Category: Free Essays

  • Cannibalism: As sanctioned by a cultural norm

    What would you choose, eat or be eaten? Will you save your life or save others? It’s a very hard decision, to cannibalize your fellow humans. It’s a matter of choice. Many of us are not convinced with this kind of matter, it’s very hard to accept that cannibalism sometimes use for survival. It’s because…

  • Butch and femme roles of lesbians

    Butch and femme roles were extremely important to the community in the forties and fifties; it was the butch role that was the most visible, and therefore the most likely to cause public scorn (Weissman and Fernie). The two sources, The Reproduction of Butch – Femme Roles by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and…

  • Broken Windows Theory Analysis

    Assessing the theory of “Broken Windows” “Wicked people exist. Nothing avails except to set them apart from innocent people…We have trifled with the wicked, made sport of the innocent, and encouraged the calculators. Justice suffers, and so do we all” – James Wilson The basic idea for the Broken Windows theory is that any kind…

  • Britishness Is Based On Shared Values Sociology Essay

    The aim of this assignment is to evaluate the claim that Britishness is based on shared values, ideas or ways of life. I will do this with particular focus on a range of short pieces of writing from a variety of different sources such as that at government and independent levels. Britishness is not entirely…

  • National identity in music: The Beatles

    Evaluate depictions of Britishness in the songs of the Beatles and 1990’s Brit pop groups and discuss the relation between politics and music. A feature that is evident in the music of the Beatles from 1966 on wards is the way in which they use representations of everyday British cultural life. Such representations are not…

  • Britishness And British Identity Sociology Essay

    The Latin name ” Britannia” was found around 320 BC in the travel diaries of the ancient Greek Pytheas , and was used to refer to the name of some numerous islands in the North Atlantic, while the inhabitants of those places were called “Priteni or Pretani”. The modification of the name came around with…

  • British Identity: A Shared Culture

    The concept of identity has both personal and social perspectives but, irrespective of focus, each is concerned with categorisation and assumptions of similarity and difference. Social identity relates to the links that exist between people and places, the ideas and practices that align individuals to one social group as opposed to another and the feeling…

  • Does Britain Have an Underclass?

    What is an underclass and does it exist in Britain today? The idea of the existence of an underclass isn’t by any means new. Charles Murray is perhaps the best known researcher who has studied the underclass both in the US and Britain. Murray arrived in Britain in 1989 from the US where he suggested…

  • Brand Placement in Bollywood Movies

    Do the Consumers get Sensitized towards the Brands by the Brand Placement in Bollywood Movies?Abstract The practice of product placement is seen everywhere in media across the world and is now ubiquitous. The same practice of Product placement in Bollywood is not new and the practice of placing the products in the bollywood movies is…

  • Sociology Essays – Boys Education Problem

    Why are boys a problem for the education system today? Introduction: Until the middle 1990s boys were not generally seen as aspecific problem in British education. Many researchers in education tendedto focus on the disadvantages facing girls in schools and the way they tendedto be channelled into soft subjects such as cookery and health and…