History is connected to every one of us, it is how we got where we are today. It is important to study history in school so we can compare our society to those of the past, and learn from their mistakes, to assure that history doesn\'t repeat itself. In Aldous Huxley\'s Brave New World, the people o...

The study of history deals with human action. This means any actions performed by individuals and groups of individuals. The way that people live and the way that they react to any conditions play in effect. Human judgement, what guided them to their goal, what these men do in order to have ends ...

Imperialism in Western History From the Perspective of William SumnerWilliam Graham Sumner's writings are often distinguished by their laissez-faire capitalism undertones. His views were similar to those of Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Sumner capitalized on this theory by inco...

Racism does and will always exist in every part of the world. It's something that has been controlled over the decades but definitely not stopped. American History X is a perfect example of how simple it is for race to turn into hate. The movie specifically focuses on the "white pride" against all o...

In life, man strives for one thing and one thing only: a perfect society. In this \"Utopian\" society, people would have anything and everything they thought they needed. By creating a sense of completeness in every person, everybody would be happy. This can only be done in one way and that is by ge...

Political scientists often like to be prophets of doom, predicting the end of history or foreseeing an endless series of clashes of civilization and culture in the coming decades. However Thomas Friedman's thesis, advanced in the Lexus and the Olive Tree, about the interconnected nature of the new w...

 Ideology, History and Classical Social Theory Sociology is a very important discipline to study. When you ask yourself where the term,classical sociological theory derives from, the reading Sociological Theory written by DavidAshley suggest that certain sociological statements are ...

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...

Gender inequality has always been around. Men have been portrayed as the dominant gender since the beginning of time. However, women\'s roles have increasingly become more significant throughout history. In Islamic society, women played higher roles than in earlier societies such as Ancient China ...

The Aztec warrior. Human sacrifices. Hammurabi's Code.Gladiatorial combats in the Colosseum in Rome. World Wars I and II. Masssuicides. School killings. These are but some few examples of human displays of violencethroughout history. Humans, for one reason or other, killed people fo...

Samuel P. Huntington's article The Clash Of Civilizations was a rare foresight in the time it was written. One must agree that his analytical skills have proven him mostly right, up to this point. Even though his warnings on this clash of civilizations has not been taken into account by the wes...

One of the central and most enduing foundational ideologies in American culture is that of freedom, democracy and equality. The ideal and ideology of freedom from oppression and coercion began with the very founding of America in the fight for freedom from the colonial and territorial domination of ...

What is Psychology? Before entering the History of Psychology class, I thought that psychology was the science of human and animal behavior, experience and mental processes. I still believe that this statement is true, but now I know that psychology is more than that. I also felt that psych...

The relationship between work and a good or happy life has beenunderstood differently throughout history. As Josef Pieper notes inLeisure: The Basis of Culture, the modern world has come to see work as anend in and of itself, while the ancient world saw that true living wasthrough leisure, ra...

China's CultureThroughout China's encased history it has developed much differently than western parts of the world. Chinese culture varies greatly compared to ours. These great differences between eastern culture and western culture make China a very interesting place. Some of the vast differences ...

History has shown us that Europeans are the only ones to have ever really done anything of significance in the world and that Europeans are the staple of a successful society. On the contrary, other countries had already established a working collective community until the Europeans came along and ...

William H. Beezley's Judas at the Jockey Club provides the reader with an accurate in-depth view of a struggling and developing Mexico throughout the Porfirian era up to the year 1910. Beezley considers this period in Mexican history to begin around 1876 and states that the social, political and eco...

With the fall of many Communist regimes in Warsaw Pact states during the late 1980's, many people considered that as the death throes of Marxism and Communism as a viable political ideology and economic model. The final deathblow was actually delivered in 1991, when the Union of Soviet Socialis...

Civic EfficacyCivic efficacy to me means knowledge about history, geography and cultures of the US and the world. It means knowing the constitution, the legal and political systems and current events. Civic efficacy is about having values and attitudes. It means Developing a reasoned commitment to p...

World poverty is a social welfare issue that has plagued nearly every society, more specifically women in poverty. The issue of women and poverty and the Feminization of Poverty is a very disturbing issue indeed. The way our society is built and a history of oppression has lead to the inequalities...

"One Thing Leads to Another" Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, although they wrote about distinct issues, there are ties between Douglass' infamous What to the Slave is The Fourth of July? and from The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx. Douglass and Marx are marking actual events that fl...

The development of sociology as a discipline is more of a lesson in history than anything else. Three factors that led to this development are: curiosity, willingness to challenge the norms and wanting to better ones position in society. Changes in history can also be related to advances in socio...

There were so many social historians years ago that contributed to the development of today's world. Each and everyone is still remembered today for their greatness so many years back. One of these historians was Max Weber. He not only was a social historian but also an economist. He was mostl...

Do I feel that the African Americans should be repamandated by the United States Government for being sold into slavery? No, I feel if the government began to try to conasate for some of the peoples mistakes that it would be such a snowball effect that it would cause a great problem for our socie...

As an old saying goes, competition and cooperation are twin brothers. They are not inseparable. It is difficult to say which one is more important. However, if I have to make a preference, I would say competition is first, cooperation is second. The reasons are given below. Firstly, if there is ...