Category: Sociology 7256
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Social Good vs. the Individual’s Right to Privacy
Table of Contents Data Collection in Canada Privacy Issues Foreign Experience and Solutions Conclusion References Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine one’s life without the Internet. It has become a powerful tool that helps to work, study, communicate, purchase goods, spend leisure time, and perform many other activities. Moreover, as the globalization trend grows more…
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Supervision in Human Services and Its Legal Aspects
The article ‘Damages for Indirect Patent Infringement’ by Dmitry Karshtedt was published in 2014. The author reveals the existing legal issue in supervision in the field of human services, which is vicarious liability. Moreover, the author claims that in the majority of patent infringement circumstances, the only useful method by which the accuser can acquire…
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The Bogardus Social Distance Scale
Table of Contents The use of the Bogardus social distance scale in social research Understanding affective social distance Understanding normative social distance Understanding interactive social distance The two questions References The use of the Bogardus social distance scale in social research The Bogardus social distance scale could be used by social scientists to understand some…
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Urban and Rural Communities: Life Differences
Table of Contents Purpose Knowledge and Understanding Plan of Action Evidence of Learning Purpose Information about urban and rural communities includes dressing style, food habits, and culture. Urban residents prefer to wear loose clothes such as shirts and dresses while rural residents like to wear warm clothing such as jackets and gumboots. Urban residents also…
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Empiricism Philosophy: The Arguments of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
What exactly are the primary qualities of an object, and what are its secondary qualities? Concerning Locke’s theory regarding ideas as well to the idea of primary and secondary qualities, breakdown and explain in Locke’s terms what exactly you perceive when you perceive an object that you would identify as “a yellow banana.” In other…
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Saddam Hussein’s Regime and Orwell’s “1984” Societies Comparison
Introduction The novel “1984” is a classic text in style, plot, and content. It mainly speaks of dystopian science and political fiction (Bowker 56). The novel is set in Airstrip One, a province of the superstate of Oceania (Bowker 56). Individualism and independent thinking are highly persecuted by the government. The discrepancies are made worse…
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Equal Pay Act for American Women
The Equal Pay Act (EPA) was established by the American government in 1963. This law requires equal wages or salaries for every resident of the country, regardless of gender. The following paper is a literature review on the topic of the Equal Pay Act’s validity in the United States of America. According to Fugiero (2014),…
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Aspects of the “#MeToo” Movement
Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Reference Introduction Social movements have been gaining momentum worldwide as people seek to effect positive social change in their communities. One of these movements is the #MeToo Movement, which has gained considerable attention in recent years. This movement seeks to empower victims of sexual assault and harassment and to…
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Sociology: “Damned Lies and Statistics” by Joel Best
The brash title is the premiere point of the captivation of Joel Best’s ‘Damned Lies and Statistics.’ As per its apt title, the book investigates the lies and or the truths that are presented by statistics. Within it, the author states that people, for the most part, are innumerate. They find it difficult to recognize…
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Community Life in Modern America
Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Work Cited Introduction The questions about community-making and its importance for a democratic society have been asked since the times of Classical Greece. When it comes to the United States, the significance of its residents’ voluntary engagement in social life was described by Alexis de Tocqueville as far…