Sociology

Tiwanaku has been known as one of the vital precursors to the empire of Inca acting as one of the archeological sites in western part of a place called Bolivia. In many cases, the name Tiwanaku has been associated with the term stone in the centre meaning that it is located at the worlds’ centre. Tiwanaku inhabitants did not have a written language; there fore they were not able to safe guard the real meaning of very essential names for instance what the name Tiwanaku meant. At first, Tiwanaku...

Should Great Powers Consider Terrorism to Be A ‘Considerable Threat’ To Global Order? What is Modern Terrorism? Before getting to understand the meaning of modern terrorism is it is important to try and understand what is meant by the word terrorism. The mention of terrorism usually elicits a lot of mixed reactions to different people. This is because; its definition usually differs from place to place depending on which side of the debate that one argues from. A terrorist in one perception can...

From time immemorial, every poet, author, philosopher has tried to find an answer to the purpose of the human life. To everyone, their findings, thoughts have responded in a different manner. In the doctrine, Existentialism is a Humanism, Sartre writes, “Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.” This is an apt thought to begin this essay. What is lacking...

Any bill that is introduced in the House for discussion must be aimed to address a danger or a sensitive issue and an example of these bills is the Military Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Act (H.R.840). This was a bill that was reintroduced in the house on 3rd February 2009 by Louise Slaughter after having failed to succeed in 2006. This bill is aimed at developing mechanisms and programs that would work to reduce all sort of violence targeted at military personnel and their families by...

Evidently, the coffee shop seems like the central meeting point for the young adults in this part of town. Why? One may wonder, for many different reasons perhaps, seeing as it is the setup, the ambience, the crowd and culture displayed in this coffee shop is appealing to this age cluster. On this particular day coffee shop is exceptionally full of clients. Probably the time; early evening on a Wednesday is a refreshing time for most college going and some working people to catch up on the highlights...

Inequalities in education present negative impacts on the reputation of the schools and most importantly on the students.  In a society where unemployment is high for example, only students from reputable schools are given the opportunity to get employed, those who are from segregated schools are discriminated outright.  This scenario is not uncommon to Americans, the reason why many students strive to enter into reputable schools, and once enrolled there, they always brag about it....

One might find it difficult to imagine how he or she can suffer from health hazards just using of a mobile phone. Health experts as well as mobile users have reported that indeed mobile phones have adverse health effects. Many experts who have researched on the effects of mobile phones do support that there is a correlation between cancer and cell phone use. Microwave emissions from cell phones have show a higher likelihood of causing cancer. Cell phones therefore cause cancer. Evidences of cell...

Back in Europe, people did not completely understand how America was, the landscape, the inhabitants, not a lot was documented. During the war in America, the news about the land had to travel back to the mainland. No reliable source could be found, as there were little or no official records. The only records were the newspapers and accounts of private persons, who contradicted each other a bit too often. There was a demand to put in writing the account of events taking place, for the present...

Dreaming. Fighting. Believing. Three words that keep the Trojanators move forward towards its goal on working hand-in-hand with various educational institutions in providing students achieve a better life. The team, which is composed of four members that specializes in different fields, primarily aims to address the needs of the students from Carver Middle School in their needs for an after school program and CDTech in its goals to train their students for their respective careers after graduation. The...

Introduction     This essay critically summarizes and evaluates the Fourth Chapter “The sweet life” (Sorlin, 2005). The essay looks at the explicit themes and links these to the implicit or underlying themes discussed by the author with regard to Italian cinema in the 1950s and the 1960s in particular. The essay also sheds critical light on these themes.     Although Sorlin (2005) encompasses his discussion between 1939 and the late 1990s, his main area of...

In the case study as the school psychologist, the client is in therapy to improve her social skills with peers through training sessions. However, the client is involved with a group of girls who share a cutting behavior and decides to engage in such activities to fit in. The school psychologist feels that the client is not suicidal. The client asks the school psychologist to keep it a secret and she will stop cutting her thighs.     The ethical issues involved in this situation are...

8 December 2009WS4 Essay     Gang violence is a problem experienced all over the world. The usual members of these gangs and the perpetrators of gang-related crimes are the youth. In the article Troubles in Smurftown: Youth Gangs and Moral Visions on Guam, it looks at the surge of gangs and gang-related problems in U.S. Guam and relates it to modernization. The changes in the tradition of the area somehow instigated the youth to look for a sense of honor and solidarity among their peers....

Introduction Feminism refers to the term that is used in the description of economic, cultural or political movement whose main intention is establishing more legal protection and rights for women. It involves sociological and political philosophies and theories regarding gender difference issues, and also a movement advocating for more gender rights for women that are specific as well as campaigns aimed at achieving women’s interests and rights. Despite the fact that both feminists and feminism...

Introduction     The elderly in society play a very critical role and ought to be given the kind of treatment and approach that they desire and deserve. A closer look at the various ethnic and minority groups in the country will attest to this; the trend fairly pointing to their general neglect. To better illustrate this assertion and trend, this paper is devoted to the analysis of the African American ethnic group, with an emphasis on the elderly within this group and how they relate...

Chapter 5 of Earl Babbie’s book, The Practice of Social Research, primarily expounds on Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement.  This particular phase in the conduct of an empirical research must be done to be able to proceed to the data gathering phase. There is a need for a research topic to be conceptualized in such a way that the unit of meaning for a particular social phenomenon is clearly defined.  This will put focus on the research topic and will guide the research...