Unemployment is the problem which dominates the history of interwar social policy. Comparison of very dubious unemployment date before 1914 with more abundant but still unsatisfactory interwar data has led historians to two different conclusions: that interwar unemployment was, except in the very ...
It also examines cultural influences likeadvertisements, books, films, television, and radio.Social psychologists like to use empirical(以实验为依据的)methods to conduct studies in their fields. Thesemethods often involve experiments which can bring upcomplex ethical(伦理的)problems. One of the most...
the tensions between social, racial and cultural interpretations of inequalities in the political economy of the 1920s; (3) analyse the pervasiveness of racialist thinking in science, society and politics, its impact in the hierarchization of groups for purposes of border control, and how the ...
The impact of the baby boom on public education.D. The role of the family in the 1950s and 1960s.67. The public schools of the 1950s and 1960s faced all of the following problems EXCEPTA. a declining number of studentsB. old-fashioned facilitiesC. a shortage of teachersD. an ...
aEarly in the 1920’s Edward Sapir stated“ Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.” ...
Though excessive individualism was a target of social criticism in both the 1920s and the 1970s, there are significant differences in how individualism was portrayed. In the 1920s, individualism was primarily a matter of self-expression and the absence of self-control. It represented a lashing ...
Revived interest in long-term social change was sparked by attempts to explain the gaps between rich and poor countries. In the 1950s and ’60s, Western sociologists and economists developed modernization theories to help understand the problems of the so-called underdeveloped countries. Some moderniz...
Some of the most pressing problems in human affairs—expanding populations, food scarcities, environmental pollution including global warming, extinctions of plant and animal species, and all the attendant sociological and political problems—are to a great degree ecological. Ernst HaeckelErnst Haeckel, ...
Anxieties over changes in these areas were absorbed into the broader concerns over the pleasures and perils associated with being modern. This dissertation looks at Canadian visual culture in terms of what it can reveal about modernity and the problems, perils, and pleasures associated with it. ...
Neorealism, Italian literary and cinematic movement, flourishing especially after World War II, seeking to deal realistically with the events leading up to the war and with the social problems that were engendered during the period and afterwards. The mo