While at Harvard, Merton spent much of his time reading essays by Emile Durkheim. ... One of his earliest essays, Social Structure and Anomie (1938) was written and published during The Great Depression. ... This is how Merton's most famous essay, Social Structure and Anomie (1938), was produced into a masterpiece according to many areas of specialization, including criminology. ... Adaptation V, rebellion, like retreatism, rejects both the cultural goals and cultural means. ... While Merton's 1938 essay Social Structu...

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This essay will examine some of the different kinds of linguistic sexism in the English language, some of the reasons why these forms of language are harmful and finally some ideas of how these forms of language can be changed for the better. ... Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." ... In fact Wardaugh (1992) believes that the fact that terms like "widower" and "spinster" have died out while terms like ...

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She lives with a mother who is single is very poor and can't afford to by cool clothes, a mobile phone or an iPod like most of her classmates, she is also in receipt of free school meals. ... Stephanie's peer group behaves like a fan group. ... This essay will look at the ways in which social class can affect the child in terms of educational attainment and school experience. This will then be followed by, a reflection analysis of how the process of entering a child's experience has affected my understanding of the issues explored in this module. ... Stephanie has come to unders...

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• Grade Level: Graduate