Sociology Essays

Comparing Theories of Veblen and Bourdieu
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will compare Veblen’s conspicuous consumption concept with Bourdieu’s cultural capital, habitus and taste concepts. ...

The Theories of Diversity
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: Diversity is defined as real or perceived differences among people that affect their interactions and relationship. In this paper will focuses on real or perceived difference among people in race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, physical, mental ability, sexual orientation, work and family status, weight and appearance....

Summary and Critique of Dependency School of Development
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will address the claim that the dependency school sees development from a Third World perspective. This essay will focus on two dependency theorists, André Gunder Frank and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, as a way to examine such a statement....

Discussing Gender Roles in Thailand
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Sep 2021
Introduction: Thailand is located in South East Asia where it is one of the oldest countries full of history and rich in culture and has been sustained for a long time, until the new globalization, it never has been colonized to other countries and has been affected by things such as religion, the senility system making younger people believe and listen to older people in the old principle and teachings....

Study on the Intergenerational Value Conflicts
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Sep 2021
Introduction: This paper studies about the intergenerational value conflicts between different generations like parent-child relation. More emphasis is laid on the values of individual ,generational differences, thoughts ,etc....

Suicide Terrorists are Fanatics - Discuss
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Sep 2021
Introduction: This paper is a discussion on modern suicide terrorism, starting with a brief history of suicide terrorism, moving onto definitions, characteristics, theories and the asymmetries of suicide terrorism. Suicide terrorism can be dated back to ancient times; it is the evolution of the suicide bomber that brings the most notoriety...

Karl Marx and Pierre Bourdieu's Notions of Power
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay discusses a conception of power which draws upon and synthesises the work of Karl Marx and Pierre Bourdieu....

Today vs Ideal Society According to the Communist Manifesto
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: In The Communist Manifesto, the authors Karl Marx and Engels feels that this capitalism with the help of industrialization is the increasing the productivity of economy way beyond expected....

The Complexities of Racism
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: In the US, racism is a very familiar issue. Racism manifests itself in various ways including police brutality against minorities, racial profiling and affirmative action....

Examining Prejudice and Discrimination in Singapore
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: In this essay, we will be explaining and giving the definitions of prejudice and discrimination. Also, we will go in depth and elaborate about the various kinds of discrimination in today’s society such as gender, disability, size, looks, monetary, status, education, sexual and racial discrimination....

Violation Of Womens Rights Under The Taliban Sociology Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Sep 2021
Introduction: It is necessary to break way from the formal definition of human rights and to look at the Taliban’s declaration of divine injunction itself. To not question such a contention is a violation itself of the rights of the Afghanistan women....

The Role of Women in the Middle East
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Sep 2021
Introduction: There are over half a billion women in the Muslim World in Middle East. They are in Much of the world lack support of the fundamental functions of a human life. Their social Status is low and they receive lack respect by the men....

Equality and Feminist Theories
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Sep 2021
Introduction: This discussion will consider two key areas of feminist theory which are; equality of rights and the equality in the law....

The PCS Model in Understanding Internalised Gender Oppression
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Sep 2021
Introduction: In order to find out how helpful the PCS (Personal, Cultural, and Structural Analysis) Model is in relation to internalised gender oppression, I must first gain insight and try to understand the structure of Neil Thompson’s theoretical model....

Understanding Humanist Feminism
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Aug 2021
Introduction: Humanist/ Sameness feminism is the different treatment of women from men in a social setting or a social system. The problem is different treatment, (social rights, political rights, etc) and a solution would be the same treatment, the reasoning behind this approach is the similarity between male and female, and ignoring the differences between the two. ...

Different Theories of Retirement and Ageing
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Aug 2021
Introduction: When discussing the subject of retirement, the first issue that one comes across is that of defining what retirement is, and when it occurs. According to Denton and Spencer (2009), the Oxford English Dictionary defines retirement as follows: “To withdraw from office, or an official position; to give up one’s business or occupation in order to enjoy more leisure or freedom (especially after having made a competence or earned a pension)”....

The Relationships Between Age Gaps
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
Introduction: Views towards age-gap relationships should not be viewed through stereotypical eyes; instead they should be viewed with an open mind, for they are more than what you see....

Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Intelligence
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Aug 2021
Introduction: Studies have found that socioeconomic status ‘modifies the heritability’ of intelligence (Hanscombe et al, 2012). For example, Bradley & Corwyn (2002) found that children from disadvantaged family backgrounds scored lower on intelligence tests in comparison to their peers of high SES. This was followed up by Feinstein (2003) who found that their performance worsened over time, even if they had performed strongly in early assessment. This highlights the importance of environmental influences on intelligence. As the title indicates, an association between the two variables has been found. This essay will explore the possible reasons for the relationship....

Analysis of Peter Cattaneo's Film 'The Full Monty'
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Aug 2021
Introduction: The Full Monty is a movie based on a group of men who have been made redundant due to effects of economic change and political misfortune. This leads to a shift in social organisation, when taking into consideration in conventional social order men are anticipated to be the primary breadwinners....

Overview of Karl Marx & Marxism
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Aug 2021
Introduction: The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although he was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death in 1883. ...

Is Religion a Hindrance Towards the Development of Societies?
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Aug 2021
Introduction: As difficult as it can get to define religion, it gets even harder to explain its parameters. There has not been a general consensus on the definition of religion although social scientists have long tried to provide clarity to the definition of religion as it fits best to justify their work....

Death and Dying: Changing Attitudes Through the Ages
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: This report discusses about various factors that are affecting the lives of individuals. Report begins here with a clear focus laid on the aims of the report followed by research questions to understand the topic thoroughly....

Greatest Potential of Sibling Relationships
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Aug 2021
Introduction: Siblings play very unique roles in each other’s lives in several distinct ways. Sibling relationships have the greatest potential for a lengthy existence and one that most individuals nurture and maintain throughout the entire life course ....

Social Theory of Functionalism
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Aug 2021
Introduction: Functionalism is a social theory, it was introduced by a social theorist called Emilie Durkheim in the early 19th centuries. Emilie Durkheim was born in April 1858 in France, he studied philosophy where he discovered the functionalist theory....

Structural Functionalism from a Post-modern Perspective
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Aug 2021
Introduction: In sociology there are three broad areas of sociological study structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism and conflict theories (including feminism and postmodernism) but for the purpose of this paper structural functionalism will be looked at and critiqued by a post modern perspective in terms of the context of Jay and Lara’s family....