Category: Sociology

Description of the issue “One man, one vote” — this statement is used to describe the American democracy that presupposes the right to vote for every individual, regardless race and socio-cultural background. Throughout the history, America practiced the limitations of rights for particular groups of people. Although the country demonstrates its ability to eliminate racial…

Table of Contents Introduction Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) is a community-based group founded in the early 70s to express outrage on faith and moral matters. This organization led by Father Guinan with the assistance of students from the George Washington Foundation was more concerned with bringing a voice of…

The problem of the disenfranchisement of ex-felons is still timely in the twenty-first century. Ex-felons are being deprived of their legitimate right to vote in many countries around the world, including the developed states. Whereas most people realize that this kind of discrimination is a contravention of the principles of democracy, some individuals support the…

Table of Contents Process of Entering the US Americans Attitude to Japanese Japanese’s Values and Beliefs Current Conditions in Japan Opinion on Their Journey Reference List Japanese are among the different ethnic groups that immigrated to the United States between 1870s and 1880s. At that time, the Japanese economy was in the transition stage slowly…

The reading “Suicide and Modernity” in Lemert’s “Social Theory” is about the needs of living beings, and it is categorical on the fact that, for any living creature, certain conditions have to be met. If some of the details of such conditions being changed, some living beings can still exist, but under a lot of…

The issues associated with equality have been central to many societies for centuries. Many Americans, as well as other nations, see the USA as one of the most democratic countries where people enjoy equal rights and share democratic values. However, this is far from being true as a great number of people have no voting…

Table of Contents Introduction Natta’s article References Introduction Racial discrimination in the United States of America dates back to the slavery era. However, different civil and human groups have emerged to fight racism; unfortunately, the rate of discrimination especially of minority groups like the Blacks is still high in different American states. The violation of…

Introduction: Assimilation, ethnic pluralism, and trans-nationalism for immigrants Assimilation refers to a process by which a small group of immigrants join a larger group of immigrants, and become accepted in its culture. The small group even goes further to dominate the culture of the larger group. In recent times, assimilation has changed to ethnic pluralism.…

Professional skills of the human service workers are aligned with the global social changes, which transform and coordinate human relations. Therefore, the duties of such specialists include promoting positive alterations (Abramovitz, 1998). In this paper, the role of human services in addressing ex-felon disenfranchisement problem is overviewed. The expert opinions on the policies of voting,…

Edward Tufte’s description of the quality of thought in “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint” Edward Tufte, an expert in the presentation of information graphics, contributes to the visual communication of information. In ‘The cognitive style of PowerPoint,’ he argues that Microsoft PowerPoint is normally used but is not the best and has various shortcomings. He…