Self-esteem inventories: A comparison
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
As multi-cultural counseling becomes more commonplace, the need for assessments that can be used across cultures is increasing. While some test authors have attempted to write assessments that are culturally non-specific, or “culture-free,” it has been proven to be nearly impossible to...
The Beck depression inventory
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
The most current version of the test is called the Beck Depression Inventory - II (BDI-II). The original version was authored by Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer, and Gregory K. Brown in 1961, and published by the Psychological Corporation. A complete kit, which includes a manual and twenty-five...
Essai sur les musulmans (2010)
Essay - 1 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Due to recent terrorist events in the United States, people of this country view terrorism and Islam in the same light. Moreover, with the mass of information spread out through the Medias, people around the world tend to associate terrorism and its origination with the Islamic religion. There is...
The Gender Issue: Why this issue still poses enormous problems in the American and European societies at the dawn of 2010
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For centuries, numerous demonstrations by feminist movements have accompanied women's emancipation. Their profoundly inegalitarian status has dramatically changed. Women broke into all sectors of public life. However, we still notice today a lot of inequalities in the American society....
Global Relationship: Are Sexual Gender Roles Changing?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As defined by the Encyclopedia, a role, in the sociological sense, is a set of connected behaviors, rights and obligations as conceptualized by the actors in a social situation. It is an expected behavior in a given individual social status and social position. Since the 18th century, the...
Religion and society
Essay - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
For centuries, religions have directed our lives and even controlled our thoughts; they have been close to power for years, and in the name of God, people who directed it got rich and powerful. Firstly, let's get back to Middle Ages. At this time, religions were widespread, everyone feared...
Internationally organized crime in the UK
Essay - 7 pages - Everyday's life
In order to answer the fundamental question of what types of actions are considered as amounting to transnational organised crime (TOC), the Europol Commission attempted to give an official definition in a report in December 2001. Indeed, it gave some guidelines to understand what characteristics...
Study on the effectiveness of corporate education service with comparison between offline and online education service using SERVQUAL model
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Educational studies
In this research, we empirically evaluate the difference between off-line and on-line corporate education services in terms of their service quality levels. Especially, in order to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of the increasingly popular on-line educational service and to provide a...
Where are Queen Victoria's moral values in the modern English way of life? - published: 05/04/2010
Worksheets - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Today, if you search a definition of the 'Victorian moral values' in the Collins, you will find, 'qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of family'. So, first, it's seen today as if it belongs to...
Anglo-American cultural Studies
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The notion has been widely called into questions by authors. Some have denounced a failure of the Enlightenment process, through historic changes and social evolutions. And yet, I am personally convinced that Enlightenment remains as an ideal for current societies, with the purpose of making men...
The Iran hostage crisis
Essay - 2 pages - Educational studies
The Iran Hostage crisis occurred during a protest on November 4, 1979, outside of the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran. The protestors stormed the embassy, captured 66 people, and refused to release them until Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi came back to Iran to be tried for crimes against his...
Demande de stage en entreprise
Sample letter - 1 pages - Everyday's life
Dear Sir or Madam (if you don't know the name of the contact person you're writing to) / Dear Mr or Mrs XXXXXXX Since embarking on my five-year course at (name of the school), I have determined to pursue a career in (specialités) and I am especially attracted to the fast moving, competitive...
The concept of social class according to Alfred Marshall
Book review - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The term "class? is considered a sociological concept. We must remember that our contemporary ideas of sociology and economics were not those of Marshall or any other social scientist who took part in the constitution of the different disciplines about a hundred years ago. Anyone who has...
Meeting needs of the newly-defined at-risk student
Thesis - 2 pages - Educational studies
The Term “at-risk” is not new to the field of education. It has been used since the 1980's to identify those students who were candidates for dropping out of high school, thus condemning themselves and society to a large block of unproductive, unskilled adults who would have to be...
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Putnam is observing the decline of organization membership since the 1970s, with a sharp fall in the 1990s. Old volunteers are dying, and kids are not joining. He proves the decline of participation and trust in the American society by using polls. He concludes that social capital increased...
What role should French universities play ?How could this best be achieved ?
Essay - 1 pages - Educational studies
The last ranking of world universities has revealed the French universities lack of competitiveness. It echoes with the debate currently occurring in France concerning the inefficiency of its secondary education. Many students drop out of university without any diploma, or anything recognized on...
Performativity and identity
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Performativity as a concept is fraught with innuendo and subject to both discussion and debate. By use of this term are we denigrating that to which we apply it to mere acting? Or, conversely does the term Performativity lead us to open doors into broader definitions and ways of knowing the...
The basics of irrationality
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
With the advent of the internet, there is an even wider exchange of ideas and beliefs between people. Unfortunately, this also means that any idea, no matter how ignorant of reality they might be or how fraught they are with pseudoscience or superstition, is also quickly spread across the world....
"Is media dictatorship causing nutrition problems? "
Essay - 3 pages - Nutrition, alimentation and dietetic
The understanding of media dictatorship is fundamental for identifying all phenomena that cause nutritional problems. Recent studies have shown that the media is not innocent in the causes of nutrition problems, an issue which has been ignored in the past few years. Indeed, one traditional way of...
Strategic management assessment: Barclays Premier League & Manchester United
Thesis - 9 pages - Sports
The last decade has seen has radical transformation of the UK football industry, with economic indicators pointing to football has a viable business model (Johnson et al, 2008, p.20). A prime example of this is the Barclays sponsorship of the Premier League, who has recently announced a three...
"Race rules could brand top school failures" by Graeme Paton
Text commentary - 3 pages - Educational studies
This document is a press article named 'Race rules could brand top school failures', written by Graeme Paton, the Daily Telegraph's education editor. It was published on the newspaper's website on December 31, 2009. I consulted it on January 2, 2010. This text deals with new...
Is Gender a useful tool? What about the consequences of theorizing Gender? (Analysis of the impact of Gender for feminism, theory...)
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Using the word 'gender' is now rather common, for instance, in official documents. This means that the concept of gender has been accepted by the whole society even if sometimes it is used without knowing the very meaning of this concept and even if gender is sometimes understood as a...
The evolution of the European family since 1945 and public interventions
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It is easy to notice that the family of the post-Second World War was really different from today's family. This evolution statement can be found in the entire society at the social and economic level but also at the demographic and moral values level. Faced with all those changes, European...
Images of the middle east on western media - the social stereotypes
Worksheets - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
We can observe several stereotypes about the social attitudes of the Middle East. There is some opposition between the north and the south like civilization and barbarism; modernity and archaism that takes the form of struggle between Islam and modernity; progress and opposition to change. These...
A sample psychology experiment
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
In order to accurately perform a study, one can't simply rely on the standard experiment. Other types of study can be implemented to acquire more accurate results and conclusions. This paper will distinguish between these methods and contrast them with the standard experiment. The general...
Conscious understanding
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Any interest in human personality and culture must approach the concept of consciousness. Various disciplines have produced explanations of the foundation and context of human consciousness, yet their lack of assimilation perpetuates the ambiguity of conscious. Theorists diverge on either a...
Chronological and subjective age in emerging adulthood: The crossover effect
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
The focus of this analysis is to analyze the research paper “Chronological and subjective age in emerging adulthood: The crossover effect” by Nancy Galambos, Pamela Turner and Lauree Tilton-Weaver (2005). Firstly, I shall provide an overview of the study and its claims and evaluate the...
Suicide and Durkhein
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Psychologists consider cases of suicide on a case by case basis, and examine the individual's “temperament, character, [and] biographical events” so as to understand the root causes of their suicide. In other words, psychologists emphasize the role of the individual's feelings,...
Process approach and grammar instruction in ESL writing classes
Thesis - 2 pages - Educational studies
To correct or not to correct grammar issues? This is the question that ESL writing teachers have been asking since the 1970s up until the 1980s during which they taught Writing as a process of generating ideas, drafting, and then refining the final product by attending to accuracy issues. It was...
What methodologies for the collection of testimonies from immigrants?
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This work is aimed at approaching the memory of the African and Turkish immigrants in Lorraine. This region cannot be ignored today as it has on its soil a "mixed and motley" population, and in terms of mixing of populations, it differs from other territories of France. As Pierre Bardelli, one of...
