The use of social norms
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
There are various advantages that a hotel and the society can have from adopting environmental programs. These advantages include the saving of energy, reducing the amount of wasteful detergent that is released to the environment and increasing the hotel chain due to the economic benefits of...
Social construction based on the concept of sex and gender brings out the differences that are always seen between male and female
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Social construction based on the concept of sex and gender brings out the differences that are always seen between male and female or rather men and women that are conventions in the society and creating the roles played by each gender. Also the differences that are between the concept of...
How education reproduces inequalities and social difference
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Inequalities in the society have historically been based on stratification and the creation of classes within the society. The struggle for achievement and the existence of the society based on the individual achievements has led to the differences between different classes in the society. Class...
The social history of Halloween
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Purpose of this book was to educate readers on the history of Halloween and where the practice came from. Foreman talks about where the history of Halloween comes from and the mix of Celtic beliefs and European folk traditions. It also shows the transformation of Halloween.
Social class - does it affect understanding of people's relationship with food and/or drink
Case study - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A multi-national company is a company that has been formed to operate across known international physical boundaries (Cooke, 2003). These companies are often located to other international countries apart from the parent country in which it was originally founded. These multinational companies...
Managerial Economics: Welfare Corporate Social Responsibility
Case study - 5 pages - Criminal law
Free market theory was a dominant theme of the 1780s propagated by economists such as Adam Smith. Amongst other things was its exclusive resolve that there should be minimal government involvement in the business of the economy if any at all. It was the era of the industrialization concerned with...
Surveillance, accumulation of capital and exploitation on social media
Essay - 10 pages - Computer science
New technologies have changed the way people communicate and see each other: we all became the objects of surveillance voluntarily and non-voluntarily. Social networks, closed-circuit television (CCTV) in supermarkets and in railway stations, marketing agencies - all these are slowly...
Socialism : Brief study
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The socialist thought, in its origins, linked to the ideas and proposals for social reform Robert Ower, Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier; aims a society where there is no private ownership of the means of production and it eliminates the differences between social classes and plans...
The thought of Claude Levi-Strauss: The Social Science structuralism
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Structuralism is a linguistic method applied to the humanities generally allowed to make huge advances. The very term originates from the structuralism "Course in General Linguistics". In this lecture, Saussure proposed a revolutionary approach to being concerned over not its genesis, as these...
The Third Party Doctrine - Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology
Essay - 2 pages - Computer science
It is a United States legal theory that holds that information that is freely given to third parties should not be expected to be private or people should not use the Fourth Amendment Act as a defense against the convictions. The rule gives the government and government agencies a Right to...
Strategy and transformation portfolio - Corporate Social Responsibility
Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy
Over the years, organisations have continually engaged in activities that aim at improving their position and competitiveness in the market. They have been taking more considerations towards the wellbeing of the community as well as trying to improve their business models. This paper entails a...
Social Media and the News
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
Technology has become the centerpiece of daily living. Most people interact with some form of technology on a daily basis. The invasion of technology in daily living has also allowed additional elements related to technology to influence society. Social media is one of the prevalent...
Social Movements: Case study
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
objectives by swaying a certain target group's ideologies. Some groups try to directly influence a small group of individuals such as decision makers while others use more indirect means such as broadcasting their views to reach a wide range of individuals. During the 1960s and 1970s, the rise of...
Of Gustavo Capanema vision on the question in brazilian population protection act creating social family
Case study - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When Getulio Vargas adopted Decree-Law 3200 of April 19, 1941 - on social protection of the family - was determining state intervention in poor and large families. New in Brazil and recent attitude in Europe, corresponding to the so-called "family issue" problematic within the critical and...
New Social Network App Reviews
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Technology has a far more reaching and fulfilling effect in making life easier for the common person. With the averments in technology, more apps are been created to help with the growing demand of wanting to stay in touch or being on top of things. These apps have created a shortcut for the...
Social inequality, democracy, capitalism
Case study - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In Latin America, social inequality can lead to the strengthening of anti-democratic convictions and further develop the "apartheid" prevailing social. The intervention of the political in the definition and implementation of economic and social policies is becoming more...
Classification of social practices semiotics
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
To Mukarovsky, which basically sets the literary text of any other text is what he called the aesthetic function. He said something like this: Every object or action, including the language, you can assign a practical function - utilitarian for instruments, communicative for language, and so on....
Social boredom
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
We did not mind in the same way in a classroom, and a Sunday rainy afternoon. However, it can be noted some similarities to what V. Nahum-Cluster [1995, p. 34] calls "the ordinary social nuisance" and refers to the following performances: "ordinary social boredom makes us think so...
Reggae Music- Culture, tool for social change and communication
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
1960 commonly referred to as the sixties refers to the time denoting the complex interrelated cultural and political trends across the globe. It is referred to as the actual decade when decolonization took place in most parts of the world. In Africa, 32 countries gained independence from the...
What were the main factors of the collapse of " Social Democracy " in Britain?
Essay - 11 pages - Modern history
After the Second World War, the British political and economic landscape underwent a radical transformation in its own foundations. Indeed, the previous economic orthodoxy that had characterized the governing of Britain was substituted by a Keynesian form of welfare state. It was the beginning of...
Social and Cultural Factors Giving Rise to Depression and Anxiety
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The World Health Organization further explains that anxiety disorder and depression are characterized by factors such as emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms that build an uncomfortable feeling that is usually described as uneasiness. Worry is usually followed by symptoms like fatigue,...
Religion and social development- Case study of Nazi Germany
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Nazi German/ The Third Reich refer to Germany during the reign of Hitler and his ruling Nazi Party also called the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party). In 1933, the Nazi party took over Germany and started running the political, social and economic sectors of the country....
Social and moral policies of government
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The 'Grapes of Wrath' is a film produced in 1940 based on Steinbeck's prize winning novel of the same name. The film kicks off with the release of the main character from the Oklahoma state prison. Tom faced charges of manslaughter, and after serving his four-year time, he finally faced...
Networked multiplayer games as a valid means of social interaction
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The question I will endeavour to address is whether network multiplayer capable computer games offer a valid means of social interaction. To satisfactorily address this question, several terms must be defined as they are used in the context of this document. The first issue which must be...
Poverty eradication in slums through social enterprise and innovation in Mumbai
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The mention of slums elicits euphoria of deteriorating living conditions. The depiction of slum life is poverty, domestic abuse of women, neglect of education, deplorable living conditions and other social vices. This portrays the slums in low light. Despite these conditions, the...
Promoting, Sponsorship, Use of Celebrities and Social Advertisements
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
A green car or an environmentally friendly car refers to a car that consumes less fuel or uses energy that is friendly to the environment (Becker, 2010). Hybrid cars, such as Toyota Prius use both gasoline and electronic sources of energy, and they are, therefore, able to produce higher mileage...
Essay against illegal immigrants receiving social service
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Illegal immigrants are simply defined as a person who has moved across borders of foreign nationals in the country in a manner that contradicts on the immigration laws of the country to which they have moved (Kennedy 12). It mostly occurs in an upward fashion where the immigrant is from a poor...
Pratt & Whitney Ethics and Social Responsibility
Case study - 14 pages - Educational studies
Corporate social responsibility, environmentalism and ethical principles provide a triple foundation of contemporary decision making concept for business and managing organization's activities. Considering that social awareness amongst the public and other interested stakeholders is...
Social marketing and self-regulation: The perfect match for a good working world and the contribution of social marketing to self regulation strength
Essay - 29 pages - Services marketing
The concept of Self-regulation and the ability to make people self-regulate in a better way has been the subject of many studies since the last few decades (Kotler, Roberto, Lee, 2002; Andreasen, 1995). The ability to self-regulate can be important in all aspects of life. When focusing on...
Social media advertisements
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Social media involves the interaction of people through virtual communities and networks where they share and exchange information or ideas of different kinds. Social media marketing aims at gaining attention of the existence of a certain product to a group of people, mostly...
