Essays and Research Papers on Issues In Sociology/Mixed

5 pages in length. Because socialization sets the groundwork for appropriate social behavior, it is critical for a person's overall development. Without such, people would not be able to function in or participate with the rest of society. By passing down these socializing attributes from generation to generation, it ensures the continuation of ...

This 5 page paper looks at the positive and negative influences of entertainers. Why are icons, particularly musicians, so popular with the younger set? Research on role models is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

The Impact of a Family’s Need to Make More Money: This 5-page essay examines the impacting issues relevant to the familial needs to make more money. By way of two acclaimed literary works, Arthur Miller’s “Death of A Salesman”, and Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” a myriad of examples are given that expound ...

Why Can’t We Be Friends?: This 5-page essay discusses the concept of cultural diversity, relevant to such subset issues as gender and ethnicity in relation to populating the new America. Now, fundamental to our social, professional and intellectual experiences can cultural be diversity avoided? Bibliography lists 4 sources. SNWhycnt.doc

This 5 page paper provides an overview on cloning, focusing on the negative ramifications, biologically, socially, and politically. Positive and negative aspects are discussed, but the paper concludes that human cloning can potentially do more harm than good. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

Sociology is a science that studies people: what makes them tick, the patterns of their behavior and how the individual fits within the schema of society. This 5 page paper explores the definition and value of sociology. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 7 page report discusses the fact that as the world has become increasingly interconnected, people have become fascinated with what is different from their personal experience of modern life. The enchantment with “otherness” is often tied to the modern assumption that the “other” or the “different” also represents something that is somehow “better” than what would be thought of as ...

A 9 page paper that addresses the obstacles to appropriate development of the black male beginning with infancy. Following introductory remarks, the writer provides data and comments regarding each age range from infancy through old age. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 7 page report discusses “precarious employment” in Australia and how it has served as a means through which industrial relations have been reshaped and re-defined. Such employment can be defined as labor that is of limited duration, pays low wages, and offers few or no opportunities for employee input in policies or procedures. It ultimately subverts the concept ...

The culture of military life changes a person, either enhancing their lives or bringing with it pain and suffering. The same can be said of being disabled. This 6 page paper compares two articles related to disabled veterans and explores the issue of post traumatic stress disorder as well as cognitive behavioral therapy as a treatment modality. ...

This 4 page report discusses the fact that perspectives on culture always require that one consider the personal experience and understanding, along with experience and timeframe of the person offering the perspective. A number of notable theorists in the realms of education, language, and socialization offer points of view that within given circumstances are all valid. Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, ...

A 5 page paper which discusses what makes a hero. Specific individuals, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks are discussed in terms of their heroic nature. No sources cited.

This 5 page paper begins with Michel de Certeau's unique take on modern life and talks about the things that imprison those living in the twenty-first century. How city and suburban life each contain elements of incarceration is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper examines two articles in the book, Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, by Joy Parr and finds that the author has utilized propaganda as a means to present her arguments. No additional sources are listed.

This 10 page paper explores the sociological ramifications of the World Trade Center disaster along with the cumulative effects of other acts of terrorism lodged in the United States. The Oklahoma City bombing is also discussed. Ways in which people cope, how the 2001 disaster has affected people spiritually, psychologically and economically is ...

Seemingly ordinary activities can put a person on the road to a happier, more content, life. This 5 page paper explores the role of leisure and recreation in the United States. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 7 page report discusses socialization as the process of acquiring the skills, norms, values, and attitudes necessary to perform occupational roles. The overall socialization process takes place in varied settings and under different sets of circumstances. For example, one process of socializing for a work experience may require a great deal of classroom time. Another may require an enormous amount of ...

This 5 page report discusses the ongoing debate regarding the question of what is the greatest factor in the development of human intelligence, sociability, interpersonal skills, and personality. Is it based on the “nature” with which a child is physically endowed or is it a matter of how the child is “nurtured”? Many of those most thoroughly grounded in medical or ...

This 5 page paper argues that the effects on children in a two income household where both parents work is not known; however, studies indicate that the repercussions of two working parents is centered on the condition of the parent, child relationship when the parents are at home. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page report discusses how anthropologists have invented categories of social behavior or institutions and use them in order to study the pattern of life lived by a group of people even if the individuals within such a group may not necessarily be personally living what the larger group or institution would suggest. Examples of where groups overlap ...

This 5 page paper delves into sociological theory with a focus on Marxism and conflict theory. The World Trade Center and Pentagon disasters, which occurred on September 11, 2001, are discussed in respect to those theories. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page examination of society's pursuit of personal wealth. The paper discusses the condition and argues that such pursuit is much more likely to destroy our culture rather than help develop it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

Man is not, by definition, a solitary creature. He seeks the company of others as well as an understanding of existence and a need to progress. This 12 page paper provides a tutorial outline of a comparison study of prosocial behavior in preschool age children in a preschool setting as opposed to the home environment. ...

This 4 page report discusses and reviews “The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind.” The 1990 book addresses the issues associated with reading achievement in children and why children from lower-income homes may be disadvantaged intellectually because of their home environment despite the fact that they started in school with the same level of ability as a so-called “mainstream” child. Bibliography ...

A 5 page paper which examines the condition of freedom in the United States and argues that while we may be a country that experiences more freedoms than other countries we are still not free. Bibliography lists 2 sources.