Sociology, being a dynamic science, captures all the past and contemporary trends, which find their reflection in all spheres of our life. The most significant excitement in sociology for me is the way how the social ties affect the behavior of an individual and what consequences may follow. Primarily, I would like to comment on some scientific methods used in sociology for that they comprise a particular interest for me. The research is an integral part of any sociological study because observations and statistics play the crucial role in gaining the knowledge in sociologic science. Besides the typical research methods used for centuries, the new ones emerge now and make…

Modern ways of promoting goods and services as reached far beyond newspapers, radio, and TV. The companies have gone into the World Wide Web, which gave them almost boundless opportunities for advertising and promotion of their products, and the pharmaceuticals are not the exception. I have randomly chosen one of the sites that contained information about medications (www.drugstorescripts.com) and selected one of the products promoted. The medicine I have chosen is called Lunesta (or Eszopiclone tablets) and in the core is “a sedative-type drug that helps to relieve insomnia (sleeplessness).” Ironically, the manufacturing company was not mentioned in the ad, the copyright statement in the lower left corner of the…

Physical disability is the disability type that is directly connected neuromotor, orthopedic, pulmonary and cardiovascular disorders. Children with such limitations can have either neuromotor or orthopedic impairment. Orthopedic impairments include problems with skeleton system. Neuromotor disabilities, in their turn, include problems with the central nervous system. Health impairments influence the performance of a child very much. His school behavior and performance are different from those of the healthy child. Such child can be less attentive, easily distracted, do not able to do particular tasks, get tires very quickly, have limited alertness. Health problems that influence the performance of a child involve heart problems, nephritis, asthma, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia,…

Staff motivation is the issue that extremely important for the business. Motivation is one of the main functions of any manager. The manager has an impact on other people, namely, through the use of motivation techniques. There is a huge amount of information on this subject: the abundance of the different opinions, advices, instructions, and guidelines for action. All these had led to some of the myths about the staff motivation, the main of which is “The more money (or” non-material incentives”) you give, the higher staff motivation is”.

Introduction Raymond Carver’s 1984 short story Cathedral follows the unnamed narrator’s actions and thoughts, as he hosts a blind man named Robert in his home. It is a somewhat minimalist story, whose main timeline is an evening in the narrator’s and his (also unnamed) wife’s kitchen and living room. However, the first half of the story provides an overview of the history of the relations between Robert and the narrator’s wife, as well as the latter’s relationships with her former husband. Throughout the plot, the reader witnesses how Robert and the narrator (who is named “Bub” by Robert) are getting closer to each other, a process that ends with a…

The article “Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage” can be best seen as a consistent critique of Structural Functionalism. It discusses the disadvantages of “marriage culture,” which predominated in the 1950s and was characterized by traditional gender roles and separation of public and private spheres, and “divorce culture,” which is what we observe nowadays. Structural Functionalism glorified “marriage culture” and prescribed clear roles for each gender: men were supposed to be active in the public sphere as providers for their families, while women had to stay at home and take care of the children. Everything that challenged this model was considered dysfunctional. However, contemporary families have to…

The term “clash of civilizations” appeared at the beginning of the 1990s, right after the Cold War era, when everyone was overexcited about the new globalized world. Samuel Huntington was among the first who used the term predicting the clash between Islam and the Western world. Huntington defined civilization as “a cultural entity” with different “history, language, culture, tradition, and, most important, religion.” According to him, there are eight main civilizations – Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, African and Latin American. He predicted that in the future nations and states would become less important as a source of identity for people, whereas conflicts will revolve around the differences between…

Both Robert Frost and William Shakespeare use the storm as a dramatic method in their works. The storm in “King Lear” creates a dramatic background while we are presented with a storm (probably an even stronger one) of human emotions. In “Storm Fear,” the heroes are subdued by the storm and its strength: “Those of us not asleep subdued to mark How the cold creeps…” In his poem, Robert Frost creates a gloomy picture of a blizzard as a furious beast that dares the members of the family living in an isolated house to come outside and be killed.

The Orchid Thief is a book by writer and journalist Susan Orlean and is based on a true story. In 1994, Susan Orlean did her journalist investigation of John Laroche’s conviction for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. First, as a result of the investigation, an article in The New Yorker magazine appeared. Susan Orlean was so intrigued by the story, that later an article developed into a book. The book served as a basis for a movie Adaptation, in many events were fictionalized. In the movie, Susan Orlean hero becomes Laroche’s lover and partner in his illegal business, production of drugs by processing orchids into psychoactive…

Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House” and Frederico Garcia Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba” are two tales of oppression and hardship of a few women who represent a larger scale of problems, such as the unjust treatment that women face, in the societies of their times. Not only do these two plays tackle similar themes, but they also share the use of a common metaphor, a house that can be seen in the title. The use of the words house rather than home foreshadow the idea that their house is not a home at all, but rather it pays more resemblance to that of prison. The entire duration of Ibsen’s…