Social Issues Essay Examples and Topics. Page 25

From the reading what comes out clearly is that all the authors allude to the fact that the issue of discrimination is still evident and is partly to blame for the problems of the underclass.

However, the best and easy way in this tough world, or in the peer group, is to prove oneself as a rebellious teen.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Bush administration and American in general however abandoned their reluctance to the use of torture.

Racist speech is an oral expression of thoughts and emotions of hatred of another race based on the feelings of superiority of the speaker's race to the other that depicts authoritativeness, discrimination and intolerance to [...]

The second study by Colom conducted on 703 women and 666 males to find out if the gender has any difference in the IQ and cognitive ability of people.

One of the major reasons for the intersectionality is lack of awareness. Class intersectionality means discrimination based on the class of the people.

Accommodating such change may be faced with a lot of resistance by the older generations in the cultural context and this results in a lot of conflict between individuals and groups within the society.

In Zimbabwe, the struggle for power and control of governments is one of the most famous issues - and conflicts - facing the world today.

At the beginning of the article, the author has highlighted the fact of an increasing number of women in the upper echelons in different firms of US during the time period of 1999-2003.

The perspective of conflict theory may be used as the basis of the analysis of poverty in the world and in the USA in particular.

A person who exceeded the norms of alcohol, and was driving home, is a violation that does not correspond to the punishment of spending a certain time in jail.

It begins with a change in attitude towards the minority and teaching the Americans to accept and appreciate others regardless of their racial backgrounds.

The study aims to answer the following research questions: Is there a relationship between maternal education levels and infant mortality rates among the black community?

To examine the perception of violence in video games and their effects a survey was conducted addressing the current view on video games in general and the visualized violence in particular.

The main focus is paid on assessing the value and importance of Indian women role since the time of Independence.it would discuss why women in India are still being oppressed within their societies and are [...]

This recognition in community groups gives me the strength to participate actively in community organizations in favor of correspondence directed towards the protection of the rights of other members of the community.

The purpose of this memorandum is to compare the two views of education and healthcare expressed in the ideas by Rebecca Rogers and Elizabeth Crepeau in their scholarly articles.

Through family studies it has been established that the likelihood of alcohol dependence and similar complications happening is more in the families of the individuals who have been affected as compared to in the people [...]

The other situation in which alcohol and drug aided assault occurs is when only the victim of the assault is under the influence of drugs at the time of the event.

The scope of this paper revolves around the reasons why children engage in such activities, the stats about children who do, the consequences of youth prostitution and a review of the different strategies adopted, and [...]

For many years, social scientists have argued on the reward of marriage due to the distinctiveness of the populace who get married and stay married. As a result, the definition of marriage can be broadened [...]

Living in the era of globalization, the economic benefits that accompany the fact of the borders being erased can be eliminated by the threats that might occur as a result.

This perception of slavery emerged when merchants started to get a license to trade slaves to their colonies in the form of 'labour' and wouldebt bondage' to produce goods and services for consumption that has [...]

Due to acts of abuse children suffer greatly and it will not be wrong to say that these experiences are definitely engraved into the child's personality.

The article focuses on the problem regarding this and the techniques to increase awareness among people. The main problems that cause bounded awareness are failure to see information, seek information, use the information, and share [...]

The people committing the crime of child abuse are usually people known and trusted by the children as it is in this case.

Old people and adolescents, rich and poor, all of them may become the prisoners of this addiction and the only way out may be the treatment, serious psychological treatment, as gambling addiction is the disease [...]

After the birth of their first child, a daughter, they knew that they wanted to and needed to escape from China if they wanted to escape the One Child Policy and have the happy family [...]

That is why every government tries to provide the strategies for homelessness to help people to deal with the problem, but not all of them are successful.

In addition, they both mention the minority groups and social difficulties they face."Melchizedek's Three Rings" and "Behind the Official Story" express similar points of view regarding the correlation between power and fear, pay attention to [...]

Marx, Fleur Hopper Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Social Policy: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy Prevention published in Social Work, Volume 50, 2005, is dedicated to the idea of teenage pregnancy in the United States.

New York City, the city that never sleeps, and one of the most populous places on the earth, has been facing the huge task of providing homes to its citizens.

Discrimination is one of the main problems in the USA as it has deep roots and reflects ethical diversity and cultural differences of the population.

However, despite the current economic downturn, the period from 1995 has been that of steady economic growth in Toronto; unfortunately, this has not seen a corresponding betterment of the welfare of the child in the [...]

Parrillo covers a great number of aspects but the main argument, which the author advances, is that in the vast majority of cases such unfavorable opinion or prejudice is strongly resilient to logic, and very [...]

If told in the right context, tone and by a person who really understands the predicament, Rachel's challenges are bound to have a profound effect on students and inspire them to spread the dream that [...]

The paper addresses the issues affecting the youth of today with specific reference to unemployment and health. Solutions: Provision of financial relief to unemployed in the form of Unemployment Insurance System/ Entrepreneurial programs in [...]

In turn hidden transcript is their real attitude toward themselves and the subordinates, and the issue is complicated by the fact that the subordinates also have transcript, although of different kind.

What is more relevant here is that the racist person from "The White supremacy" expends considerable energy in rationalizing such occurrences and pretending that they have no implications for the well-being of African-American people in [...]

The slaves were black people, and the masters were commonly white. The people's attitude is more conservative now to the marriages between white and black people.

The reasons for such usage could vary according to the substance used and to the life rhythm of the addicted person.

Also, she widened her studies about the labor, the gender preferences and the nationality of the people to have a clearer view of the observations on gender and the satisfaction of the society.

Despite the fact that on average the literacy rate and the rate of civilization in the world have been increasing in the past few decades, the statistics for domestic violence have been increasing on an [...]

Paul Lawrence Dunbar in his poem, "Sympathy" has vividly portrayed the pangs of a caged bird and likens it to the collective pain that colored people have felt like victims of racial prejudices."And a pain [...]

Over the course of time, the idea of social work was developing and soon transformed into a necessary help to those members of the human society who were in need due to the new conditions [...]

The paper is claimed to overview the policy of racial profiling in a particular city, and provide the research, based on the sociological conflict theory, including the information gathered by the means of survey and [...]

I strongly believe that the drinking legal age should be lower to 18 years in the United States because it is just not the solution to all the problems as seen by the government and [...]

He argued that the main purpose of the state is to protect its independence and integrity to maintain the social organization and allow for the "universal spirit" to develop in people's life.

In general, the purpose of the research was to arrive at evidence-based recommendations for university policy and guidance programs that could more holistically help students avoid binge drinking or alcoholism and systematically cope with the [...]

The estimated half a million children that, at any one time, is homeless in America and their mothers represent the "fastest growing segment of the homeless population".

Thus, the era of social revolutions in Russian and their attempts in Europe was characterized by a critique of patriotism as it was defined in the liberal tradition.

Assuming that majority of the poor in America are unskilled and incompetent in the present day market demands, the only available solution would be to offer hands on apprenticeship education which must be tailored to [...]

The reasons for the punishments are very different but the result remains the same: marijuana is still used by the majority of students and is available for everyone.

In and among the issues under consideration, the position of the ideal vis-a-vis permanence is the most important to the main matter.

As a result the overall mortality of women increases in the countries where legal abortions take place. The general point of view in decreasing the number of abortions is the use of contraceptives as a [...]

And it is a rather pragmatic question stipulated by the professionals need to debate about, but not by the addiction nature itself.

The notion of Meritocracy can be challenged as the cause of structural inequalities in society in the sense that the socially disadvantaged are never given a chance to reorganize in also becoming competitive like the [...]

Taking examples to compare and to find connections between two of the examples given it is seen that peasant protest in Malaysia and the Rebellion in Kenya are different in the methods, the outcome, and [...]

Foster homes have to also face the challenge of developing the mentalities of the children are their clients, and care should be provided on that basis.

According to Stern's book: "In 1907 he helped to make Indiana the first of more than thirty states to adopt legislation aimed at compulsory sterilization of certain individuals; although the law was overturned by the [...]

The incest taboo is one of the most ordinary of all cultural laws both in modern states and many past communities with authorized penalties compulsory in some jurisdictions.

The nature of refined racism is in the form of "colour blind" politics against racial minorities which takes the form of systematic discrimination which makes the minorities to remain behind the whites in many areas.

This kind of disparity has seen to it that the whites are favored when it comes to education and when you put in the bigger picture, you get to see why only whites enjoy the [...]

All in all, the cases of community violence increase these days, and more and more people who experienced or witnessed it suffer from PTSD after which some children, adolescents, and adults face certain psychological problems [...]

The changes involve all the aspects of the population such as population growth and movement into a country or from one country to another.

In their article "Racism and Real Life: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Undergraduate Survey of American Literature", Annemarie Hamlin and Constance Joyner suggest that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" should simply be banned [...]

In this article, the researcher uses the interview method to assess the memory and suggestibility of the children in which children are required to perceive an event through retention and retrieval as instructed by the [...]

The theme of the article thus looks into the pattern of the works in relation to the families and in the context of crop, cash or food, industry.

Thus, hair analysis is the forensic test that is employed to understand the mode, pattern, and the degree of drug abuse for a long period of time.

In writing on the cause and effect of smoking we will examine the issue from the point of view of temporal precedence, covariation of the cause and effect and the explanations in regard to no [...]

Overall, the attempts made by anti-smoking campaigners hardly yield any results, because they mostly focus on harmfulness of tobacco smoking and the publics' awareness of the problem, itself, but they do not eradicate the underlying [...]

This report is about the three major revolts against the British in their colonies in South America in the wake of an aggressive liberation struggle from all the corners of the world.

As for the poverty among women, it should be emphasized that the reasons of poverty among women differ from those among men, and the issues of poverty itself are more severe.

Race and, by implication, race theory in general refers to a Black or White person's identifying or not identifying with the racial group with which he or she is generally assumed to share racial heritage: [...]

The race up to the inauguration of Barack Obama as President-in-waiting of the United States brought, once again, the issue of skin color to the front.

The relations between the slaves and their masters could never be harmonious and a lot of resentments could be easily noticed on the part of slaves who thought that even their least existing rights were [...]

The country is therefore being urged to combat the exclusion of commercial sex workers and Injecting Drug Users to reverse the surging trend of the vice.

Despite the fact that on average the literacy rate and the rate of civilization in the world has been increasing in the past few decades, the statistics for domestic violence have been increasing on an [...]

Social welfare programs which include welfare payments and services are undertaken at the expense of taxpayers and they are funded by benefactors or enrolment of the poor compulsorily.

According to the cruel master, the slave was not of any advantage of having her sexual rights as well and the black slave women could only submit themselves to the demands of the master.

It will also involve the laws and legislations that various governments have made in relation to discrimination in employment opportunities to people who are poor and disabled.

The ideology of the world created by Spike Lee to some extent represents the existence of racial stereotypes in modern America, specifically in media, as a slogan that nothing has changed.

Culture, as one of the most significant aspects of the social life, is of crucial significance for the formation of a social personality in a human being, and this paper will focus on culture as [...]

A framework of the study is a critical race theory which helps to explain and analyze the concepts and issues related to the research study.

Marijuana causes learning and memory problems as it affects the sensory organs that send impulses to the brain hence the response of the brain to impulses becomes slow. In general, it causes respiratory problems to [...]

The awareness that the philanthropist help should have its limits is understood, as someday, the lifeboat, which saves or tries to save so many lives in the countries of the third world, might overturn and [...]

To address the central theme of the article, one need to delve deeper into the psyche of giving alms and money to the poor people we meet on the street.

There was a sharp increase in the number of slaves during the 18th century, and by the mid of the century, 200,000 of them were working in the American colonies.

In most of the societies world over, men are taken to school to the highest levels while women are denied the opportunity to study hence this leads to the skewed sex ratio at the work [...]

Livability of a city is determined by availability/access to or lack of social amenities, good environmental factors like sensitivity of the local authorities to eliminate or reduce pollution, and the beauty of a city including [...]

There is a big reason for the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Leader of the Opposition Brendan Nelson to deliver their speeches of apology to the Indigenous people of Australia.

The extent to which four factors-selection effects, setting effects, history effects, and construct effects - are present reflects the increased validity of the study.

Social inequality refers to the difference in the quality of life experienced by different people in the same community, usually between the rich and poor.

You find that most of the students in the small towns do not usually have a lot of money since most of them are from the poor families and hence it's due to the cheapness [...]

Modern women are so much freer than they once were to choose their own point of personal harmony and equilibrium on the continuum of service and achievement that constitutes the balance challenge.

This happened because the film appeared to be brilliant satire of political and social aspects of the United States' development in the fifties.

The same situation or maybe a slightly different attitude of the caretakers had urged the prisoners of the Alcatraz prison, to decide to run away.

As the war in the film portrayed as the end of everything human in people, Apocalypse, if interpreted as the end of the world can be labeled to all the ongoing events in the movie.

The major argument that should be considered in support of lowering the legal drinking age, is that if an individual can be expected to serve in the army and survive the mental trauma that is [...]

In our daily life everyone faces the social problem. The social problems are listed below:- Gender discrimination Human rights Poverty World population AIDS Violence Child labor pollution

Of the millions of youngsters who test with or use drugs, the overpowering preponderance go on to maturity without a drug abuse mater.

This is the last stage after a long period of depression and the victim have not managed to get assistance in order to deal with the environmental stressors.

The author argues that during the cultural revolution and the reign of Mao, the wealthy landowners and the bourgeois were turned out and their wealth reverted to the state.

They wanted the homosexuals to understand and make others understand that their being homosexual means that they are emotionally attached to their own sex.

Once the readers are influenced by the argument it is assumed that they would move a social memorandum in favor of the argument and insist the authority to grant the gay couples the status of [...]

The present paper looks at the issues of alcohol and the part that this liquid plays in violent crimes and offences in three major countries of the world: the U.

Sociology as a discipline has an extremely wide range of interests and it is next to impossible even to enumerate them, however the issue that has always been of the utmost importance for the sociological [...]

Today, people in Western countries are being forcibly required to "celebrate diversity", or to face the threat of being fired from their jobs and even consequently persecuted, simply because they happened not to be as [...]

She was very upset and told us a story that made me think about the importance of gender in the modern business environment.

The interest of the owners lies in maintaining their authority and control over economic decisions, whereas the interest of the workers lies in overthrowing that class in order to be able to reap the profits [...]

Socialization of the relationship between value development and delinquent behavior have been offered from a variety of perspectives, including the differences in value orientation in delinquency areas, the importance of differential associations the effects of [...]

Abstract: The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals set by the United Nations Millennium Summit set to be achieved by 2015, to overcome the main development challenges of the world. Poverty is often felt to [...]

She suggests that it is perhaps in the domain that has proved least hospitable or attractive to women theoretical science that the impact of feminist and of women-centered culture will have the most revolutionary impact.

First, it is necessary to indentify the age groups, most inclined to drug and alcohol addiction, and ascertain the major reasons for it. The research should discuss the problem of addiction from various standpoints therefore [...]

Human behavior is believed to be governed by the processes of the mind and crime is linked to unconscious conflicts that may have taken place in the mind of an individual and which were probably [...]

The Dalits and the Adivasis and other classes of Indian Society are pursuing the erasure of the age old caste system with the new Indian socialist revolution.

The threat of imprisonment is not sufficient to keep citizens from partaking in the drug, nor is it effective in ensuring the drug is not available on the street.

To conclude the essay, the book by Frank Dikotter is a rather valuable source of knowledge about the issue of race in Chinese culture and politics.

This means, the members of our community are not actually tolerant to the archetypal 'otherness', as a number share popular negative stereotypes about Asian, Pacific and African Americans and might refer to them as wouldrunkards' [...]

"It takes all of us, a village of everyday people, to standup and commit to making a meaningful differences in the lives of abused and neglected children, our children.