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Essays 1861 - 1890

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Social Evolution During the Nineteenth Century

their perception of his genius. (Gould 26) Where gender behavior is concerned, a complicated and controversial issue of de...

Processes and Theories in Career Counseling

subordinate roles, and achieves goals through conformity. 5) Enterprising -- person prefers verbal skills in situations, which pro...

Leisure Concepts

so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at...

Mass Media's Impact on Society According to Postmodernism

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...

Understanding the Relationship Among Nations Through the Use of Game Theory

$50 billion due to the events of September 11, they are reluctant to willingly allow insurance coverage due to the inability to ca...

The Division of Labor and Adam Smith

for only one small part of the production process. The worker concentrating his or her full effort on being the best that he or sh...

Essays on Psychology

different islands of the Galapagos based on what their needs are in the use of their beaks. If they eat soft fruits or insects th...

Chaos Theory, the Analytical Positioning School, and a Hong Kong Securities Company

by Hatten and Schendel Mintzberg took the analytical school further. The formation of this school is one where there is a foundati...

Agricultural Subsidies and Economic Factors

On the one hand, free market economists point to the idea of "survival of the fittest" - whoever can sell the most should profit a...

Jeffrey Dahmer and Applications of Reckless' Containment Theory of Delinquency and Gottredson and Hirschi's Self Control Theory

as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child-rearing which resul...

Grounded Theory

(1998; 24). The main approach here is that the information gathered should be able to give an account of the influence or idea th...

Healthcare and Actor Network Theory

regulations, as well as the users ability and the constraints of any equipment that is being used. These different factors all com...

Deviance in Conflict Theory and Consensus

the process of indicating which individuals abide by the prescribed societal rules and which ones do not. Generally, a community ...

Strategic Planning Theories

became popular in the 1980s because companies were faced with a significant amount of competition in a rapidly changing world. The...

Concept of Leadership, Style, and Theories

Their individual research involved the personality variables that could be identified as having a positive correlation with leader...

Pedagogy Theories Compared and Contrasted

+ Pedagogy, 2002). However, the term often incorporates the profession of teaching and therefore a more complete definition would...

Modern Social Stratification and Theory of Karl Marx

(the proletariat,) and the termination of class-based society. Marxist demanded communal property in the place of private propert...

Case Study Involving Social Theory, Delinquency, and Intervention

the most telling incidents was when he told his fathers fiancee, Cathy, that she was insane to consider marrying somebody as self-...

Literature Review on Coping with Social Prejudice

patterns that were shown (Link, 2002). Between the ages of three and six there are some interesting attitudes. These may be seen a...

Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Overview and Analysis of Spatial Ecology

if a person wanted to know when a certain type of plant probably became established in an area, perhaps he then could simply calcu...

Questions on Nursing Theory

to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...

Awareness in Infants

views are original sin, tabula rasa, and innate goodness" (Anonymous The history of child psychology , 2002; historyofchi_ribu.htm...

Revolutionary Beliefs of Albert Einstein

moon. This was possible because, Einstein theorized, that the same laws that govern the physics of nature must be true of things...

Nursing Management Change Theory

incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...

More Than a Living by Lieber and Systems Theory

to divide earlier on. The priestly class is separated from the secular class for example. In the end, the subdivision demonstrates...

Six Questions on Nursing Theory Models

general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...

Workings of Science

probability that is usually scarcely less than complete proof (PG). Sometimes things have been demonstrated by the principles and ...

Family Structure and Domestic Violence

There is no way to predict which families will suffer from domestic violence and which will not. Indeed the tragedy of domestic a...