Sociology

Part IHate Groups, Comparing Different States        In North Carolina, it is quite surprising to find that the total number of hate groups present amounts to 29. Of course, in comparison to Virginia, one of North Carolinas neighboring states which only have 22 known hate groups such a number may seem considerably greater. However, upon looking at the information regarding the amount of hate groups in other neighboring states, South Carolina and Tennessee having 36...

What is the role of the community to the youth How does globalization affect the community and influence the young people in our todays generation     In 19th century, community was associated with the hope and the wish of reviving once more the closer, warmer, more harmonious type of bonds between people vaguely attributed to past ages  (Elias 1974, quoted by Hoggett 1997 5). It was really only in 1915 that the first clear sociological definition emerged. A number of competing...

In the wake of the 1970s throughout the new millennium, there were wars, economies declined, disasters were seen as opportunities for economic restructuring and states began acknowledging the presence and necessity of dealing with a global market wherein state-ownership surrendered to privatization. This economic theory became known as neoliberalism where governments may still play a big role in developing their states economies but a huge part of their economic power are now relinquished to private...

This is about different groups considering themselves superior to other groups. Such ethnicity prevails in todays society. And media has more over created stereotypic characters in the society. There are stereotypes in every nation and even people of the same nation do not treat each other with equality due to other standards such as religion, class, creed, color, wealth, background.EthnocentrismEthnocentrism is when an individual feels their group is superior to that of others in living, values,...

Work basically is a social phenomenon. Whether its about dealing with bosses, subordinates, other workers or customers, work is in other words done in relation to other people. In addition, work is a crucial and significant part of contemporary life, and is intimately tied to other aspects of our lives, and these other aspects affect our own experiences at the workplace, just as our work affects them. Have you ever hated a job, been inspired by an innovative manager, wondered why nurses always seem...

Ethical Dilemma The creation of genetically modified products will boost food production and answer the issues of food shortage. However it is against ethical standards to modify the creation of nature and play as God. Even though it is against ethical values, should scientists pursue genetically modified products to solve food global scarcity      In our growing society, there has been integrating ethics to professional work. As our environment develops, new questions are arising...

Bureaucracy is one of the main concepts in the study of sociology and political science. This concept refers to the manner in which legal rules in an organization are to be enforced by the administration. The term refers to the combination of various elements such as the structure of an organization, the rules and regulations that an organization sets in place in order to manage the day to day activities of an organization. Its antonym which is referred to as adhocracy refers to the form of organization...

Casual sex which is herein defined as sex for the sheer sake of sex, with no serious relationship, or no strings attached--with at least one person (Sherman, 2004) and promiscuity (sex with multiple partners) has become prevalent in the US. This has in effect attracted widespread attention from both popular and academic literature. Indeed, some scholars believe that casual sex_and particularly short-term mating_is likely to have been a recurrent feature of human evolutionary history that have occasionally...