Sociological interpretations of professionalism

Delinquent Subcultures : Sociological Interpretations of Gang Delinquency

David J. Bordua, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1957 and has published on theories of delinquency, authoritarianism, college aspirations of high school youth, and the use of formal selection instruments to detect delinquents at an early age. ABSTRACT: Group delinquency has...

Reflexion Biological and sociological interpretations of age-adjustment in studies of higher order birth rates

Several studies of the effect of education on second or third birth rates (e.g Hoem et al. 2001) have used the concept of relative age at previous birth (Hoem 1996). B. Hoem’s idea was to focus on the social meaning of age at previous birth by redefining it according to the woman’s educational attainment. We broaden the discussion by considering other interpretations of the explanatory power of...

wuthering heights and the concept of marality/a sociological study of the novel

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

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Sociological aspects of cooperation

The most prominent studies of cooperation in sociology proceed from some kind of rationality assumption. There are basically two groups of studies, one starting from the assumption of rational egoists and the other starting from the assumption of social rationality in which other regard has a prominent place. The studies based on the assumption of rational egoists is strongly inspired by (mostl...