff

A Maori, New Zealand dysfunctional home is considered in an overview consisting of 6 pages as it is presented in Duff's text with ...

The Truly Disadvantaged The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy by William J. Wilson

This sociological text by William J. Wilson is analyzed in a paper consisting of six pages. There are no other sources listed....