Nationalism is the theory of the nation-state, thus it has great importance and impact on society in the modern world. "Nation" is a sociological term that refers to a group of people who have a sense of union with one another. While the state is a political word that includes four elements; peopl...

In her book, Fair describes many significant ways in which people use dress, music, and sport to challenge the inherited social order, and to redefine race, ethnicity, gender, and class. The book covers the time from the end of WWII back to the 1990s. During that time, Zanzibar experience...

Anarchy Anarchism seems to be defined many ways by many different sources. Most dictionary definitions define anarchism as the absence of government. A leading modern dictionary, Webster's Third International Dictionary, defines anarchism briefly but accurately as, "a political theory opposed...

Realism: not quite as good as it could be... Realism is a powerful theory that tries to but ultimately cannot be successfully applied to foreign policy. Realism place too much focus on power alone. This by itself is the fatal flaw of the theory. Realism does not take into account such things as ...