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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Patriarchal ideology, gender and media
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In a study carried out in the mid-70s, B. Miles (1975: pg.un) found that the proportion of men and women in situation comedies was nearly similar. However, the author points out that ‘the gender roles and the humor could still be traditional and sexist'. Thus, what we need to study in order...
Notion of the subject - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - publié le 28/12/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"A subject position is a hard place, we cannot read it ourselves; we are given over to others even as we make inevitable public attempts to read our subject position" (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Discussion of the complexities of Spivak's notion of the subject in the context of race and/...
Notion of the subject - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
“A subject position is a hard place, we cannot read it ourselves; we are given over to others even as we make inevitable public attempts to read our subject position” (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Discussion of the complexities of Spivak's notion of the subject in the context of race...
Class and inequality in Australia
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
If Horne described Australian society by its “climate so professedly egalitarian” and its “Fair go, mate”, McGregor points out that “it is impossible to live in Australia without coming to realize that the different social classes […] experience crucial differences...
Class and inequality in Australia - publié le 14/12/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Since the middle of the nineteenth century and the gold rushes, the principle of equality has become fundamental in Australia as far as each person, including prisoners were considered to be equal by gold he found. It is common place to hear that Australia is an egalitarian and classless society...
Media Ownership, Political Economy And Media Content
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Mass media has undoubtedly become the primary medium used to distribute information. The functioning of the mass media is complex and the influence it bares on shaping the audience's opinions and attitudes is colossal. This characteristic makes it a great source of power too. This ensemble of...
Media Ownership, Political Economy And Media Content - publié le 14/12/2006
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Mass media has undoubtedly become the main medium used to distribute information among the population. The functioning of the mass media is complex and the influence it bares on shaping the audience's opinions and attitudes colossal, making its control a great source of power. This ensemble of...
Is there a meaningful way in which we can talk about global citizenship in the contemporary context?
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In his famous address at the Sorbonne in Paris, Albert Einstein laid ironically the stress on the very limits of the concept of “global citizenship”. Indeed, even though the process of globalisation of trade, science or more generally speaking “culture” have unquestionably...
A survey among exchange students living in Belgium
Essay - 13 pages - Sociology & social sciences
We have decided to conduct a survey of the exchange Exchange Student living in Belgium” to analyze their living habits. We have decided to focus first on the reaction of foreign students living in Belgium. We have also decided to question other students that had been a part of a foreign...
How canadians see multiculturalism
Essay - 24 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Canada is described as a multicultural society whereby different ethnic groups live together and try to respect their different cultural background. Canadian ethnic mosaic includes, in addition to the founding French and British groups, a large number of German, Chinese, Black, Dutch, Italian and...
How canadians see multiculturalism - publié le 11/10/2006
Essay - 24 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Canada is described as a multicultural society wherein different ethnic groups live together with the aim of respecting their different cultural backgrounds. In addition to the founding French and British groups, the Canadian ethnic mosaic includes a large number of people who are Germans,...
Wake traditions in Ireland and Church opposition to wake and associated practices
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Ireland is often viewed as a deeply Catholic country by outsiders. In fact though, the Irish can prove to be very disobedient to the orders of the Church when dealing with their traditional customs. One of the best known examples is probably that of the 'merry wake'. The Church has tried...
Wake traditions in Ireland and Church opposition to wake and associated practices - published in 2007
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...
Immigrants acculturation in occidental countries - published: 10/07/2006
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
John Berry, a Canadian social psychologist, has developed a theoretical framework regarding the psychological concept of acculturation. Two main acculturation processes exist in Cross Cultural Psychology: integration and assimilation. Berry argues that integration is not the only mode of...
Immigrants acculturation in occidental countries
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
John Berry, a Canadian social psychologist, has developed a theoretical framework about the psychological concept of acculturation. Two main acculturation processes exist in Cross Cultural Psychology: integration and assimilation. Berry argues that not only integration was the mode of...
"The innocent anthropologist" Notes from a mud hut - a book of Nigel Barley By Penguin Travel Library (1983), Penguin Books
Book review - 15 pages - Sociology & social sciences
A respectable anthropologist, British Museum's curator, Nigel Barley is yet distinguishable by two aspects from his eminent colleagues. First he chose for his thesis to study "Old English material in published and manuscript form" (11), involving the disapproval of many ‘purists' of the...
Organised crime in Marseilles: a neo-institutionalist approach
Worksheets - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In his book The Power Game, Hedrick Smith speaks of the foreign policy game in the United States as a "bureaucratic tribal warfare", using a tribal metaphor to describe the fierce fights which take place in Washington, DC. The notion of bureaucracy emerged in the early 20th century, with the work...
Organized crime in Marseille
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Academic literature on French organised crime is scarce. Very few - if not any - criminology departments exist within French universities and higher education institutions. Moreover, public debate is centred on the issues of petty crime and unruly youths, as it was the case during the 2002...
Women's political representation in Sweden and in France. Comparative study
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
One of the topmost priorities of the European Union is the equal participation of men and women in the decision-making process. However, differences do exist within the EU regarding women's representation. Among the EU nations, Sweden holds the highest rate of female deputies in the Riksdag,...
