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Papers On Sociology, Social Work, & Counseling
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How and Why Leisure Should be Increased in Society
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This 7 page paper argues that leisure is important and can be increased through the implementation of Communism. Many examples are provided. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How Can A Drop in Centre for the Homeless Meet the Needs of the Homeless and the Community; A Research Proposal
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This 8 page paper is a research proposal to examine a project that will determine how a drop in centre can be set up to help the homeless and meet the needs of the local community. The paper outlines the aims, the reseach questions, gives an in-depth methodology and considers the practicalities. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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How Can Today's Society Solve The Problem Of Discrimination?
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3 pages in length. Discrimination is a multifaceted component of contemporary society that has placed a tremendous black mark upon the character of a nation allegedly inhabited by civilized beings. To dissect the overwhelming presence of discrimination is to find it in virtually every social subgroup, not the least of which includes gender, race, religious, workplace, age, economic, social status, sexual orientation and education. Solving discrimination - a prolific problem that perpetually feeds upon itself - people need only reach back to their roots when multiculturalism reflected a rich and rewarding integration whereby everyone benefited from such an alliance, unlike today where cultural ownership has taken form. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Capitalism Thwarts Creativity
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This 3 page paper examines Marxism in modern day society. Examples are provided. Alienation is discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Changes in Communications Technology Affect Society
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This 6 page paper evaluates changes in technology over time as it concerns communications. How it has affected certain segments, such as people of different races and socioeconomic groups, is also discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How Children Grow Up To Understand Genetic And Gender Differences
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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses toys, testosterone and cultural presets as they relate to gender differences. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How Class Struggles are Exacerbated by Mass Hysteria in America
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This 5 page paper focuses on the Salem witch trials as exemplified by Arthur Miller's The Crucible as well as the McCarthy era hearings. The thesis that mass hysteria is created to manipulate the lower echelons of society is discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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How Cults are Formed and Maintained
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This 5 page paper examines various cults, defines the concept and talks about how cults first form and how they are maintained. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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How Did the New Left Lead to the Rise of the New Right?
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This 5 page paper uses the book “The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975” to argue that it was the rise of the New Left and their battle for equal rights for all (gays, women, blacks) that led to the rise of the New Right to oppose them. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Different National Cultural Perspectives Can Impact Negotiations In A Multicultural Context
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3 pages in length. Reaching the desired beneficial outcome when engaged in multicultural negotiations requires a much greater degree of sensitivity where such aspects as time, hierarchy, religion, family and gender roles are concerned. The extent to which different cultures place different significance upon these components is both grand and far-reaching; that a roundtable of people might hail from such cultural backgrounds as supporting religiously sanctioned gender oppression, having attitudes of "family above all else" and adopting a leisurely approach to resolving most any problem speaks to a potentially volatile situation if not handled with a clear understanding - and acceptance - of diversity. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Do ‘Identity’ And ‘Obsolescence’ Contribute To This Continual Change In the Fashion?
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This 7 page paper considers the following quote “Fashion is dress in which the key feature is rapid and continual changing of styles” and discusses this with reference to the ideas of identity and obsolescence. The paper is written using a range of examples to show how fashion has developed proactively and reactively to these influences. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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How Durkheim's Theories can Explain the Deterioration of East St. Louis
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This 4 page paper examines East St. Louis to determine how it has transitioned over time. Durkheim's theories are utilized in the analysis. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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How Economic Forces Shape Society
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This 6 page paper examines Bourdieu's On Television and Willis's Learning to Labor. Both works are examined in the context of the topic. The books are compared and contrasted. No additional sources cited.
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How Economic Prospects For The Global Economy Can Affect Patterns Of Internal And External Migration In Developing Countries
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This 12 page paper looks at the ways in which migration is impacted by global economy. The direct and indirect influences are considered with the potential impact on migration out of and with developing countries. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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How Families and Societies Both Support and Destroy Their Members:
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This 4 page paper examines the family and societal social structures and determines how these relationships both support and destroy individuals. This paper also presents the effects of such relationships. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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How Family Contributes To The Identity Of Self And One's Communication With Others
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7 pages in length. The writer discusses how familial interaction is essential to the identity of self and one's ability to communicate with others. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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How Far Do Representations of Youth Crime in Britain, Through Popular Culture, Influence the Public's Perceptions of Young People in Today's Society?
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This 11 page paper is a literature review covering a range of sources that would be useful for a dissertation which examines How far representations of youth crime in Britain, through popular culture, influence the public's perceptions of young people in today's society. The paper starts by placing the occurrence of crime into a social context and reviews crime theory. The paper then looks individually at the way youth crime is reported and the influences on the making of the news, and then at the way the news will influence the audience by looking at audience theories. The bibliography cites 21 sources.
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How Histories of Fashion are Written
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This 6 page paper looks at a couple of theorists and how they go about writing about fashion history. In addition to Breward and Wilson, Marx is explored as a theorist and his ideas are related to fashion history. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child
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A 3 page insight into the horrors of child abuse and what one individual did to survive. Abused as a seven year old, the author encourages others to not keep silent. No sources are listed.
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How It Is Better To Live On Your Own
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3 pages in length. Living on your own is the epitome of independence; only after one is fully immersed within the myriad benefits of living on one's own can one truly gain a clear perspective of just how wonderful it is. Granted, there are also a number of responsibilities that accompany such a tremendous step toward self-reliance; however, this particular aspect only serves to strengthen the allure of living on one's own. No bibliography.
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How Limitations Imposed by Society Hinder Self-Discovery: A comparison of 1950s and present day culture
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This 14 page paper examines 1950s culture and compares and contrasts it to culture during the 2000s. It is argued that the limitations imposed on society was detrimental to personal growth. The paper focuses on adolescence and the choices they make.
Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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How Marriage Life Changed For The Better Through The Years
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8 pages in length. The institution of marriage has witnessed myriad modifications throughout the years, not the least of which includes an almost mandatory tradition to an outright rebellion against what some believed was nothing more than a master/slave contract. Now that the twenty-first century is upon us, it is safe to say that marriage once again reflects a positive connotation of cohabitation, credited for the most part with religious and cultural specifications. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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How Marx and Durkheim's Theories Expanded on Enlightenment Thinking
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This 3 page paper looks at the theories of Marx and Durkheim. The theories are compared and contrasted and related to Enlightenment ideals. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How Marx and Weber's Theories Relate to Globalization
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This 8 page paper examines the theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber and applies them to globalization. Globalization is defined and discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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How Media And Politics Influence Gender Roles
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A 3 page paper. While progress has been made in terms of depicting women as intelligent, self-reliant persons, sufficient stereotyping still exists in the media to send a warped message to youngsters. The same is true of the underrepresentation of women in politics at all levels. This essay discusses these two premises. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Much Have Public Attitudes Really Shifted?
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A 14 page paper evaluating the mechanisms underlying shifting public attitudes toward sexuality, globalization, drug and alcohol use, and marriage. Too often, we allow our attitudes to be shaped by movies, news items and bored celebrities who have too little of consequence to do with their time and are too shallow to seek out worthy pursuits from which we could all benefit. Hollywood and journalists often exploit marginal aspects of society, making aberrations appear more common than they truly are. The visibility, however, works to diminish the shock value of the real-life occurrences and contributes to their becoming more common. Bibliography lists approximately 10 sources.
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How Public Relationists Adapt to a Changing Environment
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16 pages. Well known public relationists such as Faith Popcorn and Gerald Celente base their predictions on current trends in such a way that the public can see what the future is going to hold for us. By paying attention to the current trends of the environment it is easy to see changes that are coming. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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How Rock and Roll Affected A Generation
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This 5 page paper looks at the origins of rock and roll and how it affected culture. Changes during the 1950s is the focus of this paper but future generations are referenced as well. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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How Self-Interest Has Ruined America
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This 5 page paper uses Peter Singer’s “How Are We To Live?” as a basis to argue that self-interest has ruined America. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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How Should A Government Seeking To Encourage Work-Based Training In Occupational Skills For Young People Go About Doing So?
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This 8 page paper considers how effective policies should be out into place by governments who want to ensure that the young in the workforce have work based training that benefits both themselves and employers. This paper uses the UK as an example looking at the way policies of the past have failed the paper develops an approach by identifying the features and policies that are effective. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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How Social Sciences Help People
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4 pages in length. The extent to which social sciences help people address the daily challenges of life, as well as prepare for future burdens that might not yet be known, is both grand and far-reaching. Understanding one's past in order to live in the present and plan for the future is an integral component to such literary works as Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, Joseph S. Nye, Jr's The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. No additional sources cited.
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How Social Theories Explain Crime
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This 4 page paper examines several theories: Labeling Theory, Social Strain Theories and Differential Association. How each of these theories explain crime is the focus of this paper that provides several examples. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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How Sociological Theories Explain Society
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This 5 page paper looks at a few theories which are the resource mobilization theory, rational actor theory and Piven and Cloward's suggestion to disrupt the system. The theories are evaluated. Many examples are provided. No bibliography.
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How Suicide Can be Altruistic
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This 3 page paper examines the concept of altruistic suicide. The focus of the paper is on an article submitted by a student concerning the suicide of a 13 year old boy. The situation is evaluated in light of Durkheim's theories. No bibliography.
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How the Elderly are Treated in Various Cultures
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This 7 page paper examines the plight of the elderly and how they are treated in the United States, as well as in two other cultures which are the Tiwi of Northern Australia and the Abkhasians of Caucasus. The cultures are examined with the use of the concepts of functionalism, interactionism and conflict theory. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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How the Other Half Lives
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A 5 page paper which discusses the book "How the Other
Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York" by Jacob Riis. Riss' book is an
incredible look at inner city life in New York City over a hundred years ago. No additional
sources cited.
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How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
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A 3 page summary and report on How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. No additional sources cited.
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HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES: A CRITIQUE AND ANALYSIS
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This 4 page paper discusses the fate of impoverished children as illustrated in Jacob Riis's book, How the Other Half Lives. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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An 11 page overview of the 1891 book by Jacob A. Riis. The author explores the problems related to poverty and despair in late nineteenth century New York. No additional sources are listed.
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How To Improve U.S. Poverty Level In 2008
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3 pages in length. Addressing the health, housing and economic needs of the poor is approached in a number of ways, not the least of which includes more accessible medical facilities and a stronger stance on maximum welfare dependency; however, one aspect in particular serves as the catalyst to enabling people to disengage from poverty: education. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How unions can flourish under the capitalist model
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This 8 page paper explores various theories as they respect unions. Capitalism and communism are discussed. The paper supports both unionism and capitalism and makes recommendations as to how unions can flourish under the capitalist paradigm. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How We Determine Meaning
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This 5 page paper uses quotes from Beth Loffreda, Annie Dillard and James Scott to discuss how meaning is determined in power-inequal relationships. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Howard Brody's "The Social Power Of Expert Healers" And Nancy Scheper-Hughes' "The Anthropological Looking Glass": Analysis And Interpretation
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5 pages in length. The extent to which Dr. Howard Brody asserts the unmitigated need for expert healers to maintain social power, he also advocates that that power be shared within the context of the common man. To Brody, information is truly the healing agent, even above and beyond the overconfident attitude of old medicine. This approach clearly correlates with some of Nancy Scheper-Hughes' theories of social power, while at the same time deviating from her more native-specific findings. No bibliography.
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Human Behavior and “Chimpanzee Politics”
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This 13 page paper takes the book “Chimpanzee Politics” by Frans de Waal as a springboard for answering five questions about the chimps described in the book, and how their behavior can be related to human behavior. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Human Beings Should Not Be Cloned
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This 5 page paper provides an overview on cloning, focusing on the negative ramifications, biologically, socially, and politically. Positive and negative aspects are discussed, but the paper concludes that human cloning can potentially do more harm than good. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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