Sociology papers

This paper discusses the concept of cultural performance.

This paper explores long-term health care financial reforms.

This paper explores social identity and socialization in the twenty-first century globalized community.

This paper examines living wills and advance directives as part of the services a social worker provides.

This paper discusses the outsourcing of hospital resources.

An exploration of the ways in which the Internet has developed and how it has changed the way that people use the media.

An analysis of the structure and usefulness of the popular entertainment website ign.com.

This paper explores the ways in which people use commodities to construct and express sexual identities.

A comparison between the printed video game magazine, "Hyper", and the video game website, "Imagine Games Network".

An analysis of the reality of reality television shows, with a focus on the show "Survivor".

A discussion on the role of the media in framing interpretations of inequality in Australia.

A discussion of the debate regarding the legalization of drug use in the United States and its possible economic effects.

A review of one person's heroism as described in John Hersey's book "Hiroshima".

This paper discuses geography as a factor in analyzing American income inequality.

This paper examines the health issues, employment, poverty, housing and education of the aboriginal people in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

An examination of the importance of race and class in defining who is poor in the United States.

A look at solving the overcrowded prison crisis in California by reducing the rate of recidivism, or return to jail after release, of prisoners.

A reflection on the role of the Ojibway cycle of life, as presented in Ignatia Broker's narrative 'Night Flying Woman'.

An analysis of the medical impact of the uninsured population within Akron, Ohio.

An examination of common themes throughout the classical "Cinderella" story and how they change to fit contemporary issues.

This paper provides a critical commentary of Canada's International Policy Statement on Development (2005).

This paper offers a personal statement regarding the writer's decision to enter into training to become a nurse.

This paper compares two articles, which discuss the struggles of the American middle class: "Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's Longer," by Janny Scott and "Angela Whitiker's Climb," by Isabel Wilkerson.

This paper discusses the role of environment in crime research.

This paper provides an analysis of a self-help breast cancer support group.

This paper discusses human language and speech.

This paper discusses whether hospice care is the way to the future.

This paper examines the feasibility of and challenges facing global health for all.

A discussion on the legalization of online gambling.

This paper provides an analysis of the causes and responses to the issue of school violence.

This paper explores road rage and methods of prevention and control.

This paper looks at "Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories" by Hisaye Yamamoto and focuses on the prevalence of male violence today.

A research paper into why many African-American children drop out of school, join gangs and end up in prison.

This paper explores the role of young people in our fast food nation.

This paper explores the changing demographics within education.

This paper describes four common, yet unfair, stereotypes in today's society.

An examination of the key stages of the child protection process through a case study.

This essay discusses propositions regarding policies for getting tough on crime and focused proactive law enforcement strategies.

An analysis of the importance of language in establishing a sense of identity.

This paper discusses the corporate deviance in America's largest health care corporation.

This paper explores the psychology of group formation.

This paper critically analyzes Charles Taylor's views about the public sphere in his book, "Modern Social Imaginaries".

This paper explores the effects entertainment technologies have had on family life.

A discussion of Peter Skerry's article, "Citizenship Begins at Home: A New Approach to the Civic Integration of Immigrants".

This paper looks at the dependency theory vs. the modernization theory for explaining why large parts of the world remain under-developed.

An analysis of the social resistance to increasing technical deployment.

This paper examines policy options regarding homeless African-Americans.

This paper explores the possible reasons for the low suicide rates among African-American woman.

This paper discuses social psychology theories and reported experiments.

This paper explores the economics of the proposed single-payer healthcare system in the United States.

This paper discusses end of life issues for the family.

This paper explores crack addiction, mental illness and homelessness in Toronto and the treatment options available.

This paper identifies specific client concepts within social work and psychology to shows why clients needs to be recognized as having personal needs.

An analysis of the rising influence of individualism in India.

This paper analyzes the influences of advertising in children's television shows.

This paper looks at beliefs regarding the structure of organized religion.

This paper discusses the application of nursing models presented by Sister Callista Roy, Madeleine Leininger and Betty Neuman.

This paper analyzes the book 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream' by H.G. Bissinger.

This paper discusses four criminological theories and explanations for crime.

This paper examines the feminist perspective of the rational choice theory as an explanation for female crime.

This paper is an auto-ethnography about how the experiences of living in three different countries have helped to form a deeply multicultural, complex person.

An analysis of the areas that call for attention in terms of revision within the child welfare system (CWS).

This paper examines Karen Tei Yamashita's views of multiculturalism in "Tropic of Orange".

This paper explores the variables that increase the risk of homelessness.

This paper focuses on South Asia and its population control problems.

This paper explores the idea of social justice; that a society should provide equal treatment to all its members.

This paper provides an assessment of strategies to promote public policy implementation.

This paper discusses sexual harassment policies in Canada and evaluates strategies of change.

This paper discuses past and present U.S.A. immigration laws and the attitudes of citizens towards immigrants

This paper explains how urban culture and society impacted and shaped achievement in science and in technology, especially as discussed by Lewis Mumford.

This paper provides an interview that conveys changing perceptions of family structure.

This paper explores the motives behind the way women are portrayed in the popular media.

An analysis of how social movements affected social change in the 1960s.

This paper discusses internal and external reasons and motivations for different actions.

An analysis of possible solutions to the negative effects of pornography on society.

A literary analysis of Harry Sylvester's short story, "I Won't Do No Dive", about a down-on-his-luck boxer.

This paper discusses poor strategic planning and declining material conditions in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation.

This paper discusses the philosophy of human sexuality.

This paper explores the radio's impact upon American popular culture from the 1920s through the 1950s.

This paper discuses the the impact of the 1853 Yellow Fever epidemic upon the community of Biloxi, Mississippi.

This paper examines the effects of video game violence on children.

This paper discusses traditional versus non-traditional roles in marriage.

The paper examines the shift in the predominant models of the Western democratic state.

This paper discusses the role people play in forming a nation, using Asia as an example.

This paper examines the positive correlation between violent crime and poverty levels.

This paper argues that one of the most influential forces behind the current poverty situation in Africa is AIDS, or the HIV virus.

An analysis of the concepts presented in the book "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future," by Daniel Pink.

An analysis of the relationship between consumer behavior and children.

This paper studies the correlation between crime and segregated and non-segregated neighborhoods.

This paper studies five different journals that analyze 'White Noise' by Don DeLillo.

This paper discusses The Bill of Rights as an absolute guarantee of civil liberties for US citizens- with some important exceptions.

This paper provides a review of academic and popular literature on polygamy.

An analysis of various theories of criminality and their implications.

An analysis of the role of altruism within a cohesive society.

A look at the problem of government services operating as a service industry or business with all the applications of business terminology and concepts, rather than a form of public administration.

An analysis of the history of the third sector and its relationship to American culture.

This paper discusses suicide rates, focusing mainly on adolescents and on the elderly.

This paper discusses multiculturalism and diversity as it relates to the mentally retarded population.