Essays and Research Papers on Social Research

10 pages. An excellent research paper explaining the often-seen gender stereotyping in domestic violence. This paper looks at domestic violence, its causes, effects, and why it is so often a gender-biased issue. Focus is on what causes people to attack each other in what should normally be a family relationship, and actions that are taken ...

A 10 page research paper that investigates and summarizes empirical literature on the use of gender stereotypes and their effect on behavior in regards to video games. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

This 3 page paper takes a look at an article and the economic and sociological implications of a dilemma faced by some individuals who lost life savings or at least a part of their retirement plan. Insights into the Australian attitude toward their government are gleaned through this evaluation. No additional sources ...

This 8 page paper considers how effective policies should be out into place by governments who want to ensure that the young in the workforce have work based training that benefits both themselves and employers. This paper uses the UK as an example looking at the way policies of the past have failed the paper ...

8 pages in length. Lorraine Code's 'What Can She Know?' is a celebration of gender, with particular emphasis upon issues of feminism and patriarchal control. Indeed, Code portrays the perpetuation of feminism; not only are her writings a solid reflection of her sentiments of a lacking Anglo-American epistemology but so is the manner ...

This 11 page report discusses the exploitation of children around the world, especially in Third World nations, as a source of cheap and compliant labor. Governments, businesses, and individual consumers have an obligation to do what they can to bring a halt to the exploitation of children throughout the world. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This 5 page report discusses the exploitation of children around the world, especially in India, Pakistan, and South America, as a source of cheap and compliant labor. Governments, businesses, and individual consumers have an obligation to do what they can to bring a halt to the exploitation of children throughout the world. Bibliography lists 10 ...

3 pages in length. Reaching the desired beneficial outcome when engaged in multicultural negotiations requires a much greater degree of sensitivity where such aspects as time, hierarchy, religion, family and gender roles are concerned. The extent to which different cultures place different significance upon these components is both grand and far-reaching; that a ...

Approximately 8 pages worth of discussion related to child pornography under the context suggested in the paper's title. No bibliography available.

This 6-page paper discusses the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and how the federal government responded to the devastating scene. Racism is also addressed in this essay. There are 8 sources cited.

This 7 page paper traces the history of a young person without a college degree who gets into debt, faces bankruptcy, and becomes angry at the government and the poor. Bibliography lists 1 source.

6 pages in length. The writer discusses how poverty impacts work, family and education, as well as addresses how government function and conspicuous consumption help to perpetuate its existence. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 6 page paper reviews 3 articles that consider influences on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa looking at health and social conditions and the way they may impede economic development. The paper finishes with some conclusions based on the three articles. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

A 5 page paper critiquing Linda Flynn's publication named above, an investigation into both observed and reported health practices of homeless urban women. Where medical records were lacking, the author attempted to estimate the level of health care these women had known previous to their homeless life. Limited to data collection only by ...

This 30 page paper addresses several related topic areas: the data on poverty in the U.S., the sociology of poverty, urbanism, isolation, and residential segregation, residential segregation, income equity and health, poverty, race and urban emergency medicine, and policy implications. Study after study demonstrates the link between poverty and poor health outcomes. Persons living in ...

This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of radicalization. Research is presented that suggests the efficacy of viewing the issue as a public health problem. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

19 pages in length. Hunger is not a new social ill; rather, the quest for – and often short supply of – food has caused entire populations to perish, compelled otherwise upstanding citizens to steal and continues to be responsible for the suffering of untold numbers of people in contemporary society. While much ...

This 11 page paper examines the health care crisis in developing countries. Social work models are defined. Solutions are explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

The applicability of spirituality to the treatment of the mentally ill did not become acceptable until holistic medical practices began to gain in popularity. This 8 page paper explores the meaning of mental health, spirituality and the role of nursing in a holistic practice. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

Policing communities are now responsible for prevention, as well as follow through on criminal activity, and because of the labor intensive nature of this reality, the solutions to crime must be shared. The solution resides in policing both real criminals and preventing at-risk youth from becoming criminals. This is everyone’s job, and particularly, those who ...

This 10 page paper looks at homelessness in society. Advocacy is the theme of the paper but information about homelessness, its history and possible solutions are conveyed. Advocacy is defined and explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 10 page paper examines two such issues that are related by the ideology of the "work ethic": what happens when people retire too early and without benefits; and the history of women in labor unions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 7 page paper discusses the history of immigration in the United States and the effect this has had on the population. Specifically, this paper examines the effect of immigration on natural resources as well as examining the rate of population growth. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 5 page discussion of the factors causing the extreme poverty and hardship illustrated in this book by Alex Kotliwitz. Far from fictional the gangs, violence, and drugs depicted in this book are very real and to overcome them we have to somehow dissolve the social stratification which has separated mainstream America from the ...

This 6 page paper discusses various movements such as civil rights and ones lodged for welfare and so forth, each based on the Piven and Cloward work entitled Poor People's Movements. In addition to this book, personal insights into the history of movements by poor people are included. No additional sources cited.