Factors that lead to overpopulation that causes social problems are the increase in the number of single mothers in poor neighborhoods opposed to the decline in birth rates in the more efficient parts of the country, how the death rate is at a steady decline because of medical advances in rich and poor countries, the effects immigrants have on an environment and the population growth that occurs, the influence parents leave on children, and what is being done to help prevent the spread of AIDS because this is a deadly disease which is lowering our population but causing many social problems. ....

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Morselli identified four groups on the basis of suicidal rates, put them in descending order and concluded that the Germans had the highest rate of suicides, then came the Celto-Romans, third stood the Slavs and the last group was too small to assess. ... Despite common assumptions of suicide rates being higher during the dark and gloomy winters, statistical data point towards suicide rates being higher during the warmer months, without exception in any country. ... Same applies when a distinction in suicide rates is made between villages and cities. ... Durkheim says that if imitation or cont...

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Some children during recess time would come to me, especially girls, just to talk with me over some of their happiest moments and sometimes even tell me what they dislike in school or with their parents. ... There is a social issue in which is very important to me is teenage pregnancy. ... Teenage girls getting pregnant to some nations it is just a contemporary social issue, but to me it is a very big issue. ... Abortion to me is an act of selfishness and immaturity because you are basically murdering a human being and that you are not taking responsibility when you have caused a problem. ... ...

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A short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. ... Strauss told me I was giving Dr. ... "This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I once knew and loved. Before, they laughed at me and despised me for my ignorance; now, they hate me for my knowledge and understanding- (Apr 30-p144), "It's so cruelly logical. ... Also, sentences like "I got my rabbits foot and my luky penny and maybe they will help me- (July 28- p153),...

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Schools actively involved in the prevention of truancy and the parental involvement in the school system has proven effective in lowing the drop out rate of student and reducing crime in the neighborhood. ... One such comment that was made to me by a shoplifter sums up the rationalization behind some actions, "stealing isn't that big a deal if you take it from someone rich, cuz if I can take it I will". ...

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Criminal behavior within humans as a society have effect on certain individuals through biological, psychological, and sociological theories. These ideas interact with certain people in numerous, diverse ways and some not at all. People who commit crime have that drive to do so, they get a powerful ...

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We can reach other people at a rate we were not capable of before the internet and the social media interfaces. ... Since the 1990s, "social media has exploded as a category of online discourse where people create content, share it, bookmark it and network at a prodigious rate" (Asur, Huberman). ... On a personal level, I know that it is so much easier and faster for me to stay in touch with my loved ones now that social media is "a fact of life for civil society worldwide" (Shirky). ...

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Research has shown that residences within the prime areas with the best schooling zones can be priced 20% higher than a similar home within a lower rated school zone. ... If it were not for the educational benefits granted to me for my honorable service in the United States military, I too would be part of the statistic of individuals that do not seek higher education. ...

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For example I can go back to the history of African American which will lead me back to Africa. ... Urban cities have the highest crimes rates and violence gangs robbing killings, and the most people that in live that type of environments is African American and Latinos. ...

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Daniel Miller, Bourdieu, Deborah Posel, Baudrillard and other authors suggest that we consume things often for reasons other than simply satisfying our basic needs. Why, in a time of such plenty, do we consume at such high rates? Or rather, is it because of such plenty that we are driven to consume?...

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What is Forensic Anthropology? From within the specialized area of osteology--the study of bones "comes the application of the methods and techniques of analyzing skeletal remains for cases that will apply tf legal importance. Osteological analyses yield clues as to how populations of people might h...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. ...

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At the risk of oversimplifying this point, let me give a few examples. ... (Illich 1971) We are consuming education at a more rapid rate than at any time since we started counting degrees, and families are going further and further into debt to fund education for children.. ...

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I will start by examining the evolutionary examinations associated with masculinity and violence, which will then lead me on to discuss the critical of social theories in relevance to the topic. ... Hatty suggests that the rapid decline in 'traditional working class males' and employment rates, provokes a 'crisis on masculinity' (2006). ...

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Socialisation: Socialisation is a process by which people learn the accepted ways of behaving in the society and the roles, norms, values and culture of the society and a sense of self.it mainly takes place during childhood, but continues throughout life via various agencies like education, mass me...

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In particular this has led to a generally high rate of ethnocentrism among people in western societies. ... It is not directly perceiving as you or me do, but rather represented as a collective consciousness. ...

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