Sociology Essay Examples and Topics. Page 59

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Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address

Let us utilize this marvelous gift we have of learning, adapting, innovating, and changing for the good of all. Above all, we are but the instruments of our Creator, and should forever seek His guidance.
  • Subjects: Rhetoric
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 692

ABC Inc.: Lack of Equal Employment Opportunities of Asians

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.
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2695

Ageing Workforce Will Challenge Employers

It is therefore a point of the business organizations in the EU to put up measures that will ensure there survival as a result of this aged population.
  • Subjects: Society's Imperfections
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 942

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be analyzed within the context of the political, cultural, and religious situation, emerging in the middle of the twentieth century.
  • Subjects: Human Rights
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 864

Racial Disparity in Minnesota

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Ethical Practices in the Workplace

The employer of this manufacturing company that Julie works for as well as others in the administration should be accountable on an individual level for implementation of the programs of the affirmative action that will [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 593

Community Violence in the United States of America

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Violence
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 613

Population Grows And Environment

The changes involve all the aspects of the population such as population growth and movement into a country or from one country to another.
  • Subjects: Overpopulation
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1363

Different Tastes of Humor

Humor is a part of life, and if we try to ignore it because of too many activities, or of little things that we tend to magnify in spite of their irrelevance in our lives, [...]
  • Subjects: Everyday Interactions
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1438

Family Centered Services Definition

This falls in with the overall goal of any family centered service of improving the family unit for the well-being of the children.
  • Subjects: Human Rights
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Double Binds in Human Communication

A double bind can be said to be a communication dilemma received by a person or a group of persons, whereby the message conceived seems to have more than one message which is conflicting and [...]
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

The Pitfalls of Online Dating

These include the very real potential for deceit, interpersonal elements of physical attraction are absent in the online world and the time involved in interfacing with the computer reduces the ability of the individual to [...]
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 600

Poverty and Inequality in Modern World

According to Sachs, the main causes of poverty are different economic development of the nations, legal and social problems, and the inability of small governments to fight diseases and improve medical services.
  • Subjects: Poverty
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1423

Explaining Social Media and Its Influences

The influence of social media has grown exponentially over the past couple of decades, becoming an integral part of every person’s life.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 316

Fannon: Favela Violence in Rio de Janeiro

An excellent way of viewing the Favela situation is the movie the City of God, which was a fictionalized version of the events in the Favelas.
  • Subjects: Violence
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 4511

Sexual Abuse in Children: Application Project

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Violence
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Dagoberto Gilb’s and Marge Piercy’s Concept of Work

Both, Gilb's short essay and Piercy's poem gratify the values of "physical related work" and that it is not the kind of job you have that determines whether you have more value as a human [...]
  • Subjects: Overcoming Difficulties
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1070

Misconceptions About the Evolutionary Theory

For e.g.the misconception of the complex organs, the misconception of people coming from apes/monkeys etc, the misconception of the fact that evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics, misconception of survival of the fittest.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1358

Sichuan Earthquake and Recovering as Community Problem

We plan to give these pamphlets to businessmen in China and we have also uploaded these pamphlets on the internet for all the people around the world to see and to support this great cause.
  • Subjects: Overcoming Difficulties
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 315

Ideology and Social Movements in Mao’s China

Ideology is defined by Johnston as: An ideology is a more or less consistent set of beliefs about the nature of the society in which individuals live, and about the proper role of the state [...]
  • Subjects: Social Movements
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1931

Sociology. Narcotic Drugs and Tests

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.
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 978

Smoking Causes and Plausible Arguments

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 806

Effect of Religious Denomination on Voting Preference

The basic hypothesis states that the influence of religion affects the outcome of a voting system and the fundamental variable in this case is religion more than any other factor.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1813

Reevaluating the Antebellum Slave Community by Kolchin

Apart from the lifestyles of the slave owners and how the different categories of the lords used to manage their properties, the lifestyles of the slaves, the economic activities they were involved in, the cultural [...]
  • Subjects: Slavery
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 653

“Proto-Peasant Revolts?” by Craton

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.
  • Subjects: Slavery
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 430

Thinking About Social Change in America by Putnam

The private and public aspects of social capital are also mentioned with the author explaining that the benefits of social capital are varied and can come in different forms for instance there are certain external [...]
  • Subjects: Social Movements
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118

Poverty and Its Effects on Females

Despite the fact that the dawn of the 19th century and the appearance of feminism movement brought considerable progress into the struggle for the equality of rights for men and women, the traditional public attitude [...]
  • Subjects: Poverty
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1976

Poverty and Its Effects on Women

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.
  • Subjects: Poverty
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1862

Racial Differences. Does Race Really Exist?

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: [...]
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2283

Sex Differences in Gender Face Recognition

All the participants were explained that they will be shown eighteen pictures and they have to mark the picture on a scale of 1 to 9 - '1' being female and '9' being male. This [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1306

Population Movements in 1850-1970

This paper will therefore trace the population movements in the world and some of the factors that contributed to the evolution of the world's population.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 931

Religious Violence. Terror in the Mind of God by Juergensmeyer

Thus, plans of Stalin, the Russian government-encouraged death squads in El Salvador, the racial extermination of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, ethnic purifying in Kosovo and Bosnia, the government supported stimulated violence of Hutus and [...]
  • Subjects: Violence
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2094

Generation G: Globalization and Gaming

The letter G stands for Globalization and the and the same time it also stands for Gaming for it is the propensity of those born in this particular generation not only to play advanced computer [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1482

Slaves-Masters Relationship in the United States

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Slavery
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1390

Moral Clients & Agents and Their Evaluation

The necessary condition for being a proper client therefore, is being a creature or an individual conscious mind since to have true interest in his case is to be capable of having states of awareness [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1931

Is Animal Research Necessary to Save Lives?

Animal Research, also known as Animal Testing or Vivisection, refers to actions involving the dissection of bodies of living animals with the aim of examining their internal organs and tissues in order to carry out [...]
  • Subjects: Animal Rights
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 2101

Corporatism: Sport Sector Opportunities and Benefits

To go forward to a new era with new structures and increasing public finance, or stand off and continue to walk the same road of those who gave sport to the world, reflected in the [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2953

City Violence, Crimes and Disruption

The difference between the levels of crime in urban centers and rural areas is the easier access to firearms in urban areas than the rural, more drug dealing in towns, and a kind of enlightenment [...]
  • Subjects: Violence
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 596

Heroin Legalization in Switzerland

Thesis In Switzerland, the legalization of heroin should be prohibited because this drug will have a negative impact on the health of people and can lead to further popularization of the drug in society.
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 575

Substance Abuse. Drinking by Caroline Knapp

She starts consuming alcohol in her early teens and became a regular drinker by the age of sixteen. During the misery stage, her thoughts and imaginations were immersed in a bottle of alcohol.
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1961

Substance Abuse: Mandated Treatment Setting

Once they are admitted into the treatment programs, the doctors need to deal with not only the requirements stated for the patients but have to broaden their area of services and meet the difficult needs [...]
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1173

Race Issues in Movie Crash

At the beginning of the film when he pulls the Thayers over, you sense automatically that he knows the Thayers are not driving the van hijacked from the Cabots by Anthony and Peter.
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1739

“The Future of Women and Work” Article Critique

The article The Future of Women and Work: Ending the Twentieth Century written by Joan Acker presents the effect of a global, capitalist restructuring of the corporate economy on the lives of American women.
  • Subjects: Feminism
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Sex and Drugs in Southeast Asia

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.
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1181

Dubai Antismoking Campaigns: Effectiveness Evaluation

Of particular concern is to evaluate the effectiveness of the smoking bans in public places, workplaces, health clubs, hair salons, internet cafes, educational establishments, food courts, and the strategies being employed to minors under the [...]
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3956

The Need for Developing Writing Skills

On the other hand, if a person with poor writing skills writes a message, the person who receives the message will find it difficult to comprehend the meaning, or misinterpret it, or may lose interest [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 928

Sociological Issues in Ethnicity

My respondent had internalized the cultural heritages of the minority black-American neighborhood he was staying in, and to a larger extent the black-American community in the US.
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3054

U.S. in the Fight Against a Modern Form of Slavery

Since the United States of America is the most powerful nation in the world it must spearhead the drive to eradicate this new form of slavery within the U.S.and even outside its borders.
  • Subjects: Slavery
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2387

Self-Renewal & Globalization

This is normally a developmental process in the life of that particular individual in the sense that he/she is out to look for what is good for himself or herself.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2034

Domestic Violence in the Organizations

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Violence
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2624

Abortion in Islamic View

If a woman finds that she is pregnant, and does not want to be, what is the best way out for her, the potential baby that she is carrying, and all the other people concerned [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 3394

Modern Society and Time Structure

The other set of physical processes from which we derive our conceptions of time are of an entirely different nature: the growth of children, the changes in our own bodies and minds from hour to [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3172

60’s Generation vs. Modern Generation

This is why "Berkeley in the Sixties" portrays the majority of students as such that are willing to take a risk of being expelled from university, as the ultimate price for making themselves heard.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1091

Social Welfare Programs That Increase National Debt

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.
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1842

Harriet Jacobs’ Autobiography Impact

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.
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1030

America: The Hands That Helped To Build Her

These reasons are varied and as we expounded before many people can migrate as a result of their own will or due to the reason that they have been forced to migrate.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 5200

Social Services for the Individual

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.
  • Subjects: Poverty
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1784

Feminist Ideas in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

One of these issues and the subject of this paper is the theme of feminism in Shelley's novel. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners".- Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the [...]
  • Subjects: Feminism
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1276

“Bamboozled” by Spike Lee

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.
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1304

Social Relations: Term Definition

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1424

Class-Stratification in the United States

According to Beeghley's estimates, 5 percent of U.S.population can be categorized as "top class", but his criterion is income above $ 500, 000 and university degree and 67% fit all working-class characteristics including income $ [...]
  • Subjects: Socialization
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 708

Urban Regeneration Program Review

To begin with, it is necessary to mention, that the urban regeneration is the program, aimed to rebuild the urban areas in order to increase the density of living.
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1027

Ranking the Health Hazards of Drugs

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 698

Censorship: For the People, or for Controlling

The main aim for this art in our societies is to restrain and conceal beneath the disguise of defending the key fundamental public amenities that are; the State, families and churches.
  • Subjects: Communications
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3048

Poverty as a General Problem

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Poverty
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1180

The Ethical Concern Over Meat Consumption

The question, then, is whether our enjoyment of the way meat tastes is a good enough reason to justify the amount of suffering that the animals are made to undergo.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3433

Class, Race, and Gender Relations Review

The prevalence of poor and underprivileged people, people of immigrants, and gender along with increasing concern about class and race, situate the overall work of the field in an interlocking system of oppression and power.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2109

Slavery in the United States

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.
  • Subjects: Slavery
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1527

Methods of Prevention of Teen Pregnancies

In this research paper we will try to look at the major causes of teenager pregnancies, the impacts that the teen pregnancy has on the young mothers as well as their families and finally how [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 2262

Is Cheating Okay or Not: Discussion

The one involved in cheating is seen to do so at the expense of others and with the aim of getting more where one has invested less.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 664

Men and Women of the Corporation

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Inequality
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 957

Skewed Sex Ratios and Response to Token Women

Women's earning continue to be significantly low in almost all the professions as compared to that of their male counterparts thus this leaves the earning gap between men and women as still a major topic [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Inequality
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 890

Images of Beauty: Male and Female

But the reality is that without the help of dozens of beauty and fashion team members, not to mention computer image manipulation, those men and women whom so many of today's youth idolize, will never [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571

Name of My Generation: Mono-Generation

The derivation of this conclusion was deciphered with the help of socio-political instrumentation and economic influences that directly effect/affect the rise and fall of culture. This is the psyche of the present generation.
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 893

S. Hay’s and Feagin’s Works on Social Issues

The work of the Sharon Hay's "Flat Broke with Children" was assembled in a milieu characterised by the decline of the widely hailed welfare reform policies which had seen the diminishing of welfare rolls from [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1595

U.S. Prison Gangs: A Threat to Internal Security

Today, however, the nature and range of activities of prison gangs have extended beyond the normal 'law and order' offenses and are a direct threat to the internal security of the United States.
  • Subjects: Society's Imperfections
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2060

Smoking Cessation for Ages 15-30

The Encyclopedia of Surgery defines the term "Smoking Cessation" as an effort to "quit smoking" or "withdrawal from smoking". I aim to discuss the importance of the issue by highlighting the most recent statistics as [...]
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2564

Closing the Gap: Non- and Aboriginal Australians

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.
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3133

Hegarty and Taft on Inquiry of Partner Abuse

The extent to which four factors-selection effects, setting effects, history effects, and construct effects - are present reflects the increased validity of the study.
  • Subjects: Violence
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1290

Social Inequality in the United States

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.
  • Subjects: Poverty
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Feminization of Poverty – A Grave Social Concern

Moghadam, in his research on The Feminization of Poverty and Women's Human Rights has observed that the three contributing factors which constrain the development of women are 'the growth of female headed households, intra household [...]
  • Subjects: Poverty
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 845

Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America

Most of the legislation that occurred after World War II was meant to harmonize the number of immigrants from each country.
  • Subjects: Immigration
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3581

Ethics: Definition of Term and Analysis

Ethics acknowledges people's interests, their freedom, rights to life and it also protects the law in that people should not violate it.
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1016

Juvenile Drinking as a Social Problem

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2098

Living in Chicago and Miami

Both cities are nice in spring and fall, but Miami is really hot in summer and Chicago is really cold in winter.
  • Subjects: Socialization
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Women in the Corporate World. Glass Ceiling Effect

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.
  • Subjects: Gender Inequality
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1544

The Concept of Beauty Myth Review

Though romanticism and other currents in art so beautiful in every possible thing and theology claimed that everything on Earth is beautiful things it was created by God, the notion of beauty was devalued during [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Theories
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

Modern Racism in American Society

What actually is experienced today is not racial segregation as it used to be known in the past but it is a case of blacks and whites trying to justify their worth.
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 965

Social Ethics. Letter from Martin Luther King Jr.

The Letter that Martin Luther King wrote to eight ministers in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 was in response to their published appeal to their congregations to stop demonstrating against the unjust segregation laws that had [...]
  • Subjects: Ethics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

Sociology of Film “Imitation of Life”

In the movie "Imitations of Life", Annie is shown to have taken up a job of being a nanny for Lora's daughter, Suzie. Annie, having had a daughter of her own, had agreed to take [...]
  • Subjects: Racism
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

Sociology of Film “Ugetsu” by Kenji Mizoguchi

In the climax scene, Genjuro escapes from the mansion of Lady Wakasa and returns home where to his relief and comfort, he sees his son asleep and Miyagi waiting for him.
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 342

Sociology of Film “Apocalypse Now”

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.
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 300

Sociology of Film “Planet of the Apes”

If we were to treat animals as equal, it would contradict the laws of nature, for which we would eventually be required to pay heavy price, as it is actually being shown in the movie.
  • Subjects: Animal Rights
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 318

Is the Sport of Calf Roping Humane?

Ideally, such moments are devoid of any sense of conscious control on the extent of the thrill but rather the effects of that split moment of action are definitive of the beauty of sport.
  • Subjects: Animal Rights
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1303

“Too Much Media” by Pat Aufderheide

The article "Too Much Media", written by Pat Aufderheide has surely caused deep resonance among the population of the United States because it focuses on the issues that have always been of profound interest to [...]
  • Subjects: Sociological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

“Manliness” and “Womanhood” in American History

We live in time when promoters of political correctness go as far as suggesting that the millennia of humankind's history, before the emergence of neo-Liberalism in sixties, must be discussed within a context of process [...]
  • Subjects: Gender Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1738