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31 Jul 2007
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Power and Independence of Hmong Women in Laos and America

Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The Hmong are an ethnic group indigenous to the Southeast Asian peninsula. They typically live in the mountainous regions of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are rice farmers who are well known for their embroidery and the color of their dress, which gives its name to the different Hmong clans....

28 Dec 2006
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Notion of the subject - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences

“A subject position is a hard place, we cannot read it ourselves; we are given over to others even as we make inevitable public attempts to read our subject position” (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Discussion of the complexities of Spivak's notion of the subject in the context of race...

14 Dec 2006
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Class and inequality in Australia

Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences

If Horne described Australian society by its “climate so professedly egalitarian” and its “Fair go, mate”, McGregor points out that “it is impossible to live in Australia without coming to realize that the different social classes […] experience crucial differences...

14 Dec 2006
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Media Ownership, Political Economy And Media Content

Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Mass media has undoubtedly become the main medium used to distribute information among the population. The functioning of the mass media is complex and the influence it bares on shaping the audience's opinions and attitudes colossal, making its control a great source of power. This ensemble of...

11 Oct 2006
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How canadians see multiculturalism

Essay - 24 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Canada is described as a multicultural society whereby different ethnic groups live together and try to respect their different cultural background. Canadian ethnic mosaic includes, in addition to the founding French and British groups, a large number of German, Chinese, Black, Dutch, Italian and...

20 Jul 2006
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Wake traditions in Ireland and Church opposition to wake and associated practices - published in 2007

Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Foreigners often see Ireland as a deeply Catholic country. Yet when dealing with their traditional customs, the Irish can prove to be very disobedient to the orders of the Church. One of the best examples is probably that of the 'merry wake': the Church tried for hundreds of years to...

10 Jul 2006
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Immigrants acculturation in occidental countries

Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences

John Berry, a Canadian social psychologist, has developed a theoretical framework about the psychological concept of acculturation. Two main acculturation processes exist in Cross Cultural Psychology: integration and assimilation. Berry argues that not only integration was the mode of...

24 Mar 2006
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Organized crime in Marseille

Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Academic literature on French organised crime is scarce. Very few - if not any - criminology departments exist within French universities and higher education institutions. Moreover, public debate is centred on the issues of petty crime and unruly youths, as it was the case during the 2002...

01 Nov 2002
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Reflective paper, On death and dying

Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences

On death and dying, the book written by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1967 has been a turning point in death studies as well as in “patient care”. Having interviewed over 200 terminally-ill patients, she came to the conclusion that dying was a process divided in five stages: denial, anger,...