The news, a place of exercise in self report
Essay - 9 pages - Psychology
"When we come to refer to their works (Romans Apollinaire and Jules), we take responsibility to dream anonymously within what they have written or painted, focusing, for example, in a deliberate way on such detail or such phrase that does not in itself (if that expression in a sense) have the...
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...
Clinical Approach to the fickleness of the faculty of judgment denial of the doubt
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The purpose of the initial research and slides of pathology, "case", is to study the report at work and subjective analysis of psychic and collective constructions developed to meet the actual mission. Clinical data was collected from human volunteers, both individually and in interviews, and...
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...
Meals not so ready to eat: Ecology of food
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Napoleon once said, “An army marches on its stomach”, and most soldiers would agree. So in 1975, the Department of Defense created the Meal Ready to Eat, affectionately known as MREs. Over the years MRE's have become the foremost source of food for our nation's troops. Meal Ready to...
Issue of instruction through delight in children's literature
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
The literary label of crossover fiction to contemporary children's literature is commonly associated with J K Rowling's “Harry Potter” phenomenon. However, arguably it was Phillip Pullman's “Dark Materials” trilogy that operated as a catalyst for this change in literature...
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...
Goffman and the sociology of the microcosmos
Text commentary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Erving Goffman, on 19 November 1982, was one of the most original and prolific social scientists of the last century. A few days later, on December 4, on the pages of 'Le Monde', he wrote an article in memory of Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist who with his work constituted an...
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...
Living one semester abroad: Overseas experience report
Internship report - 24 pages - Educational studies
But when I look back now that summer seemed to last forever and if I had the choice yes, I'd always want to be there. Those were the best days of my life'. This quotation of Canadian singer Bryan Adams sums up pretty well what I think about my exchange program in the United States, with...
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...
Reflections on hooliganism
Essay - 6 pages - Sports
Public places used to carry sporting events and, in particular, those related to the passion for football have always been dealt with issues related to the maintenance and administration of public order. The reference here is to those groups, more or less organized, which generally are defined as...
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...
Difficulties graduates encounter and the needs and expectations from companies
Thesis - 13 pages - Educational studies
Finding a good job one of the biggest concerns of students after graduating. From then, the question of whether graduates from universities could have a suitable job in the future may be far more complicated to be answered. There are many controversial points of view around this issue, and each...
Students and project work: Problems and recommendations
Thesis - 10 pages - Educational studies
Project work, as defined in the website of the Ministry of Education of Singapore, is considered as one learning experience that can help to provide students with opportunity to apply general knowledge of various fields to real life situation. In such attempt, Hoa Sen University has made project...
How to motivate students' activeness in taking part in classroom activities
Thesis - 12 pages - Educational studies
Gone are the days the lecturers taught while students just listened comprehension and took notes. Nowadays, educational career has been innovated about the teaching and learning method. More and more students are self - motivated in their own studies, they advance their opinions even oppose...
Civilization and its Discontents, Freud: the "death instinct" (chapter VI)
Text commentary - 1 pages - Psychology
To understand Freud's discussion of the death wish or 'death instinct' in chapter VI of Civilization and its Discontents, suffice it to start with a paradox. The work of culture is placed under the authority of Eros, of a life force that aims at combining individuals into greater...
Freud's theoretical imagination
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
When we discuss Freud's 'psychoanalysis as a human science', it is very tempting to rush for a definition as to what human science is, that is, a definition that could encompass the different ways of doing history, the various ways of doing sociology, psychology, etc. You understand...
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...
A personal experience on attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
Someone once said, “Be careful what you wish for, for it might just come true.” I thought writing a paper from the personal perspective of an adult living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) , would be a comparatively easy task. I have written about the many unrelenting challenges I...
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...
Cover letter for a complete year in a Business School
Sample letter - 1 pages - Everyday's life
I present to you my application for a year's study in your Business School in order to follow the second year courses of the Master in International Business. I am currently undergoing the first year course of a Master in Management with an option in International Management, and I would like...
The Olympic games, the face of the World every four years
Essay - 25 pages - Sports
This report will be limited to the modern era of the Olympic Games but we need to know the full history of this world event in order to understand all the characteristics of the Games. This history began 3000 years ago in 776 BC in classical Greece with the religious purpose of celebrating...
