Sociology

Two hundred years after the abolition of the transatlantic slavery trade, millions people live in slavery. The massive international problem of human trafficking encompasses different forms of exploitation. Criminals may have various reasons for trafficking people, including those of sexual slavery, labor exploitation, marriage, human organs, child soldiers, begging and many others. Importantly, at the […]

In the United States, just like in many other countries across the globe, marriage remains not only a civil contract, but also an important religious ceremony. This view of a marriage as a religious rite gives the anti-gay rights activists an important argument that the Bible doesn’t appreciate homosexuality. Using this religious perspective, the anti-gay […]

In most countries, teen pregnancy and early motherhood are recognized as undesirable, whereas the local governments in most places make attempts and develop strategies aimed at decreasing the teen pregnancy rates. Whereas the overall fertility rates have significantly declined within the previous two decades, teenage births accounted for at least 7 per cent of the […]

Abortions among teen females have become a significant issue for the American society. Tomal and Norton (2012) note that the rate of teen abortions has decreased since the 1990s but it is still significant. Thus, it has been estimated that the rate of pregnancies among American teenage females aged from 15 to 19 is the […]

In its traditional sense, ‘bullying’ can be defined as an aggressive intentional and repeated behavior of a group or an individual against a victim who cannot defend him or herself. Cyberbullying is an aggressive and repeated behavior carried out online, using electronic forms of contact, such as mobile phones, emails and social networks. Whereas cyberbullying […]

Over the past decades, immigration has increased the ethnic and racial multiplicity in the US. It was a biracial society mainly composed of a majority of whites and a minority of blacks but now it is a multiracial community. This is because of bigger immigration as well as an increase in tribal intermarriage which has […]

Domestic violence is defined as emotional, psychological and/ or physical abuse of an individual in a family setting, taking place in a present or previous close relationship. Whereas the vast majority of research focuses on women who most often become victims of domestic violence, kids and men can suffer from aggressive behaviors of their families […]