The Evolution of the Family: From Patriarchal to Modern
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This document explores the transformation of the family from a patriarchal unit to a modern, affective unit, influenced by the French Revolution, women's movement, and children's rights. It delves into the concept of recomposed families, the role of sentiment, and the impact of...
Internship Report: Lochères Social Center
Internship report - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This internship report provides an overview of my 6-week internship at the Lochères Social Center in Sarcelles, France. As part of my training in BTS services and health and social sectors, I had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a social center and learn about its various activities...
The Excess-the Factory: A Literary Exploration of Proletarian Consciousness
Text commentary - 12 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This document is a literary analysis of Leslie Kaplan's novel, The Excess-the Factory, which explores the experience of working in a factory during the 1968 occupation. The analysis delves into the themes of proletarian consciousness, the factory as a space of confinement, and the blurring of...
What Are the Consequences of Social Media?
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In January 2019, we counted 3,256 billion social media users, this number is continually growing, and shows us the important part of social media in our life. We must ask ourselves: Are they useful tools to use in our life, in our work, or should we fear them in order to protect our life?
Stereotypes
Presentation - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Many stereotypes exist, but I believe the most harmful and common stereotype is racial stereotypes. "Stereotypes" refers to characterizing as a broadly held however settled and misrepresented picture or thought of a specific sort of individual or thing. An example of a stereotype is that boys...
Opioid Epidemic in the United States
Case study - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
There is a rising opioid epidemic in the United States. The opioid class of drugs includes prescription drugs for pain, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, and fentanyl (Jones et al., 2018). In addition to these, heroin, an illicit drug, is also in the opioid drug class (Jones et...
The Third Way: the Renewal of Social Democracy - Giddens (1998) - According to Anthony Giddens, was the Third Way just neoliberalism in disguise?
Text commentary - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Faced to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the socialist bloc in the late 1980s on the one hand, and the advanced spread of the neoliberal discourse, on the other, European social democrat parties started a process of discussion which aimed to analyse realistically the global changes that the...
How to strengthen the economic coverage of women and youth in Kajiado County?
Case study - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This organization is a non-governmental organization, legally registered in Kenya in 2012. The organization has its headquarters in Ongata Rongai, and currently has operations in Ongata Rongai, Kiserian and Ngong. Its office in Kibera, an education project, was closed in August following the...
Epistemic Injustice and Methodological Extraction: A Critical Inquiry into the Marginalization of Indigenous Knowledge
Dissertation - 11 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This paper examines the persistent epistemic injustice experienced by indigenous communities in Cameroon, with particular attention to how traditional knowledge systems are systematically marginalized through what we term "methodological extraction." Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2022...
Decolonizing Academic Capitalism: Reimagining Research Ethics and Knowledge Sovereignty in Indigenous Contexts
Dissertation - 11 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This research examines the intersections of academic capitalism, colonial legacies, and indigenous knowledge systems within Cameroon's higher education landscape. Through qualitative methodological approaches, including institutional ethnography and critical discourse analysis of policy...
Algorithmic Colonialism and the Appropriation of Indigenous Data: Safeguarding Cultural Epistemologies in the Digital Age
Dissertation - 14 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This paper examines the emerging phenomenon of algorithmic colonialism and its implications for Indigenous data sovereignty in Cameroon. Through critical analysis of case studies across Cameroon's diverse ethno-linguistic communities, we demonstrate how contemporary data extraction practices...
Community Health Assessment
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The first category to discuss is the county's demographic or local population. The population of Mecklenburg County is 861,189. The male citizens are 421, 933, while the female citizens are 439, 256. The media age of this county is 33.7. The population under five years is 70, 176. The...
Rules of Attraction
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Choosing a marriage partner is an important decision in a person's life. While selecting a potential marriage partner, Kenyan and overseas students may consider the external conditions, such as physical appearance, wealth, educational qualifications, social status, active dating experience,...
Dating Violence among Adolescents
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Unlike violence in adult intimate partners, violence among adolescent partners who are dating is a phenomenon that is understudied. Although most teenagers do not experience violence when dating, one out of every ten teenagers have abuse as an integral part of their dating partnerships. The Youth...
Society's Response to Crime impacts Public Policy, Sentencing, Practices, and Correctional Operations
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
'We are living in a modern society where the community's response to crime and punishments has evolved significantly over the years and this has actually impacted various sectors of our criminal justice system today, including sentencing practices, correctional practices and public...
Community-Based Policing
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
With the rising crime rates, and the impact they have on the ability of our criminal justice personnel to stem the tide, criminal justice agencies have realized the need to return to their community roots if they are to do anything about crime and disorder in the communities. This has required...
The Role of the Media in Shaping Public Opinion of Spain during the Transition
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The topic we have chosen for our paper is "The Role of the Media in Shaping Public Opinion of Spain during the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy." We were particularly drawn to this subject because of the media's profound ability to shape societal attitudes and perceptions, serving as...
Impact of AI on Parenting
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Gone are the days when technology was a luxury confined to the educated elite. These days, the use of technology has become ingrained in society's culture. It is nearly impossible to imagine how communities function without it. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized everyday life,...
The effects of residence location on parental involvement with the school
Dissertation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Various educators, the public and other education policy makers have tried to ascertain whether there is any impact of residence location on the parental involvement in schools. In a bid to obtain such relationship, educational stakeholders have carried out various researches and studies to find...
Professional and Career Criminals
Litterature review - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
There are certain individuals who develop a habit of continuously breaking the law. The technology has facilitated the crime enforcing agencies to apprehend such individuals, but it has also resulted in smart criminals who take necessary precautions and evade law enforcers and continue their...
Immigration and Ethnic History
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The United States is said to be a nation of immigrants. This is because most people in trace their origins from other parts of the world. There are people who moved into the United States as slaves, specifically the African-Americans, while others migrated to the country in order to engage in...
Understanding and Combating the Drivers of Gang Formation in the U.S. Prisons
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The infiltration of gangs into the American prison system is very controversial, a matter of complex peculiarity that highly challenges issues of security and safety through the measures indifferently employed by inmates and correctional staff. Gangs in jails are a pretty old thing, but for some...
Student Work Experience Report - Purple House Charity shop
Internship report - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I came to Ireland because I wanted to spend my internship abroad and, in particular, in an English-speaking country. I'm quite fluent in English, so it's easy to communicate. But I would still like to improve my level even further. It's useful for my studies because I like to do them...
Women and Society
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The gendered politics of housework have long been a focal point of unequal distribution of household chores and responsibilities based on gender roles within a household. The gendered politics phenomenon in the housework context has been extensively explored in sociology and gender studies,...
Reducing Stigmatization Associated with Depression
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2017 report, depression affects 300 million people globally as the most prevalent mental health condition. Prejudice and misconceptions commonly accompany depression. Depression affects not only individuals but also groups. This reinforces...
Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society - Patrick Burkart and Tom McCourt (2019) - Evolution of hacking's perception
Book review - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society, written by Patrick Burkart and Tom McCourt, looks deeply into hacking as a central factor in creating what is referred to as the Network Society. The authors break away from the older images of hacking as a wholly unjustified and...
Testing a Hypothesis - Consequences of a Rise of Populism
Practical guide - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To rigorously investigate whether party systems experiencing a rise of populism exhibit a shift towards polarization along cultural and identity lines rather than traditional economic divisions, a comprehensive research program utilizing a multi-method approach would be most appropriate....
Domestic violence suffered by children and teenagers
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Children and teenagers face a difficult situation that hampers their full functioning and general wellbeing in cases of domestic violence. This article aims to comprehensively look into the problem of witnessing domestic violence and take an applied approach. It aims to probe the strategies that...
Poverty Justification
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Poverty is a persistent and intricate problem that has affected billions of people worldwide. The key to any effective strategy for fighting poverty is to look behind the surface of poverty and find out whether the reasons for its prevalence are mainly due to circumstances or cultural attitudes....
Politeness as Human Value
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The essence of social institutions, politeness, is a key factor in communication. Historically, it has been seen as a symbol of hierarchy and strength. For example, those with a high social status are apt to be more polite than those with a lower status. Nevertheless, the so-called power and...
