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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
