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Sociology
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist. His work had many facets, among them the idea that one's tastes are formed by the class in which one is born. He believed that a person's aesthetic taste...
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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
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
Each sociological perspective has potential to be effective, depending on which aspect of society is being analyzed.The functionalist perspective argues that the different aspects of a society are...
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Sociology
It is often difficult to do business across cultures because every country has its own unique set of norms as well as differing perspectives on social etiquette. It can be quite a challenge to...
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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
In answering this question, we first have to remember that Kant’s ethics say that specific acts are not morally commendable or condemnable in and of themselves. There is no such thing as an act...
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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
In the United States, at least, we tend to think of marriage as a private affair, particularly since the notion of privacy has been read into the United States Constitution. However, historically...
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Sociology
There is enough research on the topic of serial killers to establish a very informed opinion about the issue. It is the question of nature vs. nurture. Does the killer's action reflect a biological...
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Sociology
While the question is to some extant an individual response, some observations can be made. Since the question is phrased as a school differentiation, rather than an age differentiation, let us...
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Sociology
There are a number of reasons for the migration of people from rural areas to urban areas. These include employment opportunities, educational facilities, lifestyle preferences, better medical...
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Sociology
Read papers on the subject from a multitude of sources, newspapers, magazines, op-ed, and scholarly journal articles. (As an aside, make sure you keep track of each article for reference...
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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
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
Sociological behavior is behavior that has been shaped by culture and other environmental influences. Environmental influences include socializing agents such as one's family, school, peers, and...
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Sociology
The benchmark test comparing students in various countries is called PISA (the program for international student assessment) which focuses on mathematics, reading, and science. For the last few...
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Sociology
There are many tests of the value of both these strategies. Most results show that individual competition, for example employees vying for the same title or job, is more destructive than...
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Sociology
In his theory of imperialism, Vladimir Lenin postulated that imperialism is the final, obligatory stage in capitalism. Imperialism ran rampant during the 19th century and was the primary cause of...
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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
In sociology, culture can be defined as all of the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, material objects, and other things that define a particular group of people. The people who share a culture and...
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Sociology
On eNotes, we ask that you only submit one question at a time, not a list of questions like this one. I will go ahead and answer two of these, but please do submit your questions individually. The...
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Sociology
Adherents of all of the major sociological perspectives would argue that they have ways to explain the emergence of plus-sized models in today’s world. These perspectives are functionalism,...
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Sociology
Bermuda was first discovered in the early 1500s by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez. He found the islands to be completely uninhabited, even devoid of any natives. The first settlers were British...
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Sociology
Postmodernism at its core is an examination of, and emphasis on, the context of a piece or a social situation, repudiating the idea that art, human activity, etc., have "meaning" outside their...
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Sociology
This is a very good question. Not too many people have studied the sociology of leisure until relatively recently. As you can imagine, theorists have a very difficult time defining what they mean...
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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
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
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
This complex question crosses the fields between personal morality and social ethics. According to such thinkers as Emile Durkheim, the society with which we associate (on the large scale, our...
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Social Sciences
The study of psychology gives a more sophisticated view of why people do what they do. The layman simply dismisses motive in judging human behavior, but the person trained in psychology has...
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Linguistics
Of the many subtypes of the study of linguistics – the study and description of word formation (as inflection, derivation, and compounding) in language, the most relevant to current social...
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Deconstruction
In broad terms, deconstruction is a taking apart, a dissection, of any structure (it is borrowed from carpentry), to not only discover how it was put together, but to discover some hidden...
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Criminal Justice
While in theory the parole board is independent of prison administration, in practice the board pays careful attention to the written report of the warden, especially when considering whether the...
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Film and Television
The entire film examines the consequences of prejudice based on past experiences (the "crash" of cultures), and its cure. The police in the opening sequence are looking for a stolen luxury...
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Religion
Religious guidance in the form of holy books or even pastoral authority still requires a human interpretation, and that interpretation is imbedded in a social setting. For example, if you read...
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Health
A hospital setting by definition concentrates on the body, its health status, its measurement, its need, etc. from day to day, from hour to hour. It is “unhealthy” for an adolescent child to...
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Gender Identity
Two terms, sex and gender, must be separated here. The “Manichean fallacy” (either/or logical error) has for centuries warped our perception of human nature. While from ancient times societies...
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Sociology
To most people, the phrase “social statics” is connected to the British scholar Herbert Spencer. Spencer was, among other things, a pioneer in the field of sociology. His book, entitled...
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Social Sciences
The sociological imagination is the ability to look at things in the context of our own lives and societies (or those of other people). In other words, it is the ability to think about why certain...
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Sociology
It is axiomatic that the cultural milieu of a work of fiction is integral to the development of character and plot. Most always, the protagonists or other characters are acting outside or inside...
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Ender's Game
There are actually three “worlds” in this novel: first, the domestic “dystopia” in which family size is limited, social pressure is applied to “Thirds”, family members are alienated...
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Business
From the theoretical perspective of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the "self concept" would coincide with the most important element of the hierarchy, which is self-actualization. Self-actualization...
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Reference
Ethnicity refers to classifications based on such elements as race, nationality, language, culture, religion, tribe, and background. Ethnicity also generally encompasses a large group of people who...
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Social Sciences
A new research study shows that relationship satisfaction, longevity and closeness in a long distance relationship (LDR) is statistically close or equal to that in a geographically close...
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Anthropology
There are two way that families, kinship and descent connect. The first is through how they each are constructed. The second is through the function of each. Descent is the means of tracking...
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Sociology
1. "Sociopolitical" is a combined word that joins social or sociological with political. The meanings addresses the areas of life where social and political concerns intersect and interact with...
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Social Sciences
Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, published his book Suicide (Le Suicide) in 1897. In this book Durkheim defined the four different types of suicide and their grounding in societal factors not...
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Social Sciences
The primary and essential difference between scientific research in psychology and researching preferences and individual views on issues is that of data. Research in psychology endeavors to...
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Music
Let us define modern music as 20th and 21st. century music, which can be divided into at least two kinds: “popular music”, which is the widely broadcast, bought, and sung music of iTunes and...