Industrialism reduced people to more of "wage slavery" and only a strong central government can promote social progress and preserve democracy. ... Franklin Roosevelt sought to explain why "new terms" needed to be added to the "old social contract" of the United States in the "commonwealth club speech.... "Faith in America, faith in our tradition of personal responsibility faith in our institutions, faith in ourselves demands that we recognize the new terms of the old social contract" (459). ... His new social contract between social contract bet...

• Word Count: 1186
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Domhoff A) Domhoff believes that class is a pre-determined concept that involves class and power along with that of social relationships and lifestyle. ... Then there is the social side to this. ... Like the two different roles that the economic a social play. ... Some farmers still have small contracts with companies that allow them to make decent wages. ... While larger farms have huge contracts that account for a large percentage of the food we eat. ...

• Word Count: 713
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Industrial Revolution affected America in many ways, Economically, Socially, politically, and finally morally. ... Eli Whitney an American inventor had a contract with the US to produce ten thousand guns in less than ten years, Whitney quickly discovered the idea of interchangeable parts, if all gun parts were made the same it would take less time. ... Our country became wealthier and more populated due to the revolution Liberty, republicanism, and independence are powerful changes to the social environment. ... Short economic depressions were the cause of high unemployment rates, and mo...

• Word Count: 511
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the time of rebellion, America achieved a higher plane of social and political life than had ever been seen before. ... Also, the Jamestown colony, originally settled by men of noble positions, quickly failed until it was reorganized and colonists discarded social positions and acted together. ... America became the first country to revolt employing John Locke's concept of rebellion upon breach of contract. ...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Specifically, AA is a series of social policies and statutes that regulate activities and laws with the primary intent to achieve equity and increase opportunity for all. ... As a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act, Johnson issued EO 11246, which required expansion of job opportunities for minorities in government contracting firms. This order also established the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC) a division of the Department of labor, which was chartered to administer the order. ... Also in 1971, Nixon, under EO 11625 direct federal agencies to develop comprehensive plans and progra...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another inconvenient truth is the social structure that allows people to purchase and own firearms. ... Not much has been done to resolve this social problem. ... I believe allowing these will open doors to more complex social problems. ... Last week, Kobe Bryant signed a contract with the major league basketball team Lakers based in L.A. His contracted amount is at 4.5 million over the next 2 years. ...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The principle is that ability, qualifications, and merit, independent of race, national origin, or sex should prevail when one applies for a job or promotion, or for selective institutions for higher education, or when one bids for contracts. The reality is that strict adherence to this principle would result in few African Americans getting jobs, admissions, and contracts" (1998). ...

• Word Count: 2762
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The principle is that ability, qualifications, and merit, independent of race, national origin, or sex should prevail when one applies for a job or promotion, or for selective institutions for higher education, or when one bids for contracts. The reality is that strict adherence to this principle would result in few African Americans getting jobs, admissions, and contracts (1998). ...

• Word Count: 2762
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Social evolution and revolution, these two actions created a change in the American family after the War for Independence. ... On the other hand, if the children came from a poor family, where their parents could not support them , the state could remove the child, or children, from their family and contract them (by agreement) as an indentured servant. The contract often stipulated that the master was to provide education and training along with room and board. ... True, social equality was not to be found. ...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Also, a study sponsored by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs showed that from 1974-80, federal contractors who adopted affirmative action goals "added female officials and managers at twice the rate of non-contractors. ... International studies have shown that "a group's low ethnic status or position in a social structure" directly correlates to a group's significantly lower performance on standardized tests. ... These studies suggest that standardized test scores are unintentionally biased against Americans who suffer a lower position in the U.S. soci...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Private law deals with problems that relate to such things as the loaning of money, divorce, a contract, or an accidental harming of another individual. ... Justice is loosely defined as an end result that should achieve social happiness and create the best possible relationship between man and state however, no matter how the law is perceived justice is not in it. ...

• Word Count: 779
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Black prisons were at the forefront of social criticism in issues of race and class. ... Prisoners such as Eldridge, Cleaver and George Jackson fostered the liberation ideology and the development of a black consciousness and revealed radical critiques of the American social order. ... Black political and social activists within prisons were important because they provided an in depth criticism of the American criminal Justice system. ... Imprisonment has become the response of first resort too far too many of the social problems that burden people who are ensconced in poverty. ... When pr...

• Word Count: 3043
• Approx Pages: 12

Brandeis University's well known professor, Peter Woll, states that, "[Madison's] view that the natural diversity of interests would prevent particular groups from dominating politics found a later incarnation in American social science of the 1950s and 1960s" (Woll). The Madisonian system agrees to the social contract, and as Englishmen we must comply with the liberties and free speech of groups granted in our constitution. ...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

Your new rights allow you to vote, join the military, obtain a marriage permit, sign legally binding contracts and many others except purchase and consume alcohol. ... At the same time, there is little or no social pressure to drink, and absolutely no tolerance for abusive drinking. ... A way of promoting this distinction is by firmly penalizing unacceptable acts of drinking, both legally and socially. ...

• Word Count: 1066
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Within the context of this policy, employers, administrators, contract managers were held accountable to give minorities, women and other special interest group's additional consideration in their decision processes when applying for employment, various memberships and acceptance in educational institutions. ... The long term impact of slavery and other kinds of discrimination, if not corrected by some process, will continue to drive the social ills that pervade American society; illiteracy, unemployment, racism and crime. ... Therefore, Proposition 209 causes further social ill than di...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beth Rubin, in Shifts in the Social Contract, speaking of the post war period, says, "The labor-capital accord emerged in the unionized core of the economy, particularly in manufacturing industries, in the immediate post-war period. It coordinated the interests of workers and employers by restructuring their relationships around a new social contract. ...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The rule was of having social conservatism with a strong belief in economic development. ... The third belief was organization and effeiciency, social order was a mean of using intelligents as a guide for social and economic gain. ... This law was carried on by a new contract that solidfied its meaning of not allowing Chinese immigrants of being citizens. ... The Populist Party was the result of a movement that begun with the Granger movement, which was, in fact, a social movement. ... Both the Grange and the Alliance endorsed social and educa...

• Word Count: 2304
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yet today there is an outspoken minority who want to stop affirmative action not only as a legal remedy, but also as a social commitment. Now that affirmative action has led to some social changes there are those who are saying our society has gone too far in correcting racial injustice. ... Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, affirmative action calls for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education and contracting decisions. ... Despite the obstacles posed by our institutions and political culture, the evidence indicates that immigrants toda...

• Word Count: 1755
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Development usually implies an improvement in living standards such that a person has enough food, water, and clothing, a stable social environment, freedom, and basic rights to have a fair chance for a decent life. ... Poverty expands and contracts and its definition changes in accordance with temporary exigencies, including the interests of those who propound the definitions do the counting, which means that there is no concrete definition of poverty, except for the numbers. ... Programs such as Social Security, Food stamps, housing assistance are safety nets that has helped lower the ...

• Word Count: 1519
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Development usually implies an improvement in living standards such that a person has enough food, water, and clothing, a stable social environment, freedom, and basic rights to have a fair chance for a decent life. ... Poverty expands and contracts and its definition changes in accordance with temporary exigencies, including the interests of those who propound the definitions do the counting, which means that there is no concrete definition of poverty, except for the numbers. ... Programs such as Social Security, Food stamps, housing assistance are safety nets that has helped lower the ...

• Word Count: 1518
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Expressing great dissatisfaction with the fuzzy and blurring lines separating different groups of homeless people, Loveland proposes that: We look at three dimensions of homelessness: paths (and social roots), demographics and lifestyles, and barriers to escape. ... Judging from the review of reports received, it appears that those in vulnerable economic situations, upon receiving an economic jolt, in the absence of "social margins" (savings, relatives, extended family, friends.) become homeless. ... Funding for social welfare assistance programs in the United States, such as Aid to Families ...

• Word Count: 4318
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Besides being legal to place in prison and enter into contracts there isn't much to look forward to. ... It is now looked down upon by society to drink and drive; rather it is socially acceptable for you to have a Designated Driver.* Both alcohol and the responsibility that goes with it have come a long way over the years. ...

• Word Count: 1188
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The term affirmative action is applied to the use of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences set apart a variety of social benefits. ... The goals were later extended to college admissions and of government contracts. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A factor that may not have been considered in the 1965 thesis was the fact that there was a nationwide deterioration of the family due to social factors, such as the Vietnam War. ... Furthermore, the householder may be providing in contract only; she signed the lease, deed or mortgage but does not live there and provide the everyday (other that pecuniary) support. ...

• Word Count: 1096
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

AIDS often spreads like wildfire among people who share unsterilized needles, and once a person contracts the HIV virus, they become a statistic in the disabled category. ... They need to make sure also that homeless people don't abuse systems such as social security and housing. ...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School