Sociology Essays

Consensus and Conflict Theory in Society
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Marxism and Functionalism can certainly be defined as classical sociology and both have had a significant impact upon contemporary understanding of culture. Neither perspective is the preserve of a s...

Correlation Between Crime and Poverty: Sociological Critique
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Introduction Jock Young once said: “At heart, the extent of crime is a political as well [1]as a behavioural matter … The figures for crime … are not hard facts in the sense that this is true o...

Characteristics of a Capitalist Society
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Title: What social, economic or cultural characteristics define a society as capitalist? Which characteristics have held constant, and which been transformed, in the period since the late 18th centur...

Identity in Rural Communities: Sociological Concepts
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Introduction Rural communities have been a source of much interest for those engaged within the sociological and geographical realms of study for many years now. The industrial revolution of the 18th...

Comparison of Weber and Durkheim
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Introduction: Anomie and forced division of labour for Durkheim and rationalization and bureaucracy for Weber summed up the problem of industrial societies. Discuss. Introduction Emile Durkheim Max Weber Conclusio...

Relationship Between Identity and Employment
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: How important is the relationship between a person’s occupation and his or her identity? Within human social contact, many of the interactions we have presume a link between paid occupation and ide...

Relationship Between Divorce and Family Models | Proposal
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Aim and Hypothesis “The conventional nuclear family is already a thing of the past,” writes Madeleine Bunting, author of ‘Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives[1]’. Cur...

Social Consequences of Inequality
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Introduction: “Inequality is a feature of my country, (the UK), however, it is of little social consequence”. Discuss. Introduction Inequality in society means that some people are at a disadvantage co...

Effects of Family Changes in Society
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Introduction: Explain how new problems have emerged within your society as a result of changes in the functions of the family. In the UK and other Western countries during the last forty years there has been a wid...

Influences on Elderly Quality of Life: Age and Identity
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: Many influences affect older people’s quality of life in the 21st century and there are changes in expectations both by and about older people in terms of identity and pressure to ‘age we...

Bourdieu's Theory of Capital, Habitus and Field
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2018
Introduction: How Useful are Bourdieu’s Concept of Field, Habitus, and Capital for Understanding Contemporary Social Theory? Introduction Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) developed his theory of cultural capital, wit...

The Development of Lesbian and Queer Theory in America
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jul 2018
Introduction: An Examination of the Advancement of Lesbian Theory & Criticism – America: 1950’s-1990’s. Introduction Lesbianism in American society is a concept imbued with social, political, legal, ae...

Relationship Between Gender and Health
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jul 2018
Introduction: Sex, Gender and Health Introduction One of the main objectives of the National Health Service set out in the 1940’s was “To ensure that everybody in the country-irrespective of means, age, sex, o...

Feminism in Legal Jurisprudence and Social Analysis
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Introduction: Discuss critically the contribution of feminist thought to social and legal analysis. Consider the extent to which you regard feminism as a distinctive and coherent approach to these fields of enquir...

Debates on Race and Language: Frantz Fanon
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Introduction: “In no way should I dedicate myself to the revival of an unjustly unrecognised Negro civilisation” Explain and assess this statement by Fanon at the end of Black Skin, White Masks Introdu...

Place of Consumerism in New Middle Classes
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Introduction: ‘What is the place of Consumerism in the lifestyle of emergent new middle classes in Ireland?’ Basically an application of a Bourdieu/ Featherstone argument about new middle classes to th...

Feminist Perspective on the Family
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Introduction: A Woman/s Place Was in the Home: Has Feminism Finished the Family? Government debates and some religious discourse harks back to what Finch (1989) has described as the myth of a golden age of the fam...

Changes in the Family Institution
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Introduction: Evaluate the impact changes to the family have in a social and political context In order to discuss the changes the family as an institution has gone through and the impact that these changes have h...

Propaganda Theories and Models: The MH370 Incident
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Apr 2018
Introduction: PROPAGANDA THEORY ON THE MH370 INCIDENT Contents (Jump to) INTRODUCTION PROPAGANDA THEORY RELATING TO MH370 INCIDENT COUNTER PROPAGANDA BY THE GOVERNMENT REFERENCES INTRODUCTION Mystery continues...

Can People Choose their Identity?
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Can People Choose their Identity? Discuss in Relation to the Media This question raises two issues that are currently at the forefront of political and social debate – namely those of publicly disp...

Sustainable Development Process For Overpopulation in China
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jan 2018
Introduction: Overpopulation, resource crisis and environmental pollution are the three major social problems of the contemporary world; they are also three major obstacles that restrict economic and social develop...

Study of the Structural Functional Paradigm
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jan 2018
Introduction: The structural-functional paradigm is a framework for the structure of society. The structural-functional approach tells that all parts in the society works together in order to form a harmonious, sen...

Influences on Self-Concepts and the Impact
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jan 2018
Introduction: I have been asked to reassess a case study on Isaac Barlow and Zac Barlow. In my assessment I shall include aspects that influenced the brothers self concept. Also, I shall include an outline how thes...

Sociology of Law: Theories and Concepts
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jan 2018
Introduction: Introduction The three classical thinkers of Sociology, Marx, Weber and Durkheim have one thing in common regarding the Sociology of Law; their theories were part and parcel of a more fundamental soci...

Modern and Postmodern Traditions in Power and Law
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jan 2018
Introduction: The Law and Power Relations in Society: A Brief Review of Modern and Postmodern Traditions To achieve an understanding of how, at the beginning of the 21st century, law has come to be understood as a...