Social Science

Narcolepsy is a somewhat rare, but fairly well known, chronic sleep disorder that affects an estimated three million people worldwide. Individuals with narcolepsy experience extreme daytime fatigue and fall asleep at inappropriate times during daily activities, such as working or…
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I have read and reviewed many books on parenting and discipline in my 30+ years as a Licensed Pediatric Psychologist. I have only recommended one or two to parents because the parenting suggestions made in most are ineffective; many are…
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What if you didn’t wake up in the morning? What would happen? The truth is you don’t really know, do you? This is why we fear death. What would happen to our souls? The most religious individuals, or those with…
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While our understandings of life evolve through our rational thoughts as they are reflectively appended to our experiences, our direct human experiences are spotlights of awareness that are physically felt and emotionally hued and colored before they are rationally arrayed,…
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I’m not sure that anyone has identified a criminal mind. There may be some differences in a criminal’s brain from a normal brain but I doubt that any crimes are committed because of a criminal mind or a brain difference….
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Personal traits and distinctive characteristics, is what make a culture unique among itself. Culture is how people within a group of like attitudes, behaviors, and symbols are communally within a certain division or sect of people that normally is in…
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Procrastination. For some, it’s a word to scream at their teenage children; for other’s, it’s a way of life. And while the urge may be great for me to stop this article now with a, “Screw it, I’ll finish this…
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Reflecting on prisons in the United States today, we are faced with an ugly truth. They are simply trying to keep criminals off the streets. The claims of the desire to rehabilitate people, is a nice notion, but it truly…
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It would be hard to find a person when asked if they attribute their development as a political, personal, moral, and religious individual to the society they live in. It seems all too common that people seek to rebel and…
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The military as a social construct is a widely varied, vast and historically rich field to study. Throughout history, life before, between and after battles concerned housing, socializing, and relating to people in the disputed regions, at home, and in…
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