Nature vs. nurture is an age old debate dating back to the 1800’s. There have been hundreds of psychologists, scientists, religious leaders and even ordinary people who argue their view on the subject. John Locke was one of these people, a renowned British philosopher, who…
The broken windows theory is a criminological theory, the essence of which is that explicit disorders such as crime, anti-social attitude, and civil disorder auspiciously affect on an urban environment which induces even more crime and disorder, including serious crime. From the time the theory…
Criminal Sociology, commonly referred to as sociology of crime relates to the study of the making, breaking as well as enforcing criminal laws. As such, the sole aim of criminal sociology is to critically understand and empirically develop while testing the several proposed theories explaining…
Before the development of theories that focused on a lack of civil order in communities, law enforcement agencies tended to focus more on serious crimes. The police force, for example, would attend to those crimes which were considered to be more severe and consequential for…
In the United States we have heard and seen crime happening right in our neighborhood and most minorities do not think of how our neighborhoods can affect our safety. Our neighborhoods can affect our safety if minor things like a broken street light isn’t fixed…
Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were 17th and 18th century scholars with comparable yet differing hypotheses about human nature. Rousseau’s theory is based on man living in a state of harmony with nature while Hobbes theory assumes that human nature is naturally violent and competitive….
Hobbes has been influenced by the state of nature. He is most known for being a modern philosopher as well as his book Leviathan. The social contract of Hobbes states that everyone agrees to create a government in which they are working towards one goal…
Social contract theory allows people to cohabitate in society, on the bases of a mutual agreement that limits rational persons to moral and political standards. Some philosophers, like Hobbs, and Rawls’ believe that we live morally according to these social contracts chosen by society, rather…
Abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy so that it does not result in the birth of a child. In order to have an abortion, women take the abortion pill or have a surgical abortion to remove the emyo or fetus and placenta from…
Introduction To understand what a theoretical approach is, one first has to know what a theory is. Theory is a system of generalized statements or propositions about phenomena. With that in mind one can deduce that a theoretical approach attempts to understand the root causes…
It is human nature to want to explain the unexplainable, to understand how and why things happen. Theories ranging from topics of evolution to dark matter to cognitive behavior look to explain how aspects of the world function. Similarly, geographers look to understand exactly how…
The word ‘metaphor’ is originally a Greek work. This word could be literally translated as ‘transport’, where we can transport some features of one thing to another thing. Metaphor has firstly gained attention by the well-known philosopher Aristotle. In the 4th century in his work…
Is time travel real? Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the renowned ‘Magic Tree House’ series. In which Mary writes about a brother (Jack) and sister (Annie) duo, who go on adventures through time to inform the youth who read light novels about that…
Time travel is ethical because we can learn about the past, solve unsolved crimes, and visit lost loved ones. Time travel has shown that can be very helpful in most cases. Lacking knowledge about how the future will evolve given changes to the past is…
The issue of travelling in time is not new because it has been interesting to people for centuries and continues to be interesting to us today. However, in spite of people’s high concern and eagerness to uncover time’s mysteries, it still keeps its secrets as…
Time travel is the act of traveling to either the future or past. It is the action of moving from different points in time, although time travel is something considered science fiction there are many aspects in science that prove it possible. To understand time…
Time travel can be viewed as a child’s play. Being categorized as science fiction, the concept of this art has been universally known as the act of physically traveling to a different period and tends to involve some sort of transportation machine. Time travel was…
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a Black American sociologist who prioritised the matter of race and racism unlike other traditional sociologists during and prior to his time. Dubois focused on the ‘double consciousness’; what it meant to be black and American and the experiences…
Introduction The mental idea of the Stanford Prison investigation was that Zimbardo and his partners were keen on seeing whether the mercilessness among gatekeepers in America and penitentiaries was because of the twisted characters of the watchmen or had more to do with the jail…
