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The social structure of network society is based on information and communication technologies. The ICT produces processes and spreads information according to the knowledge that is accumulated in the nodes which are along with the networks. Nodes are points of connection along the communication lines that make up the networks.
The British society has been functioning over many centuries and its history can be traced back from the prehistoric era, through the Roman era, the early medieval period, the late medieval period, the Tudor society, the Stuart society, the Georgian Era, the Victorian Era, into the industrial era and the twenty-first century.
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The realization that the British Empire had failed to support Australia was an important turning point in Australia's relationship with Britain. The USA did come to Australia's aid in 1942 but the motive was very much in America's self-interest. Given the danger of Japanese advances from the North and the failure of Britain's support.
Torture has been justified by some scholars on the ground that the victim is, in any case, an aggressor and it is better to kill or torture one to save thousands. According to the “ticking bomb hypothesis”, even liberals have justified the use of torture to get information out of suspected terrorists or to threaten other potential terrorists.
In the 21st century, Islam, among all religions, is facing the greatest amount of challenge. While political Islam has been denigrated as inherently violent, even the modernist Muslims are challenged to reform and align with more secular religions for the existence of the religion. The center of Islam is in the Arab world.
The United Kingdom prison management which the main objective is to correct the in-mate, unlike the US whose key role is to punish the principals found on the wrong side of the law. The United States has succeeded in reducing cases of habitual offenders, serial killers, incarceration, and penology by the rate of 12%.
Diversity is an evident factor in all societal settings since it is apparent in the dimensions of gender, race, age, socio-economic status, political ideologies, social ideologies, and physical abilities among many other factors. The concept of diversity calls for respect, acceptance, tolerance and brings about a positive and nurturing environment.
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Australia, which has evolved similarly to the United States as a multicultural society, also is beset with the same issue. This is quite ironic in a world now blessed with almost all the means and tools to learn and understand the culture and ethnic identity of citizens from neighboring to the farthest nations in the world.
The concept of capital punishment goes against the grain of the justice system as it aims at retribution, not reform. The idea that we must be punished for any act of wrongdoing, whatever its nature relies upon a belief in human free will and a person's ability to be responsible for their own actions.
From the 17th century onwards, the state has endeavored to control society through various social institutions like the clinic, prison, school rather than through disciplinary power and so on so that there is bio-power over the human lifecycle comprising of birth, and sexual relations. Therefore, control over the body and gender has become crucial aspects of social power in modern societies.
Research studies will in most cases include descriptive and explanatory research whereby they will highlight what exists in the society and also why this exists. The following are some factors that need to be taken into consideration when undertaking quantitative research.
National security has always been a top priority issue for America. By the above-given analysis, it can be concluded that every time a new president came into office or when it faced war a new strategy was designed. Rouge states have always been a threat to them, thus they have to design foolproof strategies.
People have a nature that is dual meaning that the mental procedure has personal characteristics together with the outcomes of joint representations. The majority of the representations in a person’s mind have been jointly developed. Collective demonstrations take place from dealings of incalculable mind considered as an entirety as an entire from whose activities these representations come out.
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The paper "Weight Loss With Self-help Compared with a Structured Commercial Program " is an excellent example of a research proposal on sociology. It is important to understand the efficiency of these programs with respect to each other. In this light, it can be said that not many studies have been done in this field which judges the effectiveness of these methods.
Migration of the human resource from one area to another is experienced in almost all the countries in the world. Migration is defined as the temporary or the permanent movement of humans regionally or locally and can be from urban to rural or vice versa. Migration is believed can be either voluntary or involuntary.
Drug-related crimes shall reduce within the prison limits and less dependency on drugs shall bring about more cooperation and a congenial atmosphere within the prison environment. Current inmates are future entrants into society, and when they are equipped with the means of overcoming drug dependency, crime in society reduce too.
The main argument of the following paper is that all the four theories explaining crime look at crime as deviance as a process and not as a situation. Therefore the solution of the situation at immediate sociological grounds is a missing link in the theoretical framework of crime in present-day sociology.
Mr. Shah has been recently separated from his wife and in the course of these students doing the punishment, the estranged wife comes back to Mr. Shah’s house while Mr. Shah is present and a bitter argument leading to a fight that the students witness ensues. The bitter wife ends up hurling insults at the students before leaving.
Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle were the first who developed the theory of knowledge. Plato is considered a pioneer of philosophical knowledge theory. Knowledge is simply a consciousness of complete universal Ideas, existing free of any matter trying to catch them. He was the one who gave the concept of true and false knowledge.
The case study in question involves the experience of a nuclear family migrated to Australia: Kadhem, his wife Amira, and their three children. Being the only breadwinner, Kadhem has the good qualification, high salary and social status in hometown. Having no knowledge of problems in Australia, the family migrates and he remains unemployed.
The present-day societal challenges make it imperative to implement civic participation and also focus on factors that enhance or limit such participation. This concept aids the understanding of the evolution of citizenship owing to the enlargement and dissolution of geographical boundaries and globalization and glocalization at large.
Most of the infections in heterosexual partners are a result of needle and syringe sharing during intravenous drug application. The ‘harm reduction’ strategy has been suggested and even tried in a number of cities in Britain. In this case, intravenous drug users are encouraged to take back used needles and syringes in exchange for new ones.
This just proves the importance of acquiring sociological knowledge in understanding contemporary health issues. The more health care professionals understand the underlying factors that result in medical issues, the more likely it is that the issues can be addressed on a social level. These medical issues can be resolved on a larger scale.
The world city would have defined centers of insurance and banking sectors and would be having centers of advanced professional activity of all kinds. These world cities would be having centers of information gathering and diffusion and these places would be rated as places of conspicuous consumption.
Rapid technical change, especially in the field of information and communication technology, has facilitated the process of globalization by creating a favorable atmosphere. The noticeable and quick increase in economic and political power has considerably changed the character and the course of the development in different countries.
That America has the highest number of nuclear weapons compared to all the other countries makes us more guilty than the other countries who possess the weapons this, therefore, denies us any form of right to disarm these countries of the weapons regardless of whether we are using the weapons or not.
The Act aims at making sure that all children get access to basic education and that at each level, he should be able to productively serve the nation. Programs should be developed in such a way that they meet the specific needs of each individual student. It has also made educational opportunities at the university available to all equally.
The paper "Substance Abuse by Youth Relationship between Family Functioning and Self-Esteem " is a worthy example of a report on sociology. Adolescents and youth of the present generation have started to indulge in luxuries of abusive and risk-prone substances such as alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, and drugs.
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To get the appreciation and the love of the loved one in these social relations some of the material needs need to be fulfilled. In the case of a husband, it might not only include a good looking and great tasting cuisine but also some gifts that might help to reinvent the relationship as the ties, lighters, or any book.
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History has shown that resistance towards power is also a normal reaction. Theoretical and historical evidence has shown that power and resistance go hand in hand. Karl Marx studied the capitalist mode of production in which workers are excluded from the appropriation of surplus value and are forced to sell their labor rather than keep control over their ability and fate.
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The relationships to be evaluated in the following paper include the primary relationship between parent and child and the ways in which autism may affect this most critical relationship. In addition, the study will address the effects of autism on relationships between the autistic child and his/her siblings.
Other scholars however argue that globalization has helped decrease the gap between learned and unlearned people. It has also helped many people to get jobs that they would otherwise not have. Whichever side of the argument one may take, it is imperative to maximize the benefits of globalization in society and work on decreasing its limitations as far as social division is concerned.
The standard definition of obesity is in terms of the Body Mass Index (BMI), which is body weight in kilograms divided by the squared height in meters. A person is considered overweight when the BMI is greater than 25 and obese when BMI is greater than 35. According to surveys from 1999 to 2002, 31 percent of American adults were obese.
If the USA had been perceived around the world as being concerned with the needs of the world as a whole, no country would have begrudged America its leadership position. America would have continued to enjoy the backing of most of the world if it had sought to act always in a manner that reflected thoughtfulness, balance, and fairness.
One feature that predominantly differentiates the African immigration into America from East Asia or any other immigration into America is the system of forced slavery of ‘blacks’. African immigration into America “starts in the 1500s with the first Africans coming from Mexico and the Caribbean to the Spanish territories”.
Prisoners are denied the right to vote in many states in the United States of America, and even in the states where they are still allowed to vote the system has been designed so that it does not count their vote, does not register them as a voter, or does not provide them with a ballot to cast their vote.
Authorities responsible for the prisoners must have accountability and they should be able to report to the public from time to time about the condition of the prisons and the prisoners. The management of prisons must be within the ethical framework. Without ethics, there might be an abuse of power because of the perception of one group being superior to the other.
Managerialism can be described as a set of beliefs and practices, at the core of which Is the assumption that better management is an effective solvent for a wide range of economic and social ills. Prison management may be considered as one of the most challenging tasks as it involves managing different types of people with at least, some undesirable happenings in their past.
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In a specially created prison environment at Stanford University, researchers simulated the atmosphere of prison with volunteers who played the role of prisoners and prison guards. The goal of the experiment was to study the “psychological effects … of becoming a prisoner or prison guard”.
The show can be considered as a complete revolutionary challenge against the stereotypes of gender that exist in society, however, these women disagree with this achievement by acting obediently and basing their lives around the opposite sex. Its message challenges and validates a lot of cultural assumptions regarding women and the way they act towards sex along with independence.
Ritualism on the other hand involves abandoning or discarding goals and expecting the standard of life afforded as per the unique character. Retreatism as another aspect upholds views that involve giving up goals by adapting a non-achieving lifestyle and deviate to other areas of change incorporating alcoholism or illegal drug use or dropping out and isolating oneself from the mainstream society.
While illicit drugs are well-known for their addictive nature, it has not helped mitigate the trafficking of illicit drugs. On the contrary, recent times have only seen an increase in illicit drug trafficking, especially in countries like the USA and Ireland. The bane of narcotic drugs is that they have strong links to crime and violence.
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The investigation is a kind of comparison between the applications of both the methods for the appropriate derivation of the context in reference to the purpose. As a matter of fact, the construction industry has often been criticized for its alleged poor performance and to achieve a kind of development in this field.
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A family is considered to be living in poverty if their income is less than half the national average income wage. This is called the poverty line. A Department of Social Security (DSS) report published by the government in 1994 revealed that 14 million people in the UK were living below the poverty line; 4 million of them were children. This is three times the number recorded in 1979.
The mechanisms that can be analysed from this include a series of behaviour patterns and responses to these that take place in a specific area. However, the mechanisms continue not only as a definition of what occurs but also with an analysis of why individuals and social behaviour responded in a particular away.
The CABE along with the government are working together to create a master plan that develops strategic direction for a good public space existing in the neigbourhood. This plan gives priority to the pedestrian that gives security to the community and allows them to enjoy public spaces without fear of being dragged into any anti-social behavior.
Information in leaflets, reports, letters, application forms, signs, and so on need to be provided in a variety of languages so that those who speak a different language can understand the information. It might be necessary to use pictures and signs if an interpreter is not available. For a client to provide information, it might be necessary for an interpreter to be available.
Although beauty has been an important aspect of the everyday lives of women, it was neglected in western philosophical discourse. It was thought that individualism originated from the mind, which was considered distinct from the body. In postmodern times, there is a significant increase in the study of the sociology of the body.
These methods efficiently fill the gap between the collection of numerical data and theory, which can eventually prove the accuracy of the past conducted researches on an event or problem occurring in the society and primarily help in concluding proving the right or the wrong status along with the ways that were never there before.
The areas that have benefitted the most, due to globalization are employment, economic development, political organizations, and social welfare. Globalization has increased international competition, which has exposed the hitherto fore insular domestic trade policies, of many a nation, to new challenges.