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,...
The problem of obesity in modern societies : "To a fitter future ?"
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The need for being leaner and fitter future evident. The Media covering issues of adult obesity, reported the concerns of overweight among children. The obesity epidemic in the developed countries can no longer be ignored. Globally there are more than 1 billion overweight adults and at least 300...
How is Durkheim's suicide theory reliable in today's society ?
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Le suicide has become a classic which has influenced most of the research conducted on this issue since then. Nevertheless, as Durkheim points out himself « the questions that suicide raise are closely connected with the most serious practical problems of the present time ». Even if the 19th...
Social class is the most salient feature of contemporary British society.
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
If the concern of the British population towards social class is proportionate to the number of films made by the British cinema industry on the matter, then social class is really a salient feature of the British society today. Indeed, with Trainspotting (about junkies from Edinburgh), The...
Racial discrimination among college students - publié le 22/09/2003
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Discrimination is often associated with racism. Today, many people not only witness racial discrimination, they also suffer from it. Targets are often teenagers, and in this particular case: college students. According to several investigations, foreign communities, such as African - American,...
The Disney Myths
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Beginning in the late 1920's, the Disney enterprise flooded the United States and indeed much of the globe with short cartoons, live-action films, comic books, colossal theme parks and consumer merchandise. This leisure empire became a universal symbol of the United-States. The economic...
Gender Issues and Political Correctness
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"Gender? is too often addressed to "women? whereas in fact it refers to the relation between the two genders, masculine and feminine. Gender is defined as "a social construct? used to differentiate men and women from each other besides the biological factors (see lexicon). However, "gender...
Criminality in New-York City (NYC)
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In terms of crime, right from the end of the 1970's up to the middle of the 1990's, NY supplanted all the other American cities, including a city like Chicago which was the hub for majority of the crimes in the United States of America. Since 1993 and Rudy Giuliani's coming to power...
Reflective paper, On death and dying - published: 01/11/2002
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
On death and dying, the book written by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1967 has been a turning point in death studies as well as in “patient care”. Having interviewed over 200 terminally-ill patients, she came to the conclusion that dying was a process divided in five stages: denial, anger,...
Reflective paper, On death and dying
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
On death and dying, the book written by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1967 has been a turning point in death studies as well as in “patient care”. Having interviewed over 200 terminally-ill patients, she came to the conclusion that dying was a process divided in five stages: denial, anger,...
The Death penalty in the US
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the course of American history, nearly 15.000 people have been executed under civil authority. While the use of execution has declined throughout most of the First World, the USA remains as an exception ? the only democracy ? where belief in the utility of capital punishment as the ultimate...
Christian Zionism in the United States
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Lift To Experience is a contemporary rock band from Texas and are gaining popularity across the world. If we look close at their message, in accordance to their lyrics and the artwork, one might get a feeling that they are not like the other usual American bands. They represent the popular and...
The contribution of American sitcoms to the daily life of teenagers
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
A television situation comedy, popularly known as sitcom is meant for teenagers to relate to their life, to manage their life and solve their problems. But at the same time there is a debate whether sitcoms really has an intention to educate, or whether its intention is only to entertain....
American gangs
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
. Street gangs, today, are forming at an alarming rate. They are increasingly seen throughout the US, in cities and communities, large and small, urban and rural. Today, street gangs seem to comprise from all races and from most socio-economic levels, and is not limited only to the larger cities.
Can history be represented on film (documentary or fiction) ?
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Representing history is a difficult work for historians as for filmmakers. Through pictures, sounds, music, montages and mise-en-scene, is it possible to represent the world, and especially history? We will try to analyse the representation of history in film, particularly in the fiction, by...
Fight against terrorism justifies a degree of censorship. Discuss.
Worksheets - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Kazakhstan, 21 November, the army invades the premises of the independent TV channel KTK. Nepal, 29 November, arrests of eight journalists on application of emergency state after September the 11th. India and Canada, new laws represent a danger on secret of authorities. Australia, interdiction of...
Christianity in the USA
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
How are evolving the connections between Christianity and the society, between Christianity and the State ? If more and more Christians movements are expanding and gaining clout, what kind of criticisms has the Church to face ? And, basically, it rises the question of the American securalism : to...
Abortion in the United States
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...
Critically evaluate the concept of battered women syndrome in the context of defence to murder
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
According to the Cabinet Office paper ?living without fear', published in June 1999, two women per week were killed by a current or former partner. This analysis highlights the fact that the majority of domestic violence are against women. As a result, women experience psychological sequels....
Critically evaluate the ways in which the Equal Pay Act 1970 seeks to achieve equal pay between men and women. How effective has the Act been in achieving its aims ?
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Because of the large number of women taking jobs in the war industries during World War II, the governments urged employers in 1942 to voluntarily make “adjustments which equalize wage or salary rates paid to females with the rates paid to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on...
Critical evaluation of the ways in which the Equal Pay Act 1970 seeks to achieve equal pay between men and women
Thesis - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Because of the large number of women taking jobs in the war industries during World War II, the governments urged employers in 1942 to voluntarily make “adjustments which equalize wage or salary rates paid to females with the rates paid to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on...
Affirmative action
Worksheets - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the dictionary, an affirmative Action is said to be an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups or women. Affirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in American society. It is an attempt by the United...
