Are conservative values back among young people?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
An article that was published in ?The Economist' on the 26th of July 2003, deals with an ?upturn in conservatism' among young American people. Indeed, according to this article, more and more students support the republican ideology, and are in favor of US military interventions. However,...
Wake traditions in Ireland and Church opposition to wake and associated practices - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Foreigners often see Ireland as a deeply Catholic country. Yet when dealing with their traditional customs, the Irish can prove to be very disobedient to the orders of the Church. One of the best examples is probably that of the 'merry wake': the Church tried for hundreds of years to...
Abortion in the United States - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the modern world, one can observe the growing success of anti-abortion actions in the United States whereas the law is supposed to ensure safe and medical abortion. Besides, abortion has become a part of everyday politics (like the death penalty). For instance, in the presidential campaign...
Human rights in India
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Howrah, Calcutta's main railway Station, is more than just a significant source, transit point and destination for people. It is also the refuge and the living place of a crepuscular society, composed of different people who have been abandoned somehow, and who are living in and around the...
Does the integration of the Inuit people in the Canadian society imply the lost of their culture ?
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Cultures can be "understood as systems of symbols and meanings that lack fixed...
Les Indiens d'Amérique et les indigènes d'Alaska
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
American Indians (AI) and Alaska Natives (AN) are people having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America, and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, those who identified only as AI/AN constituted 0.9 percent of the...
Are human beings selfish or altruistic by nature or by cultural socialization?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
An altruistic person acts for the good of the others. Such a person looks for the happiness of people around him/her. An altruist does not act for his/her own interest. Therefore, sometimes we can imagine that altruistic people do not act for the good of the others. In fact, altruism can be seen...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Emile Durkheim and the Sociology
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The purpose of Emile Durkheim is primarily to establish a positive sociology. Emile Durkheim had leaf the ambition of becoming a Count and had discovered the general law of evolution of humanity. He left the philosophy of history and all general theory of the essence of society, seeking to...
Durkheim and the concept of moral
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the early days of his intellectual career, Durkheim was not concerned specifically with "sociology", but intended to study scientifically "moral phenomena" with a "physical conduct"; a failed project as is evidenced by the writing of his last unfinished work: "Morality". This work reflects the...
Conditions of access to maternity wards in the city of Recife
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In order to answer the question "how to build the experience of motherhood in popular urban community in Recife? we rely particularly on the contributions of two authors: the theory of social experience by Dubet, and sociology of the generation by Luc Boltanski. These theoretical approaches are...
Bring back the dog in the social sciences
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This work is rooted in the finding of a weak analytical perspective in social sciences to study the relationships between man and pet. The field of social sciences has often focused on the perceptions and symbolic meanings that the animal, example the canine mind, took when compared to the minds...
The nodes of the thought of Durkheim's sociology as a moral science
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Durkheim placed at the center of his work, the problem of morality. He believed that it was not possible to lead a social life without morals. Morality drew its binding force, i.e. its constituent element, from society. It is true, therefore, that there is no social life without morals. For these...
The concept of risk in the heart of modern societies
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The concept of risk can develop a type of relationship between man and environment; natural hazards are the risks that nature imposes on society. Natural hazards are often amplified. This concept of risk is at the interface between the size and nature of society. Risk is a potential hazard that...
Racism in contemporary America. Permanence, diminution or transformation?
Essay - 18 pages - Sociology & social sciences
All across the world, the United States of America is often considered through myths, symbols and simplifications. The bubbles of their Coca-Cola, the strength of their athletes, the height of their skyscrapers or the lively melodies of their pop stars would be, in many people's mind, enough...
The discourses and stereotypes about the figure of the immigrant?
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Recent developments in the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of culture, with the contributions from ethno methodology, etc. constructionists have shown the attribution of it's meaning to reality. The image of an immigrant, a foreigner is along the normal stream of speeches and...
Morality in Boltanski: love as a relationship with the other
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In this document, we present an analysis of the book, State of peace. Sociology of love. It is based on the journey into the ethical thinking of a French sociologist who has practices morality. In his book "State of peace. Sociology of love ", the writer presents his analysis of morality within a...
The sociology of disasters
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It is customary to consider the disaster or a catastrophe as a phenomenon essentially tied to the vagaries of nature or as a byproduct of human activities. In both cases, it is approached through a perspective of emergency that rarely leaves room for interpretation on the functioning of social...
Sociology without borders: For public sociology?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the first issue of Sociology, the online magazine, the editorial says that the birth of the project sets an ambitious goal with reference to an article from The Buroway. It makes public sociology a scientific discipline. This does not mean that it makes it more accessible by simplifying its...
The influence of minorities: the study on conformity to Serge Moscovici
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Social psychology has long been believed that only the majority could influence the individual or the minorities. The French social psychologist, Serge Moscovici, through his experimental studies, has introduced a new location, that is rich in developments and which by no means is negligible....
The Cajun identity
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I have chosen this subject for my first class about Louisiana. The Cajun people just fascinate me as I consider them as the last French people in America. Paradoxically, when they speak French on television, we have to subtitle their words to understand them better. I wondered how they could...
Integrating the Latino minority: a time trial?
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It is common knowledge that the Latino minority constitute a little less than one third of the United States population in 2050. The Latinos are already the largest minority group, representing 15% of the total US population, and according to the previous 2050 forecast, their population is...
Ethnographic Research Project: Yoga To The People - published: 04/01/2010
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As our mantra says...this yoga is for mothers, brothers, sisters and grandmothers, poets, bakers, painters and artists. This is Yoga to the People! So let all of your doubts or questions be set aside... come and explore the world of yoga', are the words one can read when entering Yoga to the...
Analysis of a moral struggle
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"Public should not exercise authority over any marriage", says Nathan Warner in a recent article. Is it that simple? Should marriage really be a private matter, on which the State has no control? A few years ago, the Economist published an article dealing with polygamy practiced by Mormon...
Culture shock for students abroad: a new trend
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For years, a lot of business schools in the world have proposed a year of study abroad in order to enrich the student's culture. Some people are not aware of the difficulties students face in this kind of adventure. It is worth analyzing how students live through this brutal experience. First...
