Category: Free Essays

Gun violence take a heavy toll both in the lives of its victim and in the quality of life of the victim’s relatives and friends, many of the stories of the victim do not capture the headlines of the newspaper, but each violent statistic is a headline story to the loved ones of the victims.…

This paper is going to briefly delve into the meaning of gang violence and its implication. The word gang can be described as a group of people within an organization and share a common identity, it must be noted that the meaning of this word has undergone change and has increasingly been associated with criminal…

Before talking about football hooliganism, it first must be clear how this phenomenon is defined. What is football hooliganism? In the literature many definitions are given, but actually none of them really covers the whole problem, we believe. The main reason for that is that hooliganism is something that has expanded all over the world…

Introduction There is a long history of research into the effect of socioeconomic factors and deprivation on health. The spatial dimension where people live – is a major determinant of health inequalities, for example in terms of marked variations in life expectancy ( Mitchell et al 2005). One socioeconomic variable, the type of housing that…

Abuse can be defined as “to treat wrongfully or harmfully”. There are different categories of abuse that have been recognized and within our case study there appears to be two distinct forms of abuse, domestic abuse and child abuse. These can be sub divided into terms of physical abuse, emotional /psychological abuse, and non-organic failure…

In the following essay I will be describing post modernism and analysing the impact it has had on class and inequality. Modern means something up to date and a break away from the past. Modernity is a historical term which refers to the era that follows the ‘Middle Ages’ or feudalism. Modernity was the emergence…

Inequality, whether racial, ethnic, economic, political or social is a great concern everywhere in the world. This is because research has shown that inequality can lead to poverty and creation of social classes within a society. This theory was expounded by Karl Max in his “Communist Manifesto” in which he argued that the owners of…

Robert Putnam in Bowling Alone (Putnam 2000) cites an obscure rural educator, Lyda J Hanifan, as the first use of the term “social capital” in an 1916 essay about the development of schools as community centres. Putnam’s genealogy has become the canonical one, cited in much of the subsequent literature, but in a recent article,…

Gender equality is also known as gender equity, gender egalitarianism, or sexual equality. It is the goal of the equality of the genders. Gender equality is defined by the world bodies as related to human rights, especially women’s rights and economic development. UNICEF defines gender equality as “leveling the playing field for girls and women…

Consensus is a concept of society in which the absence of conflict is seen as the equilibrium state of society based on a general or widespread agreement among all members of a particular society. The consensus ideology proposes that society consists of social institutions which are all dependent of each other and are vital for…