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Learn SPSS in One Day

Learning the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is so simple especially if you have knowledge on windows based applications such as Microsoft office applications like MS Word, Excel and Access. Another person who can easily learn SPSS within a day is a person who has basic ideas on statistics and data processing methodologies. ...

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APA Citing with Microsoft Word

Proper APA citing is a must when writing academic and heavily researched documents. Not only is it important to provide your readers with a comprehensive list of the sources you’ve cited and referenced as you wrote the paper, it’s also important for your APA bibliography to conform to established standards. Fortunately, Microsoft Word automates much ...

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W.E.B. DuBois: A Great African-American Scholar and Activist

When I was in college, I joined a civil rights organization called the DuBois Club. The DuBois clubs were widely known to be communist fronts but the plan by my friends and me was to infiltrate it and use it for non-communist civil rights activities. Not much came of any of this but I did ...

Population Theory

Population Theory Man has been concerned with population problems since ancient times. From antiquity, statesmen and thinkers have held opinions, based on political, military, social and economic considerations, about such issues as the most desirable number of people or the need to stimulate or retard population growth. While these ideas were formulated with a view ...

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Max Weber: The Father of Modern Sociology

Max Weber defined sociology as “a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social action and thereby with a causal explanation of its course and consequences” (Weber, 1921, 1968 p.4). This definition of sociology and many of its core principals, developed by Weber himself, are still viable and continue to be studied and used ...

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How Emile Durkheim’s Principles of Sociology Have Impacted Society

The societal contributions of Emile Durkheim, founder of modern sociology, include: the idea of the whole being greater and different than the sum of its parts, anomie or normlessness, the concept that religion is equal to society and the sacred and the profane (Collins, 1994). These concepts built a foundation for the field of sociology, ...