… It is a major issue many young adults are facing today. The twelve to twenty-four age group faces the highest risk of being the victims of violence. There is no single reason for the rise in youth violence. Many factors cause violent behavior. The more…

… Generation X, people who were born in the late sixties/early seventies, represent much of the attitudes towards the world today. <Tab/>Many of the experiences and definitions are around everyday life. It does seem like no one ever…

… of sex-role differentiation in society, if the positions of men and women had been reversed, there's no doubt men would have been forced to start their own movement, but it was women who were the oppressed, and men the oppressors. Feminism emerged…

… an essential feature of modern urban life in most countries. The conditions of living, psychological and social issues evolving in cities often favour deviating, criminal behaviour. Situations, with this kind of behaviour becomes even a socially accepted…

… outright answer to the term 'stigma'. Firstly we have to try and define stigma.Using Goffman's definition we can examine the three types of Stigma that exists.However for the purpose of this paper we shall discuss only two of the types defined.In using…

… devastating natural disaster to hit the Indian Ocean. It was classified as a tsunami, a tsunami holding immense power equivalent to the destruction of three nuclear bombs. Tsunami waves can become more than 30 feet high as they come into shore and can…

… to our understanding of society. (40 Marks) January 2003 Feminist research is a relatively modern concept in terms of the length of time sociology has existed. Original theories developed by Comte and Durkheim looked at society in terms of which…

… theories alongside several others, they are fundamental to the whole discipline of sociology. Functionalism is a structural theory they argue that society is made up of interrelated and interdependent institutions such as education, work, religion,…

… explain why some sociologists claim that the study of sociology cannot be scientific. Sociology is often referred to as a social science. Whether or not it can be seen as a scientific discipline is one of the major debates within the subject. The…

… 22-year-old has recently bought an island for $26,500, but the catch is, it doesn't exist. This man, known only by his online screen name as Deathifier, bought an online island, one that only exists in a computer game. This virtual…