Tag: Sociology

Assessing Critical Race Theory in Education and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice
18th May 2020
Introduction: Abstract Scholars often use Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Bourdieusian analyses with the aim of studying inequities in education. Despite their usefulness and popularity, a theoretical ...

Mother/Daughter Dyads and the Search for Identity in Caucasia
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: “Our Mothers, Our Selves”: Mother/Daughter Dyads and the Search for Identity in Caucasia “Our mothers, our selves” is well-known phrase that acknowledges young females’ intrinsic instinct t...

Socio-economic Programs in Federal Government Procurement: Challenges Associated with their Implementation
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: Socio-economic Programs in Federal Government Procurement: Challenges Associated with their Implementation Introduction Public procurement refers to the act through which government organizations or ...

Predicting Local Road Crashes Using Socio-economic and Land Cover Data
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: ABSTRACT Estimating and applying safety performance functions (SPFs), or models for predicting expected crash counts, for roads under local jurisdiction is often challenging due to the lack of vehic...

Relationship Between People and their Places
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: 1         CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CONCLUSION 1.1        Introduction This chapter presents a summary of the main findings of the research and conclusion to the thesis. The chapter will be s...

Gendering of Consumption and Production
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: Chapter One: Feminizing Consumption This project is borne of a desire to understand the longstanding conflation of femininity with consumption and the political consequences of that conflation.  Eve...

Trends in Racial and Socioeconomic Residential Segregation
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Since 1970, racial residential segregation has declined, but in recent years socioeconomic residential segregation has increased. Write an essay in which you trace these trends and the factors involve...

Do Young People See Mental Health as Part of their Cultural Identity?
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the adverse impact that ‘stigma’ can have on young people who are suffering from any one of the many different types of mental illn...

The Effect of Instagram on Teenage Girls
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Investigating the significance of Instagram in the lives of teenage girls Welcome to the social media revolution… ABSTRACT Technology has revolutionized how people see the world, along wit...

Effect of Fashion in the Media on Female Body Dissatisfaction
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Moral Failure: A critique into how fashion media increases body dissatisfaction in female adolescents This Dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the BA (Honours) F...

Sociological Reasons for Sports Participation: A Bourdieusian Approach.
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract This study will draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and will explore the sociological factors that influence young people’s participation in physical activity. While acknowledging ineq...

Impact of Incorrect Information in the Media on Public Attitudes | Islam in the Media
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract Recent events worldwide, such as Paris attacks, civil war in Syria and refugee crisis in Europe, have all contributed to an increased attention devoted to Islam. Major British news provid...

Demographics of Leave and Remain Voters
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Does the public portrayal of who voted either way in the EU referendum and why, match the reality of people in north-east London and surrounding areas? Introduction The European Union (EU) refe...

Racial Bias in the Premier League
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Racism in Football – Will We Ever Kick It Out?  An Econometric Evaluation of Racial Biases in the Premier League Abstract Racism and discrimination have unfortunately played a major r...

Intersectionality in Third-wave Feminism
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Intersectionality as the Main Concept of Third-wave Feminism Third-wave feminism which follows Second-wave of Feminist movement began in the 1990s with the mixture of disgruntled, and unsure femin...

Impact of Violence in Video Games
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction to the impact of violence in video games Purpose of violence in video games Purpose of dissertation Research question and hypothesis Methodology ………………...

Relationship Between Facebook Usage and Social Capital
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: 1. Introduction The purpose of this research is to investigate the recent phenomenon known as social networks, and in particular the social networks associated with the World Wide Web and their impac...

The Effects and Impact of Second Language Acquisition on the Individual and Society
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Being Bilingual: The effects and impact of second language acquisition on the individual and society. Abstract The aim of this research is to ascertain the benefits of bilingualism alongside the imp...

Comparison of Privacy and Communication on Social Networking
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: I propose to conduct a research on the topic- ‘A cross-cultural comparison of privacy and communication on Social Networking Sites between India and United Kingdom’. Abstract My research w...

Search for Identity through Body Modification
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Judging from Appearances Body modification of one sort or another has always been practiced new technologies have opened up the possibility for radical change. This has meant that we can now change fu...

Identity Creation through Body Modification
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Body modification of one sort or another has always been practiced new technologies have opened up the possibility for radical change. This has meant that we can now change fundamental aspects of our...

Psychoanalytical Concepts of Crisis in Masculinity
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: The late 60s saw a rapidly materialising concern about the status of masculinity. Before the 60s it seemed that the idea of masculinity was safe – males could be useful within modern capitalist ...

Effects of Manipulating Individual Identity
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract: This study examined how changing the perception of social distance changed the way in which subjects interacted in the Trust Game specifically looking into the social preferences they displ...

Relationship Between Childhood Well-being and Poverty
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction This paper explores the relationship between childhood well-being and poverty. Using structural equation modelling a multidimensional picture of child well-being is developed which is lin...

Media Reaction to Muhammad Cartoons
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: Research Objective: A quantification of social dynamics and ethics in global society. It is the aim of this project to assess the relative reaction of newspapers and their readers to the publishing of...