AbstractThe Internet offers an amazing array of options to everyone. However, with that freedom also comes danger. The advent of the Internet has given once reclusive and hard to find criminals a wide-open playground. The crimes perpetrated on the Internet range from "victimless" white-collar cri...

Every new technology and invention brings along a promise of revolutionizing some area of our lives. Electromagnetism and similar other electronic technologies have however not only made a promise, they actually kept it too. The changes that has resulted from these technologies have truly revolu...

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 ...

Michael JenningsSociology 40Discussion Section COver the last two centuries, many new forms of media have been introduced into society. Two of these mediums, the telegraph and the internet have had very profound effects on society, but were these effects positive or negative? Social theorists have ...

In society today, the discipline of anthropology has made a tremendous shift from the practices it employed years ago. Anthropologists of today have a very different focus from their predecessors, who would focus on relating problems of distant peoples to the Western world. In more modern times,...

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...

They Create Worlds In Gibson's Burning Chrome two worlds exist. There is the real world that we carry out our everyday business. We "live" in this world. We eat, sleep and breathe in this world. Then there is the cyber world. This is where we play and this is where we run our m...

Assignment Question: What is \'technological determinism\'? Does it help or hinder our understanding of contemporary mass media? Response: A theme that appears over and over in discussions about technology is whether or not technology is the cause of major social, cultural, political, and economic ...

One of the ideas of Marxism was that of 'alienation' – the idea that humans as a species were alienated from their human nature in the face of technological and industrial advancements; in short, as a side effect of capitalism (Marx, Tucker, & Engel). Socialists unhappily herald ca...

Consider the following claim: "Canada will become a more democratic country in the next 25 years". One might take exception to this claim, countering that Canada is not only a democratic country in 2004, but is a country whose democratic character is envied in most parts of the world. Con...

Focusing on a particular media of your choice (eg. film, radio etc OR a particular series or program etc) critically consider how this unit of study has contributed to your sociological understanding of media in contemporary society. Media in our contemporary society affects the way we view the worl...

Wendell Berry, self-styled intellectual, social commentator, and purveyor of common sense authored a biting series of essays on the state of American life and economy, compiled in 1993 under the title \"Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community.\" This collection of commentaries on varied aspects of existen...

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...

Imagine you were taken from your normal everyday life and put into a situation that was different and unfamiliar to what you know. The language is different, the food is different and they have different customs and world views. For some, this situation would be fun and interesting, but for most thi...

Fruits and Flowers of ImmigrationChildren seem to be the primary issue for both those individuals who are making decision to immigrate and those institutions that deciding on whether to accept somebody or not as immigrants. At least it should be so, because down the road the fate of immigrant child...

Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures The main goal of the science of psychology is to discover and generate knowledge about people and their behavior. Studying the cultural aspect of the science adds yet another piece to the puzzle of psychology. By definition, cultural psycho...

Progress is natural. Yet somehow modern nations still retain kings; middle- America still demands science books without Darwin, and southern white children still eye black children suspiciously. These beliefs, formed under primitive technological and political circumstances, continue to this day b...

Ideology, Music and File-Sharing In this ever-growing technological world in which we live, it is ultimately inevitable that the industries in which we consume goods will be tested by advances in the ways people acquire products. The issue of music piracy has been at the forefront of this deba...

The media has been a constant source of controversy as far as racial issues are concerned. Many share the opinion that some broadcasters, and other tools of the press, are racially biased and therefore when broadcasting a story on a racial or ethnic issue, they may either not tell the whole truth o...

Knowledge and power hand in hand, but whose hand is it?Regardless from where a person comes from, one is always under constant surveillance by someone in society, which in return affects everyone's individual actions and reactions. Foucault's Panopticism proves that our ideals we have gained from s...

How Does the Understanding of Time Reflect the Changing Relationship Between the Individual and Society?Time is apart of every individual's life, some individuals depend on time, more then other individuals, for example people who work need to get to work at a preci...

A sign system is representation through communication which in turn leads to a shared meaning or understanding. We hold mental representations that classify and organise the world (whether fact or fiction), people, objects and events into meaningful categories so that we can meaningfully comprehen...

Essay 3 option4/14/02 What the Ears of the Adolescent HearPop culture expert Michael Paretti once said that "people are influenced by the media in the way they dress, talk, relate, spend their money, define social problems, identify with prominent but insignificant personalities and in the kinds of ...

Civic America: A Dying Tradition?As the world prepares to enter the new millennium, America seems to have discarded much of the traditional civic mindedness that was omnipresent merely a half-century ago. The symptoms of this disease are becoming more apparent with each passing year, and investigato...

A sign system is representation through communication which in turn leads to a shared meaning or understanding. We hold mental representations that classify and organise the world (whether fact or fiction), people, objects and events into meaningful categories so that we can meaningfully comprehend ...