Disengagement theory

When one thinks of a scholar, the first people that come to mind are mathematicians, scientists, literary analysts, and other traditionally “academic” professionalists. However, these professions are not the only scholarly careers that exist. “The Case for Working with Your Hands” by Matthew Crawford is an essay which argues against the wrong perception of mechanics and other “hands-on” professions. In his essay, Crawford describes the intellectual challenges of working in a “hands-on” field and…

There are multiple branches of overlapping theories of Criminology. Focusing on what Conflict Criminology, Radical Criminology, Peacemaking Criminology, and Postmodern Criminology outline as their assumptions of crime causation may better help social scientists understand individuals’ actions and ultimately assist in preventing crime. Conflict Criminology or theory assumes that the conflicting of interest groups is what society is based on (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). This is because in many cases,…

Ashutosh Jogalekar's post is a response to a previous article, by Alex Berezow. The original article argues that psychology is a not a "real" science. While Jogalekar agrees with Berezow to an extent, he explains in further detail his contrasting views why psychology may not be a "real" science but why it is still a science. Berezow claims that in order to be considered a field of science it must have five certain qualities: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled…

411), thereby laying the foundation for his theory. He examines two possibilities for the lack of research into the field’s basic origins: first, there are no big questions in which to research thus removing public administration from a discipline of science, and second, researchers believe all the…

The Sorites Paradox, or the Paradox of the Heap is a paradox which comes in two forms; the many-premise version, and the two-premise version. Both versions lead to the same conclusions but offer different ways to reach that conclusion. This essay will focus on the workings of the two-premise version. The paradox arises as a result of vague predicates (Barker, 2009); demonstrating a problem with human language. This is the idea of human language being excessively vague, and that measurements we…

Chemistry is a branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed. It also involves the properties and the ways in which they interact, combine, and change. Chemistry is important to life. The environment is composed of many chemicals without identification of chemicals we wouldn’t know what chemicals are safe to have around or which chemicals are harmful and dangerous to our bodies. To answer the enduring question, how do we gain knowledge to…

P1 Structure; Ceramic – Glass-ceramic I have chosen glass-ceramic to write about, however, I have no knowledge on this so I will have to use quite a bit of referencing to get the information. Facts; Glass-ceramics have an amorphous phase and one or more crystalline phases and are produced by a feature called "controlled crystallization" in contrast to a spontaneous crystallization, which is usually not wanted in glass manufacturing. They don’t find it ideal to have "spontaneous…

Part A: The Science of Persuasion The tutorials with the most useful information are the one written by Cialdini in his two tutorials, Cialdini 2012, Principles of persuasion, and Cialdini 2001, Harnessing the science of persuasion. The author asserts that influencing other people in any workplace is not through magic or luck; instead, it involves more of science (Cialdini 2001). Again, he was able to know that the abilities of individuals to identify and understand the factor affecting their…

different theories and philosophies on why people do what they do, but the most reasonable, and valid of them are the Social Learning Theory, Biological Factors, and the Social Conflict Theory; whereas Strains Theory, and The Social control theory, are not as relative to modern day criminals. These are the most realistic of all of the theories, because with even one of these thing you are more likely to commit at crime, let alone if you get a combination of them. The Social Learning Theory…

Because according to theology, God was created and did not just exist. This is a contradictory claim within itself. One theory that Dawkins also explores is evidence of God’s existence throughout the universe. Seeing is believing or in this case providing evidence for logical reasoning is sound. Since there is no trace of evidence, God cannot exist. In fact, science blatantly…