Sociology

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  • Six Stages Of Political Revolution

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    Karl Mark and Friedrich Engels were well known German philosophers who worked together throughout their entire adult lives, and who were regarded as the founders of the socio-economical ideology called “Marxism”. Among their many influential written pieces was the infamous pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, which set out to explain why they believed a communist revolution was bound to happen. They argued that the foundation of any society’s political and intellectual history is the economic production

  • The Pros And Cons Of Higher Education

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    There's a lot wrong with universities the world over. Financial imperatives to run profit-making courses and institutions, and the instrumentalisation of degrees are two aspects of neoliberal accounting procedures that dominate the life of learning today. The downward spiraling of standards, in a self-regulating association of "peers" when mediocrities make it to the top, is not an unrelated problem. The instrumentalisation of higher education and the consequent dumbing down of learning lowers overall

  • Disadvantages Of Social Capital

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    individual who are representing a common authority that is capable of finding solutions in solving socially common problems an example of it is to over come free rider problems. The fifth possible form of social capital is the existing social capital that can be appropriated to new and improved purposes, and the last form the sixth form of social capital is the social capital resulting from investment, because it often takes place in businesses where capital is a must and for business organization

  • Causes Of Juvenile Delinquency

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    Your child's future is your harvest Despite the great technological advances visible today in all countries, the procedures for helping children and adolescents to become adults of good continue to constitute for the parent and the people who deal with the youth a problem to solve. If you look at the efforts of the professionals’ teachers, social workers, judges, psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists who try to find ways to prevent the misconduct of young people, those professionals cannot

  • Kamala Markandaya's Nectar In A Sieve

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    one. Rukmani is a mother of six sons and one daughter. Unfortunately she loses five from six sons alive or dead. Two of her sons go to work in town and three die. She also loses her dearest husband, Nathan toward the end of the novel too which makes Rukmani faces a lot of pain and suffering. Rukmani works from dawn to dusk for her family without a single complaint. She lives an trouble-free life in a rural village and she is the one who is pungent most when the industry starts enter the village.

  • Fahrenheit 451 Literary Analysis

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    While writing a book, an author usually tries to deliver an idea to the audience. These ideas are often connected to a society and a place of a person in it, especially when a book is considered as an anti-utopia. That is why Ray Bradbury's novel “Fahrenheit 451” and Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel “We” can be compared from the perspective of the social sciences, as they both describe the totally rationalized society where the social problems are always put in front of the personal ones. However, this does

  • Importance Of Women Empowerment

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    ‘Women Empowerment’ denotes a situation when women become free of the all the kinds of dependency and deprivations whether social or economic. It is related to overall development of women right from having an economically independent and self reliant status to an active participant in socio-political developments. ‘Women empowerment’ involves various facets of development in the form of social, educational, occupational, political, religious freedom. The idea of Women’s Empowerment has gained

  • Cultural Influence On Education

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    1. Introduction Undoubtedly, on matters concerning aspects of child development, the community starting with the family unit plays a very critical role. With regards to education and schooling experiences, the child’s social environment and interactions influences how the child adapts and behaves in the school environment (Anne & Karen, 2002). This is because ethnic and cultural practices in a community are passed through the family and these factors have been found to widely influence children

  • Uses And Grafification Theory

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    Social media plays a dominant role in our society and even our daily lives. Social media means a channel people use to connect to each other for sharing, creating and exchanging information and ideas. Social media is forms of electronic communication that can be broadcasted via the internet to large audiences and allows users to interact with each other and become part of online communities to exchange information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (Kane, Alavi, Labianca & Borgatti, 2014)

  • Functional Function Of Religion Essay

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    FUNCTIONALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON RELIGION The functional perspective focuses on the relationship between religion and other social institutions both in synchronic and diachronic sense. Religion shapes the values that forms the base of the social institutions. It views religion as a functional entity. Religion has three main functions according to Durkheim in the society. 1) Social cohesion: religion maintains solidarity because of shared rituals and beliefs. 2) Social control: morals and values based