Illegal drug use, illegal prostitution, and money laundering are some of the vice crime that the American society is striving hard to fight every day (Mooney et al., 1997). Vice crimes are crimes often thought to go against morality. They are...
Stratification – the differentiation of people according to property, power and prestige – exists in all societies throughout the world. Indeed functionalism theorists argue that stratification is necessary and inevitable to ensure people with special skills, knowledge and attitudes take up...
An ethnic stereotype is a system of beliefs about typical characteristics, status and norms of members of a certain ethnic group. In America, there are a lot of stereotypes about certain ethnic groups always expressed in repugnant ethnic jokes, with the...
Explain how the United States compares to other countries with regards to social mobility rates. Are there differences between the United States and other countries? Why? In terms of social mobility rates, the United States still encounters high levels of income-based...
Describe how race and gender shape a person’s life. Which is most powerful in a person’s life: race, gender, or class? Race and gender impinge on a person’s life in various ways; socially, politically and economically. For example it took over...
This paper explains in detail basic terms in economics and its importance. Economics is mainly one of the social sciences that focus on manufacture, distribution, sale, and consumption of goods or services. Its main aim is to explain how the working...
The sustainability of the earth is highly dependent on the maintenance of the earth’s state of equilibrium. The functioning of the ecosystem is determined by the state of the equilibrium. This is basically restored through the nutrient cycle. Over the recent...
Introduction Solomon, the wisest man ever to have lived according to Hebrew teachings observed life and classified people into two broad categories, the wise and the foolish, and he disdained folly while hailing wisdom. Folly refers to foolishness or the lack...
Crime is divided into different types: ordinary/conventional; organizational /occupational. Conventional crime engulfs crimes of violence like rape, assault, and murder. On the other hand, theoccupational crime consists of aviolation of laws in the course of carrying out a legitimate occupation and...
This paper explains my own understanding of philosophy of education and its importance, while at the same time critiquing and reviewing other philosophies. Philosophy is the rational thought about all the things that affect human beings, and involves processes of asking...