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...

Summary Today's American Culture and the culture of many industrialized nations are extremely dependent on technology to carry out daily tasks. Indeed, the advent of the internet and other technological devices has rapidly changed the culture in which we live. A large percentage of Amer...

Day by day, the internet has grabbed the attention of people around the world. More and more people start to use the internet as one of their important source of communication. Before, if we want to communicate with people on the other side of the world, we had to make an expensive phone call or use...

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...

Development in media technology has evolved dramatically since the beginning and dictates the society we live in. From print media to film and radio and television broadcasting to electronic media, it has brought many societies closer than ever before. It is evident that media technology has the abi...

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...

During one four-week period in Florida, police made a concerted effort to nab teenagers with fake IDs. USA Today reports that 350 were arrested for carrying fake IDs, 1200 for underage drinking, and in all, they confiscated 10,000 fake ID cards (Leinwand). This single incident points to the perceive...

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...

ORGANISATIONS ARE NOT BRICKS AND MORTAR, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT OR EVEN NEAT LITTLE DIAGRAMS ON PAPER. THEY ARE PEOPLE!ANALYSE THE ABOVE STATEMENT USING EXAMPLES FROM THE CARE SECTOR TO EXPLAIN WHETHER OR NOT YOU BELIEVE THIS STATEMENT IS AS OVER-SIMPLIFIED VIEW OF ORGANISATIONS.As the title suggests...

Since TV is a "primary source of information" the media keeps everyone enlightened with the updates of the world around them. Since I dislike reading the newspaper, I was totally unconnected with the news happening in the world. Not only did I have to avoid my common room because of the constant T...

Organizational DevelopmentChange peopleDEVELOPMENTSystemsstructureProcessestechnologyIMPROVEMENTEFFICIENCYEFFECTIVENESSOrganizational Development - tie up with MacrodevelopmentLevel 4 - constitutes of Community then SocietyApplied behavioural sciencesDevelopment of :Techniques - to addr...

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...