Sociology

Bipolar disorder is a neurological disorder, which is also called manic depression. It is one of the most intense disorders with regards to the physical and emotional pain cause to the patient. It affects the lives and daily activities of the patients suffering from it by causing extreme shifts in moods, energy and routine functioning. Patients of this disorder suffer from moments of depression and mania that can last over a long period of time, even months at end. It usually manifests itself in...

Look around your surrounding and see how many people are striving for their rights. Look closer and you will know each and everyones struggle, and then look within and you will feel how they have struggled so much. Actually, resistance is attending of social inequality that is perceived by many as normal or part of life (Bond). Generally speaking people experience struggle from their own family, or also known as the smallest unit of the society, to other institutions like in school, in work, and...

The Availability of a Cause The British administration had a certain bad reputation in the colonies. Although Acts passed by the British parliament such as a Stamp Act were widely seen as exploitative and there were a few mass protests against various avenues of collecting revenue adopted by the British and the quartering of troops in some areas however once the contrary to the popular perception, the major part of the population of the colonies remained neutral throughout the conflict, supporting...

Motivation is a widely discussed and researched organizational phenomenon. It refers to the process that accounts for an individuals intensity, direction and persistence of effort towards goal attainment (Stephens,  Judge, 2007, p. 187). Intensity refers to how hard a person works, direction connotes the line along which the persons effort is channeled and persistence measures the duration of application of effort (Stephens,  Judge, 2007, p. 186). A number of theories have been formulated...

Workers are the most important asset of any organization. They can be considered as the basic building block which are the used by management to build up the organizations progress and reputation.  Realizing their importance, many organizations around the world allow for the involvement of workers and other levels of employees in major organizational decisions as well as profits. However, the participation of workers in organizational decision making and profits represent a very popular theme...

The main objective of the paper is to present the readers with the fundamental analysis of the major sociological theories. Besides giving interpretations, the paper gives the readers both the conceptual and structural explanations of the sociological theory and social paradigms. The current research gives analysis to three important research paradigms, including structural functionalist paradigm, conflict paradigm, and symbolic interaction paradigm. In this paper I will pay a particular attention...

I agree with the author that Greece cannot resolve the issue of illegal immigration without a lot of debate.  I further agree that a set of rules is required to deal with the issue in a manner that produces positive outcomes, both for the Greeks and the immigrants from war-torn nations.  Indeed, as the author states, it is a very sad situation that people who flee their war-torn nations must go through so much turmoil, as the Greeks do not know exactly what to do with them.  However,...

As a Columbia University professor, Sudhir Venkatesh has recorded his experience within a period of 7 years of following and befriending a Chicago drug dealing gang in an attempt to investigate the complex world of Windy Citys urban poor (Venkatesh    299).  He involved himself with the Black Kings who had a certain J.T. as their leader when he was a first-year doctoral student studying at the University of Chicago (Venkatesh    301). ESSAY The book starts by telling the...