Introduction The warfare on substance use and abuse is a costly engagement regardless of place and time. Authorities direct numerous resources towards catching buyers and sellers of illicit drugs. The process does not stop at catching them; it goes to prosecution and jailing those found guilty. The war becomes even...
Purpose of the study The purpose of this study was to investigate the role played by individual factors (gender, age, previous sexual harassment experiences, age) and organizational factors (for example, policies of sexual harassment, gender ration, employer’s role) in influencing the attitudes that workers have towards sexual harassment perceptions. The...
When we think of artifact impact on gender, we need to understand first what is defined by ‘gender’. What is gender? Gender is basically the term that is most commonly used for ‘women’. It is mostly used as a social term than a biological one. Gender as a term is...
Immigration issues have become the center of attention in recent times in the US. With 12.6 % of the US population being immigrants, both legal and illegal, and undocumented workers going beyond the traditional states which usually receive them, the issue has generated a lot of heat in public arenas...
Introduction Marijuana is a brown, green or gray blend of dried out seeds, stems, flowers together with the leaves of the hemp plant. It has been given different names by various groups of people by which it is referred. Such names include the herb, the weed, boom, bhang, gangster among...
Introduction A lot of public awareness programs and campaigns are conducted to prevent addiction to drugs and alcohol. However, the number of drug and alcohol addicts increases year by year. Addiction to drugs or alcohol is the effect of compulsive and continuous use of drugs or alcohol despite its adverse...
Introduction The conflict between individuals or parties is inevitable. Moreover, conflict is a personal issue that expresses personal beliefs and interests and it becomes a delicate issue after it affects other parties. This owes its roots to the fact that people are different and no one is a replica of...
Article 1 – the author is Caitlin Cahill, it is titled “The Personal is Political: Developing New Subjectivities through Participatory Action Research. Gender, Place & Culture”. The article is mainly concerned with the participatory action research (PAR) in the sphere of social justice and its post-structuralism consideration in the feminism...
Abstract Substance abuse is an existing problem within today’s society and the military has not been an exception. Soldiers have over the years continued to test positive for drugs during the normal urine tests that are done in the military despite the measures that are put into place. In the...
Introduction Hispanic is the most diverse ethnic group in America, with their differences being indicated by race, regional separations, national origins, economics, and migration history. The Mexican Americans and the Puerto Ricans are of American origin by birth but Cubans entered the United States as political refugees (Kanellos, 1994). The...
For a long time, there has been increased debate over the role of women in the economy. Culture has been one of the factors that have limited their role. Most people argued that women were restricted by their gender to the home and in the raising of children. The role...
Modern world is different from that which was 10 – 20 years ago. People look on various things differently, such as what was forbidden and shameful yesterday is allowed today. People’s opinion about such things as marriage, personal relations, love, sex and other notions has changed greatly. People now are...
When one talks of women’s rights, what is meant is Feminism that is an ideology focusing on equality among different sexes. Rights refer to entitled freedom to individuals; such rights can either be institutionalized by the government or not. Even though rights are grouped, they are in turn differentiated from...
Abortion is one of the main social issues that is facing America today. It is a very sensitive issue that has brought much debate in many quarters in American society. It is a violation of human rights and one wonders what all the debates on human rights are for when...
Introduction The Independence War was the most important event in the United States during the 19th century. Many social, cultural, economic and politic phenomena appeared in that era. Slavery is the most important fact about the early history of America. It is “the state of one bound in servitude as...
“It was during the French revolution that for the first time European women were promised equal rights with regard to political participation, employment, marriage, divorce, and even the burden of waging war.” (Letzter 1998, p.58). Revolution has always been identified as the root cause for different changes in almost all...
Abstract This research paper will try to deal with the issue of discrimination in the work place. In spite of the lawful scaffold set as the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barring any form prejudice based race, color of the skin, religious convictions, nationality, where you...
Enclosure – enclosure was a form of depriving peasants of the right of owning or using a land in Great Britain. The process implied fencing open fields in a given village and the division of the common land in accordance to one’s property in the open fields. This process ended...
“Ten million illegal immigrants live in the US, according to estimates by academic and government agencies, although Bear-Stearns investment firm analysts claim that the US illegal immigrant population “may be as high as 20 million people.” (Illegal Immigration, 19 April 2009). “Every year millions of people sneak illegally into another...
African Americans have been tolerating slavery and oppression for several centuries. They were deprived even of the most elementary rights and their lives were completely at their masters’ disposal. Closer to the middle of the nineteenth century, certain disturbances started to be observed among the enslaved African Americans. A number...
Teen drinking is a problem that undermines the society from its roots. Looking at the statistics, it is getting worse, where despite some decline in the number of teen drinkers from 2001, according to an annual poll, alcohol consumption increased. (“Teen Drinking ‘Remains a Worry'”) Teen drinking is also dangerous...
Introduction “Crash” is a 2004 American drama directed by Paul Haggis. It is starring Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Esposito, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, William Fichtner, and others. The movie follows the lives of the characters in Los Angeles as they are struggling with the issues of race and class inequality. Is...
The problems of social background are those things that need to be resolved immediately. Society never takes for granted the essence and, what is more, the progression of negative impacts and causes of violence and disorder in the communities. The present time reality actively relies on the help of governmental...
Abstract Every passing day, reports about escalating domestic violence are heard in the United States. This is so despite the efforts by relevant agencies to intervene. Several reasons have been identified as impediments to the effort. Among them is culture. Imbalance in the power relations between the two genders and...
Race and gender hierarchy changes in American history are the results of various social, economic, and political issues. While the poor economic conditions of African Americans are one reason for it, there are other social and political factors too. The racial discrimination and prejudice against African Americans by white people...
Introduction In this age of globalization, there is much controversy on the coming together of all kinds of people for a common purpose. Diversity is slowly becoming a common feature in schools, workplaces and communities. Due to this development, a lot of issues crop up such as acceptance of different...
America is one of the most developed countries of the world now a day, where women citizens are contributing to society as same as men. Not only this they are self-dependent and can earn as much as a man can. But the women’s present situation was not like this about...
Racial prejudices constituted the basis for the emergence of the institution of slavery from which people with black skin suffered a lot. Still, the history of American slavery has shown that skin color did not always mean the same: though all the blacks were subjected to the same perception in...
Introduction Discussing the issue of the present day chronic cycle of poverty, it would be relevant to mention that children might be regarded as the most unprotected social group that suffers form the above mentioned problem. There are certain events that lead to this cycle; namely: multidisciplinary, ranging from declining...
Family violence is believed to be one of the most commonly practiced crimes in the United States. Violence within the family is a horrific form of violence and has many negative effects. Family violence could involve any member of the family including spouses, generally women or wives, children, or even...
Introduction Each state should consider the desirability of coming up with a plan for themselves, which promotes human rights or at least conserves the prevailing human rights in the masses. Human security is one of the greatest challenges of today’s societies, and the threats that are posed to human security...
Abstract Drug and alcohol abuse is like voluntary suicide. The effects of substance abuse are vast and problematic in every society. Substance abuse aids the spread of AIDS, pun intended. Substance abuse leads to the death of millions: people who are abusers and people who become the victims of the...
Introduction The debate concerning the use and abuse of marijuana is an ongoing and complicated one. Marijuana is a drug, the use of which has been declared illegal according to the U.S, constitution. Proponents of the ban on Marijuana argue that the use or rather abuse of the drug has...
Abstract The purpose of the present proposal is to draw out a comprehensive research plan that would be conducted to find out if there exists or not any relationship between sexual orientation of the individual and high rate of suicidal ideation among them. The main aim behind it the estimation...
Introduction Conflicts remain a peculiar feature of the current world development. The number of existing oppositions questions the adequacy of the mechanisms that the global community has elaborated. Conflicts throughout the world result in constant human rights abuse that threatens the overall democratic development. The current paper focuses on exploration...
In the United States, married couples receive many legal benefits that couples who live together but are unmarried do not. More and more, gay couples are insisting that they receive the same legal rights that traditional, heterosexual married couples receive. Gay rights advocates believe that it is inequitable and biased...
Racial Disparity can be seen as a practice whereby some people assert that they deserve more social power than another group based on their race or others asserting that they do not deserve the social power since it is unjust. Environmental and biological factors are what determines who we are...
Literature review Disability has been defined as the absence of ability in relation to either personal or a group norm or standard (Bowe 1978). In light of this, disability could involve sensory impairment, mental disorder, physical impairment, intellectual or cognitive impairment, as well as a variety of other kinds of...
Introduction Use of easily available drugs which are common in home medicine cabinets, or asked from friends may pose equal danger to illicit drugs. Its sourcing doubles the risk as these may be perceived as legal and positive ways to cope with medical problems. There are many ways of which...
The article “Organizational Sexual Harassment Investigations: Observers’ Perceptions of Fairness” by Elkin et al (2008) describes the case of sexual harassment on the workplace and its impact on human relations. The authors underline that despite of great improvements in social relation legislation, sexual harassment is still a main problem took...
The Rule of Law The rule of law can be traced back to the ancient England in the seventeenth century. It appeared first as a result of a development of a great effort for supremacy rather than as the result of premeditated endeavors. However it remained long enough for it...
Introduction There is a widely held opinion among many American politicians and sociologists that illegal immigration is the underlying cause of many problems that the United States experiences now. Certainly, it is quite a disputable issue, and very often, illegal immigrants are viewed as scapegoats, a certain group of people...
Introduction Domestic violence is usually considered an adult issue, typically happening when the man of the house causes physical pain to the adult female. However, properly speaking, domestic violence is not always physical and is usually not limited just to the household or just to the adults. Regardless of the...
Smoking has existed for a very long period of time. Tobacco can be traced back to 6000BC when it started growing in the Americas. Smoking of Tobacco then started in about 1000BC. Even during those early times smoking in public places was considered outrageous. Rodrigo de Jerez fell victim to...
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a specific region overtime period. Growth in population is measured using population growth rate which is defined as the percentage rate by which the number of persons in a population rises. “Population growth rate is used normally to refer...
In the modern world marriages of the same sex are common in a few countries such as the US, Holland, Spain, and South Africa. Traditionally, marriage has been legally or socially recognized between people of the opposite sex. This kind of marriage has resulted in a heated debate between those...
Introduction The right to choose is the foundation upon which this country was built. Those who are pro-abortion trumpet this slogan while proclaiming a woman’s ‘God given right’ to make her own choices without government interference. This simple ideology is embraced by some but the arguments are flawed when the...
Introduction For the past years, there has been a quiet movement that is being done in order to lower the legal drinking age to 18. This is happening as advocates claim that teens who are permitted to vote and fight during war should also be allowed to drink a beer...
Domestic violence relations can be traced back to early European instances based on patriarchal social associations. The issue has gained global acclamation, and it has stopped being a concern for the family but for authorities within and beyond the nations in question. Domestic violence in modern society has had numerous...
Violence plays a major role in popular video games and movies. It encourages adolescents to mimic the violence displayed and portrayed on the screen, and it may have plays a major part in influencing violence and aggression on teenagers. Research has shown that playing violent video games such as Mortal...
Introduction Gender basically refers to the social construction of biological differences between men and women. These differences bring about sex division of labor which makes gender scholars claim that division of labor on a sex basis brings about inequality between men and women. Since we are living in patriarchal society...
In fact, nothing can be more dangerous than being controlled by something that threatens your life. Addiction is of great danger to human life. Alcohol addiction is a harmful kind of addiction that can be characterized by a strong desire to drink and loss of control. Alcoholism is a type...
Introduction History of civilisation demonstrates that any natural calamity war affects the people in a different way depending on their class character. Social Classes are determined by the level of socioeconomic status. The First World War was a catastrophic holocaust in human history and it was an instance of mass...
There are religious beliefs that consider animals to be the embodiment of Gods or the chosen creatures of God. It is a well-known fact that Indian and Arabic religions give religious importance to their lives and as such, are accorded respect and treatment oftentimes even better than those accorded to...
Introduction Homosexuality and gay customs have been part of human culture since time immemorial. In Ancient Greece, erotic love and sexual pleasure between males, especially young men and adolescent boys, was generally acceptable as it was widely believed to make men excel in all their endeavors especially in battle. Penetrative...
Abstract The nation that is today referred to as the United States of America has a varied population made up of different groups and individuals. These groups are characterized by very prominent differences in their sizes, culture, language, wealth, religion, education and race. While some of the groups have made...
Introduction The use of animals for biological and medical research has advanced knowledge in related subjects, saved human lives, and alleviated suffering. In similar fashion, the use of animals for testing cosmetics and other consumer items has prevented the distribution and use of harmful products. But these benefits have been...
Introduction The United Nations (UN) is an organization that promotes world peace. It works to resolve tribulations before it reaches a state of conflict. The UNO has several organizations that are responsible to meet monetary, societal, intellectual, or gentle issues and are established to provide the required mutual aid in...
Introduction Child abuse is not a new story in our ears. Each passing day we encounter cases of child abuse. As matter of fact, year in and out thousands of children undergo oppression because of reasons which include psychological malfunctions of the people who look after the children, they exhibit...
There are approximately 10 million undocumented workers in the United States. This number continued to rise as people from economically disadvantaged countries cross the border into Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona. One of the facets of the illegal immigration is granting driver’s licenses to these undocumented workers. According to...
The Koran in its universal message to humanity says: “O mankind, keep your duty to your Lord who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate (of same kind) and from them twain has spread a multitude of men and women” (Koran 4: 1) Women according...
Although education is one of the major significant dimensions of power and politics in society it is overlooked in sociology. Education does not only influence power and politics in society but also improves the view of major aspects of society. (McKenzie, 2001). Education is very essential in society and it...
Introduction Illegal immigration represents a potential threat to national security because of the possibility that terrorists or agents of hostile governments can enter the United States and remain undetected within illegal immigrant communities. The total number of illegal immigrants in the United States is not known, with estimates ranging between...
The problem of racism in the USA and throughout the whole world has always been considered to be central due to its globalism and influence on the sphere of social life and international cooperation. Thousands of people of Afro-American origin suffered injustice and cruelty on the part of other nationalities...
Introduction Women in the Middle East are faced with several social problems resulting from the patriarchal nature of the family system and culture which imposes a limitation on full self-realization and growth. However, these women are not aware of the reasons behind their social backwardness. Lack of democracy in the...
Introduction The problem of teenage pregnancy and childbirth is still actual all over the world. Today all over the globe more than 15 million teenagers give birth, and five more are forced to resort to pregnancy interruption. In this connection, there is a necessity of study and judgment of such...
Introduction Human trafficking has become an impending problem for the United States and the European countries and has emerged as a major concern for both the government and the non-government organizations. This has become a high priority in the international criminological discourse. An indication of the growing importance of this...
Introduction Women have been involved in politics for a long time but their presence in big offices has grown significantly both in the 20th and in the 21st century. This growth can be attributed to many factors which will be considered in this essay and among them is the emergence...
Abstract An overall policy involves a holistic approach is solving the problems at hand. Several countries have unique problems identical to their geographic position. Policymakers must devise policies that can address issues that are critical to the survival of living things. Economists use the computable model as the most preferable...
Introduction 1Human rights can be defined as the basic rights and the various human freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. It is through such basic needs and freedoms which are entitled to human beings that they feel free to act according to their wishes with no restriction. Examples...
Introduction Children are the future of the nation and their welfare is important if the nation is to have a safe and bright future. It is an amazing fact that in a developed country as the United States, nearly 13 million children, about18% of all children, live in families with...
An Introduction Human beings are generally known as social animals with unique characteristics that involve intelligence and ability to think. Since human possess these added qualities, it can be seen a sense of interdependency, unity, harmony, achievements, conflicts, ethnicity, class, creed, religion, crime and culture among the people. Sociology covers...
Introduction Communication is the passing of information from one person, in this case known as the transmitter, to another person or person who is the recipient through a particular medium which could either be verbal, written, and visual or sign language. Communication skills therefore are the skills needed in or...
Introduction Performance- Enhancement and supplement is to enhance ones appearance and to avoid fatigue in an athletic. What can the performance-enhancement drugs do to your body, and the side effects and risk of using steroid has on an individual? The effects steroids have on a male, female and an adolescent....
Introduction In this paper, the researcher endeavors to probe the classic theories and perspectives of social inequalities faced by children in the foster care system. The paper takes a closer look at how the foster care system influences the life chances of the children under care. The researcher examines such...
Abstract This report tries to find out how the evolution of formal organizations evolved over the past century, differences that existed in organizations a century ago compared to today, transformation of the characteristics of formal characteristics to flexible and open organizations, and trends in future organizations as forecasted in future....
Introduction Every society has some controversial issues on its agenda but what is of paramount importance for one nation may be quite insignificant from the point of view of others. However, this is not the case with the universal problem of drug abuse, addiction, and related consequences that drugs have...
Introduction The U.S. Army Forces are currently under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which governs the conduct of homosexual personnel. ” The policy allows gay people to serve in the military if they keep their sexual orientation confidential; it also restricts the military’s right to pursue information about a...
Introduction The concern regarding the need for immigration reforms have been brewing for several years now, not because of the misperception that more and more people are coming and settling to work in the United States but simply because of the increasing number of illegal immigrants and incidence of related...
Problem of Immigration At the end of the twentieth century, immigrants are coming to the United States in numbers seen only once before, at the beginning of the century. In earlier periods, most of the immigrants were white Europeans; today the great majority are Latino or non-white. Immigration is the...
Introduction Racial profiling by police, or in other words “inclusion of race as a primary determinant in the characterization of a person considered likely to commit a particular type of crime” (Banks, 2003) for many years was considered to be a practice that violates civil rights and democratic freedoms. In...
Introductory part People have always been looking for love and understanding. But sometimes it is difficult to understand one another, and this failure can cause many problems. What are the reasons of this misunderstanding? For example in Japanese culture it is considered, that there exist two main energies, Yin and...
Everyone, whether young or old, is subjected to stressful events that may affect their physical as well as emotional, and social well-being. Undeniably, most of us go through a week of our lives without experiencing fear and anxiety, especially during childhood. Typically, children’s problems are just brief and highly solvable...
Introduction Illegal immigrations means the movement of persons across national boarders in manner that goes against the immigration laws of the country that they are moving to(Wikipedea definition).The people breaking this immigration laws are known as illegal immigrants and they cross over either by land,air or water. The term can...
Discussion The self is nothing more than the package of social and personal identities we present to others. Since the beginning of civilization, the term self has to be in focus to identify what it entails. It has been debated by many people from different fields of academic grounds such...
Introduction Migration to America started with the industrial revolution when it has opened its doors to workers where they worked in factories, in railroads, and other jobs in the new industries that have been created in the 19th century. Migration did not stop there, as foreign workers; both legal and...
Introduction According to Thomas (1995, p. 24), Illegal immigration refers to migration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Under this definition, an illegal immigration is a foreigner who has either legally crossed an international political border, be it by land, sea,...
Introduction One of the factors that have reduced the world into a global village is the constant movement of people from one location to another. This has happened for various reasons and has necessitated an interaction of people from different walks of life. The invariable end result of all these...
Introduction Wealth and prosperity and political stability are driving people from different parts of the globe to flock to United States of America in search of better life. Some of these aspirants enter United States legally and others come in to U.S violating Nationality and immigration law. A civil litigation...
Introduction Women rights movement is a movement that was formed to fight for the rights of women. It seeks equal opportunities for women in all aspects of life, that is, economic, social, personal and also political. This movement is the second in the wave of feminist movement and is called...
Introduction This essay evaluates three sociological theories of education. It compares symbolic interactionism, Marxism, and functionalist view on education and its role in society. It provides criticism of these theories and their approaches to the phenomenon. Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more...
Introduction Since the 1990s, researchers, scholars, and ordinary Americans are concerned with the issues that arise from being overworked. This is evident from many scholarly written literature in which authors and publishers have described their concern for a particular class in America who suffers from the issues of working time....
Criminal activities are found in all societies. Since the inception of humankind, criminal activities have always been a threat to not only human life but also properties and general peace. There are various reasons why people engage in criminal activities. A normative approach defines crime as deviant behavior, which violates...
Thesis Statement It is healthy for a child to be raised by a gay couple as a kid raised by gay parents makes no difference because parenting has nothing to do with gender. Introduction The idea that gay men may be parents is normally supposed in contemporary society as immoral...
The phenomenon «critical demography» was discovered by American Professor of Sociology Dr. Hayward Derrick Horton. In 1996 he wrote a work about racial and ethnic demography: “Toward a Critical Demography of Race and Ethnicity: Introduction of the ‘R’ Word.” Critical demography is a new and interesting system of views and...
Introduction The Civil Rights Movement (CRM) was the iconic example of a social movement in the mid-20th century, becoming one of the largest and most effective in history. It ended discrimination and began the process of establishing social and civil equality. In recent years, the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) Movement emerged, focusing...
Introduction First of all, for this essay it is necessary to define the term Democracy. Democracy basically is a procedure related to decision making, which is inclusive of all members of the society. The term carries different meaning in various cultures, but basically in the West democracy is repeatedly related...
In a democratic country like the United States, violence against minorities still exist within our midst and it acts like a termite in our society that eats away the rights, freedom and dignity of all Blacks, Latinos, Asians and other people of color. It is an indubitable fact that racism...
Introduction Society in recent days has come a long way from what it used to be. About 70 years ago, there were clearly defined roles for every member of the family. Men were expected to fend for their families while wives stayed at home taking care of their children. There...
