Sociology

Introduction: The nursing profession aims to produce well educated workforce to care for people and communities. Also, advancing education level to higher education is highly encouraged as research has shown that lower mortality rate, positive outcomes and fewer medication errors are linked to nurses prepared at the baccalaureate, and graduate degree levels. Nonetheless, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has vowed commitment to produce highly educated nursing workforce as…

Question# 1 A. Describe how the idea of sexual identity developed in social sciences. (15 points) The term sexual identity is rather a new term. Although sex has always been around the identity within sex is a new idea that has recently been introduced as a set of sexual practices and attitudes that lead to the formation in a person’s mind of an identity mas heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual. Our sexual identity typically becomes an important part of our sense of who we are. We assume…

Individuals and societies link to the childhood obesity epidemic Sociologists today believe that the obesity epidemic holds the responsibility to annihilate a staggering amount of the health benefits that have been associated with the rising childhood obesity epidemic recognised in the world today (Must, A., & Strauss, R. S. (2015). In 2015, approximately 41 million children below the age of 5 were affected by overweight or obesity. Today, progress in extinguishing childhood obesity has been…

The United States of America is the only country with so many different types of ethnicities under the same government. African Americans generally, persons living in the western hemisphere who are descendants of Africans, especially black Africans. Ethnicity is defined as a shared culture, which may include heritage, language, religion, and more. No ethnicity group came into this country without fighting for their place in society, but the longest fighting group was done by African Americans…

Introduction Sexual crimes are of an enormous complexity, not only to investigate but also to explain and to understand. The key is to be able to differentiate between the sexual crimes. The motivation of offenders can vary greatly, and it can depend on many variables: including opportunity, victim selection, and mental illness. The first important distinction to make is between sex offenders and sexual predators. Sex offenders only commit one crime and most often they victimize only one person…

The family is considered to an important part of society by most sociologists. The family is said to be a close domestic group comprised of people related to one another by bonds of blood, sexual mating, or legal ties. The family has adapted over time and there are many different forms of families. The patriarchal family is one of the many types of families that exist in society today. It is a form of the family ‘where the male figure is considered the head’. Some sociologist argue that women…

Perpetrators, advocates, victims, families, the justice system and of course those accused of sexual violence all have strong opinions on the topic of intimate violence and sexual aggression. The emotional state surrounding whether an act of violence occurred is usually a highly emotional topic and leads to discussion about whether the accused needs to face charges for the accusation. Many untruths, misunderstandings and plain bad information are circulated in society and seep into the…

Throughout the film the audience witnesses Precious facing daily violence encounters with her family. Precious lives in an extremely toxic environment, Precious’ mother Mary emotionally and physically abuses her constantly. Not only does Mary frequently hit her daughter, she verbally abuses her. She tells Precious that she's fat, stupid and that she's worthless. Poverty plays a significant part of Precious’ life. Due to Precious being a mother as well, Mary makes her living off of welfare. Some…

Health is the absence of disease or illness and is the state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. (WHO, ND) Epidemiology is the study in measuring health and illness by using mortality rates (the number of deaths of individuals), infant mortality rates (the number of deaths among children under 1 per 1000 live births), morbidity rates (the ill health status of an individual or population group) and finally, life expectancy (the number of years of life remaining to a person at a…

What is Maundy Thursday and why is it called that? Maundy Thursday will soon be celebrated in the UK and by Christians all around the world. Queen Elizabeth II will take part in a special service at Leicester Cathedral to mark the occasion. The service itself dates all the way back to the medieval period and has undergone a number of changes over the centuries, though its core traditions have remained remarkably intact after all these years. But just what exactly is Maundy Thursday? Here’s all…