Research

This essay will attempt to evaluate the claim by certain historians, that entrepreneurs were the main cause for Britain’s lack of industrial competitiveness between 1870 and 1914. The essay will…

This essay is an assignment to the Business Economics of MCOM. It consists of five parts: introduction, channels through which SARS impacts, the limited impact of SARS, measures to reduce…

Audience, once thought to be passive has shifted to actively interpret media messages in various forms over the years. Individuals come together as a group to construct their own interpretation…

This essay will discuss the theories of prejudice and the processes of how it has been involved in people’s attitudes, and how these have changed over the years. It will…

Subcultures emerged in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Up until this point High culture made implicit assumptions on its role in society and also on low culture. These…

The purpose of this essay is to present the argument concerning the issue of ‘race’ as a term, and whether it is a concept which should be presented as a…

The term behaviour describes the actions of an organism in response to a given stimuli. The way in which people explain the behaviour of themselves and others is a topic…

Paul McCartney affirms that the best things in life are free in his song Money (That’s What I Want), whereas Milton Friedman might argue that there is no such thing…

‘Race’ and ‘ethnic group’ are commonly used terms, but while they seem simple they are, in reality, very complicated issues. In sociology these terms are defined differently, even though they…

Despite many criticisms (Block,1995) the Five Factor Theory (FFT) is still one of the most researched models of personality. The theory is characterized by the following important attributes of the…

The widespread availability of the video cassette has made the task of censoring what we can and cannot see almost impossible. Whilst there are many people who believe this is…

Based on research evidence, many theories have been identified as to the reason why relationships form. The sociobiological theory, reinforcement and need satisfaction theory, and the field theory all offer…

In Todd Gitlin’s book called Media Sociology he looks at the Dominant Paradigm and the effects of “Mass media”. In a chapter we learn “the recalcitrance of audiences, their resistance…

Although the majority of the general population decides not to offend and commit criminal acts, a significant proportion decides otherwise. Crimes are different, people are atypical, situational conditions and motives…

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) carried out his investigations into human behaviour between 1939 and 1943. Maslow suggested that there are goals that may be called basic needs. He arranged these into…

Learning to be information literate: Know how to find the information needed Learn how to Interpret the Information you find Have a purpose Information Literate Students Can: Determine the nature…

Freud’s ideas came from his belief in the psychodynamic approach. the psychodynamic approach – the belief that there is an inner active mind that interprets events and therefore forms personality,…

The deindustrialisation in America started right after the second world war. It was a time period where several major shifts were made. One of them is the ” capital flight”…

Everyday, life becomes more complicated and dangerous than the previous day. However, at the same time, the medical care for people becomes more advanced, in different fields. As an example…

Over the last eight to ten years, the mass media has definitely had a great influence on the public sphere. It seems now, due to the development of important technology…