Sociology Essays

Is Racial Marginalization Worse than Socio-Economic Marginalization?
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Introduction: Is Racial Marginalization Worse than Socio-Economic Marginalization? Another way to address the question at hand is to decide which of these is more detrimental to society: being forced...

Marxist Approaches in Environmental Sociology
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Introduction: Readings this week focus on Marxist and neo-Marxist approaches in environmental sociology. While Marx’s early work has been criticized for his anthropocentric views the environment, later work ...

History and Impact of the Communist Manifesto
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Introduction: The Communist Manifesto was a powerful and ever-changing movement that had the political potential to become revolutionary, changing the economic system and power structure within European countr...

The Bell Curve: Effects and Findings
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Introduction:  Since its original publication in 1994, The Bell Curve has received its fair share of criticism. The authors, Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, argue that human intelligence and IQ sco...

Housing Segregation: History, Crime Rates and Collective Efficacy
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Introduction: There are many elements that go into the disparity of crime rates between different races. Elements such as race, ethnicity, and income all pay a large part in crime rates. While segregation is n...

Impact of Population Growth on the Environment
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Introduction: Growing concerns about the impacts of population growth on the environment began to emerge in the 1960s among academics and the public due to high levels of population growth and growing concerns...

Comparing Identities on Social Media Platforms: Ouyang Nana
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Introduction: Identity Analyse a celebrity, sportsman/woman or an influencer’s public identity across two or three media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, livestreams, blog, film, television,...

Influence of Advertising on the Male and Female Psyche
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Introduction: Advertising is a form of communication intended to convince an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to purchase or take some action upon products, information or services etc.  What does...

Sociological and Psychological Theories on Child Development
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Introduction: During my weekly assignment, the theories interested me the most are child development theory and culture concepts. These theories are what boosted my interest in reading chapter 2 which is cultu...

Economic and Cultural Aspects of Globalization in the Postmodern Era
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Introduction: Introduction Globalisation, is one concept.It is also a process of the development of human society. Globalisation in the general sense of globalization refers to the growing global ties...

Development of an Understanding of Feminism
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Introduction: While building a case on contemporary feminism, Tolentino posits that in recent times, that feminism has grown to be one of the most widely marketed or proclaimed ideas in the world (10). In as m...

Symbolic Interactionism and Interpersonal Communication: The Connection between Symbols in Everyday Message Exchange and Formation of the Self
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Introduction: Symbolic Interactionism is a sociological theory that suggests everyone prescribes meaning to language and symbols. Those meanings are created, negotiated, sustained, and cultivated through inter...

Sociocultural Perspectives on Education and Identity
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Introduction: Abstract The contention of female leadership in education has become a pivotal focus for research since the end of the twentieth century. The goal of my research paper is to examine comm...

Applying the Sociological Imagination
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Introduction: “Sociology can seep into any aspect of life” is the idea I remember about when viewing a video about sociological concepts. For instance, the tools of sociology such as the sociologic...

What are the Impacts of Gentrification on Community and Identity?
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Introduction: In what ways do the benefits of gentrification accrue to only a small portion of the urban population? What is its impact upon community and identity? Gentrification, a term coined by Ru...

Behaviour Changes of Astronauts on Return to Earth
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Introduction: You have been hired as a scientist for NASA and for your first assignment you have to develop research on how the behavior of Astronauts changes from the period before they launch into space to...

Differences in Gender and Financial Management
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Introduction: Literature review In both the financial and information search literature, women were depicted as favoring social sources to “autonomous” ones (Furse, Punj, & Stewart, 1...

The Threat of the Rich and Poor Gap to Social Institutions
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Introduction: Introduction Social problems are large topics up for debate in American society. The steadily increasing gap between the rich and the poor is a prevalent social problem in our society. A...

Queer Media and the Politics of Queer Visibility
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Introduction: Abstract   How are non-normative sexual and gender identities constructed and represented in online spaces? Through a review of sociological research, this article examines...

Hyperglobalisation Thesis and the Growing Power Multinational Companies
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Introduction: Since the second world war globalisation has increased at all time high speed and in the currently dominates the global sphere, for the purpose of this essay when referring to globalisation, it w...

A Sociological Analysis of Rising Student Loans
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Introduction: Introduction  Do you or someone you know have student loans? If so, you are being impacted by a growing social problem in today’s society. A social problem is defined as a charact...

Wang and Yen’s Theory of Hybridization
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Introduction: Hybridization is a fusion of different kinds of concepts themes identities and styles, which occurs across cultural boundaries. It has been a global trend in cultural production. According to Wan...

To What Extent Can Marriage Be Considered a Universal Aspect of Human Societies?
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Introduction: Marriage is defined in the Dictionary as, “the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship”. However, there are many other definitions of marriag...

Communicative Discourses in Media Depictions of Black Women’s Natural Hair
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Introduction: Introduction     “Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy- we are black and beautiful!” -     Stokely Carmichael &#...

Sociology Personal Case Study
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Introduction: Who Am I? As young students many of us have not taking the time to truly evaluate who we are or how we think. Let alone to think about how we have been shaped based on our surroundings o...