What role should French universities play ?How could this best be achieved ?
Essay - 1 pages - Educational studies
The last ranking of world universities has revealed the French universities lack of competitiveness. It echoes with the debate currently occurring in France concerning the inefficiency of its secondary education. Many students drop out of university without any diploma, or anything recognized on...
Performativity and identity
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Performativity as a concept is fraught with innuendo and subject to both discussion and debate. By use of this term are we denigrating that to which we apply it to mere acting? Or, conversely does the term Performativity lead us to open doors into broader definitions and ways of knowing the...
The basics of irrationality
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
With the advent of the internet, there is an even wider exchange of ideas and beliefs between people. Unfortunately, this also means that any idea, no matter how ignorant of reality they might be or how fraught they are with pseudoscience or superstition, is also quickly spread across the world....
"Is media dictatorship causing nutrition problems? "
Essay - 3 pages - Nutrition, alimentation and dietetic
The understanding of media dictatorship is fundamental for identifying all phenomena that cause nutritional problems. Recent studies have shown that the media is not innocent in the causes of nutrition problems, an issue which has been ignored in the past few years. Indeed, one traditional way of...
Strategic management assessment: Barclays Premier League & Manchester United
Thesis - 9 pages - Sports
The last decade has seen has radical transformation of the UK football industry, with economic indicators pointing to football has a viable business model (Johnson et al, 2008, p.20). A prime example of this is the Barclays sponsorship of the Premier League, who has recently announced a three...
"Race rules could brand top school failures" by Graeme Paton
Text commentary - 3 pages - Educational studies
This document is a press article named 'Race rules could brand top school failures', written by Graeme Paton, the Daily Telegraph's education editor. It was published on the newspaper's website on December 31, 2009. I consulted it on January 2, 2010. This text deals with new...
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...
Images of the middle east on western media - the social stereotypes
Worksheets - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
We can observe several stereotypes about the social attitudes of the Middle East. There is some opposition between the north and the south like civilization and barbarism; modernity and archaism that takes the form of struggle between Islam and modernity; progress and opposition to change. These...
A sample psychology experiment
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
In order to accurately perform a study, one can't simply rely on the standard experiment. Other types of study can be implemented to acquire more accurate results and conclusions. This paper will distinguish between these methods and contrast them with the standard experiment. The general...
Conscious understanding
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Any interest in human personality and culture must approach the concept of consciousness. Various disciplines have produced explanations of the foundation and context of human consciousness, yet their lack of assimilation perpetuates the ambiguity of conscious. Theorists diverge on either a...
Chronological and subjective age in emerging adulthood: The crossover effect
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
The focus of this analysis is to analyze the research paper “Chronological and subjective age in emerging adulthood: The crossover effect” by Nancy Galambos, Pamela Turner and Lauree Tilton-Weaver (2005). Firstly, I shall provide an overview of the study and its claims and evaluate the...
Suicide and Durkhein
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Psychologists consider cases of suicide on a case by case basis, and examine the individual's “temperament, character, [and] biographical events” so as to understand the root causes of their suicide. In other words, psychologists emphasize the role of the individual's feelings,...
Process approach and grammar instruction in ESL writing classes
Thesis - 2 pages - Educational studies
To correct or not to correct grammar issues? This is the question that ESL writing teachers have been asking since the 1970s up until the 1980s during which they taught Writing as a process of generating ideas, drafting, and then refining the final product by attending to accuracy issues. It was...
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...
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...
