Sociology Article Reviews Samples For Students

- Introduction

Social media has undoubtedly changed the face of the world today. The way people interact is different as a result of the social media that they utilize; the changes in social interaction that have occurred have caused a significant cultural shift in humanity. More and more of the everyday actions that people take is occurring over the internet; today, many of people’s relationships occur online. Unlike the generations that came before, today’s world is full of people who are growing up increasingly isolated, except for connections that they make through the internet.

Of course human ...

Article: Popularity of Brand Posts on Brand Fan Pages: An Investigation of the Effects of Social Media Marketing

Authors L. de Vries, S. Gensler and Peter S.H. Leeflang in their article emphasize on effectiveness and use of social media in developing relationship with the consumers (Vries et al., 2012). Companies use social media to measure popularity of their brands. Companies create several pages that publicize their brands and inform people about good quality as well as reasonable price of their products. Companies also can encourage people to like its products, posts, comments and videos that companies keep posting on their pages. Huge number of likes, followers, fans and comments show the popularity of the company.

It has ...

The article entitled “Three Men, Three Ages. Which Do You Like?” which was written by Michael Winerip (2013) and published online in The New York Times on July 22, 2013 presented relevant and interesting issues pertaining to social psychology, particularly focusing on gender and age prejudices in the work setting. The article focused on presenting results of a study conducted by Princeton researchers which involved the participation of three Princeton actors, named Max, with diverse age ranges: 25, 45, and 75 years old.
The aim of the study was to determine factors that could be contributory to age ...

Introduction

The media may simply refer to tools of modern communication. In the past the media was less developed and communication was so limited. With the various technological advances, the media developed and made it possible for people to share social, economic and political information from different parts of the world. By so doing, it reduced the world into a global village. Brian Winston gives an explanation of how the media was born and how it developed over time to be what it is today. However, his explanation has attracted so many critics who have found that whatever he advocates for ...

Introduction

Thesis of the article by George M. Fredrick is to explain the models of ethnic relations by Buchanan concerning the ethnic relations models among them, assimilation, separatism, hierarchy, and pluralism. This has defined and explained on how different groups relate and relate. Based on’ Frederickson essay on ethnic relation.’

Buchanan in the article appears to endorse the ethnical hierarchy cultural pluralism because it is fully inclusive and it takes its basis on the free choices of people to build their ethnic identities of their own. Cultural pluralism celebrates various perspectives about the different and diverse culture in the society. ...

This article provides a comprehensive review of the article by Lin (2002). This article addresses how media portrays racism and its influence to lifestyle and health. A sociological approach to the problem of racism is applied, arguing that the society needs to understand the different forms of racism, biological origin of racism, and its meaning in the society. Therefore, sociological concepts such as ethnocentrism, race, and ethnicity can vastly influence media’s perception on racism. The three concepts have different meanings, but are all related and can influence health practitioner’s ability to evaluate media’s coverage of racism issues. ...

The Time Famine: Toward a Sociology of Work Time.

The paper gives a description of a qualitative study of the way people utilize their time in the workplace. It also describes why people use their time the way they do and it also considers whether the way in which people use time is optimal for their work groups and for them. The outcome of the field study of the work practices of software engineering team showed that the members were perpetrated by the group’s collective use of time. The study revealed that the workers had a feeling that the time for doing their activities was short. The engineers faced difficulties ...

Educational Technology & Society

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Educational Technology & Society

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This Research paper deals with the potential of social software. The concept of social software is quite naïve. According to most of the emerging writers of the concerned field, systems like wikis and blogs (or at least, collections of blogs) can be put in the social software category. YouTube, MySpace, Flickr etcetera can be added to the genre.In e-learning, the social software provides the learners with a choice as whether they wish to control or to be controlled in a learning transaction, and also, it establishes and strengthens the social connections, ...

Article Summary

The article of Baller & Richardson explains that the theory of Durkheim regarding suicide can be attributed to geographic space, social integration, and imitation (Baller & Richardson 873). The risk of suicide is high that can be based on the neighboring areas since it is man’s reflection of how he perceived the behaviour of other people that has a tendency influence his own actions. The replication of another person’s action is the powerful force that will drive another to act in a certain way. The article has shown that the hypotheses of Durkheim and Tarde are correct to a certain degree. The ...

The postmodern understanding of advertisement goes beyond the need to select what means of the platform to use. It encourages the use of all manner of methods through which consumers may be reached. Not that firm should be extravagant and use all methods at the same time economically, but that advertisers consider every outlet through which they can reach the consumer. This kind of advertising puts the consumer on the frontline so much so, advertisers will reach out through whatever method is most convenient for a specific market group. This means adverts will be put in print, on television, social ...

Conservatism based on Russell Kirk and Phyllis Schlafly’s Works

Conservatism can be defined as a social and or political philosophy that favors the retention of traditional social orders and institutions. This means that in a typical argument between liberals and traditionalists, conservatives would vote for the retention of established dogmas, principles, and institutions, emphasizing the importance of continuity and stability. Following the Second World War, countries, not just the United States, have made great progress in making reforms, either to their existing social, economic, and or political orders. While this may be something that would immediately alarm the conservatives, both Russell Kirk and Phyllis Schlafly presented good points of explanations ...

Abstract

This paper presents theory and practice of French sociology in practice after Pierre Bourdieu and the impacts that his work had to sociologist and the society at large, as a preparation for a journal article. It had started by analyzing the life of Bourdieu when young who hardly known in the society who advocated for purely scientific view of sociology and was against sociologically oriented journalism developed by his mentor Raymond Aron. Bourdieu was not known unlike other intellectuals in society of the time. However, him together with his co-writer Jean-Claude Passeron gained instant fame after they wrote two provocative books ...

With the growth in social media websites including; Facebook and Twitter, companies have moved to these platforms in promoting themselves. Most of the customers for many companies are active users of these social networking websites; therefore, it is cost effective for them to market themselves through this medium. Advertising on social media platforms allows organizations to reach a broader market at a very low cost. It allows for promotions to be embedded in the customer’s minds by constantly updating their Facebook or Twitter pages. However, companies that are selling complex products or products for old people would not find these ...

The increasing popularity of Cloud Services among small, medium and large enterprises has paved way for the increasing number of companies offering cloud services especially those related to customer relationship management. This has been proven to be beneficial for these companies since they are able to do away with the purchase of necessary hardware and software needed to put up such information systems plus the required maintenance. With CRM Cloud Services, these would not be needed while the software can just be customized to attune to the needs of the organization.
As of December 31, 2013, Salesforce.com dominates ...

Article Summary

The article sheds light on how large corporations such as Enron and WorldCom have been involved in malpractices related to the way these corporations were run. Both Enron and WorldCom were guilty of ignoring the demands of the stakeholders. Therefore, there is a strong need for major changes in the way such corporations are run, and for environmental and social factors to be kept in mind. One way of pleasing all parties is through a process called Socially Responsible Investing or SRI. SRI does not mean that businesses ignore the financial side of things and safeguard social and environmental factors at the ...

Marriage has changed in the last century. Divorce rates are at all tie highs. Though divorce rates are up and this causes some people to think that there is are increased marriage crisis, Eli J. Finkel believes that this could be interpreted as a positive thing for the institution of marriage. She writes “though marriage has experienced disruptive changes like higher divorce rates, such developments are a sign that the institution has evolved to better respect individual autonomy, particularly for women” (Finkel, 1). In the past marriage as an institution did not hold women as equal partners in the arrangement. In ...

In today’s information age, more and more details about people’s personal and professional lives are available than ever before. To that end, many people have concerns about how that might affect their lives and futures; how much do we want others to know about us? In Erin Moriarty’s “Did the Internet Kill Privacy?”, the journalist discusses the dangers and pitfalls of having personal information about yourself online, and how it affects one’s academic and work lives. Meanwhile, Rhonda Savage’s “Facebook: Fired Up or Just Fired?” takes a more even-handed approach to the Internet, showing both ...

Article Review

The key message of the article is that the continued use of internet for social purposes during work hours has negative effects on people’s concentration at workplaces. According to the author, though internet has become an essential tool for carrying out research and other functions such as emailing, in most cases internet slows peoples’ ability to work optimally because workers who have access to internet end up visiting social sites and performing personal tasks. Because of technology and internet, most people have lost their desire for information and have acquired considerable desire for social connection.
Further, the ...

Is evolution Phycology really value free?

While most people may be familiar with the evolution of species, few individuals may not know the new branch of physiology, which is known as evolutionary physiology (EP). Evolutionary biology deals with adaptation of physical parts such as limbs, tail, and organs. On one hand, evolutionary physiology deals with the evolution of human thought, behavior, and language. The subject has been faced by severe critics where people against EP believe that it has no value but entirely relies on social and cultural behaviors of human. The author of this paper champions that, EP, unlike to the biological evolution; rely ...

Article review

Introduction
The article “A Facebook ‘friend’ request from the boss: Too close for comfort?” by Peluchette, Karl, and Fertig (2013) discusses what might be the employees’ reactions and responses to Facebook friend requests from their supervisors and/or bosses. The authors’ are interested in the employees’ viewpoints rather than their supervisors’/bosses’. They base their arguments on the issues of self-presentation, leader-member exchange (LMX), and developmental networks.

Summary

The first issue the authors discuss is the change of Facebook users from young adults to the older generation, businesses, and organizations. Their argument is that the original intended Facebook use has ...

Children are new beings in this world and do not know anything about it. This leaves them with no option other than relying on the society in order to learn about the world. They look at what parents do and hence they start behaving like them. The learning process of a child is a psychological process that takes place in stages. The history of childhood explains that children come into this world as models that are ready to be shaped into anything. The process of being a leader begins from childhood, the role models and the social set up facilitates these characteristics ( ...

The relevant stakeholders described in the articles is composed of the corporations such as Newmont Mining and the other companies involved in the mining operations. However, the most affected and considerably the important stakeholders in the case are the residents of the communities near the Yanacocha mine, and town of Choropampa. Peru’s mining history was shrouded with allegations of environmental negligence due to the issues of mercury spill that affected the nearby areas of Newmont mining site. What makes the corporations involved as stakeholders is that the company has the highest business interest in the issue given that ...

Psychology

In their research “The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal”, Whitson, Galinsky and Kay (2014) addressed human emotions that are linked with the uncertainty of the world. They suggest a hypothesis that these emotions (such as fear, surprise, hope, etc.) should promote the need to endow the world with structure and order using a variety of compensatory measures.
The reason to conduct the experiments described in the article was a desire to prove that the certainty of the emotions plays a greater role than its valence in the process of activating compensatory control. Moreover, the experiments ...

Carole Vance’s article, “Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality,” explains how the social construction theory can be used to help understand LBGTQ+ identities. As discussed previously, essentialism assumes that all things, at the essence, are the same or share a similar experience. However, this does not take culture into consideration, and just how far humans are constructed socially. Vance explains that the LBGTQ+ community would benefit from identifying as a socially constructed group, because assuming that sexuality is finite or natural is an essentialist argument that completely undermines people who are sexually fluid and rejects the idea ...

This article discusses the emerging issues in the growth and development of corporate social responsibility. It starts by discussing various drivers of to corporate social responsibility. Ideally, business attitudes and its relationship are slowly changing with time due changes in the business environment. As a result, changes in business environments such as technological, political, economic, social, cultural and legal environments are influencing the business behaviours and the way to handle problems. This is to mean that there is great need for corporates to adopt changes in their social responsibility. In addition, social corporate environment is also ensured by focusing on ...

The Capitalist Culture

Culture is the most active element that charges the human civilization to further branched out and cut across all the aspect of life such as technology. In the capitalist world, there is a great desire towards the novel and original. This continuous search for novelty and change surpasses the extent of proportions of actual change that has occurred in the society. Further, this cultural desire is already being legitimized, such that the society accepts the role to see the culture as a norm and a moral tradition where the emerging new culture could be sized up and be critically evaluated. It is ...

David Meyer defines social movement (SM) as the “organized challenges to authorities that use a broad range of tactics, both inside and outside of conventional politics, in an effort to promote social and political change” (30). While many of social movements fail to attain its immediate goal, Meyer believes that they can “lastingly change political debates, governmental institutions and the wider culture” (31). In particular, social movements can “influence public policy, at least by bringing attention to their issues” (32) and it can also “alter not only the substance of policy, but also how policy is made” (33) through the ...

Analysis of Articles

Analysis of Articles

The article is about the application of social psychology to motivate and lobby for social and political participation in anti-poverty campaigns and measures. The application of social psychology is from a social identity approach that entails group efficacy, group emotion as well as meaningful social identity. All these factors are important in advocating and promoting a collective effort towards the eradication of poverty in the developing nations and the achievement of any set millennium development goals (MDGs).
The social identity approach highlights the significance psychological reality that lies with social groups and their collective behavior. Group-based emotion ...

Jeremy Bentham’s Writings

Jeremy Bentham is most famously known for his writings on utilitarianism theory, although he was also a jurist and a social reformer. This essay will review Bentham’s article ‘The Psychology of Economic Man.’
The article by Bentham deals with the psychological aspects of man in relation to economic wants. He starts off with the foundational premise of his article by stating that one’s primary aim is happiness and for attaining this aim one would do any that that would satisfy this tendency of self-preference. He argues that others cannot look after one’s happiness and that one has ...

Introduction

Essentialism or the idea of an essentialist in gender is founded on the belief of the late 1960’s that women should be minors and their jobs primarily relating to housewives, they included saying nursing say teaching. This is called an idea or the belief of an essentialist because people assumed that women, being women had limited skill sets that were present by their gender. Carole Vance looks at this idea of a social constructionist theory, and then looks at it again against the essentialist theory in the setting or the background of feminism. Essentialism as a tool of identification is. ...

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We are living in the twenty first century where the world is a more globalised and integrated place. We interact with people from various backgrounds in all walks of life may it in the social or professional space. This chapter addresses the aspect of interpersonal relationships between people (both friendly and romantic) and highlights various ways that enables an individual to understand, develop and maintain interpersonal relationships. The chapter argues that one’s social, cultural, educational and religious upbringing influences one’s likelihood towards intercultural bonding and I completely agree with this. To elucidate this ...

1. Author Frank F. Furstenberg believes that although America is a society that eschews a separation between classes, there are clear opportunity differences based upon the socioeconomic bracket that a person was born into. Furstenberg feels that this is contrary to the American ideology. But these ideologies do not match the actual reality of the United States. The author writes that “the United States, long regarded as the land of opportunity, has never entirely lived up to its billing” (Furstenberg, 2006).
The differences in classism have been for all of its history a social construction based not always on the reality. The ...

Summary and Synthesis of the Article, “How Social Distance Shapes Human-Robot Interaction”

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Summary and Synthesis of the Article, “How Social Distance Shapes Human-Robot Interaction”

Summary

According to the study conducted by Yunkyung Kim and Bilge Mutlu, it was discovered that proxemic distance had an influence on human-robot interaction. In fact, the research study focused on the relationships that people might develop with robots that are created to play “different social roles” as they pertain to distance; and the study was also designed to determine how the different aspects of social distance form individuals’ experiences with and “acceptance of robots” [ 4]. The research conducted by Kim and Mutlu ...

The research topic has been an investigation into the contribution or the effectiveness of crisis management to the well-being of differently sized companies. This study can be conducted in a quantitative or quantitative manner. Moreover, the study can be conducted using the mixed methods (where principles of quantitative and qualitative methods) are applied in equal measure. Creswell (2003) states that a mixed method study can respond to both open and close ended questions. Moreover, it presents multiple forms of data drawing on the statistical and text analysis. It is imperative to consider a couple of existing mixed methods studies or articles and ...

Question 1: Compare and contrast BISC and CALP

BISC (Basic Interpersonal Communicative skills refer to that language needed by students to function in the social situation thus also referred to as social language. CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) on the other hand is the academic language necessary for success of the student in academic endeavors by being able to use more advanced and complex language. BISC is acquired after about two years of educational experience but inadequate in upper elementary school. CALP continues throughout for five to seven years where most of this time is spent in the classroom. Teachers should, therefore, know that second language acquisition ...

The Effect of Medicare and Medicaid on the Social Work Field

Introduction
The American society is at the cusp of transformative change. With Baby Boomers of the sixties now reaching retirement age, the proportion of older people in society is going to increase. A smaller base of working population will have to support a larger slab of older people. As a result, existing frameworks of social security, Medicare and Medicaid would prove inadequate. New ways and means need to be explored to sustain the concept of an equitable and caring society that has been built in the USA. In this context, it is essential to explore the effect of the changing ...

- Emergence of sociology resulted from human curiosity that led to the evolution of a number of theories with different people trying to explain the social world in their views.
- The revolution of social order started in the eighteenth century due to the social uprisings that changed the state of social order.
- The social revolution changed how the humans and people around the globe viewed the society. The society is controlled by the people and people only.
- Before the different aspects of humanity believed that only the kings and God controlled the world, but ...

Summary of “An Overview of Theories”

Summary of “An Overview of Theories”

- Important social events such as revolutions led to the formalization of sociology as science.

Rise of Capitalism

- The system of people in relation to land was change from feudalism to capitalism.
- When feudal system dominated Europe, a huge part of the land was owned by the nobility but Serfs also owned small parcel of land that helped them sustain their food needs.
- Since crops became popular and expensive, the Lords broke the Serfs’ rights to live on land and raise their animals there making them work to earn money to buy ...

Incentives in the Workplace: Is Money the Key?

INTRODUCTION
While it is true that money matters in terms of financial gain and the gloriously pursuit to excel in accrual of revenues in business, research study and professional observational critiques have shown that monetary incentives in the workplace are not the key factor which motivates people in the workplace setting. The main article of referential focus, entitled ‘Social Incentives in the Workplace’ by economist research analysts Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, and Imran Rasul of the London School of Economics conducted a study which measures worker productivity as associated with rewards. Bandiera, Barankay, and Rasul (2010) discovered some startling ...

Isabelle Duyvesteyn in her article titled “How New Is the New Terrorism?” quite elaborately breaks down terrorism in the post-modern world and how the mindsets of people had been shaped around it. She analyzes the different aspects of terrorism and tackles the subject with not only her own views, but also historical and factual evidence to back up her arguments regarding terrorism in the new world or the “new” aspects of terrorism. She is of the view that the contrary to a popular belief, terrorism is not a “new” entity in the post-modern world.
Similarly, she states that to understand “ ...

IMPULSIVE PURCHASING BEHAVIOR

1. What is the purpose of the article? Why did the author(s) conduct the research and/or write the article?
Impulsive purchasing is unplanned purchasing that depends on a rapid decision-making. There are many variables influencing the impulsive purchasing behavior such as demographic factors, income, cultural orientation, price promotions, and many other varying variables. The previous studies on the impulsive purchasing analyze the influence of these factors on the purchasing behavior. However, the previous studies miss an important point in analyzing the influential factors on the impulsive purchasing behavior: the influence of the social environment and the social relations ...

PSYC101 Journal Article ReviewAssignment - Part 2Article Analysis, Connection, and ReflectionDue: 11:55pm ETSunday at the end ofWeek 6of the 8-week course termYou may work on this assignment ahead of its deadline but may not submit it prior to Week 6.Points Possible: 140
OVERVIEW: For Part I of this two-part assignment you identified and summarized elements of a published scholarly article selected from the classroom Resources Folder. For Part 2, which is due by the end of Week 6, you will analyze, connect, and reflect on aspects of your selected article. Note that the words “succinct” and “thorough” repeat regularly ...

Empirical self of each individual that is at all times referred as me (William Jones, 279). It is difficult to draw a clear line between what a man refers to as me and what he says its mine. Individuals act and feel about specific factors in life that belong to them as they feel and act about themselves (William Jones, 279). The work of each individual’s hands, their fame, their children are dear to them just like their bodies and bring about the same feelings in the event they are attacked. It is clear that the main factor being dealt ...

‘Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S.’
Life is generally considered to be the greatest gift to all of mankind. This is why the birth of a human being into the world is usually received with tremendous joy and happiness. However, the value of the same life is put under scrutiny when incidences of individuals taking their own lives are observed to be on the rise. Over the previous decade, it was observed that cases of suicide particularly among middle-aged persons had been on an upward trend. This has raised serious concern particularly since the modern society is exposed to ...

Business Ethics

Article review
In contemporary business practice, completion among organizations is getting very keen especially as several of the communist countries have now adopted the open market system, where price mechanism determines the supply and demands of goods. Furthermore, the expectations and demands from organizations to continue to give back to the community where they operate in terms of social responsibilities and customers satisfaction are very high. Hence, it is expected that quality of service and products are not sacrifice despite these much demands and expectations.Thus, different types of quality were identified, representing stakeholders in contemporary business. These include: ...

Section 1 of the DAA: Context of the Journal

I chose the article titled ‘Managerial-Enacted Empowerment: The Dimensionality and Effects on the Wellbeing and Performance of Service Workers’ by Michal Biron and Bamberger. Workers’ freedom of choice may be boosted to prevent the hurting of working effectiveness. The variables used are the dimensionality, effects on the well-being, and performance of social workers. Dimensionality is the dependent variable while social workers’ well-being and their performance are the independent variables. The well-being of social workers cannot be measured and hence it is a nominal variable. Conversely, performance of the social workers can be measured because it is a scalar quantity. For instance, ...

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Abstract

The controversy around domestic violence is not only legal and civil issue. It is also an issue that concern’s the victim’s health and wellness. Victims of spousal abuse are prone to experience trauma following a traumatic experience. In this regards, nurses play a special role in assisting the victims of domestic violence. This paper discusses the article Intimate Partner Violence in Rural U.S. Areas: What Every Nurse Should Know and the relevance of the points presented by the authors.
Keywords: Domestic violence, role of nurse, medical social worker
Over the years, a plethora ...

Community

The California insurance marketplace has experienced a couple of events this year, in terms of the member registration and signing up for insurance covers. California has signed up more Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants than Latinos. The major method that these Asian communities are using to sign up for the Covered California insurance policy is through Certified Insurance agents rather than community groups. Fourteen percent of the eligible population in California consists of individuals from the Asian descent. Thirteen Percent of those signed up with Covered California is comprised of Asian individuals (Aliferis, 2014).
The news value evident in this ...

This paper is on the topic of work welfare and single mothers' economic survival strategies. The kind of strategies available to the mothers is based on the city’s social structural characteristics where they reside and the quality of their social, private safety. The authors have argued that some of the survival strategies are more attuned along with work rather than others. Most mothers believe that unless costs associated with work are lowered, or earning power is increased with investments in future education, they won’t be able to meet most of their expenses by only working at low ...

Protests have over the years been used as a means of people expressing their disapproval of certain issues within societies. The protestors undertake to organizing demonstrations in a bid to enable them show their dissatisfaction through objecting to events that are of a particular nature of which they find different from the ones they are comfortable with (Denver, 42-67). Protests do take place at different levels and in different places. These include places like social organizations, schools and even the general population that might undertake to demonstrate against the elected authority. This paper looks at the concept of protest with an aim ...

Power and empowerment are important intertwining issues in nursing. Nurses need empowerment for them to be effective in discharging their duties in the workplace. This is because their work involves daily interaction with physicians, patients and other healthcare professionals. Patients also need empowerment for them to self-manage their health. There are various approaches to power and they include critical social theory, organizational, management theories, and social psychological theories.
Critical social theory suggests that the group that has control possess more power than the oppressed group. This means that for the oppressed group to have the power, they must ...

Article Review of As the internet rewires our brains by Kurt Cagle

In the article of Kurt Cagle, “As the internet rewires our brains”, the author’s main argument is that the use of social media sites is heavily valued and can decline the critical skills that children own. In this article, he uses the term rewire to demonstrate the idea that the brain cannot be creative with the presence of social media. Social media, therefore, reduces that rate of creativity of the brain in children as the brain is always reshaping itself according to the current situation is the main argument in this article but children should not be denied ...

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool
1 Introduction
This paper is a critique of the research traditions utilized in the ‘”Like” and “Check”: How hotels utilize Facebook as an effective marketing tool’, written by Kelly V Phelan, Hsiang-Ting Chen, and Matthew Haney, and published in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013. The critique will explore the philosophical background of the article and the logical approach followed by the authors in the process of conducting the research. It will also evaluate the research ...

Online marketing is also known as internet advertising. It involves using the internet to promote products and services. It also uses the internet to deliver information and promotional messages to consumers. This form of marketing involves email, social media and search engine marketing. It displays marketing information to both potential and current consumers.
The internet has a very huge effect on marketing. Many organizations nowadays use it to make their products visible to consumers. Since the brand name is very unimportant to consumers, most businesses have known this and have therefore, used the internet as a marketing tool. Following are ...

History

Part 1
The Coming Insurrection is a product of the failure of the earlier models. As depicted from the article, the earlier models offered a way of resolving the social conflict, experienced in the society, between the working class and the owners of the means of production. Like explained by Marx in his theory of Capitalism; the owners of production, who consist of the upper class in the social strata, use their economic power to oppress the working class. Consequently, the working class comes together and organizes strikes and other forms of resistance to the exploitation. Eventually, the strike becomes a ...

Article summary

This paper is a detailed summary of an article in social theory. The key aspects captured in the paper include the specific arguments put forward by the author within the article. The article examines different aspects of social totality in the present world. The key elements explored within the article include political, aesthetics, as well as conceptual issues. The author describes different elements of social theory in relation to mapping modes. Moreover, a succinct definition of the mapping in the area is provided with examples drawn from different artistic works provided for elaboration. The argument within the article is developed using a ...

Shopping is a social and cultural aspect that has various effects. Notably, shopping entails various aspects, which affect the manner in which people carry out shopping. Class is a fundamental aspect of shopping that determines the choice that people will make with regard to shopping. Essentially, different people lead different lifestyles and this translates to the processes that they undertake in their shopping. Class is inscribed in shopping in a distinct way. Essentially, the kinds of lifestyle that people leader determine their shopping behavior (Shaw, 2010, p. 115). Class has categories as understood with the society. Essentially, there is the high class, ...

- Summary
Blumenfeld, having been gay himself, takes a look at homophobia from a critical perspective in as much he runs into the risk of holding and expressing biased opinion on the matter that has since become a common feature in debates especially in his home country, the United States. The writer expresses his reservation in the manner in which homophobia is being propagated by those who feel threatened by it. He also speaks to the fact that many are probably missing out on the ignored opportunities that present themselves during this time. Blumenfeld talks of the nature of the social ...

Inequality

The inequality in the USA is growing with the passage of the time and is getting worse. The gap between the poor and the rich is widening. Due to this inequality the economy has become weak due to restricted growth. The inequality I prevailing in the country due to fiscal deficit, current account deficit, ever growing inequality and dysfunction at political level. According to the article and the video, this might however affect the growth of the economy; growth of the economy might become fragile. It may also slow down the process of job creation; people may face difficulties ...

REFLECTION #2

A woman who is totally focused and knows exactly what she wants in life is by all means unstoppable. The erotic entails the culmination of all of a woman’s feelings. With the achievement of this emotional peak a woman experiences joy and the fullness of life.as a result the woman gains more focus in life and is pretty much unstoppable. Once she reaches this emotional high she will never agree to live a life that is substandard with her emotional fulfillment. The achievement of this emotional high in life also opens the eyes of a woman. She now knows what she has to ...