Category: Society

Nowadays, the problem of opioid addiction and drug abuse is still common in the United States of America and no consensus has been delivered. Despite the fact that the opioid crisis is associated, fir...

Today, many countries owe their economic growth and success to the support given by the international lending institutions. The latter have helped boost economic and financial solidity, abetted trade,...

Stemmed from the contributions of Lemert, Tannenbaum, Becker, and Schur, the labeling theory plays an important role in the sociology of deviance (Rubington & Weinberg, 2015). Labeling produces de...

Civilization is a term that has been used in various relevant and irrelevant contexts for ages. Many people relate civilization to the society’s state, nature or class. Resultantly, ambiguity in...

Introduction Most revolutions that have happened in the past 20 years came about as an effect of writing. First there appeared emails, web pages, text messages, and now there are blogs. Development of...

Introduction The post 9/11 period has seen a lot of concern over the security of the governing apparatus and its preparedness in the face of potential terrorist attacks (Watts, 2007). Both domestic an...

1. How does group membership – even in minimal groups – contribute to prejudice and discrimination? Group membership is a small society which has its own rules, beliefs and world view. Ap...

1. Person G should receive extra retirement income from the government. This person was working on a company during all his life. When he retired, the company bankrupted and now he cannot receive a go...

The modern US society is characterized by social inequalities of gender, ethnicity, age, and other characteristics. Economic, spatial, and social types of inequality are interrelated and often reinfor...