Social Science

From the end of World War II to the early 1990s, there was distress about worthy standards of human participants in psychological experiments. Scientists were using humans as subjects for gruesome experiments. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trail indicates that German…
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Although Bowlby focused on infant-caregiver attachment, he believed attachment characterized human experience from “the cradle to the grave”. In the mid-1980s researchers began to take the possibility that attachment processes may play out in adulthood more seriously. Phil Shaver was…
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A Development Project with a Difference Rose Longwa from Ndolela Isimani, Tanzania was in the habit of boiling her water over firewood to purify it, and suffered badly from the smoke.  Boiling the water was necessary since the village’s source…
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In all scientific disciplines from physics to psychology, experimental design is a cornerstone of the scientific method. Investigators formulate a hypothesis and then test it through experiments which are carefully designed to be replicable by other researchers and to yield…
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Classifying certain terms by nothing more than logical experience, like defining the dark like there is no light. Nevertheless, the vaguer the cultural affirms or denies being abnormal, the more of a requirement of an explanation. A brief, evident expression…
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Aaron Beck developed an approach known as cognitive therapy, which grew from an interest in his clients’ “automatic thoughts.” Gerald Corey in THOERY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (2001) describes: Beck defined these “automatic thoughts” as personalized notions triggered…
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It is an old and familiar story: A message from on high that reveals explicit instructions for the construction of a large sailing vessel, into which the animals of the world will be placed “two by two.” But the god…
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The discovery near Stonehenge of the early Bronze Age burial site of the Amesbury Archer and his Companion in 2002 by Wessex Archaeology have helped archaeologists built a better picture of the society in the Stonehenge area of Britain during…
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Predicting violent behavior in an individual is like trying to put together a complex puzzle that has several missing pieces. This is because indicators of violence are often looked back upon after a traumatic event has already occurred as primary…
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Emile Durkheim lived from April 15, 1858 to November 15, 1917/ He was a French sociologist that was very influential in the fields of sociology and anthropology. He made a name for himself with his views on social structure, education,…
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