Developmental Trends in Children's Acquisition and Use of Display Rules
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Emotions are innate and adaptive processes that entail the appraisal of life situations for one's well being and a readiness to act to sustain the state of well being (e.g., Barrett & Campos, 1987; Lazarus, 1991). The occurrence of emotion, especially of a basic emotion, usually elicits...
The Knowledge Economy and Changes in the Research Systems
Presentation - 13 pages - Educational studies
Research is the activity that many believe serves to identify, create and attract excellence to the world of grant, despite the fact that certain governments are seeking to draw a line between « Research» and grant.
The rising Level of Xenophobia: Being a Black African Foreigner in South Africa
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Despite the transition from a very authoritarian regime to a young democracy, post- Apartheid South Africa has not yet managed to get rid of the racist burden that undermines South African political life. Racism is still deeply entrenched within the South African mentality and constitutes a real...
Why does Peter Berger say that "the secret of winning is insincerity?"
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
An oversimplified opposition in sociology is the contraction between two schools of thought. First, there are those who believe that society is a ‘gigantic Alcatraz' that dictates every action of individual actors. Secondly, it can be said that others believe in individual action....
Racial fears in the Edwardian Era
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To use the title of George Bernard Shaw's play, in order to improve a so-called race, human beings should get rid of those who endanger the proper development of human species from "man" to "superman". Proponents of this theory forgot, however, that human beings and animals have an inherent...
Life History of A Chinese Working Woman
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Ida Pruitt is an anthropologist at Stanford University who spent two years interviewing Lao T'ai-t'ai about her life in China (1967-1938). Lao T'ai came to Ida Pruitt's room for breakfast every morning, and although Lao T'ai did not eat, she would smoke cigarettes for hours while talking to...
Sociological accounts of social movements
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Contemporary sociological accounts of social movements are mainly influenced by the ‘new American paradigm' (crossley) arguing that social actors are rational calculators. According to these sociologists, emotions associated with irrationality are opposed to knowledge linked with...
Power and Independence of Hmong Women in Laos and America
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Hmong are an ethnic group indigenous to the Southeast Asian peninsula. They typically live in the mountainous regions of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are rice farmers who are well known for their embroidery and the color of their dress, which gives its name to the different Hmong clans....
The Nature of Man "early Modern" anthropological suppositions and their role in the construction of the State
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The opposition between the Ancients and the Moderns is often criticized. If there is anything like this, one may find it in the opposition of natural rights. In classical natural right, the nature is an essence to be realized; it is an aim, not a presuppose of society. On the contrary, in early...
School Achievement and Social Backgrounds of Families
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Sociology of education has remained one of the main fields of sociology, since the 19th century. Subject to various controversies, many famous authors, like Durkheim or Bourdieu, have developed theories to show the function of a school within society and the link that could exist between the...
What is depression and how is it looked after?
Worksheets - 2 pages - Psychology
There are several types of depression, but we will only discuss the major depressions. We will try to understand this disease, by analyzing its symptoms, causes and possible treatments. The clinical depression is more than a feeling of bad day's blues. It is an intense state ofoccupational...
Autism
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Autism manifests itself before the age of three years. It is one of the five existing pervasive developmental disorders, which are regarded as neuro-developmental disorders. They are diagnosed on a group of three behavioral impairments or dysfunctions: impaired social interaction, impaired...
In every mind, women have more chances to suffer from mental illness. Hence, discuss the notion of normativity within the issue of mental health care
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In all societies, women have always been perceived as, physically but also mentally weaker than men. For a very long period, and even today in some parts of the world, women have not been considered as rational as men, but were rather seen as a “permanently subversive force within the...
The Australian aboriginal culture
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Aborigines are native Australians, the first population of the country. They have been living there for more than 40,000 years and are one of the oldest populations in the world. Several archeological studies have been carried out, but they have not been able to find a concrete explanation to...
Human factors in designing image-based virtual environment
Dissertation - 74 pages - Educational studies
Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology and tends to be more and more widely developed. Virtual realities can be considered as a new form of simulation devices; a new way to represent reality in a sensible manner. They are defined firstly on the technology they use and on the other hand,...
The tragedy of the "stolen generation"
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Between 1910 and 1970 up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were stolen or kidnapped from their families by policemen or other agents and were raised in white institutions. Most of them were around 5 years old or even less. A judicial process was rarely considered for such instances. The aboriginal...
Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History, by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Book review - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
People have started to develop an interest in the history of Islam and famous Muslim personalities. This interest is the impact of the Islamic need for "dignity, identity and purpose? amid the unprecedented domination of another civilization which questions the perception Muslims have of...
Violence against women in Japan
Presentation - 14 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Recent facts - 2,201 cases of women molested on trains were reported in Tokyo last year , 304 cases of indecent assault, more serious than molestation, More than half of the cases occurred between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., 2/3 of female public servants had suffered a form of sexual harassment by 2001,...
On the way to a successful integration on a US Campus as a French student
Essay - 23 pages - Sociology & social sciences
What makes 600,000 young people from all over the world come to study in the United States? Is it the reputation of the US degrees? The efficient teaching methods? Life on campus? Studying in the United States is a dream for a large number of students in the world. A lot of movies and serials...
The Birth and Social Role of the Psychological Sciences: A Comparative Historical Perspective
Essay - 10 pages - Psychology
Taxonomical terms like depression, schizophrenia, neurosis, and psychosis, among many others, are today wielded with ease by doctors and are readily accepted by patients. While they are thought to be scientifically objective qualifications, a crucial examination of the social context of their...
Warped Eroticism: A Case Study on a Sado-Masochism
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
The film “La Pianiste” is not only a stunning work of art; it also brilliantly portrays the psychopathology of Erika Kohut, a repudiated piano professor at the Consevatoire de Vienne. By leading us into her private life and exploring her "abnormal" fantasies the film creates a striking...
Ethnicisation and urban stigmatisation in contemporary France: the case of "les jeunes de banlieue"
Dissertation - 15 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In France, the concept of ethnicity, contrary to its Anglo-Saxon definition and use in anthropology for example, is philosophically, historically and politically connoted. Indeed, its use has its roots in the colonial history of France. Since the 1980s and the increasing social problems in the...
Sampling methods
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As time and resources available are limited, we cannot interview all members of a population. Therefore, researchers use sampling to obtain the information they need. They select a limited number of people (a sample) to represent the characteristics of a whole population. There are different...
Book review: "Les Ethnies ont une histoire"
Book review - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Les Ethnies ont une histoire, is a book which was written after a conference internationally organized in 1986 by the African research center. During this meeting, there were many African researchers along with the Europeans who assisted them. The main topic at the conference was "the historical...
Comparison between Confucianism and Islam in terms of Knowledge of the Sacred - publié le 30/03/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Confucianism, the second major religion in China, is a religion that really caught my attention among all the religions studied in the comparative religion class. It is exceptional for the reason that it emphasizes on a single man, Confucius, who actually created a religious belief from Chinese...
Schizophrenia
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
I think I've been schizophrenic since the age of 9 years old. Schzophrenic people go through phases of lucidity, but when they?re not lucid, life is a living hell for them: raging all day, they spend the night in bed in a semi-catatonic state, hearing voices or seeing things that no one else...
Politeness and Interaction
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
When discussing social relationships, we must also refer to social distance and closeness, and the factors that influence them. External factors involve "the relative status of the participants based on social values, tied to factors such as age or power" (Yule 59). Speakers, who see themselves...
The rise of feminism
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Organized efforts by women to achieve greater rights occurred in two major waves. The first wave began around the mid-19th century, when women in the United States and elsewhere campaigned to gain suffrage-that is, the right to vote. This wave lasted until the 1920s, when several countries...
Feminism in France and in the United States of America: A comparison
Essay - 14 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This comparative study arouses already some stakes to this first word. How do we define feminism in a strict way that is stripped of any subjectivity? To define this controversial word appears not only useful but also a necessary starting point to this essay. According to Le Petit Robert,...
Carnival - Interpretation of Bakhtin
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The “Carnival Season” is a holiday period during the two weeks before the traditional Christian fast of Lent. The word has a Latin origin and literally means "to remove the meat" or "stop eating meat". But carnival and the “carnivalesque” are not limited to this period of the...
