Electronic Databases and NetworkingAn electronic database is information stored so that it can be retrieved from a computer terminal. Rubin, Rubin, and Piele (1996), compilers of research sources, point out, "A researcher who is reluctant to use computers to find information or who does not know how...

In our society in America crimes can be separated into two distinct categories, white collar and blue collar crimes. White collar crimes consist of non-violent offenses that perpetuate cheating dishonesty, and corruption. On the other hand, Blue collar crime consists of refers to the visibly ap...

Media and Mass Communication What media (print/ curricula, radio, television, cell phones, Internet, computers, talking dictionary) are available in your classrooms? How do you use them? What are the positive and negative effects of a mediated classroom, school, or society? I remember an inc...

Throughout the world today, the lives of millions of people are governed by what Karl Marx said. In the brief period since his death, his doctrines have exercised an almost unparalleled influence. Both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel, a fellow philosopher, put together the famous Communist Manifesto...

Discuss the impact of social, legal and technological change on individuals, groups, families and Communities As time moves on so does humanity and society we adapt and change as new knowledge and understanding is presented to us in different forms such as technologies, laws and social views all...

Throughout the myriad of cultures on our planet, we find different and sometimes opposing beliefs defining the values of an ideal citizen. Among these beliefs it is difficult to isolate a single set and deem them to be superior to another. The reason for this is that they vary based on cultural tr...

Human relations both improve and deteriorate under the impact of new technologies depending on the circumstances. For example, the flourish of technology has lead to widening the gap between the impoverished and wealthy populations. Advances in technology have also increased the growth of citie...

Theatre will always survive in a changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters we can identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happ...

Technology is changing society as much as it\'s changing the world around us. People are surrounding themselves with all this technology and paying no mind to the world they are living in. Technology is always improving and it\'s only getting faster. There are positive and negative things that come ...

Human equality in the context of social and political institutions in human society is characterized to be more conservative and rigid when compared in the context of Internet culture and society. This claim is an illustration of how Internet as a new communication medium becomes...

Japan - A Far Eastern Perspective Japan is a country with quite a story to tell. From economic booms to recessions, back to economic booms, Japan is a country with both deep-rooted traditions and social practices; however it is very versatile in it's changing to fit western society. For ve...

Culture In our society a huge key factor in our world is culture. Culture makes up the variety in life with the many races out there. Whether it's what everyone looks like, how everyone dresses, or even the type of foods they eat, it's what makes up a culture. Strange as it is, those ver...

In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett proposes that the emergence of "flexible capitalism" is having increasingly negative effects on the ability for people to find cohesion and narrative in their lives. The change from a pyramid bureaucracy to a web-like network removes the scaf...

Value Issues- Social work values call for everyone, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or backgrounds, to be treated with dignity, given equal access to societal institutions, opportunities and resources, and supported in contributing their unique talents to their families, communities and c...

Are the 35 million Americans who fall below the poverty line there because they are lazy and have let all opportunities for social advancement pass them by? Or is there currently a social structure that successfully reproduces classes and limits upward social mobility in America? Certain institu...

The industrialization and technology of the world's higher income nations has a negative effect on the plight of the world's poorer nations. The high-income nations' industrialization encourages child labor, poor living conditions in exchange for material things, and higher world p...

Social Categorization Humans are very efficient creatures and we use many tools to compress, utilize, and retain information. One of the tools that we use is termed social categorization. Social categorization describes a kind organization used by people to remember social interactions. By thinkin...

Jean and Gerhard Lenski, in their theory of sociocultural evolution, describe five different types of societies, separated by their technologies. They are the hunting and gathering societies, the horticultural and pastoral societies, the agrarian societies, the industrial societies, and the post-ind...

Raise your hand if the language used in the movie Aladdin offended you; or how about the made-for-kiddies movie The Little Mermaid. Ok, something a little easier than these examples. Raise your hand if you were terribly offended by the language used in Glengarry Glen Ross. What do these three ex...

In the year 2000, advanced scientific knowledge and advanced technological change has had a significant effect on the way we live compared to our ancestors who lived in the year 1000. Today we live in an industrial and technological society versus the primarily agricultural society of the year 1000....

THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY Technology is the device by which man progressively masters his natural environment. Since the early ages, man has been fascinated with converting nature to our own benefice in order to expand our horizons. Technology today has become an essential part of our day to d...

Mcdonaldization, by George Ritzer, deals mainly with the rationalization of our society and inevitably the world. McDonalds is used as an analogy to explain the process of rationalization in society. McDonald's modern operation is described to show the way society is heading in the future. It i...

Sociology Pager Mrs. Willaby Feb 12, 2001 I would like to start this paper with a thesis sentence. Sociology is an ever-changing field, which is soley concerned with the individual. Websters dictionary\'s definition reads \"the study of the organizations, institutions, and development of human s...

1)Technological realism is the position that even though technology "has a force of its own, it is not independent of political and social forces". It is a fact that advances in technology have made significant impact on our perceptions and how we interact with each other. The impact of the cellular...

FILIPINO PSYCHOLOGY WRITTEN EXAMI.D. NO 9210356We have discussed about making a research on the psychology of the Filipinos, and the field I chose is on Personality. Much has been written and many research studies conducted on Filipino personality. But previous literatures have discussed related the...