Social Science Essay Examples

Introduction ‘Development must be redefined as an attack on the chief evils of the world today: malnutrition, diseases, illiteracy, slums, unemployment, and inequality. Measured in terms of growth rates, development has been a great success; measured in terms of jobs, justice, and elimination of poverty, it has been a failure or only a partial success’…

The very idea of Filipino philosophy in Mercado: Philosophy or having deep thoughts about the world? Dennis Apolega [2nd Draft] INTRODUCTORY REMARKS When one says “British philosophy” one may refer to David Hume or Bertrand Russell. When another says “French philosophy” one may refer to Rene Descartes or Jean-Paul Sartre. For both there are a…

The MLI utilises a linking and learning approach to facilitate reflection, sharing and new activities in support of a Mekong ‘body of knowledge and practice’ on the social science of natural resource management. The project includes partners from eight universities within the Greater Mekong Subregion, including the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University. Introduction:…

This extract attempts to explain the rise of the Enlightenment beginning from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. It shows how the beliefs and writings of this time gave rise to a new science the ‘science of man’ and that ‘sociological’ concerns are identified in this time (Hall and Gieben 1992, p. 36). The…

There was real teaching in the world long before there was a science or art of teaching; there was social case work long before social workers began, not so many years ago, to formulate a few of its principles and methods. Almost as soon as human beings discovered that their relations to one another had…

Gabriel A. Almond (January 12, 1911 – December 25, 2002) was a political scientist from the United States best known for his pioneering work on comparative politics, political development, and political culture. Almond broadened the field of political science in the 1950s by integrating approaches from other social science disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, and…

Max Weber struggled to discover a vantage point from which he could objectively analyze and view the world. Weber sought to demystify the ideological constraints found within social institutions of society. Within the excerpted chapter Science as a Vocation, Weber investigates the social dynamics of natural science: its place within understanding of the modern world…

Strong Interest Survey Results Based on my results, my highest themes are social, conventional and enterprising (SCE), this would mean that my foremost theme is social, followed by conventional and enterprising. The social theme is concerned with helping others, basically it  is found on occupations that involve nurturing, caring for and helping other people. The…

The social life of things: materiality, metallization and mobility This approach as three key characteristics: – Treats images as material Objects materiality = how they (photos) look and feel, their shape and volume, weight and texture – Its understanding Of how the material qualities Of an image intervene in the world, particularly the world of…

Feminist theory, it should be mentioned from the beginning of the paper, is not a unified theory. As women experience the social world differently according to class, age or “race”, there exist different feminist standpoints within the feminist tradition i. e. Marxist or Postmodernist feminists and this explains the need to talk of Feminisms in…