Social Science

The studies of culture as it exists in the animal world are extensive. Animal groups are capable of amazingly sophisticated levels of group interaction and behaviors that are passed down from generation to generation. But one overriding definition of culture…
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Instructional designing has taken the center stage in modern day teaching and learning and thus many researches have been conducted to arrive at the best possible process. Many instructional design strategies as well as models have been developed and among…
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The basic concepts of Sociology are not as basic as we would like them to be! As soon as a brilliant theorist comes up with an immutable set of laws that explain human activity or that operate on humans, humans…
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The concept and practice of insuring mankind’s property and operations against the certain and uncertain damage that can happen is an ancient one. The earliest evidence of insurance programs lie in Babylonia, where merchants established contracts with their investors to forgive any loans…
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The United States has the highest number of prisoners per capita in the world with China following a distant second with about 18% as many per capita. That indicates that the United States has some pervasive social issues of which the conviction and…
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The question we really need to ask here is who’s really to blame for crime and drug use amongst our teens:   Single parent households though some can be considered one of the many causes of crime, drugs and teen pregnancy; this…
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Currently, unions are attempting to make inroads into companies that either do not have or which have little union activity and representation. One mechanism that the major unions are attempting to implement through legislation called “The Employee Free Choice Act”….
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What is the difference between sociology and psychology? In my search to find the answer to this question, I first looked up the definition of sociology and psychology. Sociology is defined as: The scientific study of human social behavior and…
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A significant portion of the world’s population consists of metaphorical sheep. They blindly follow parties without understanding where they stand on a political compass, or even what the terms mean. Some claim to be “conservative” or “liberal” as if that…
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“Because of their complexity, these games are difficult to describe succinctly. They are a hybrid of war games, educational simulation games, and folie a deux” -Gary Fine In the process of playing full immersion role games, the elements of fantasy…
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