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Computers Enhance Social Skills

isolate the children from each other but since few classrooms have one computer per child, the opposite has happened. Children clu...

Uncle Tom's Cabin as Social Protest

smack of soap opera, the basic facts that she relates relative to the horrors of slavery are accurate and relatively unembellished...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

Effects of an Older Population

is, the generation of Americans born directly after World War II who are now entering their retirement years (Takamura, 1999). Thi...

Cognitive Development and Social Development

Olga, May 2009, Gender Differences and Cognitive Correlates of Mathematical Skills in School-Aged Children, Child Neuropsychology,...

RESEARCH IN MOTION: SOCIO-CULTURAL FORCES

about our industry, company and products? Basically, cell phones have moved from being a luxury item less than 15 years ago to bei...

Research on the Effects of Alcohol

designed to do. These researchers believe they may have discovered something new about the transport process and recommend their c...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

The Transformation of the US Military

which examined the issued of all-volunteer force in 1970 had relative little to say about women in the services, as they comprise...

Social Informatics

on social development, the hard model is that which states technology is the dominant impact on social development (Pacey, 1983, C...

Tanner on the Problems with Bad Research

than its potential for furthering social progress" (Tanner, 1998). He says educational researchers move "as a flock" (Tanner, 1998...

Child Development, Birth to 2 Years

follow a logical progression. Babies learn to coo, imitate sounds, babble, form their first words, and then their first sentences....

The Politics and the Political Possibility of Global Social Movements

about feeding the hungry, like the ONE campaign, but they involve issues like debt forgiveness for small, poor countries. The worl...

Passion of the Christ

aids come across to the audience as decent people whom at least attempt to save Jesus from death (Cunningham, 2004). The gift of l...

Community Nursing/Social Ecology Model

p. 379). Bronfenbrenner in the 1980s expanded the focus of his model to consider "external influences that affect the capacity of ...

Family, Violence, and Social Work

Therefore, a revised definition of family emphasizes not the unit itself but the quality of relationship that exists within that u...

Resources for Children and Adolescents of Gay or Lesbian Families

an idea that makes sense. In lieu of, or in addition to counseling, children are able to see that they are not the only ones who h...

Business Ethics and Ethical Theory

ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...

Social Engineering of Adam Podgorecki

social changes" (Podgorecki, 1990, p. 62). The concept of sociotechnics was first introduced into the Western scientific community...

Continuing Oppression of Disabled Individuals

specific individual. According to Joseph Shapiro (author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement)...

Overview of Educational Research

in scientific research demonstrates the validity of the qualitative approach: Criterion Quantitative Research Qualitative Research...

Aggression Considered in Three Views

can result in aggressive responses" (FAT, 2004). A triggering event can frequently be something insignificant, such as a joke, ges...

Japan and Abortion

of her people when she states that "Fetuses should be buried properly in accordance with socially accepted ideas even when they ar...

Three Film Classics and Social Issues

love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...

Those Who Use Marijuana, Those Who Don't and Attitudinal Variations

came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...

Australian Statistics and Semiotics

of the words and the sentence construction. This is made up of three aspects; the build up of semantic representations, th...

Eight Questions on Health Status

disease, parents first must have access to health care services and then utilize such services. Marshall (2003) points to the im...

Future Educational Social Trends

and speculations that have been put forth about handling the problems facing US public schools. Throughout the country, school di...

Tobacco Culture in Virginia's Chesapeake Society

gentry (Vaughn, 2004). In other words, the Chesapeake, as Englands first major experiment in North American colonization, was a "t...