Sociology Essay Examples and Topics. Page 41

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Gun politics in the United States

The movie theatre shootings in Aurora and the more recent school shootings are examples of events that have contributed to the increased gun-control debate. In the article, the authors contribute to the debate on gun [...]
  • Subjects: Human Rights
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1661

Abortion as a Health Ethics Issue

In the article Why Abortion is Immoral, Marquis asserts that abortion should only be permitted when a rape case is involved, within the first 2 weeks, and when the pregnancy has been proved to be [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 528

How to get audience attention

To get the audience's attention at the beginning of the show is asking enrolling questions, which have the effect of getting the audience involved.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 293

Anti-War Movement and American Views on the Vietnam War

The fact that people started to take part in demonstrations and openly protest any drafting and involvement of the United States in the war, created even more attention towards the Vietnam Conflict.
  • Subjects: Social Movements
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1633

The Ideals of the Code of Masculinity in Advertisements

Discussing the visual with the help of the masculinity lens, it is necessary to concentrate on the details which can attract the men's attention and become associated with masculinity in order to make the potential [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1474

The Novel Good Faith and the Movie Glengarry Glen Ross

It is needless to mention, of course, that the Blake's suggestion, in this respect, implies that contrary to the assumption that the American economy's functioning has very little to do with the principles of a [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3027

Machinery and Modern Industry: Summary

Marx attributes the invention of machinery to the development of various sectors which in turn led to the growth of many related spheres.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

American Immigrants and Identity Crisis

One of the challenges that most immigrants in America have had to grapple with over the years is identity crisis and the social cultural issues associated with it.
  • Subjects: Identity
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 536

The Waves of Immigrants that Led to the U.S. Creation

In the article "a new wave of immigrants", readers are presented with the various factors that influenced immigration of various nationalities to the U.S.and their subsequent treatment at the hands of the local populace.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

Media Ethics and Law – Free Expression

This paper discusses the aspects of freedom of speech and censorship in regard to media ethics and law. This is a critical provision in the context of media ethics and law.
  • Subjects: Human Rights
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2445

Immigrants and Human Rights

In order to solve the problem of violation of the human rights of the immigrants, some recommended policies include: The detention of immigrants should be reviewed on a regular basis, and if a person is [...]
  • Subjects: Human Rights
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

Women and Immigration Challenges

Women whose husbands have migrated to foreign countries or are citizens of other countries often migrate to those countries to join their husbands for family reunification through a process known as chain migration. Therefore, women [...]
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

Adaptation to the Host Society for Immigrants

In the case of Trans-nationalism, the immigrants do not embrace the culture of the host country, but they engage in some of its political and social affairs.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

SMS Technology and Its Effect on Literacy

The use of SMS behind the screens of the cell phones and computers become a shield against engaging in conversations and this affects one's ability to verbally communicate with others.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 488

Ethical egoism in public and private lives

In the old days, people used to have local governments that focused on a small group of people which led to a better understanding of the group's needs, unique to the conditions and general environment [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 545

The women empowerment campaign in India

This is a challenge facing mature men and women, and should be addressed to reduce the increased number of girl fetuses' abortions and discrimination of women in the work places and the society at large.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 3500

Potential threats to children on social networking sites

Statistics show that children are becoming victims of cyber bullying because they are constantly on social networking sites to socialize and on the internet to study. Criminal are targeting children and adolescents on the social [...]
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1627

Japanese Immigrants to the US

In Hawaii, the laws limited the movement of the Japanese to more skilled jobs, and in the mainland they were not allowed to own land.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 913

Women in the Field of Art

She argues that a work of art is rarely a personal expression of the art and therefore, if we quantify art as a total reflection of both purpose, production and patronage, it will be clearly [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2553

Immigration Policies and Economy

There are two theories that can be used to explain the economic reasons for immigration from one country to another. From the discussion above, it is clear that economic reasons and immigration policies are very [...]
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 546

New Media and Popular Youth Culture in China

New media have created a popular youth culture that encourages diversity and development of voices and cultural styles, hence giving the youth the ability to challenge the subversive cultural-political beliefs in the society.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2436

Buying a Laptop: Priorities and Criteria

According to characteristics of the Dell Latitude E6430 Laptop, the parameter of the laptop of the new generation is Intel Core i3-3110M Processor which can be considered as more powerful.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 795

Australia, Asia, and the World

The invasion to Iraq and military presence in Afghanistan demonstrated the relation of Australia to the rest of the world. The national identity of Australians is quite different as compared to most of the countries [...]
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 409

Ethics and Moral Reasoning

Kant then concludes that there is one thing that meets the qualifications to be labeled as truly good, and that is the good will.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2020

Views of Young Australian and Chinese Adults on Homosexuality

The study shows that the increasing rate of homosexuality among the young adults in China is attributed to foreign movies and pornographic literature. The results from the interview further reveal that the perception of the [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2464

Skype: A Huge Advancement in Communication Systems

Legal and ethical issues EBay, as the current owner of the Skype service, can face serious legal issues leading to the termination of service in future, despite the fact that the company's officials reject to [...]
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1075

Possession of Knowledge and Ethical Responsibility

In this regard, if by any chance one happens to have knowledge of an event, either happening or about to happen, which can cause destruction to the society, the person is bound to reveal the [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1090

Discussion about diffusion of innovation

The relative advantage is measured on the basis of tastes and preferences of the users while the compatibility with the existing values and practices is measured against past experiences and the values held by the [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 732

Middle Eastern Migration to the United Kingdom

K visas and work permits has also been simplified making it easy for people to migrate into the U.K. This has also contributed to the reason for migration into the U.K.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

The Encounters of Illegal Mexican Immigrants

The enormity of the problem of illegal Immigration of Mexicans into the United States Research studies have indicated plummeted numbers of people trying to cross the American-Mexican border and an increased number of immigrants who [...]
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 2943

Computer-Mediated Communication

The Cyber Factor: An Analysis of Relational Maintenance Through the Use of Computer-Mediated Communication by Houser, Fleuriet, and Estrada, IMing, Text Messaging, and Adolescent Social Networks by Bryant, Sanders-Jackson, and Smallwood, College Students' Use of [...]
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

Code of Conduct: Ethics in Information Systems

The first part of the code is the introduction section, which offers a detailed focus on the key elements of the Code to the registered agents as it is required by the Migration Agents Registration [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1645

Sex Roles among Men

If the connection and interdependence of gender and sex roles in the context of heterosexual relations are rather obvious, the connection and the impact of the notions on each other from the perspective of homosexual [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 821

Understanding of language and materiality

The paper will also identify the theorist that gives the best account of the agency of social actors. This paper sought to compare how Karl Marx, Max Weber and Judith Butler offer different ways of [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

The Code of Ethics for Engineers

In this case, Bentham's ideas about the benefits of the actions are met, and Kant's categories of the universal law and the moral duty are realized according to which a person uses his or her [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1376

Human Experiments and Radiation Exposure

Since the United States of America was one of the leading powers in the scientific developments, some of the experiments involving humans were conducted within the United States.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Torture Is Not Morally Permissible

For example, offering a gift if the thief releases the car and the child, asking the mother to plead with the thief to have mercy upon the child or opting to withdraw the charges completely.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1713

Chinese Family in Canada

The immigration of Chinese from the greater China to Canada has led to the growth of a multi-generational Chinese community in Canada.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1384

The Challenge of Human Rights and Cultural Diversity

It is however true that the existence of universal human rights is compromised by cultural relativism. In addition, it is wrong to assume that cultural relativism would interfere with the efficacy of these universal human [...]
  • Subjects: Human Rights
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Scholarly Vs. Popular Media Focus on Sexuality

Through the collection of different research studies, the authors were able to determine the role played by gender in the growth and development of adolescents.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1099

How gender bias can become a factor in research

The other factor is the kind of the research whereby the most of these psychological researches are based on stereotypes rather than the real differences between man and women.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 630

Crisis Communication in Asian Cultures

The need for crisis communications is growing rapidly due the explosion and use of social networks, which are creating so many communication channels that are threats to risk and reputation of organisations.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2164

Police Misconduct: What Can Be Done?

Police officers are the individuals charged with the task of maintaining law and order and ensuring the security of the population.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1338

Women’s Employment in Saudi Arabia

The purpose of this research is identifying whether mothers in Saudi Arabia are participating equally as their men in labor and compare this comparison with what is experienced in the US. Besides, the United States [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1627

Culturally Relative Ethical Issues

The proponents of this custom have always offered strong cultural reasons as to why they practice it, and one of the common reasons here is that, circumcision is a celebrated right of passage for the [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

Reading Analysis for Ethics Class

The authors indicate the significance of systems that avail information and critical decisions to the general public. In this methodology, the authors reiterate the significance of the recognition and definition of the public.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

Problems with International rights

All groups should be considered in the implementation of human rights and the task of policy making and implementation of human rights should be left to a neutral structure that runs without external interference.
  • Subjects: Human Rights
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1339

Fundamentals of Intercultural Communication

This education is one that derived from the cultural point of view of the society and hence the early childhood education strove to inculcate this sense in the young minds.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1726

Liberal and Socialist Feminist Theories

The development and growth of feminist movements and gender roles were accompanied with the emergence of various theoretical models that explained the roles of women and their positions in the society.
  • Subjects: Feminism
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1920

Comparison of the Inaugural Speeches

The inhabitants of other countries have colonized the citizens in most of the nations because of their resources. They have also tried to address the importance of sustaining peace in a country.
  • Subjects: Rhetoric
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 873

French Etiquette and Manners

Every person who goes into any organization in France is expected to provide their business cards to the secretary or leave it to the receptionist when you arrive in the office. The main agenda to [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1685

Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace

Social exchange theory as an example of principle of interpersonal communication, proposes that people tend to weigh relationships by putting into account the ratio of their returns to that of their expenses.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 541

Chinese Communities Culture in Canada

This saw the establishment of the Chinese Cultural Center in the 1970s which was a sign of the new desires by the community to make a mark in the Canadian society.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2702

Representation of gender in media

Stereotyping is not a new term in the media industry especially with regard to how men and women are represented. Nevertheless, representation of gender in media is a debatable issue that continues to affect the [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1629

U.S. Immigration Encouragement

The factor of urbanization has also contributed to the increasing immigration to the U.S.with many people moving to the United States of America due to the attraction of urbanization which is directly associated with industrialization [...]
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1903

Ruth Almog on Oppression and Liberty

The story of a young girl growing up in the midst of problems is a good platform for Ruth Almog's explanation and emphasis on the many ways of oppression.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1365

Communication Theories Overview

Costs are negative values that a person sees in a relationship for example the negative sides of a partner and the amount of effort and time spend in a relationship.
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  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 911

Learning to Speak about the Controversial issues

The author offers a new insight on the problem and provides a description of the legal case with the help of which the author proves her point concerning the humiliating and abusive implications of pornographic [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2180

Clinton Homosexual Discrimination Policy

In the case of Clinton, when announcing the Executive Order, he had studied the relationship and the situation at the military and opted to have an order that would be of the good to the [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

Texting in Modern Society

Some people may argue out that texting is time consuming, that is okay because they are right to some extent, but, the effectiveness of their statement is reduced when the benefits of the text are [...]
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2229

Ideology of Gender Roles

In the world of literature, ideology has played a vital role in depicting the condition of the society. In this scenario, Kingston reveals that the men out-live their roles in the society, and they are [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1134

Gender Balance in Science

Gender issues relating to a balanced representation of men and women in governance, scientific research, and other socio-economic and political spheres of the human life are common in virtually all societies.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 857

Sociological Imagination Theory

In other words, it is "the capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the intimate features of the human self, and to see the relations between the two of them".
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

Study of a Genre

Style, thus, looks at how the different themes are developed in the film, how the narrative has been structured, and the composition of the shot and the recurrence of the motifs.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2477

The Effects of Population Density and Noise

Through the years, the noise has always been in the increase due to the fact that the population of people in urban areas is in the increase.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1639

Gender Issue and the Feminist Movement

Nevertheless, the peculiarities of the relations between heterosexual parents and the division of their roles in families can influence greatly the child's perception of the gender roles in the future.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1371

Rhetorical Stance Of Articles

Jeanne Segal and Melinda Smith on the other hand are of the idea that such an approach requires the dedication of the conflicting parties to end the conflict hence lengthening the period of conflict resolution.
  • Subjects: Rhetoric
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1103

Social Network Communication

They are things that might be happening in the social networks but the way I put the matter in the form of language and tone of the posting is to ensure that I give my [...]
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1085

Definition as a Pattern of Development

The difference between the female and the male gender was made clear by their roles in the family and the society at large and the identity of gender in what they were expected to do.
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1394

Issues in Text Mining

It is common knowledge that the internet contains vast amounts of information, which may prove to be of no germane value in the absence of text mining processes and applications.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1558

Immigration in the Film ‘The Guest worker’

In later times, the H2- A temporary visa program was established in the year 1986 in order to regulate the numbers of laborers coming into the United States, which requires both the laborers and prospective [...]
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1450

Communication Issues

To convince her to take part in the interview, the researcher had to explain to her the need for the study and the benefit that would come after it.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1265

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Sex

The book was one of the first sex guidebooks that entered the mainstream population in the 1960s and had a significant influence on sex education and in opening up people's outlook towards sex and all [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1107

Analysis of Otherness’s Issue

Sherman Alexie tries to show that it is not a crime to be different. Thus, I consider a boy, Thomas, who seems to be an outcast in the Indian society to be a personification of [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 905

Environment and Identity

Therefore, environment and identity as a study is an approach that tries to explain how the environment and its components can affect the identity of an individual.
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  • Subjects: Identity
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571

Antecedents to Paula`s Cultural Shock

Due to this fact she never comes home with work and spends a lot of time with her family. This is because she is experiencing a lot of change in her life which has affected [...]
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 590