Religion affects social values because human beings are social creatures, and religion is one area in which people can find community, shared values, hoped for connections, a sense of purpose, and most of all, a sense of belonging. The world…
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Functionalism is the original and still dominant discipline of thought in the social sciences. As a construct of two forms of scientific investigation: the scientific approach and viewing the individual as a part of a social organism or social whole,…
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Some one billion people in the world live in slums. Access to clean water, electricity, safe housing and fuels is challenging, if not impossible for many slum dwellers. Slums have no doubt been around for as long as people congested…
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Socialization is the process for passing on the norms, customs, values, and ideologies of a society, either to new adult members, or to succeeding generations of members. In the process of socialization, the concepts, requirements, and assignments of social roles…
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Human beings are fascinated by human beings. This is natural. “People watching” is much more than just an interesting past time. It reveals much about human strengths, frailties, obsessions, drives and motives. Being intrigued by people is normal. It has…
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It seems that very few weeks pass, during some periods just days, when we hear about the significant problem of bullying amongst young people, particularly those who are LGBT or deemed as such by their peers. With projects such as…
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Criminology can be defined as the scientific method of studying crime and criminal behavior. It falls into the category of social science and includes a variety of disciplines such as anthropology, economics, psychology, and law. Since its humble beginnings, the…
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Criminological theories attempt to make sense of why people commit crimes and why they react the way they do in certain situations. There is no one theory that can, by itself, completely explain criminal behavior. Instead, the best explanation for…
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Sociological research, the attempt to investigate human society by observing, and measuring the behavior of groups within that society is fraught with problems, not least the problem of objectivity. No matter how much scientific method is applied to these studies,…
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Mohenjo-Daro, an ancient and well-preserved archaeological site located in Pakistan’s Sind Province, flourished for about 800 years during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. One of the largest excavation sites in the Old World, this 5,000-year-old urban center South Asia…
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