Social Science

Discrimination, prejudice and racial profiling are alive and well. Discrimination in the workplace, gender and religious discrimination, and discrimination based on sexual preference; as if that is anyone else’s business! Migrating to the United States from Australia was an easy…
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It is amazing that the average person assigns adult intelligence based on a person’s title or job. Scientists, doctors and lawyers top the list. Janitors and day laborers are seen as unintelligent, or they would have gone to school to…
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Human geography has developed as a way to observe humans as they interact with, inside, and around a framework of physical, or geographical environments. The work covers both qualitative and quantitative research methodology, with more leanings toward qualitative approaches. The…
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The confusing nature of the term “Antisemitism” lies in who can be classified as a Semitic person. For a Christian American, trying to gain more of an understanding of the nature of racism and prejudice toward Jews and Muslims, the…
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What is Sacred? In order to adopt a very general approach, we are going to consider a cluster of terms as if they were synonymous: sacred, holy, divine, and transcendent are the main items in this list, others might be…
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The future of religion is succumbing to a “made to order” and customizable philosophy. Religion is basically a set of rituals, behaviors, and thoughts that someone has and these systems are supposed to guide a person to right behavior, but…
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The three basic analytical tools for the social scientists are: Concepts, statements and conceptual frameworks. For a basic introduction, the concepts are very basically presented. There is far more to these analytical tools, which leads to years of study. Concepts:…
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We ought to believed that we are not free, and that the very idea that we have free speech is only a figment of our imagination. We live in a world of appearances, created by the human mind, which uses…
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Ever since the dawn of the human species, mankind has left his mark upon the Earth. Early humans were hunters and gatherers. Unfortunately many species of wildlife have been hunted to extinction to feed man’s ever growing appetite. In modern…
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To most readers, the Heisenberg’s Principle of Uncertainty is a mysterious term that means nothing. For those with a background in particle physics, it is an interesting equation that shows the relationship between the actual velocity of a given electron…
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