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12 Nov 2024

Immigration and Ethnic History

Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The United States is said to be a nation of immigrants. This is because most people in trace their origins from other parts of the world. There are people who moved into the United States as slaves, specifically the African-Americans, while others migrated to the country in order to engage in...

01 Nov 2024

Women and Society

Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The gendered politics of housework have long been a focal point of unequal distribution of household chores and responsibilities based on gender roles within a household. The gendered politics phenomenon in the housework context has been extensively explored in sociology and gender studies,...

17 Oct 2024

Observations of Fisher Library: An Exploration of the Ordinary

Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences

In examining everyday life within the confines of Fisher Library, I adopted a framework inspired by Ben Highmore's reflection on every day: "How does everyday life feel to you? Do the habits and routines of the day-to-day press down on you like a dull weight? Do they comfort you with their...

12 Oct 2024

Progress Report: Changing Conceptions of Romance Due To Technological Advancement

Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences

This progress report details the research conducted thus far for my final presentation on the topic of "Changing Conceptions of Romance Due To Technological Advancement." This exploration will observe the sizable effect technology has on how we meet, join, and build romantic relationships inside...

11 Oct 2024

Playlist Paper - Intimate relationships

Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The study of human intimate relationships holds significant importance, as these relationships profoundly impact our overall wellbeing and satisfaction in life. This paper explores three crucial concepts: matching, the mere-exposure effect, symmetry, and their relevance in understanding and...

11 Oct 2024

Growing Body Dysmorphia Issues Among Females and accepting body image in children

Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences

There is no corner that social media has not pervaded in our lives, making it an inexorable place of scrutiny for beauty and lifestyle choices. I am a young woman and, thus, am already considerably aware of the pressure to look and live in a specific way, a lot of which many claim the carefully...

11 Oct 2024

CSWE Core Competencies

Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The CSWE Core Competencies outlined in CSWE EPAS 2015 guidelines offer a detailed framework for social education. These competencies are vital in preparing students for professional practice. One of the core competencies is to identify as a professional social worker. This competency requires...

02 Sep 2024

Virtual/visual ethnography: methodological crossroads at the intersection of visual and internet research - E. Ardévol (2012)

Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The text by E. Ardévol (2012) sets out to show the interest of a so-called modern method for conducting ethnographic fieldwork, namely the use of the internet and new digital technologies. From an epistemological perspective, the author's aim is to question the innovative field of visual...

19 Dec 2023

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (1995) - AI fundamentals and intelligent agents

Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad and interdisciplinary field that aims to create machines or systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. A machine's intelligence can be tested by comparing it to a human's intelligence. The Turing test is one way to do...

04 Nov 2023

Intergenerational Digital Forum

Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The intergenerational digital forum is conceived as a round table meeting between pupils and newly arrived young people through migration. The main idea of this forum is to address the problem that elderly people are facing when it comes to navigating and do simple tasks on digital tools.

05 Sep 2022

White-collar crime in South Africa

Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences

White-collar crime is nonviolent crime that is committed by a person in order of financial gain. This specific type of crime is seen as nonviolent as people are not generally hurt in the process. Everything is more secretive and doesn't involve many people. The risks are seen as minimal and...

16 Apr 2008
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Inequalities in Modern Society

Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Why are modern societies characterized by social, political and economical inequalities? In other words, why do modern societies arrange people in hierarchies of inequality based on wealth, status, power, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age and physical and mental abilities? The...

04 Apr 2008
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Living in a Virtual World

Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences

If you wanted to meet new people in 1907, you had to go out into the world and talk to them, face to face. This severely limited the geographical size of most people's social worlds as those worlds were limited by how far you could travel. Meeting people was much the same in 1957 as it was in...

06 Sep 2007
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Cell Phones: Dangers When Driving

Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Not since the invention of cigarettes has anything been so trendy, and not since the mixture of alcohol and driving an automobile has anything been so dangerous—until the invention of the cell phone. With more than 200 million cellular telephone users in the United States alone, it is more...

06 Sep 2007
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Social Learning Theory and the Youth Gang Epidemic

Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences

The existence of youth gangs is evident in large and small cities throughout America, and more often than not, delinquency and crime are associated with those gangs. Robert L. Akers and Robert L. Burgess developed the widely-accepted social learning theory in the 1960s, and that theory can be...