How one childhood condition can affect the normal growth and development of a child and family: The possible intervention to alleviate these issues
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
This report will aim to look at diabetes, its causes, symptoms and treatment in children. Commonly thought of as a ‘mild' condition, the seriousness of diabetes is often not recognized; therefore this report shall attempt to illustrate the potential risks involved, whilst raising awareness...
Facing the inevitable: A psychological and social analysis of reactions to epidemics
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
In light of the growing threat of the avian flu, we thought it would be useful to investigate the psychological coping mechanisms that people employ to deal with pandemics and to try to minimize chaos by predicting these responses. Using historical accounts of epidemics, we concluded that...
Significance of the historical narrative
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
In the realm of historical recounting and reporting, the narrative form has presented itself over the course of time as both a controversial and, at times, necessary means of addressing the past of nature and society. It is not that historians attempt to embellish or fictionalize the past events...
Entrepreneurship development and the education industry
Thesis - 4 pages - Educational studies
The education industry comprises all businesses and organizations that are primarily concerned with the provision of education. Deemed as a common channel to communicate with parents by some schools. The reality is: Mobile penetration is much higher and among the families which do not own or use...
Evaluation of teacher's attitude: A way to measure a teacher's performance
Thesis - 4 pages - Educational studies
It is a billion dollar question arising in the mind of management experts that whether student satisfaction is related with the performance of teacher? Caldwell & Jenkins, 1985; Cashin, 1988; Marsh, 1984; Mims & Heller, 1987 consider it to be a most valid measure whereas Gaski, 1987 feels that...
Prevention of elderly depression: A peer-reviewed literary review
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
This literature review will be comparing two quantitative research studies conducted by Devi et al. (2007) and Schoevers et al. (2006) on depression in elderly people. The studies highlighted the variable risk factors that make elderly people more susceptible to depression, and they present...
OLPC (One laptop per child)
Thesis - 10 pages - Educational studies
There are more than a billion children out there who possess raw talent that is completely untapped through lack of resources and opportunity. Africa and South America, it can be argued are the poorest continents in the world with people struggling to attain life's basic necessities. Would it be...
The National pastime
Thesis - 5 pages - Sports
Under the clouds and the summer sun the excitement in no way fails, the craze never stops and the fun on no account ends. The National Pastime's roots can be traced as early as the 18th century, the sensation still continues and marks its own way to the heart and soul of everyone. Who...
Understanding the effects of Asperger's syndrome on the parents
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome is often indistinguishable, using current standards, from high-functioning autism. Despite this, techniques tailored to individual cases appear show the most promise. Recent studies are too small in scale and subjective in measurements to be conclusive,...
How does education determine people's life chances?
Thesis - 6 pages - Educational studies
In order to answer the question, "How does education determine people's life chances?"… I am going to look at education in the sense of learning opportunities provided by the state and concentrate on issues of social class, race and gender. Life chances is a very vague phrase which could...
An evaluation of the strengths and limitations of a rational and strategic approach to organizational change
Thesis - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Following the brief introduction of a model-ideal conceptualization of Organizational Goal-Directed-Activity, and the definition within the perspective defined by this model of such terms like ‘rational (organizational) action system', ‘strategy', and ‘organizational change', the...
An analysis of the claim that the social welfare response to HIV/AIDS was, and remains, fundamentally inadequate
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The first official case of AIDS in Britain was recorded in 1983 but nurses said they were caring for unofficial cases before [Ferlie and Pettigrew 1990:195]. Similar to America early reports were confined to the homosexual population. When looking at initial attitudes to the disease if we look at...
An evaluation of the contribution made by feminist and post-structuralist perspectives to the view of gender as socially constructed
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
A number of fundamental changes have occurred this century in relation to what it means to be male or female. They emphasize the notion that femininity and masculinity are not necessarily innate categorise which pre-exist in each person and focus more on the idea that they are historically and...
Is there a significant difference in child-raising practices between married couples and single mothers?
Thesis - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In 1990, American academic Charles Murray came to England, at the invitation of The Sunday Times, to observe and discover whether the underclass phenomenon he had identified in the United States had spread to the UK. His findings were first published in The Sunday Times Magazine on 26 November...
An evaluation of the claim that we live in a 'risk society' as well as a 'regulatory state'
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The aim of this paper is to assess why it is argued that we live in a 'risk society' as well as a 'regulatory state'. By the end of this paper it should be clear that we do indeed live in a 'risk society' and a 'regulatory state' despite what others like Margaret...
The role of the state in contemporary liberal democracies
Thesis - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The role of the state within contemporary liberal democracies is an issue that perhaps more than any other has attracted the attentions of the social and political sciences. The concept itself is not accorded universal acceptance and there are a plethora of theoretical and ideological...
An analysis concerning stereotyping people in connection with their dialect
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Language is primarily considered to perform two major functions in society. It is designed to convey information to those around us as well as establish and maintain relationships. However, linguistically (albeit from social stereotypes) certain paradigms relating to class, social and financial...
The inner-city problem is one of both growth and decline
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The city is undeniably the centre of much of our social action. It is the arena in which most of our economic, political and commercial activity tends to occur, and it has become the most popular place to socialise, and to experience the cultural aspects of the modern world. Its evolution has...
Why do many British families of South Asian background prefer arranged marriages?
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The tradition of Arranged Marriages was practiced by kinship groups in the South Asian sub-continent centuries before migration to Britain took place during the 1950's. Initially, migrants came to Britain to earn wages (Shaw; 2000;13), However, the tradition of arranged marriages has remained...
Can we predict which infants will grow up to offend?
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
Positivist criminology's vision was to become so advanced that criminologists could differentiate a criminal before they committed crime. Positivism emerged in the late 19th century and endeavored to utilize scientific methodology to explain crime and criminals. Early positivist thinkers such as...
How temperament has been defined and studied by developmental psychologists
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Development is a multi-faceted process concerned with the pattern of normal development as well as individual differences in development. There are various inborn qualities that distinguish infants from each other, one of which is temperament. This paper will explore temperament, its definition,...
Does intelligence have a stronger genetic or environmental basis?
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
In light of the pioneering nature of behavioral genetics and in terms of explanatory power and predictive ability, highlighting constructive directions for future research, the aim of the current essay is to examine a wealth of evidence within the field of behavioral genetics to provide a...
Fundamental attribution error in explaining people's behavior: Overestimating the power of personality traits and underestimating the power of social influence
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Stanley Milgram (1963) demonstrated that the majority of the subjects in his studies on obedience (65 per cent) ‘average, decent American citizens' (Milgram, 1963. p.5 ) who had volunteered for a Yale University experiment on learning would administer painful electric shocks up to 450 volts...
Freud and Le Bon's perspectives on the psychology of crowds
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Le Bon was of the opinion that when people joined large, relatively unstructured social groups, they sometimes engaged in spontaneous and atypical collective behavior. Le Bon suggests that crowds are ruled by a collective mind, and that contagion causes crowd members to experience similar...
A paper concerning culture: Applying the ideas of Gerog Simmel to football supporters in the United Kingdom
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Georg Simmel became one of the first sociologists to attempt to analyze ‘street life' during the late part of the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century. Amongst his papers, he wrote ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life' in which he outlined and tries to explain how a...
Exploration of the life experiences and beliefs of a married couple in their sixties: Identities and factors in their identity formation
Case study - 7 pages - Psychology
This study used a semi structured interview on a married couple in their sixties in order to elicit information on the concept of identity. The data gathered was analyzed qualitatively using thematic analysis. Themes relating to identity were highlighted and explored using Erikson's and...
The relevance of attribution theory to educational psychology
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Attribution theory refers to the “causal explanations that individuals infer for their own behavior, and that of others, in an attempt to interpret their social world” (Burgner and Hewstone, 1993. p.125). As Eslea (1999) notes, “attributional styles have been found to be an...
Aggressiveness and violence in humans and its relation to the upbringing
Case study - 12 pages - Psychology
Aggression is a common behavior in humans. It is not necessary to regard aggressiveness in a person as a bad quality for it has been found to be necessary in animals and is a part of nature. The more aggressive animal in a species is generally more successful, powerful and gains control over...
How behaviorist concepts of learning processes can be used to explain how children learn to talk and think
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay will explore the behaviorist approaches to both language and cognitive development, at the same time critically evaluating it in terms of the main alternative approaches of nativism and constructivism (which also includes the social interaction approach to language). To do this it will...
The advantages and disadvantages of the behaviorist approach to mental disorders
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
The behavioral approach to psychology emphasizes the effects that environmental stimuli can have on a person. Because of the importance of the environment, behavioral psychologists concentrate on the process of learning and any lasting change that occurs as a result of any experience. The origins...
