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The family structure can be accurately described as a social unit designed primarily to nurture the needs of children. When the mother, whose historic role in society is the nurturer within the family unit, enters the workforce, the dynamics within that structure change, some would argue for the worse though others would disagree.
Bauman first began studying sociology, only switching to philosophy when the Soviets determined sociology to be among the ‘bourgeois’ disciplines. His early interest in the organization of societies and the various elements that contributed to changes occurring since the last major war has been reflected even in his earliest writings.
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Some of the local radio and TV stations run by and for minorities are frequently under the spell of vandalism and sabotage. It is to the credit of these minorities that they have persisted and succeeded in voicing their point of view. More reformist and tolerant policies need to be framed by the powers that be.
One cannot justify the usage of ‘writing race’ by Alexander in theory as well as in political context. Academic writers like Alexander are lacking in comprehending the meaning of the vocabulary of race properly in a political context. Alexander has treated the concept of ‘ethnicity…not a mobilizing force’.
With the establishment of William Caxton’s printing press in 1470s, the dissemination of knowledge and entertainment through books became a reality and the number of people who benefited from books increased considerably.
The prevalent social structure is such that the parents try to provide their children with better education and standard of living than they themselves had. Given the current situation of economic and political turmoil, the families are unsure of their being able to provide such facilities to their children.
The drug scene dwindled in the early years of the 1990s for a variety of reasons. To begin with, the youth who were attracted to the business were lured by the promise of large amounts of money with little to no training (Levitt and Venkatesh, 2000). However, as the risks grew, so the appeal diminished.
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Everyone who is free and resourced, must contribute in tangible and sustained ways to allow the war-ravaged girls and boys in Afghanistan achieve literacy and to acquire skills, which will enable them to rise above the morass of their parents, elders, and motley oppressors, and join our own descendants in an egalitarian future.
Children also need love and care of both father and mother, which a marriage gives. In a recent review, Professor Linda Waite, the University of Chicago professor of sociology and a past president of the American Population Association, observed:"In a variety of ways and along a number of dimensions, married men and women lead healthier lives than the unmarried.
Man needs to travel from one place to another in order to buy, sell, eat, drink, study and other reasons. Transportation has advanced from the early creation days when people had to walk to their destination. Currently, people can ride the ships, fly the plane, drive a car or just simply walk to their intended destination.
After a count of three, the players make either a fist for a stone, a flat hand for paper, or a ’V’ with two fingers to represent scissors. There is then a matrix for deciding who wins that round.
Research regarding the behavioral outcomes of television advertising found that it is a significant factor in determining the specific items children request. From the time of television’s inception, no one has doubted that this medium would generate its operating revenues from advertising.
We know with a fair degree of certainty that certain countries have much higher living standards as a whole than other countries in the same region or in different locations. At the same time, looking at some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, it is easy to see that there is a visible difference between rich and poor countries.
The author states that some economists find this unsurprising because of their firm conviction in the fact that not only is it practically impossible to eradicate poverty but there exists no single effective poverty eradication strategy as would eliminate this problem across the Third World.
The author states that Piaget's staged theory of cognitive development is considered even today to provide the basic framework for understanding the cognitive development in humans, however, the theory has been subject to criticism for its over-emphasis on the cognitive structures or the development stages of the individual.
The author states that certain religion-based features also create race discrimination besides color based differences. Catholics are known to be active, intelligent, and less reactionary than colonizers in Northern Ireland; as Africans can not change their skin color, similarly, natives can not change their inherent race features.
The author states that at the international level liberals, who are being at the authority the developed countries, are criticized. They accused in keeping the states and the international organizations closed for people from other regions, and that to the countries of the third world is difficult to make the way on the western markets.
The author states that on the 1st of January, 1973 the United Kingdom became a Member State of the EEC. Edward Heath was the Prime Minister of the UK when this transpired and he always regarded the obtention of membership to the EEC as his most important political achievement. The UK has to conform to the various pieces of legislation.
One of these limitations concerns those who wish to obtain a driver’s license. The Latino community is hit hard with this law, as many are immigrating to the United States each year, looking for the freedom and opportunity that the United States citizens are blessed with.
With the increase in the population of the world at large, the tribes and communities grew widely and developed into society. The crime rate also got its place along with the growth of civilization with an upward trend and increase. It is an environment that contains a lion’s share in the development of man’s personality and behavior.
The author suggests that third party intervention should use a mix of economic and military elements on behalf of the government with policies weighted in favor of the government and that a large nation has a greater chance of success in such third-party interventions, because of the military and economic might that can be brought into play.
The author states that the enduring fascination exists largely due to the well-publicized unsinkable nature of the vessel. If not for these arrogant claims made by White Star Lines, the owner of the Titanic, this event likely would have faded into obscurity as did many other ships that met their doom such as its sister ship.
The author states that the relationship of technology with society has been debated for a long time. Noted philosophers, social scientists, and others have commented on this. During this discourse, several theories have been presented and debated. For example, Jacques Ellul, a pioneering theorist on technological determinism.
The necessity to use ‘coercion’ where consent is not gained leads to resentment from the part of the rules class towards the ruling class or the dominant sects that decide upon the areas where coercion are needed. Michel Foucault’s views related to power relations arise from this situation that exists between the ruling class and subjects.
The author states that both were accused of wrongdoings of some sort which they were innocent of, was imprisoned, and victimized based on an unsound claim. Throughout both books, both authors depicted how their respective governments operated on a fraudulent system that in subsequent effect provided a venue for the abuse of power.
The aspects of femininity and masculinity are something that is easily bracketed under the social constructs heading and this has been causing for quite a number of decades now, if not centuries. The related linkages are predominantly the root cause for these social constructs to arise in the first place.
The author states that El Nino is caused when the winds that push the water get weaker. Due to the weaker winds, the warm water that has been accumulated in the west comes back towards the east. At the same time, sufficient cold water is not pulled up from the bottom. These two factors contribute to the warming up of the water and the growth of El Nino.
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Research tells us that people value their personal space and tend to protect it and try and keep it from being penetrated. Many factors determine whether people perceive the invasion of their personal space, for example, the person standing next to them (a friend or a stranger) and how close does the stand next to them.
The view that crime is a matter of rational choice is held by a number of criminologists who believe that the decision to violate any law is made for a variety of personal reasons. Regardless of the motive, criminal actions occur only after the individuals carefully weigh the potential benefits and consequences of crime.
The author states that the principles of corporate governance applied within the particular countries globally are differentiated in accordance with the cultural and social characteristics of each specific region as well as the culture and the ethics of the specific organization. Regarding this issue, it has been noticed by Wooldridge.
The members of the Heaven’s Gate left voluminous manuscripts illustrating the life of the movement ranging from its onset, through the development and finally extermination. This extensive volume of activities demonstrating the philosophy and discipline of the group is combined to offer an amazing research archive for future consideration.
The author states that the historian sincerely dedicated to his craft must stick to the truth, come hell or high water, as they say. As Fergus M. Bordewich says, “Faked history serves no one, especially when it buries important truths that have been buried far too long.” Take the case of the movement of American history.
By paying high taxes of as much as 55%, the Swedish government is able to control the unequal distribution of wealth among its people. The collected taxes are spent on promoting the general welfare of the Swedish citizens. Since almost everyone in the country is given the chance to acquire education, the literacy rate of its citizens is almost a hundred percent.
The author states that the fact that the Catholic Church has a history of anti-Semitism and it is a prevalent belief in Christendom that the Jews, as the murderers of Christ, deserve all possible sufferings is the reason that Hitler's massacre of the Jews was met with silent acceptance from the vast majority of his subjects.
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Prior to the emergence of the environmental school, criminologists had focused on overly-simplified biological and physiological explanations, locating crime within the individual. For example, positivist theorists like Lombroso argued that pathology was located in the individual, and could be predicted by studying ‘body type’.
The author states that the art of socializing is primarily gained through the immediate family, from whom the child learns community norms. Other important facts that influence the child are a school, peer groups, mass media, and church-going. The crucial decade for any human being is between 1-10 years.
The author states that California feminists that struggled for abortion rights; the revolutionizing methods of the feminist health movement; Betty Friedan’s galvanizing influence on California feminists and the formation of NOW; and the myriad of feminist groups that were active around Los Angeles and San Diego.
The author states that when Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing the driver’s request to give up her seat to a white man, this act of civil disobedience became the spark that ignited the masses during the 1950s and 1960s in protesting the racial inequalities. A group of area ministers formed the Montgomery Improvement Association.
Many factors may influence the general attitude to fashion, especially among young people who are most receptive to fashion trends. The hippie movement of the sixties, for example, represented a radical change in attitudes to fashion among young people, which was a sign of rebellion against the establishment.
The author states that the first inventor of the steam machine is English engineer Thomas Newcomen. The machine of Newcomen appeared extremely successful and was used across Europe for more than 50 years. It was used to pump the water from numerous shafts in Great Britain. It was the first business lot product in a history of technical equipment.
The homeless population includes men, women, elderly, children and infants and they mostly belong to the ethnic group. Amongst industrialized nations, the United States has the largest number of homeless women and children. It is worth mentioning, that homelessness in the US is counted on a nightly basis.
The author states that in order to be able to understand the issue of the emotionally abused population, there are several different matters which are going to need to be thoroughly addressed and discussed, and this includes the actual description of the emotionally abused population, the significance of the problem.
The social worker has also to understand that there are various legal regulations governing the duties of the social workers as well as the agencies connected therewith. A social worker is always confronted with situations in which he/she has to take the role of the protector of the children’s welfare irrespective of the difficulties he/she has to face.
The author states that in the world today, countries, corporations and societal communities are heavily reliant on the different systems of the economy they utilize. Essentially, an economic system is a socially-based mechanism that primarily manages the way goods and services are produced, distributed and eventually consumed by society.
The author states that the European Court of Justice has been forced to play an active role in setting out the rights of individuals belonging to particular member States whose rights under Community laws may have been infringed. The aims and objectives of the EU Treaty have been to bring justice to every European citizen.
In the paper “Security Sector Reform” the author briefly explains the concept of 'security sector reform' and 'weak states'. In the general sense, security is a concept similar to safety. The nuance between the two is an added emphasis on being protected from dangers that originate from outside.
As a hunter-gatherer, man used tools to enable him to capture his animal-prey or harvest plants. While hunting, the Stone Age man used primitive stones and wood as clubs and spears. Eventually, he learned to fashion a bow and arrow in order to increase the hunting distance between captor and prey. These tools also became his weapons of survival to ward of animal predators.
The Commission for Rural Communities notes that the quality of life in rural areas is much higher than that of the urban areas. The rural dwellers have better health; rural areas have lower crime rates; the village people have a more active community life. The UK has one of the largest percentages of rural areas - about 4/5 of the total area.
It would seem that throughout Mary's life, although she transcends from one level of Maslow's hierarchy to another, she never fully satisfies all needs at each level. We should also note that self-actualization, in her case was unlikely, as she remained in isolation and despair for the rest of her life. Thus Maslow’s concept of self-actualization requires a pedagogical as well as contextual re-examination.
It is difficult to say that ‘poor only have to blame themselves’ in Australia for the rather stubborn poverty plaguing the country in spite of many policies and measures. Poverty in Australia is a fact though official measurement of the extent of it does not exist in spite of many types of research, surveys and studies.