Best Sociology Articles

?Collecting Dead Relatives and Sometimes a Live Cousin? and ?My Family Tree is Lost in the Forest? are just some of the catchy slogans found printed on the shirts of genealogy enthusiasts. These avid researchers are looking to fill the holes in their family trees. It?s work that most have been at for decades.

The Stag Line, a 1960 era teenage dance etiquette that appears to be indigenous to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. A ritual that had the teenage males walking around the dance floor, 2-4 abreast, allowing them to look and select a female dance partner, who would be seated in chairs around the dance floor fringe. This appeared to satisfy a male social support network for those shy adolescent males working up the courage to ask a girl to dance.

The lie detector test is not endorsed by many scientists - here's one reason why.

Despite adamant claims to the contrary, racism continues to plague many peoples around the world. The first step toward resolving issues of racial intolerance and prejudice is to develop an understanding of the underlying concepts and their labels.

Subcultures and social movements are two closely connected phenomena in sociology and are considered to be central conceptions of academic study.

Habitus and cultural background/capital is recognized by many sociologists as one of the leading reasons of gender inequality.

In the late 1970s the Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), at Birmingham University, was involved in the publication of four major works.

You have listened to me for a year now talking about Choice Theory but I know I?ve never really explained what Choice Theory is. Choice Theory is actually an explanation of all human behavior developed by Dr. William Glasser. There are basically five components of this theory?the basic human needs, the quality world, the perceived world, the comparing place and total behavior. I?ll give a brief overview of each one, starting with the five basic human needs. The Basic H...

Costa Rica?s population is predominately white with other races accounting for only 2 percent. Family ties are extremely important in Costa Rican Culture. While predominately Catholic, Costa Rica does not have the religious flair that is often seen in other Latin American countries.

PowerPoint rules because of the death of reading skills. Many professors believe the pivotal generation was born in 1975, the beginning of the 7th Millennium. This generation grew up with TV as a babysitter with a subsequent decline in reading skills. The result is a visually dominated learning preference.