The clash of civilizations, by Samuel P. Huntington
Thesis - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In 1996, Samuel Huntington published his book “The clash of civilization and the remaking of world order”. That book being a follow-up to the article that Huntington had published a few years earlier in the journal “Foreign affairs”. The journal Foreign Affairs never got so...
Thomas Hobbes - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Thomas Hobbes was born in England, in 1588, prematurely because of the fear created by the approaching Spanish Armada. He studied at the Magdalen College, Oxford until the age of nineteen, and then he became connected to the Cavendish family, serving as tutor to the later second duke of...
Carnival - Interpretation of Bakhtin - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 5 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...
What are the main causes of social exclusion? - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Shot in black and white cinema verity style, Hate (La Haine) follows a day in the life of three aimless, violence-prone, ethnically-diverse young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris. Mathieu Kassovitz won the Best Director prize for this realistic movie at the Cannes Film...
What place does the Maori culture hold New Zealand today? - publié le 09/01/2009
Thesis - 13 pages - Sociology & social sciences
New Zealand, made with several small islands and two main ones, is located between the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea, around 2,000 kilometres far from Australia, New Caledonia and Fiji Islands. It is 270,000 km² large, with three million people living in the northern island and one...
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 - published: 15/04/2002
Thesis - 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...
