Social Science

                                How to Challenge the Thinking Process of a Criminal Thinker  In a past article, How to Identify a Criminal Thinker?, it was noted that criminal thinker’s are special and unique individuals as well as clever masters of deceit. But, ironically,…
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Behavioral finance is a field of combined psychological and economics study that accounts for the fact that people do not think rationally, nor do they support efficient markets. Up to the time of behavioral finance study, assumptions were that people…
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The process of globalization is one which has many components, including commonalities in economy, social, and cultural affairs, combined with the breakdown of political and cross border roadblocks to create a system of buying, selling, transporting and producing that is…
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Are you hampered by guilt, held hostage by shame, delayed by pain?  What? Those words came to me last week  as I returned from the bathroom and I wasn’t in the mood for a discussion.  A velvety voice whispered; “don’t…
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The US Census is on a lot of minds since the 2010 census is in progress. To find out what the Census Bureau does every ten years and on a constant basis in between the major counts, a social scientists can…
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Influence Peddling In a March, 2008 article in Human Events, John Stossel writes about influence peddling in the United States. In part, Stossel writes: “Good government” types rightly abhor … influence-peddling, but they propose pointless reforms like bans on lobbyist-sponsored…
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I am a recovering codependent and a Christian. When I talk to my codependent friends I hear all about taking care of myself, standing up for myself, and putting myself first. In Robin Norwood’s book Women Who Love Too Much…
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I have often found myself curious about the world and how we work as a whole. So, when I heard about Social Contract theory, it caught my attention. Social Contract Theory is the belief that in order to maintain peace,…
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I was reading an article a couple weeks ago, more of an opinion blurb, about human nature and whether we are born bad, or good. The post was little more than the question, but the responses were numerous and somewhat…
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First Gay Pride Parade in historic Bruges, Belgium And proud they were! Smiles all over, hugs, kisses. Congratulations flying left and right. About 300 mainly young people gathered at 7 PM on May 8th 2009 in the central square in…
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