Category: Social Issues

Please view our sample essays on social issues in this category.

Essay: Effects of Colonialism on Africa

Sample Essay Colonialism 

Unfortunately, colonialism adversely affected this economic independence and social prestige that rural women could enjoy, hope for or even benefit from.  First and foremost, the forcible appropriation of agricultural land by the European population resulted in major sociopolitical changes in the communities that had for centuries depended on these lands for sustenance and economic survival. (more…)

Essay: Homosexuality Is Inborn

Sample Essay - Homosexuality Is Inborn

Empirically, the work and writings of Garfinkel (1967) reiterate the views of essentialists that homosexuality is an inborn or inner sense or a more biological aspect. 'Garfinkel's writing of The Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an intersexed person where there is a discussion based on Agnes' views of her sexuality passing from a male to a really female gives us an insight that homosexuality is more explained by the aspect of inners and biological model . for instance, Garfinkel gathers the signs of a normal sexual status form Agnes exemplary studies to demonstrate normal sexual identity as the possession of appropriate genitalia and the possession of 'appropriate feelings, membership obligations, and activities. This is opposed to homosexuals because they do not have appropriate genitalia and the possession of ‘appropriate feelings, but may have membership obligations and activities. (more…)

Essay: Homosexuality Exists Everywhere

Sample Essay

Garfinkel writing of the Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an intersexed person where there is a discussion basing on Agnes views of her sexuality passing from a male to a really female gives us an insight that homosexuality is more explained by the aspect of inners and biological model . for instance, Garfinkel gathers the signs of a normal sexual status form Agnes exemplary studies to demonstrate normal sexual identity as the possession of appropriate genitalia and the possession of 'appropriate feelings, membership obligations, and activities. This is opposed to homosexuals because they do not have appropriate genitalia and the possession of ‘appropriate feelings, but may have membership obligations and activities. (more…)

Essay: Gay Identity

Sample Essay Gay Identity

Historically, gay identity has developed through a complex history of definitions and self-definition. As a result of arguments presented to the defense of the social constructionist in explaining the causation for the homosexuality, social constructionist sum it that homosexuality many thing and not one that takes a form of many psychosocial forms that regenerated from three main dimensions: historical conditions of gay individuals, psycho cultural and human potentials for sexual response across life course. (more…)

Essay: Freedom of Association

Sample Essay Constitutionally, freedom of association is recognized and to infringe this right is an offence in law. The government must put in place laws that enable a friendly atmosphere. In a bid to promote a friendly environment wars should only be for the sake of peace for a particular nation or among many nations. (more…)

Essay: The social security act

Sample Essay - Social Security Act

The court's interpretation of Social Security may shed light on how the system is never near viable. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit may favor the Social Security Act. However, the court affirms that the Social Security Act should be interpreted liberally in favor of the claimants when deciding what counts as the covered wages for the need to achieve the quarters of the coverage prerequisite in making a worker qualify for the benefits. The court's interpretations, therefore, have it that Social Security has the moral role of serving men and women and saving them from poverty (Haveman et al., 2003). (more…)

Essay: The social influence approach

Sample Essay - Social influence approach 

The social influence approach applied by social psychologists in relation to explaining engagement in collective violence, it poses some methodological challenges. For instance, the notion of compliance poses a challenge to document in such a way that even in the absence of Nazi Germany's authority or even when Himmler gave a stoppage order, other junior officials continued killing the Jews (Blass 2002). Thus, it has to affirm whether it falls into another category of social influence mechanisms since, at this point, it’s clear that compliance is not the primary mechanism causing persons to commit this collective crime (Blass 2002; Macmaster 2004). (more…)

Essay: Effects of Divorce on Children

Sample Essay - Effects of Divorce on Children

Both the short-term and long-term effects of divorce on children depend on their age. Whether it’s their feelings or their behavior, the age of the child determines how much the child will be affected. Depending on the age of the children, both their behavior and their feelings will vary widely. (more…)