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Social Research and Epistemology

Rene Descartes, who formulated the innovative idea that sensory information is not a reliable foundation on which to base knowledg...

The Influence and Impact of Mass Media

become homogenized and less diverse or controversial. The result is that fewer diverse opinions and reports are presented to the p...

The Collapse of Enron

is not right. What is the history of this now controversial company? II. History Enron began in 1985 as the combination of two...

Morality, Brotherhood, and Friendship

a principle that not only transcends gender, but also embraces all aspects of humanity. People may look different, speak differen...

Women as Objects

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

Canada After the Second World War

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

Mitchell Duneier's 'Sidewalk'

him with a direct window into their respective worlds. Stupidity, illiteracy or an absent work ethic has absolutely nothing to do...

The Evolution of American Fatherhood

as humans are mammals and the male mammal is often inconsequential to the raising of the next generation. Amneus (2002) makes the ...

Is Deviant Behavior Criminal Insanity Or Something That Can be Treated, Punished Through Incarceration?

anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Children begin to feel that no matter what they do, that its okay. Theyre...

Abraham Maslow's Psychological Theories

friend to anthropologist Ruth Benedict and Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer (Abraham Maslow: 1908-1970, 2002), as Gestalt was t...

Gilded Ages and African Americans

in the Gilded Age. In the presentation we will argue that the predominance of the Victorian Culture helped to shape racial relatio...

Child Aggression and Its Sociocultural Influences

to changing environments (1997). Perhaps the brain can create behavior, but it is also true that behavior can alter the brain (199...

Citizenship According to Plato and Aristotle

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Continuation of Segregation in the United States

reality. This is perhaps, incredibly evident within the field of education as it relates to the African American citizen. Granted,...

How To Invest Wisely

this level. The top tier of the wedding cake is synonymous with very short-term savings for things like emergencies. Since this mo...

Various Age Groups and Developmental Psychology

indicative -- but not always characteristic -- of juvenile offenders, as demonstrated by results from a study that showed thirteen...

Gendered Nations

higher in capitalist nations than in socialist nations but they did not know how to get there (H?gskola, 2001). As these countr...

Issues of Welfare, Institutionalism, and Systems Theory

establishment of the institution of welfare was thought to be a process of liberal politics. The system of political decision m...

Totalitarianism and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Compared

is religion, motherhood, or live birth. While at the Reservations, Bernard meets some of the people who live there. He begins to r...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Sexual Stereotypes, Occupations, and Children's Views

workplace is an industry ill, one that has run rampant over the past couple of decades. Only within this time frame has society c...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

Social Effects of Unemployment Compensation

of employment vs. unemployment that is directly linked to the filing for unemployment compensation. Essentially, employment figur...

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Women

of development and which necessitated the imposition of one husband on the woman, whereas a man was left free to have several wive...

One Child Policy in China

increasingly replaced by more coercive measures. By 1983, mandatory IUD insertions, abortions, and sterilizations were reported" (...

Legislation Enacted Under Utilitarianism

to do with whether or not the act increased or decreased overall happiness or whether they have utility. Acts are evaluated based ...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Self-Interest and Fear As Motivating Factors

of achieving happiness or avoiding pain and these two become the motives to individuals to do what they do. A person with high sel...

Political Theorists' Influences

to remove themselves easily from an unhappy liaison....

Democracy and Education by John Dewey

education, should be limited to the socialization process, rather, he thought that education formed the foundation for the process...