Sociology Essays

Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
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Introduction: Summary of the Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: What is his principle argument? How does he demonstrate his conclusion? According to Habermas, the pu...

Ideas between Carnie and Marx
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Introduction: Social structure is the deciding factor of competition. The poor classes have always tried to compete with the wealthier classes in order to take the wealth and power from them. On the other hand...

Evaluation of Marx and Foucoult's Ideological Theories
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Introduction: Marxism Ideology: This literature review will discuss Karl Marx’s approach to ideology and will understand his methodologies by reviewing his school of thought to find out if it is rel...

The Evolution of Feminism
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Introduction: Feminism has become a crucial aspect in today’s society and has developed into an important area of discussion. Many women and men have their own standpoints on the theory and utilize those to ...

Techniques of the Body and their Relationship to Identity
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Introduction: Techniques of the body are essential to identity transformation. Discuss this proposition with reference to specific examples from contemporary lifestyle television. Identity is an ongo...

Effectiveness of Capital Punishment and its Effects on Society
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Introduction: Abstract Capital punishment, in the Criminal Justice System, is the most debated issues in the United States. Just as early as the nineteenth century, capital punishment was being used.&...

The Rules of Sociological imagination (1895) by Emile Durkheim | Analysis
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Introduction: Critical analysis of Emile Durkheim’s, The Rules of Sociological imagination (1895), specifically chapter five: Rules for the explanation of social facts, the literature is one of Durkheim’s ...

Women Within Society: The Effects of Media, Socializing Institutions and Beauty Industries
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Introduction: The feminist movement has been a social fight for gender equality for over 15 decades (Evans, 1979, p. 156). Many strides have been taken and victories have been made. However, why is it that aft...

Theories on Intersectionality and Colourism
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A Critical Reflection on Social Identity
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Introduction: “Patterns of social relations affect your innermost thoughts and feelings, influence your actions, and help shape who you are; sociologists call stable patterns of social relations [as] social ...

Feminism, Self-Identity and Internalized Sexism
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Introduction: For contemporary feminist thinkers and theorists, the concept of womanhood and what it means to be a woman in a post-structuralist society is posing a problem. The problem that has risen, is one ...

The Sociological Aspects of Poverty
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Introduction: Abstract Poverty is defined as the deprivation of basic needs that comprises of foods, shelter. Poverty is known as an exceptional complex social phenomenon whereby trying to discover it...

Consequences of Gender Being a Social Construct
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Introduction:  Gender is socially constructed and can be shaped and altered in various ways. With examples, explain the consequences for our view of men and women’s identities. This essay will ...

Women's Difficulties and Perceptions at Work
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Introduction: The gender defined by the differences in human physiological structure and the gender defined by the social norms of the day are the two major axes of gender issues. Theory of Gender Roles is one...

Family As the Key Institution in Society
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Introduction: This essay will discuss the view that the family is the key institution in society. It will look at changes in family structures, marriage, and marriage practices, using a range of socio...

Factors of Capitalism and Modern Entrepreneurship
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Introduction: “Men/women work ‘to get rich’, in a large proportion of cases…Whatever our philosophy of human motives, we must face the fact that men/women do raise more corn to feed more hogs, to buy m...

Annotated Bibliography of the Effect of Barbie Dolls on Beauty Standards
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Introduction: In this presentation I will be analyzing the role that the Barbie doll plays in young girls’ development in the United States. I will focus on the doll as a commodity that exploits the insecuri...

Genetically-Modified Organisms: Economic Freedom and Social Stability
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION In this paper, I employ a sociological conceptual framework with a qualitative methodology to interpret the case of the Genetically-Modified Organisms to inform discussions ...

Max Weber’s Legitimacy Domination on Religious Extremism
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Introduction:  Max Weber, a German sociologist, theorize three pure types of legitimate domination in his “The Types of Legitimate Domination” in 1914. Weber emphasizes that there has to be a legitima...

Racial-Ethnic Identity and the Imposter Phenomenon Among Ethnic Minority College Students
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Introduction:  Research has shown that the desire to prove oneself is something that many minority students feel attending predominately white institutions (PWI; Solórzano et al., 2000). Being at these P...

Effect of Parenthood on Gender Pay Gaps
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Introduction: Gender roles in society:  Forming the gender wage gap today are the same stereotypical gender attitudes of the past. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to look at the ef...

Marx's Views about Freedom in a Capitalist Society
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Introduction: Is Marx right to think that people are deluded if they think they are free in a capitalist society? Marx uses his theory of alienation to demonstrate why workers in a capitalist society ...

Narractives and Structures of Feminism
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Introduction: ‘It is no longer possible to talk about feminism – one should really speak of feminisms.’ Discuss with reference the feminist approaches to narrative. Introduction – 250 ...

Do Beauty Norms and Practices Subordinate Women?
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Introduction: Do beauty norms and practices subordinate women? Discuss in light of the work of One of the following authors: Susan Bordo, Sheila Jeffreys or Sandra Lee Bartky     ...

Systems of Oppression in Society
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Introduction: We live in a society that continues to produce and reinforce systems of oppression around the world. These systems have continued to build hierarchal differences between the gender, race and econ...