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  • What’s at Issue: Italian Social Classes

    What’s at Issue: Italian Social Classes

    Social classes What’s at Issue: Italian Social Classes Do social classes in Italy exist? You bet they do. Just like in most developed countries, social classes exist whether they perceive so or not. Many people in different countries might believe that there is no separation of people, or that everybody lives equally and together. But those people are fooling themselves. If a person sees someone with less than they do, that person notices that, and

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    Essay Length: 441 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Victor
  • Corporate Social Resposibility

    Corporate Social Resposibility

    The concept of a corporate board's "fiduciary duty" has been expanding to include social, environmental and human rights issues that some boards may be ill prepared to oversee. It is very difficult for boards to concern about the new corporate social responsibility and address to their agenda. In the article of “The Socially Responsible Board”, authors Aron Cramer and Matthew Hirschland give an overview and examples of business that develop structures to face the challenge

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    Essay Length: 381 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Workplace Social Action Plan

    Workplace Social Action Plan

    RUNNING HEAD: WORKPLACE SOCIAL ACTION PLAN Workplace Social Action Plan Workplace Social Action Plan The South Florida University of Phoenix campus has a unique opportunity to leverage an increase in multicultural groups within the area to increase student enrollment and attract diverse talent to the workforce. Preparing an action plan for this influx of diverse cultures provides many benefits to the University while minimizing the unique challenges in understanding the various cultural differences and communicating

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    Essay Length: 2,827 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Vika
  • Social Contract Theory

    Social Contract Theory

    What is the Social Contract Theory? Do I think that it can be defended? In this paper I will define what the Social Contract Theory is and how and why I think that it can be defended against its critics. Social Contract Theory is a contract that the people of a given area agree upon to live by. In this contract the people agree upon rules or laws to live by there is usually some

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    Essay Length: 720 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Vika
  • Deviance and Social Control

    Deviance and Social Control

    Deviance is any infraction of norms, whether the violation being minor as jaywalking or as significant as raping someone. So you and I every day violate these societal norms no matter how big or small they may be. The heart of deviance is best explained by sociologist Howard S. Becker (1966), “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.” Different groups have different norms, maybe something

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    Essay Length: 1,550 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jack
  • Ethical Egoism Vs Social Responsibility

    Ethical Egoism Vs Social Responsibility

    Merriam-Webster collegiate dictionary defines egoism as "a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action." Social responsibility entails one's actions benefiting one's society more than oneself. A cost benefit analysis sided towards the many rather than towards the individual. In the two books The Elements of Moral Society and Ethical Issues in Engineering by James Rachels and Deborah Johnson respectively, the subject of egoism and social responsibility come up. Hannaford in

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    Essay Length: 271 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: regina
  • D.H. Lawrence: Critique of Social Practices (references Snake, the North Country, and the Triumph of the Machine)

    D.H. Lawrence: Critique of Social Practices (references Snake, the North Country, and the Triumph of the Machine)

    Poetry is often used to make critical comment about particular social attitudes and practices. Through a wide range of techniques, D.H. Lawrence uses his poetry as a tool to scrutinise certain aspects of the early 20th century (1855 -1930). Much of his poetry portrays his opinions regarding modernity and industrialisation. In particular, poems such as Snake, The North Country and The Triumph of the Machine consider the effects these issues have on society. Lawrence uses

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    Essay Length: 1,452 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Myspace and Social Networking

    Myspace and Social Networking

    Sav Banerjee Webliography for MKT 352 Topic : MySpace and other social networking companies as Internet Advertising Revenues. Factors to consider are the business models for these websites, their rising popularity, and the attraction of brands to advertise themselves in social networking websites (especially MySpace) 1. O'Malley, Gavin “MySpace vs. eBay? Site leaps into e-commerce.” Advertising Age; September 11 2006, Vol. 77 Issue 37, p6-6, 2/5p, 1 chart, 1c < http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.ggu.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=223998&site=ehost-live> This article discusses the

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    Essay Length: 378 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Social Roles of Men and Women as Parents

    The Social Roles of Men and Women as Parents

    Women and men are nuzzled into predetermined cultural forms when it comes to gender in American society. Women assume the roles of mothers, housekeepers, and servants to their husbands and children, while men act as providers, protectors, and heads of the household. The division of labor in the household hold depends on the environment. Society creates gender ideology that affects the roles women and men take on in the household. However, it depends on the

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    Essay Length: 783 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing

    Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing

    Embeddedness in the making of financial capital: how social relations and networks benefit firms seeking financing. In deze paper onderzocht Brian Uzzi het verband tussen economische activiteiten en de belangrijkheid van relatienetwerken bij de uitvoering van deze activiteiten. Hij richt zich in deze studie vooral op de voordelen en nadelen voor bedrijven die netwerken met zich meebrengen in het zoeken naar financieel kapitaal. Hij steunt zijn bevindingen op onderzoek naar prijszetting van de interest bij

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    Essay Length: 4,425 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Top
  • How Have Images and Designs Been Used as Social Protest and Propaganda?

    How Have Images and Designs Been Used as Social Protest and Propaganda?

    How have images and designs been used as tools of social protest or propaganda? "Where there is activism there are graphics"1, where there is politics there is graphic shock. Art and propaganda have gone hand in hand for hundreds of years. Communication via visual forms has enabled global concerns to be seen by everyone. Our culture is lead by carefully crafted words and images, they can control and have the power to shape society's responses.

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    Essay Length: 517 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Socialization

    Socialization

    Why do girls play with dolls and boys play with balls? In today’s society it's often hard to distinguish between the two genders. Girls are allowed to wear boy clothes and braid their hair, while boys now don earrings and flaunt in the color pink. Years ago this reversal of roles seemed profane, but now has become acceptable with the evolution of our society. This process of deciding what gender wears what and how they

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    Essay Length: 610 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Irish Social Partnership

    Irish Social Partnership

    Examine recent evolution & developments in Irish employment policy in the context of Social Partnership. Examine it’s interaction with the European Employment Strategy with reference as appropriate to selected theoretical models. The primary objective of this assignment is to examine the evolution of Irish employment policy since 1987. The principal vehicle for examination of policy in Ireland will be the Partnership accords that have been a feature of the political landscape in one guise or

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    Essay Length: 2,186 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • Social Research Methods

    Social Research Methods

    Social Research Methods Sahar Thariani Paper II Section 01 Introduction and Data Source Attending college is slowly changing from what was once considered a rare opportunity to a staple part of what constitutes an education today. As the number of colleges has also inflated, and means of attending college expanded, such as Internet based universities, the number of people attaining a higher-level education has also increased. This paper attempts to test and analyze fifty American

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    Essay Length: 2,820 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Vika
  • Using Social Analysis to Investigate Social Structure and Human Agency

    Using Social Analysis to Investigate Social Structure and Human Agency

    Using Social Analysis to Investigate Social Structure and Human Agency Assignment #1 Sociology 110.3 (04) Due Friday November 25, 2005 !0% of Total Grade Part of the challenge of developing a sociological imagination is learning to see how social structure and human agency interact and shape the behaviours of individuals in social settings. Your primary objective in this assignment is to develop your skills for sociological analysis by: (a) learning how to see the nature

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    Essay Length: 867 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn & Mark Twain’s Social Commentary

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn & Mark Twain’s Social Commentary

    Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a book about a boy who travels down the river with a runaway slave. Twain uses these two characters to poke fun at society. They go through many trials, tribulations, and tests of their friendship and loyalty. Huck Finn, the protagonist, uses his instinct to get himself and his slave friend Jim through many a pickle. In the book, there are examples of civilized, primitive, and natural man. Civilized

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    Essay Length: 747 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Social Responsibility

    Social Responsibility

    True social reponsability: Respect for individual rights It follows that the social responsibility of the corporation, through its directors, managers, and other employees, is simply to respect the natural rights of individuals. Individuals in a corporation have the legally enforceable responsibility or duty to respect the moral agency, space, or autonomy of persons. This involves the basic principle of the noninitiation of physical force and includes: the obligation to honor a corporation's contracts with its

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    Essay Length: 715 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Artur
  • Vietnam War - Social Movements

    Vietnam War - Social Movements

    The Vietnam War (1965-19)was fought between the North and South Vietnam. The North was called Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the South was the Republic of Vietnam which was supported by the United States. On August 2nd, 1964 the USS Maddox was on a secret intelligent mission on the North Vietnamese coast where in the Gulf on Tonkin they were attacked by torpedo boats. The USS Turner Joy was attacked in the same area two

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    Essay Length: 1,027 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Pope John Paul II Leadership for a Modern World, and Advocate for Social Justice

    Pope John Paul II Leadership for a Modern World, and Advocate for Social Justice

    We speak of a culture war. John Paul II fought a cultural war against the communist and won. Indeed, countless images of this momentous victory filled the screens of televisions around the globe last month. The crumbling of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union were sure signs: The cold war was over. Now, people in their twenties have little more than vague memories of a nuclear threat. Who discusses the possible

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    Essay Length: 558 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Social Factors of Juvenile Delinquency

    Social Factors of Juvenile Delinquency

    There are many social factors that can contribute to juvenile delinquency. One that has risen to the forefront has been the role the family plays in delinquency. It has become increasingly obvious that a child’s family can have a significant impact on the child’s level of deviance (Matherne &Thomas, 2001). In fact, research has shown that children with strong parental ties are less likely than their peers without these ties to become delinquent. However, this

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    Essay Length: 457 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Social/ Welfare Health Care

    Social/ Welfare Health Care

    Social Welfare/ Health Care What should the government do to alleviate poverty? should privatizing welfare services even be an issue at this point? Should access to heatlh care be increased or should health care even be treated as a fundamental right? George Bush had big ideas for his second term. He promised to fix Social Security, America's public pensions system, and patch up the tax code. Despite his best efforts, Social Security reform sank along

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    Essay Length: 976 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: July
  • Climbing up the Social Scale

    Climbing up the Social Scale

    Climbing up the Social Scale The time and way people are brought up in society makes a huge difference on how they will climb up the social scale in life. In the classic novel House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton and Call it Sleep, by Henry Roth the main characters experience totally different upbringings into society. While Lily Bart is brought up into a high class society, David is born into an immigrant family in

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    Essay Length: 1,309 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • Stendhal’s Red and Black: Social Parrallels

    Stendhal’s Red and Black: Social Parrallels

    History 242 Friday 11:15-12:05 2/9/06 Stendhal’s Red and Black The narrator is first character introduced and the first to arrive in the small provincial town of Verrieres. He is described as a well traveled man and it is not clear in the beginning if he is the narrator the story or not. He describes the small town as thriving due largely to a successful nail factory. The owner of the factory, also mayor of the

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    Essay Length: 697 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Jon
  • Social Ethical a Paper Dimentions

    Social Ethical a Paper Dimentions

    Home > Free Essays Database Contents 1. Introduction 2. What is Business Ethics? 3. The 10 Benefits of Business Ethics 4. Case Study on Nestle 4.1. The Impact of Business Ethics on Nestle 4.2. Nestle's view on Business Ethics 4.3. The Implications of Business Ethics on Stakeholders 5. Conclusion Introduction Businesses have power through their ability to spend vast amounts of money. They have the ability to enhance or change situations that the common individual

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    Essay Length: 2,233 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Bred
  • Privitization of Social Security

    Privitization of Social Security

    Privatization of Social Security We are facing a crisis in Social Security due to financial irresponsibility of the government. Republicans feel that a change needs to be made or else people born after the year of 1950 may not receive any Social Security benefits when they are at the age of retirement. Republicans are currently promoting privatization of Social Security as a way to fix the problem. President George W. Bush feels very strongly about

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    Essay Length: 1,243 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Victor

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