The theories and practices of assimilation - published: 15/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"The main noise (…) has been about asylum-seekers and how to keep them out. But the real issue is the immigrants, and their descendants, who are already inside. Integrate these, and European societies could cope well enough with the relatively few asylum-seekers." According to this sentence,...
Adjectives in Cognitive Linguistic - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 14 pages - Educational studies
During the seminar, we have buckled down to the arduous task of understanding and using a brand new theoretical field of study as far as the great family of linguistics is concerned. This paper and the database we have come to build out are the concrete results of a work which turned out to be...
Compare and contrast the working conditions, aspirations and prospects of French students entering higher education in the 1960s and those entering higher education since the 1990s - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Students entering the French higher education system in 1960 and since the 1990s will have undergone quite different experiences. However, so will the students entering higher education in France at the beginning of the 1960s compared to those entering towards the end of that very same decade....
Why does Peter Berger say that "the secret of winning is insincerity?" - publié le 15/01/2009
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....
The perception of the United States for Canadian people - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Geographically neighbours, Canada and the United Sates share a lot of different things like language, history or an important part of their culture. They are also linked together in a political way, for instance by being two of the three participant countries of the NAFTA. All that elements can...
How can we make an end-studying project in India? - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The overwhelming image of India is of a country stricken with poverty, consumed by religious hatred, burdened by an excessive population that shows no signs of diminishing, and divided by distinctions of class, caste, ethnicity, and language. Few people, particularly in the West, thought that...
The Vietnamese in Poland
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"We have been living here for thirty years. It was a nice and quiet place. Now, we have all those people coming from somewhere we do not know..." . Those people „coming from somewhere we do not know ...” are in fact the Vietnamese immigrants who came with the new wave of immigration of...
Devolution - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Devolution is “a form of subsidiary passing power back to the people “ ; “ it is the transfer to a subordinate elected body , on a geographical basis, of functions at present being exercised by Ministers and Parliament.“ (“Definitely British, Absolutely American!”,...
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 - publié le 13/01/2009
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...
What is queer theory and how does it help explain the production of knowledge about sexuality? - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
The term “queer” is slang for homosexual. It is also a synonymous of odd, curious or suspect. It is also the most recent in a series of words that have constituted the semantic field of homosexuality. But “queer” is not simply the latest example in a series of words that...
Is Intercultural communication possible across the Baltic Sea Region? - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
“The meaning behind intercultural communication is to try to bring different world views and meaning attributions closer to each others through and with the help of verbal and non-verbal interactions” . Here is a definition of intercultural communication by Niina Kovalainen that reveals...
The clash of civilizations, by Samuel P. Huntington
Thesis - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In 1996, Samuel Huntington published his book “The clash of civilization and the remaking of world order”. That book being a follow-up to the article that Huntington had published a few years earlier in the journal “Foreign affairs”. The journal Foreign Affairs never got so...
Thomas Hobbes - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Thomas Hobbes was born in England, in 1588, prematurely because of the fear created by the approaching Spanish Armada. He studied at the Magdalen College, Oxford until the age of nineteen, and then he became connected to the Cavendish family, serving as tutor to the later second duke of...
Is heterosexuality "natural"? - published: 12/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
The most common definition of heterosexuality is that of a sexual identity of somebody who is sexually attracted to the opposite sex. According to Richardson, “[Heterosexuality] is constructed as a coherent, natural, fixed and stable category; as universal and monolithic.” But what does...
Carnival - Interpretation of Bakhtin - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 5 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...
What are the main causes of social exclusion? - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Shot in black and white cinema verity style, Hate (La Haine) follows a day in the life of three aimless, violence-prone, ethnically-diverse young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris. Mathieu Kassovitz won the Best Director prize for this realistic movie at the Cannes Film...
Origins and Evolution of the Middle-Class Concept in America
Dissertation - 38 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The United States of America has often been viewed as a middle-class nation. Historically, the middle class is considered the class which built the nation against a feudal-like system; ideologically, it celebrates the common man and temperance; it socially represents the equality of opportunity;...
Music and social movement: Reggae - publié le 09/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Reggae music is an engaged musical genre. It is very famous and at the same time not so well-known. Most of the people think of Reggae music as music of joy, peace and linked to Jamaica, the sunny island where everyone smokes herb freely. But in fact, we will see that Reggae inscribes itself in a...
The distinction between internalism and externalism about moral motivation. Does Smith's argument against externalism work? - published: 09/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Moral motivation and the way it functions have raised many theories, still debated today. There are two main theories under discussion; internalism and externalism about ethical motivation, both of them being central in the explanation of the mechanism that lies between moral judgements of an...
Entry level nursing preparation and its impact on health care delivery
Essay - 13 pages - Educational studies
Few professions have changed to the degree that nursing has in the past one hundred years. Despite the obvious challenges, most notably the ongoing nursing shortage, it is crucial to update the requirements of being certified as a registered nurse. The only logical approach to this, taking into...
Outlining why it is important to possess a differentiated ego consciousness
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
This essay is influenced by (but in opposition to) Jungian psychology. Jung's psychology does not equate to culture and psyche running side by side with one another. Rather Jungian psychology splits culture and psyche by establishing compensation as a key principle. Hence, the psyche compensates...
Does Décathlon have the optimum STP to maximize its growth? - published: 09/01/2009
Essay - 10 pages - Sports
The French sports article market is doing well, with good opportunities in the medium term. However it is a very competitive market and newcomers do not hesitate to implement aggressive strategies. In 2003, the French sports article market was the most important in the whole of Europe with a...
Wolfgang Pauli's contribution to the Jungian worldview
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Prior to Carl Jung's work on synchronicity his psychology consisted in ideas based solely on the inner world of the psyche. This was so regardless of whether Jung was thinking about personal psychological phenomena such as complexes or collective psychological phenomena such as archetypes. But...
Synchronicity: Carl Jung's attempt to establish 'meaning' scientifically
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
When in his seventies, the Swiss psychologist extended his theory of the collective unconscious by throwing in synchronicity into the mix. This he did following a quarter of a century correspondence with the Nobel Prize winning physicist, Wolfgang Pauli. No longer was phenomena such as religion,...
A beautiful mind: Study of Schizophrenia
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
“Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?” (Grazer & Howard, 2001). The hell described in the previous quote is the hell of schizophrenia; of...
Disruptive and violent delinquent girls: Behavioral causes and treatment options
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Delinquency among females is on the rise, with cases among adolescent females increasing by eighty-three percent between 1988 and 1997 (Leve and Chamberlain, 2004). While it is often found that girls are brought into custody for more minor offenses than boys, the proportion of females committing...
What place does the Maori culture hold New Zealand today? - publié le 09/01/2009
Thesis - 13 pages - Sociology & social sciences
New Zealand, made with several small islands and two main ones, is located between the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea, around 2,000 kilometres far from Australia, New Caledonia and Fiji Islands. It is 270,000 km² large, with three million people living in the northern island and one...
The role of parents in special education: notion of partnership revised - Ingrid Fylling and Johans Tveit Sandvin
Book review - 7 pages - Educational studies
Of late, parents' role in involvement in their ward's school activities has taken a more important position. In several countries, new legislation has given parents a more significant role in the governing structure of schools. Many studies show the importance of parents' involvement...
Face recognition and perception by young children
Essay - 12 pages - Psychology
This study tested four and five-year-olds for their ability to use differences in the spacing among features when asked to pairing faces. The task was presented as a drag and drop features game which provided double reinforcement to children. Cognitive variables were taken in consideration...
The Amish
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
We discuss about the characteristic features of the Amish community in this document. The Amish are a religious and close-knit community which lives in the USA, a country that is riding high in terms of technology. The most astonishing aspect about them is that they choose to live on the fringes...
