Personal problem - Alcoholism in Hong Kong
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Alcoholism is one of the personal problems that affect many individuals in society, I am being one of them. It is a condition whereby an individual has a strong desire or physical need to consume alcohol even though they know that it has harmful effects on their health. For one to be addicted to...
An Overview of Mental Health Policy in Hong Kong
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Mental health services in Hong Kong are criticized so much and are viewed to be inefficient compared to other Asian countries like Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. People in Hong Kong suffer different types of mental disorders like anxiety disorders, personality disorders and depressive...
The Courter - Salman Rushdie (1994) - Post-Colonial identity
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The consequences of British Colonial Empire can be felt in today's English society in various areas including politics, economics, culture, sociology, literature, linguistics… However, in this essay we will focus on the cultural impact of colonialism, and more precisely on the consequences...
Places and forms of power - The plight of Indian women
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I'm going to deal with the notion of places and forms of power. We studied the plight of Indian women. In India, there is a lot of discrimination that derives from the caste system: it's a system of social hierarchy in which the Dalits, also called the ‘untouchables' are discriminated and...
Causes and effects of women's rights and how it affected our lives in the 21st century in United States
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Women's rights are a broad concept that encompasses political, civil, and social rights. These include equal access to opportunities such as voting as well as equal access to a decent standard of living and a secure future. Many incidents of gender inequality have been reported in the history...
Is it still relevant to be feminist today ?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
A feminist is a person who fights for women to have the same rights as men. The feminist movement isn't a young one, women have been fighting for gender equality for 300 years. Besides it was a very important movement and has allowed enormous progress for women's emancipation. However, we...
La Machine à trier - Analysis of how and why the 2005 French riots securitized schools
Essay - 11 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The 'story' started in Clichy-sous-Bois, eastern 'banlieue' (suburb) of Paris. On Thursday 27 October 2005, a group of youths who were going back home after a football match were approached by policemen. Not having their ID papers and fearing persecutions, three of them escaped...
Social movements' strategies to rally supporters to a cause
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Regarding political participation, the conventional one including the system of elections is well-known but reductive in terms of democracy. However, there are other practices to influence the political system and decisions of governments. In that sense, the unconventional political participation...
Queer movement: history, future, theory and activism
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"Queer focuses on mismatches between sex, gender and desire. For most, queer has prominently been associated with simply those who identify as lesbian and gay. Unknown to many, queer is in association with more than just gay and lesbian, but also cross-dressing, hermaphroditism, gender ambiguity...
Debate: against child beauty pageants
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Who among you has never dreamt to be a princess? Everybody knows that all little girls have already dreamt of being a princess just for one day. Nowadays, televisions programs broadcast a lot of reality shows promoting beautiful girls, with too much make up and well defined hairstyles. Yet, some...
Is mass surveillance organised by states benefic?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Mass surveillance is the close observation of an entire population or a fraction of it. Nowadays, governments perform mass surveillance of their citizens in order to protect them from dangerous groups such as terrorists, criminals, or political subversives and to maintain social control....
Unethical child labour
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Since always, children have been exploited in different ways and for distinctive kinds of work as it exists many sorts of job that kids are doing. Considering the ILO's statistics on child labour, it seems to have decreased since a couple of years but the figures are still so frightening as...
Obesity control over society
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Today, approximately 35% of the 20 years old and over are considered overweight. This scourge is visible on children too and more than 10% of adults in the world are considered obese. At the head of this globalized trouble, America, birthplace of fast foods. This major worldwide drawback is...
Theories explaining smoking
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Smoking is one of the most lethal forms of drug and substance abuse amongst people. People can be involved in the smoking of bhang, cigarettes, cocaine and other strong drugs that have very adverse and harmful effects to the health of the abusers. Drug and substance abuse has very many harmful...
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, Griffith
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
My immediate reaction to Intolerance is that of absolute wonder and amazement. Throughout the lengthy three-and-a-half-hour film, I remained consistently awestruck by the breathtaking beauty it portrayed. The massive detailed sets paired with Griffith's stunning wide shots, seemingly...
Globalization of adolescence
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The world-wide web has connected people in ways that we have never been connected before. It provides a means for media to sporadically spread all over the world, reaching all different cultures and countries. Media such as music, cinema, literature, art, etc.. have always connected people, and...
Anti-abortion violence
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Whether or not anti-abortion extremism is a form of terrorism depends, at least in part, on our definition of terrorism. The purpose of terrorism is not only to kill innocent people, but also to frighten other people into doing or not doing something. If a terrorist blows up a federal building...
Defamiliarization and whether humans can act rationally
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Durkheimian perspective is particularly interesting in its ground-breaking suggestions and novel ideas. Usually, when we consider the behavior of humans, especially humans living in "Western" society, we usually associate the behavior with actions that are "rational" and based on some sort of...
The controversy surrounding abortion
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Abortion is an age old question that has caused a great rift in society. While it is legal in the United States, abortion is also a question of morality and the values a person has. To what extent can or should law regulate morality, and to what extent should the state encroach on the personal...
Eating disorders, self-image, and the female body in modern society
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In today's society, looks are everything. The female body is used in various ways, whether by the media or advertisers trying to sell a product. With such importance placed on how a female looks, it is not surprising that many young women today are suffering from low self esteem and body...
Are we ready for the end of faith? A response to Sam Harris
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Sam Harris gives voice to the shared opinions of a great many agnostics and atheists throughout our culture who feel, like him, that religion "is doing such mad work in our society" (Harris). Certainly to many of us it is horrifying, if true, that "44 percent of Americans think Jesus is going to...
Musical savagery: masculinity in contemporary music videos
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Music videos in general, it is true, are usually intentional exaggerations of tropes or clichés. The worn-out images make easy shortcuts for listeners and viewers looking for a quick visual accompaniment for a song and don't demand much more. However, these intentional exaggerations help to...
The overemphasis on love
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In our culture, love and romance tend to be a very important focus of everyday life. Almost everywhere we look, we run into ads that promote love and sex, we watch movies in which the prime themes are love and romance, and we are pressured in various ways by friends and family to find someone and...
Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001
Book review - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In Nickel-And-Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich attempts to live in poverty voluntarily. She decides that in order to really understand the plight of the poor and actually analyze how difficult it is to get by, she must try it out herself. Her experience was very interesting, very disappointing, but I...
Arranged marriages: the differences between American and Indian marriages
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Marriage, which is the bonding of two individuals usually for the rest of their lives, can occur in many ways. In some cultures, such as that of the United States, men and women decide on their own whom they would like to marry. This type of system is representative of American culture in...
Sign language and overcoming deafness
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Anybody that has traveled to a foreign country can appreciate the feelings of helplessness when no one speaks your language. We all take for granted the fact that when we want or need something, we can make strange sounds with our mouth to make it happen. However, not even the hardiest of world...
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry, 1959 - Racism, an inherent theme throughout our times
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
One of the most important themes in "A Raisin in the Sun" is the unity of the family in overcoming racism. The plot essentially deals with the plight of one family to overcome their personal differences and strive together towards a common dream. The book is about the Youngers, a poor black...
The nazi scientific experiments - Unethical experiments?
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
During World War II, the Nazis were responsible for some of the worst crimes that humanity has ever witnessed. Their actions were so horrendous that this period was called the Holocaust, or the "killing of the whole". The Nazis not only killed millions of innocent Jews with abandon, but they...
The Ghetto - Louis Wirth, 1928 - Chap XI, The Jewish ghettos of Chicago
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Jewish ghetto of Chicago is home to a way of life that is markedly different from those of surrounding communities. The inhabitants of the ghetto carry on their day to day activities much in the same way that they did in Europe for hundreds of years. In Chicago, as in other major cities...
Civil rights and race relations
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It seems as if in America there is always some kind of race-related strain. There are various incidents of racism that makes a person wonder about the state of our society, not only in the past but throughout the twentieth century. Many literary works have been written in respect to race...
