The interaction between the evolution of technology and the development of economy and society has always been an important dimension of human history. The transition from the agricultural society towards the industrial society provides the most pertinent illustration of the profound implications, w...

Affirmative Action? A major controversy encompassing the country is the issue of affirmative action. Many believe that the abolition, or at least restructure, of affirmative action in the United States will benefit the nation for many logical reasons. Originally, affirmative action began as an attem...

Critique of The War Against the Poor The sociological book, The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy, written by Herbert J. Gans attempts to take a look at and make a case for America waging a "war" against the poor in the non-traditional sense since the 1980s. Thi...

A community is a group of people connected to one another by a bond of some sort. This bond, be it, race, social class, or friendship, links the people living there together. A good community a can be an aid in the success of individuals living in that community. A bad community, however, can have d...

Human activity in society is continually bombarded by anomic phenomena such as suffering, death, and evil actions. These events must be accounted for and explained within the context of the nomos of the given society. The explanation of these phenomena in terms of religious ideals is a theodicy...

The "Edmundite Tradition" closely mirrors many of Robert Putnam's recurring themes throughout his entire dissertation on America's declining social trends. The "Edmundite Tradition" embodies exactly what Putnam describes as the pitfall of America. As Americans we move...

American values dictate every product of American culture. Products such as inequality, segregation, racism, and social bigotry are all reflective upon the values from which they are formed. It is important for America to burn into the minds of its youth the utopian "core" American values...

Deviant Behavior Sociologists use the term deviance to refer to any violation of norms- whether the infraction is a minor as jaywalking, or as serious as murder. This deceptively simple definition takes us to the heart of the sociological perspective of deviance, which sociologist Howard S. Becker i...

It can be maintained that Christianity marked a departure from the values and belief structures of the Greco-Roman cultures to the extent that the first tended to emphasize the importance of expansive teaching and conversion of followers, monotheism and a separation of church and state, while the l...

In chapter three of "Their Magistrates and Officials," by R.J Rockefeller, the reader perceives that, in order to completely understand eighteenth-century, colonial Maryland's executive government, one first should note the symbolism residing in the homes, art, and furniture of the governors a...

Core Studies 3 Casilda Adames Take-Home Exam November 16, 1999 The ruling ideology dealing with welfare is a negative view among the majority of Americans. It states that welfare recipients are lazy people who have lots of children and collect checks for a long period of time. ...

The arguments of Smail and Brown are a little far-fetched but could inevitability be the truth. Smail feels that if the growth of the population continues it will be detrimental to the population as a whole. He feels if the population growth is not declined it will plague humanity; he also says th...

An ideology can be seen as a rational and complex "science" of ideas which offers some form of political and cultural schemata for certain social orders, in an attempt to explain how society should work – ultimately aiming for the implementation of a form of utopia. Political ideolog...

Carol P. Christ discusses the role of the Goddess in society specifically in her essay Why Women Need the Goddess. She discusses the goddess\' positive affirmations towards one\'s power, body, will, as well as the valued bonds and heritage r.ather than the emphasis on a father-like figure such as th...

I am deeply honored to be among the exemplary students who are being considered for the National Honor Society. I must admit that this is something that I have been looking forward to since the beginning of my high school career. I believe that this organization does great things in society, and tha...

In the essay written by Gary Nash, he argues that the reason for the American Revolution was not caused by the defense of constitutional rights and liberties, but that of "material conditions of life in America" were not very favorable and that social and economic factors should be cons...

The modern world as we know it today has been shaped by the writings of two of the most prolific social scientists of the past two centuries, Karl Marx and Max Webber. Both these individuals had similar but at the same time very different ideologies. Marx states that "The history of hitherto ex...

The Working Class vs. The Upper Class Movies must contain some sort of plot or conflict in order to make them interesting. In Metropolis, a definite social conflict emerges between the workers and their ruthless boss, John Frederson. This conflict is due to the major differences in the live...

The rate of crime in the world is 0.82% higher than last year. Many factors contribute to crime. If these factors didn't exist, crime would disappear in the world. Drugs and alcohol are abundant in our society; the law doesn't impose enough restrictions or enforce the rules. Also parental ...

Folkways, an essay compiled by William Graham Sumner, is a closely examined analysis of the inner-workings of society and why it works the way that it does. This particular essay has influenced many other philosophers/sociologists by the way we view the process of understanding rules and regulation...

Great Expectations In the past years, expectations for each sex have been scripted into society and have come to a social and cultural acceptance. The same social flow would be apparent today if it were not for evolved altering and social transitions due to inevitable changes such as men and women ...

The word \'community\' is used, and abused, in several ways. I would like to define the word \'community\' and later on I would define the community work, particularly my own experience of working with South Asian community for last twenty years. I would also incorporate various other theories, ac...

Cross-dressing Women's cross dressing plays a major role in the plays "The Roaring Girl" and "Twelfth Night". Women would change their physical appearance to the opposite sex to achieve a certain goal. Sumptuary laws were used to tell people of that time who could wear w...

The media provide links between people on many levels and in many facets of life. This is evident by the ubiquitous presence and use of the Television, Radio, and the Internet in modern day society, all over the world. In fact, to a large extent, human society today is organized around the...

In the United States, the rights of the individual are often emphasized and given top priority. Unfortunately, in the fervor to maintain these rights many people overlook the universal picture. This meaning, in a sense, that the good of the whole will be sacrificed for the individual. Because thi...