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- 9811: Society's Problems and My Role In Helping It
- ... few programs that I would like to push for should I ever be given the chance. If individuals do not soon understand the importance of helping out in our society, the problems will become too great for us to handle. I would like to close with a little story my mother used to tell me when I was little: "This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody and Nobody ...
- 9812: Analysis Of Sexual Harassment
- ... definition of sexual harassment is any unwanted or inappropriate sexual attention. That includes touching, looks, comments, or gestures. A key part of sexual harassment is that it is one sided and unwanted. There is a great difference between sexual harassment and romance or friendship, since those are mutual feelings of two people. Often sexual harassment makes the victim feel guilty, but it is important for the victim to remember that it ...
- 9813: Gender and Relationship of Children
- ... sex role characteristics, they are freer to express prosocial behaviour which is in contrast to the sex role stereotype of females. When the girls adopt more flexible sex role characteristics, they would not have as great an impact because girls have already developed these prosocial skills. Benenson (1993), designed a study which examined sex differences in children's preference for a dyadic and group interaction in preschoolers. Two experiments were conducted ...
- 9814: Street Gangs: A Guide To Community Awareness
- ... graffiti to let the community know they exist, to mark their territory, to make statements about their gang, or to issue challenges to other gangs. Graffiti is not just an idle crime and is a great source of gang information. Gang members actively seek violent conflicts. This includes murder, assaults with deadly weapons drive by shootings, and batteries. Gang violence often claims innocent victims. In 1993, almost nine out of every ...
- 9815: Welfare: Toil and Trouble
- ... usually a lifetime. An example of this idleness is Eulalia Rodriquez. This Jezebel, who calls herself Rodriguez, has been on welfare for twenty-six years, has fourteen children on welfare, seventy-four grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. Rodriguez is sick of people criticizing her for being on public assistance. "I'm sick of people acting like I'm some kind of crook. We've got a lot of kids to feed ...
- 9816: Domestic Violence
- ... coming back, this is known as the honeymoon syndrome. The superdad syndrome is used when kids are involved and he has neglected them in the past. He will tell her that he will be a great dad if she returns. Another is known as the revival syndrome he will say that he has been to church every Sunday since the woman left and say that he has accepted god into his ...
- 9817: Gangs: A Violent Reality
- ... their intended victim yet over 60% do kill someone. This gang application is one of the many reasons that sexual stereotypes and pressure to conform to the same must be stopped. Lastly one of the great factors in joining a gang is for protection. Although from an objective point of view, we can see joining a gang brings more danger than it saves you from, this is not always the way ...
- 9818: Gangs
- ... it makes life very dangerous for citizens in the area. Less that 40% of drive-by- shootings kill their intended victim, yet over 60% do kill someone (Suburban Gangs 1996). In addition, one of the great factors in determining to joining a gang is protection. In slums such as the Bronx, children will be beaten and robbed if they do not participate in a gang. Most people see that joining a ...
- 9819: The Media and the Fear of Victimization
- ... the public perception on being victimized. She gave examples of how the media has the tendency to often blow up a situation so as to make it appear as if the nation is in some great peril. For example if someone does a study on juvenile crime you can expect the media to focus on juvenile crime and incidents that may be occurring across the nation. Though the crime they are ...
- 9820: What Is Sociology
- ... around 40% of the adult population attended church every week and by 1950 this had reduced to 20%. In recent years an average of 10-12% attended church each Sunday (Haralambous, 1991). Sociologists have taken great pains to try to explain this change. Bryan Wilson argued that religion has become less and less important due to the rationalisation of societal beliefs, greater knowledge and accepted faith in science and the development ...
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