Institute for Social Research

bad because prohibited.” (Law Dictionary) When looking at the definition of what a crime is, it does not give the individual insight of the different types of crime. In addition, it does not fully explain what causes crime. Based on the different research and studies done on crime, it is evident that there are various causes for high crime rates in a community. These factors include education, peer influence, geography, media, and…

obtained his MA in Urban Sociology at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Mina Gerais in 2009 and he just defended his PhD on History of Religion at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. For his Ph.D. studies Dr. Leonel had the opportunity to do research at the University of Georgetown in DC in the Fall of 2013 and was an audit researcher student to one class of an expert sociologist in the sociology of religion, Professor Jose…

Some examples are failures of marriages, crime, deviance, financial hardships, and social isolation. Substance abuse does not only affect the individual but also their families and friends. According to the research done by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, if you are addicted to a drug it is very likely your child will adapt addictive qualities as well. (Drug Abuse, 2014) This states that it is genetic based…

Throughout history women have been seen as inferior to men. Women have had to fight for the right to vote, to own property, and to have a job, and it is time that women should no longer have to fight to be seen as equal to men. Women face many barriers throughout their lifetime. These factors combined influence the number of women in STEM fields. In the 21st Century, it is no longer acceptable for women to be underrepresented in STEM fields. While there is not one explanation for the gender gap…

Highlights PJSC Detsky Mir1 is a Russian company, which is engaged in the children products retail sector. The Company’s Detsky Mir chain comprises of over 570 stores located at the territory of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, as well as of more than 40 ELC stores. The average store size is 1.4 k sqm and has 20-30k SKUs2. Its product portfolio consists of toys, fashion products, newborns goods, stationary, large items and others. We initiate our coverage of Detsky Mir with BUY…

The research question The changing role of women: Does women participation in the labor force increased work-family conflict? Since the post World War II, a great number of women participate in the labour market has marked a milestone in the women’s history. With a gradual increase in social status, women, nowadays, have a relatively higher education attainment and economic survival ability than they used to be in the past decades. Yet, from a family-sociological perspective…

This article is on the research of police integrity (The Klockars Scale) and police corruption by Carl Klockars. This reminds me of a meeting I had with an officer a day ago where she said “police integrity is number one, it’s doing the right thing even when no one is around to see.” But with police corruption going on which is any misconduct whether it be with drugs, money, sexual, etc. any misuse of power is corruption. Now in the Klockars Scale research there were several researchers…

academia, and public policy and law under a common rhetoric that worked to identify and define the inadequate treatment of the mentally ill and the need for new modes of intervention as a social problem. The Community Mental Health Act attempted to address said social problem in ways that championed values in line with social justice, such as making mental health services economically feasible and removing restrictions to individual’s freedoms––placed due to mental disabilities––by decreasing…

In 2008, 17-year-old Samantha Elauf was denied a job at Abercrombie & Fitch in Tulsa, Oklahoma after she wore a hijab, a headscarf, to her job interview. Heather Cooke, the store's assistant manager became concerned that Elauf’s headscarf would interfere with the store's “look policy,” which does not allow any headgear, and promotes the retailer's brand by having their salespeople, or ‘models’ wear and advertise their clothing. Cooke was unaware that Elauf was a practicing muslim who wore her…

“Brain Basics” is a public awareness initiative by the National Institute of Mental Health, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. According to “Brain Basics”, neurons are specialized to pass on messages onto the next in order for us to function. When a neuron receives a signal, an electrical impulse…