"Sidewalk" By Mitchell Duneier
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6 pages in length. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist with a rather impressive curriculum vitae to his credit, spent five years of his otherwise privileged life keeping company with drunks, derelicts, drug addicts and the homeless on the sidewalks of New York's Greenwich Village. His purpose was not to exploit the individuals whose reason for being on these streets is to drum up whatever income they can by selling books and magazines; rather, it was to learn and understand why they were there. Many of the men with whom Duneier encountered were what one might consider as victims of society, those who were – for one reason or another – unable to assimilate themselves into the social norm; others, however, did not care to be involved with the stringent expectations of social norm and chose instead to seek out their living by way of this unique entrepreneurial approach. No additional sources cited.
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"The Effects Of Television" By William Henry III
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3 pages in length. Henry's essay illustrates how television has not merely been a household fixture since its introduction in the middle of the twentieth century, but it has become as much of a conduit between man and his world than other watershed discoveries such as fire, the wheel and the alphabet. In short, both the contributions and detriment television has wrought have been a critical component of how and why the human species is what it is in the twenty-first century. No bibliography.
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"The Long-Term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse by Female Perpetrators"
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A four page review of the article published in the October 2004 issue of "Journal of Interpersonal Violence" by author and researcher Myriam S. Denov. This paper outlines the findings of this study and its methodology. No additional sources are listed.
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"The Nurture Assumption" by Judith Rich Harris
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A 9 page paper which discusses aspects of Harris' book "The Nurture Assumption." The primary focus of the paper is on the effects of divorce as it relates to Harris' book. A general discussion of Harris' book is presented as well. Bibliography lists 6 additional sources.
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2 Examples of Social Stratification
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A 4 page research paper in which the writer looks at her own community for examples of social inequality and cites issues of wealth and income and poverty in this regard, looking specifically at the housing market in Raleigh, NC. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Biopsychosocial Perspective on the Elderly
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This 7 page paper relates the life stage perspective on the elderly. Over the course of the past century, improvements in healthcare, improvements in lifestyles and greater access to beneficial resources has led to an increase in the age of the general population. Elderly people, those over the age of 60, now comprise the largest demographic population in the United States, and the society has struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Case for Outlawing Virtual Pornography
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An 8 page discussion of the impacts of virtual pornography on society. The writer emphasizes that while the issue of Internet regulation is highly controversial, pornography on the World Wide Web should definitely be outlawed if for no other reason than its impacts on the most vulnerable members of our society, our children. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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A Case Study of an At-Risk Brooklyn Youth
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This 8 page paper looks at a case study which emanates from a New York Times 1993 article. It features a boy who was headed down the wrong path but turns his life around. The story is relayed and an attempt to explain the situation sociologically and psychologically is made. The culture of poverty thesis and systems theory are each discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Child’s Emotional Needs and Juvenile Delinquency
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This 18 page report discusses the fact that juvenile delinquency is directly related to a child not having his or her emotional needs met at a very early age. Issues associated with juvenile delinquency are always multi-faceted and present numerous challenges to parents, educators social service agencies, law enforcement, the court systems and, of course, to the actual child. Whether a child is abused, raised in poverty, has physical and/or mental problems, or any number of other difficulties, it is always the child who suffers and the child who should be kept at the forefront of society’s collective consciousness in addressing the problems of juvenile delinquency. Bibliography lists 22 sources.
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A Comparison between Pornography and Civil Rights: The Effect of Laws on Social Change
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This 12 page paper provides an overview of some of the major perspectives related to views on pornography and civil rights, especially in the application of legal standards and identifiable freedoms. This paper attempts to determine in which case which came first, the law or the social change and how this impacted the way society's values are changing. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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