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Substance Abuse and Teenagers

ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...

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...

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...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Theories on Conflict

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

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...

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 ...

Holland, England, and Homicide

In forty eight pages this paper compares the rates of homicide in Holland and England in a consideration of required comparative m...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

Can Depersonalized Bullying in the Workplace be Explained by Critical Management Theory?

and Clegg and Dunkerley (1980) who sought to study organizations using this paradigm. The Marxist approach is one that embodies so...

Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

Social Constructionist and Other Models

needed to be devised for this approach so the Milan approach today is sometimes referred to as Post-Milan to indicate the impact o...

Thibaut and Kelley's Social Exchange Theory of Communication

to determine the best possible behavior is not a new idea. This is basically what John Stuart Mill proposed with his philosophy of...

Standard Deviation, Cross Tabulation and Correlation

The writer presents a paper in three section. The first section explains what is meant by standard deviation and how it may be use...

Adult Learning Theories

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at adult learning. Theories of humanism, cognitive theories, and behavioral theories are...

Culture Care Theory

There are dozens of nursing theories that have been developed over decades. Each has its own value and each is beneficial for nurs...

Theories in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Theories regarding management, finance, human resources, and so forth change as time goes by. Organizations have become are more c...

High Blood Pressure Categlories Interventions

This essay explains and reports many issues related to this condition. The four categories related to diagnostic criteria are repo...

Climate Change

there is only so much oil and no more. When it will run out is a completely unknown factor. A report by BP suggested that oil woul...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

How Groups Develop

it is time needed for the group to become a team. 2. Storming: Personalities may begin to clash at this stage. Members of the team...

Apple and Their Ethical Position

be a good corporate citizen. However, these events do not indicate what the ethical responsibility of Apple is or should be. ...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

Conflict in the Sherlock Holmes Film Dressed to Kill

counterfeiting, with the messages in the music box containing the whereabouts of the missing plates. Though the inmate was in pris...

East St. Louis Deterioration Explained by the Theories of Emile Durkheim

and the city suffered for it ("East St. Louis, Illinois," 2006). Kozol (1992) comments: "East St. Louis is mortgaged into the next...

Explaining the Difference in Human Nature Theories of Saint Augustine and Plato

important characteristics of Platos concept revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People have the power to control t...

Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

Toyota's Problems and Solutions II

still making cars that are too large in size for a market that desires a "compact" feel. If Toyota is to regain the reputation th...