Social Science

The story begins with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), a survey program that was instituted at the University of Chicago in 1941. Since then, NORC has been a major source of social sciences data and research that is collected in…
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Surveillance camera systems are closed circuit systems that can record and play back video as passive systems, or they can be active systems that are constantly monitored by security or law enforcement personnel, or they can be hybrid recording and…
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Finding a psychiatrist can be one of the most overwhelming and intimidating experiences a person has to suffer through. Considering that anyone who needs a psychiatrist is already battling difficult and stressful circumstances, this additional stress can often become too…
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Interestingly enough, there is a correlation between the rate of crime and the current state of the economy. There are so many examples to use in pointing out the relationship between economics and crime. The primary example would be the…
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We all want to feel accepted in society in order to build on our confidence and self-esteem and allow us to grow as people. In order for this to happen we conform to a way in which we deem will…
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Measuring poverty is not an easy process. There are multiple agencies of society and government that use differing ways of calculating a number that can be used as a threshold. There are concepts of absolute poverty and relative poverty, each…
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European birth rates are declining, and the population of European countries is not. What does this mean? It means that a lot of people are immigrating to European countries, and the majority of them are Muslims. A lot of people…
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Clearly civil war could once again break out in the United States. It would be arrogant to assume we have mastered history and now know how to resolve disputes between large segments of our society. Though civil war is not…
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How to tell if your psychiatrist is a quack. I want to start with this statement. It isn’t only psychiatrists who do psychotherapy.   The vast majority in the mental health system, it’s most likely you will only see your psychiatrist…
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So what would the world look like with roughly four billion fewer people on the planet? Well, I’m assuming that it would still be a rocky planet, and I assume it would still have lots of water on it too….
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