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Sociology
From the 1950s onward, psychosocial studies—often with an experimental component—have helped us understand human motivations for extreme behavior, including violence. They aimed to answer questions...
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Sociology
In the United States over the last two decades, the pattern of religious practice as it relates to the family shows a correlation between adult beliefs and behaviors and the religiosity of the...
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Sociology
Education, income distribution, and community health are key factors to consider when assessing a community’s well-being. These factors can indicate if people’s quality of life in a particular...
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Sociology
Wealth inequality is no just an American problem. It is a global problem with implications that extend beyond the boundaries of the United States. However, because the United States is the best...
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Sociology
On this site, it is not possible for us to simply answer an entire test for you. Therefore, I will pick a few of these questions and answer them. For Question 13, the best answer is “All of the...
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Sociology
There are many pull factors that drive people to move to urban areas. One such pull factor is the availability of jobs. There are more jobs nearby an urban area than a suburban or rural area. While...
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Sociology
Being able to clearly interact with someone else, especially when they are a representative from a particular group, helps demonstrate the interactionist perspective within the realm of sociology....
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Sociology
There are some fundamental principles typically covered in sociology courses that are beneficial for those training to be teachers. Teachers generally choose their careers at least in some part...
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Sociology
A sociological perspective seeks to understand the ways that broad social factors affect people's behavior, social interactions, and thoughts. Many things that seem like personal issues can in fact...
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Sociology
The widespread use of technology has been beneficial in some respects, but it has also been toxic. In general, people love technology, so they might be unwilling to accept technology's negative...
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Sociology
Relying on only your personal experiences and knowledge of life often results in the enactment of prejudice and oppression towards people who have different lived experiences than you. This is...
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Sociology
Based on this prompt, I believe that your answer needs to pick a side of the argument. This might be tough. Modernization is a double-edged sword. It has many advantages, but it also has many...
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Sociology
Post-subcultural theory is a set of cultural theories used in sociological study to interpret the behavior of youth culture. According to Andy Bennett, it “discards the concept of subculture” that...
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Sociology
Though early sociologists had valid concerns about the limitations of the scientific method and whether the method could be applied to questions of behavior, many of the tools they used were and...
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Sociology
Sociology is the study of society, including social problems such as poverty. However, not all sociologists agree about poverty. Within the field of sociology, there are several different points of...
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Sociology
The sociological perspective is a perspective on human behavior and its connection to society as a whole. It invites us to look for the connections between the behavior of individual people and...
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Sociology
Sociology is the study of the social relationships of people and organizations. Teachers and students do not function in a vacuum, but in the social relationships of their milieu. Therefore,...
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Sociology
In the "Saints and the Rougnecks" William Chambliss attempts to explain why two groups of kids, both of whom engage in delinquent activity, can be viewed so differently. The answer is probably not...
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Sociology
One reason why modernity is important to sociologists is because it, in many ways, gives them a reason for being. One important aspect of modernity is that it holds that everything about the world...
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Sociology
Sociology helps us better understand how our own society functions by exploring people's and groups' application of principles that govern society's interactions in the areas of communication,...
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Sociology
Functionalists argue that all parts of a society serve a purpose and are necessary for each society to function. This is true for both crime and deviance of all kinds. To a functionalist, crime...
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Sociology
Rural population reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. This undoubtedly was connected to the rise of agriculture as America's primary economic force. In the last fifty years, nearly half of all...
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Sociology
These are two questions that seem to be unrelated, so this response will focus on the first. In looking at the issue of immigration, you may want to consider the following approaches. Note that the...
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Sociology
According to the functionalist perspective, the government plays the role of maintaining law and order in the society. It manages the society as a single unit. It ensures that all groups within the...
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Sociology
Robin Williams argues that American society has 12 major values that are basic to that society. They are: Individualism. We think that people can and should rise or fall on their own merits....
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Sociology
There are many advantages to being able to do this. Let us look at two of the most important advantages. First, there is an advantage in terms of having greater understanding of the world. This...
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Sociology
In sociological terms, a subculture is one that shares values, norms and behaviors within itself but does not share them with the entire population. However, it is very difficult to actually...
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Sociology
The vital connection between society and agriculture (food-gathering) is a staple of anthropology--the mobile seed-and fruit gatherers vs. the planters who stayed in one place, etc. Today, this...
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Sociology
I assume you are asking which level of analysis each of the three major sociological perspectives is concerned with. The answer to this is that two of the major theoretical perspectives operate on...
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Sociology
Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" famously suggested that those throughout the British kingdom eat Irish babies in order to prevent, among other things, overpopulation of the poor, thereby...
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Sociology
Mcdonaldization is the process of breaking down a task into its smallest component parts. In the service industry, workers are then hired to perform those small tasks. It's the assembly line...
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Sociology
All three of these terms deal with behavioral expectations, which means that all are very fluid in their content within any given society and that they will vary with difffering cultures. Norms are...
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Sociology
One likely way for music to affect teenagers’ roles in society is if their choice of music makes them deviants. Deviants have a function in society because they help “normal” people understand...
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Sociology
It is a lot easier for kids to be connected to news sources than it used to be. They don't have to watch the news at a certain time or find a newspaper. I is also very easy to remain connected to...
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Sociology
Critical Theory, in basic terms, is any theory founded on critique (Wikipedia), and is used in many different fields, but it is most used in Sociology to define a work or plan based on criticism of...
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Sociology
Because agents exist in every aspect of society, any two social agents might potentially contradict each other. A social agent can be a people, a nation, even an ideology. At the abstract level,...
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Sociology
Social order is defined as a set of rules and structures that establish a cohesive social system. The term also defines a society that is in a stable state. The stability of the human social system...
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Sociology
The role of music in the culture of a place has more than one dimension, including the dimension that music expresses current changes in the culture and engenders further changes in that culture....
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Sociology
The essential difference between these two things is that one of them is an attitude or a feeling while the other is an action. Prejudice is a negative feeling towards the members of a given group....
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Sociology
Sociology is the study of social behavior. It encompasses the study of social groups, social interaction, and social institutions such as religion, government, and family. Sociology examines both...
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Sociology
I think one reason that people are moving away from rural areas is due to modern day farming techniques and farming technology. A single farmer can operate and maintain hundreds of acres worth of...
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Sociology
According to sociologists, there are two main patterns of intergroup relations. These are assimilation and pluralism. Assimilation occurs when a group comes to lose its distinctive identity in a...
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Sociology
Both racial and cultural identity, as well as many other things, could count as things that affect our social lenses. Social lenses are the preconceptions and prejudices that we bring to our...
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Sociology
Herbert Spencer was one of the most important figures in the early years of sociology. Spencer was strongly influenced by the ideas of Charles Darwin. He brought Darwin's ideas into the field of...
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Sociology
Age Strata: consists of a classification of people into different age groups. Age strata or stratification is commonly used in census, policy formulation (for old-age care, juvenile care, etc.) It...
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Sociology
That really depends on who you ask. For consumers, yes? You get a wide selection at good prices and there are a zillion stores so you won't have to drive far. But if you ask the folks who are...
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Sociology
The opening to Chaplin's Modern Times is a deliberate statement about the nature of work in the modern setting. Chaplin's opening clearly embodies conflict theory's assertion that control is...
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Sociology
Mills used the term "sociological imagination" to explain what a sociological perspective could give a person who possessed it. One aspect of it was that an individual could only understand their...
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Sociology
Symbolic interactionism is a sociological framework that states that people develop subjective interpretations of events based on their social interactions. In other words, following the ideas of...
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Sociology
Standpoint theory is a postmodern sociological theory that emphasizes the relationship between social location and knowledge or perspective. Standpoint theory suggests that an individual's...