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THE THROW-AWAY WORKER: USE (AND ABUSE) OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING CANADA'S RAILROADS - AN OUTLINE

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

The War on Drugs in America and Whether or Not a Problem Truly Exists

while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...

Cooley and Mead, Critical Theory and Functionalism

is highly involved in sociological perspectives. Yet it also differs from both the conceptualizations of Cooley and Mead and that ...

Sociologist Nancy Kleniewski's City Definition

that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Issues Pertaining to Interpersonal Relationships

try to get some more rest at night); and that Jim needs to spend more time with the kids, and not use his extra time to simply rea...

2 Sociology Research Articles Reviewed

per hospital, and all hospitals varied. The researchers could do little but note observations and then identify similarities and ...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Theoretical Perspectives on Work Culture and Sociology

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

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...

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Theories on Conflict

"broadened the Marxian interpretation of social stratification by introducing the concept of status groups parallel to but analyti...

Great Britain and Achievement in Education

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

Homelessness and Sociology

children, who represent forty percent of the growing masses of homeless people (NCH, 2004), are often the most victimized of all t...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

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...

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...

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...