Social Science
By: Toni Macdonald
Sergei Moscovici is a French Romanian-born social psychologist. He conducted a famous experiment in minority influence, the results of which are published in a book. These results are analyzed and dissected in several other research papers and books. In his first experiment, Moscovici introduced four...
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By: Colette Georgii
Albert Bandura is a contemporary modern theorist who is notable for studies in "social learning theory" or what is known as Social Cognitive Theory. He bases his studies and research out of Stanford University. Social learning theory and criminology Social learning theory is a valuable...
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By: Patrick Sills
China performs more executions than any other country in the world. Moral views on capital punishment aside, one could easily speculate that this is because China is also one of the planet’s most heavily-populated nations, but there is more to the story. In 2010...
A look at capital punishment in China
By: Brynn Bowery
According to statistics provided by: Amnesty International it was determined that the execution rate in China is in the thousands. The precise number of executions in China is a secret held by the State. Relatively-speaking, the rate of execution is extreme when compared to...
By: Brynn Bowery
The problems with regard to the UK prison-system are far-reaching. There has not been any formalized, structural improvement in the system for the last twenty years. When improvements have been made they have lacked vision. The civil service remains highly inflexible with regard to changing...
By: Elizabeth M Young
Japan's low birth rate and aging population is a decades old problem that started when the population achieved average life expectancy that is the longest in the world. In Japan, the life expectancy is in the eighties for both men (80 years) and women (86...
By: Maria C Collins
Demographics are a problem in many countries. Japan’s politicians are extremely worried by the country’s aging population and very low birth rates are worrying politicians, 1.37 births per woman was recorded in 2010. The Japanese government plans to offer a child allowance...
By: Jack Merrywell
Homo floresiensis is the species name given to a small group of fossilized hominid remains discovered in 2003 on Flores, an island in Indonesia. The skeletons look ostensibly like the human ancestor Homo erectus; however, they had both tiny bodies and tiny brains. Dating performed...
Why the discovery of Homo Floresiensis in 2004 was so important for anthropology
By: Catherine Loeffler
Homo Floresiensis: A Surprising Offshoot on the Human Evolutionary TreeThe threatening half-pitchfork silhouette of the iconic lightning-blasted tree; unconsciously newbie genealogists seem to expect their efforts to yield as linear and clear a picture. Longer lasting genealogists, from the hobby-horse rider to the doctorate-decorated historian...
By: Mell Chase - 632526
When it comes to personality, Erik Erikson believed that a person developed their ego through stages over the lifespan. Our ego is always changing due to new struggles and lessons we learn through life, according to Erickson. Each stage is like a fork in the...
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