Sociology Essays

Goebbels said at a press conference establishing the Ministry of People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda on 15 March 1933: ‘it is not enough for people to be more or less reconciled to our regime, to be persuaded to adopt a neutral attitude towards us; rather we want to work on people …

It is apparent to see that in today’s society when anything about any of the world wars is mentioned the first thing that comes to mind is Germany, especially if we are talking about the origins of the wars. However if we ponder into this matter further and emphasise on …

Martin Luther King (MLK) was a very important person in the campaign for civil rights. His actions helped change the law for black Americans, such as manipulating the media during the Birmingham March and organising non-violent protests, millions of people supported him in the course of this. Without these people, …

Robert Louis Stevenson implies what Victorian society is like in his novella “the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, by providing the reader with facts and metaphors and using language to indicate that no-one is ordinary and everyone has a different side, or dark side, the difference between …

When the Reparations of the Treaty of Versailles were finally announced in 1921, the hatred from the German people for the Weimar Republic grew stronger. Most people thought that the amount was far too high, and blamed the government for ‘giving in’ to the Allies. There were many demonstrations and …

Segregation of schools is when coloured and white children were taught in separate schools. Desegregation of schools is when coloured and white children go to the same school together. In the 1950’s the southern states of America had segregation in schools and the black schools had poorer teaching qualities Black …

When I was about ten years old, several boys approached me, they started to laugh and pointed at me. I couldn’t understand what was going on: was something wrong with my black curly hair, was my dress torn? But everything was worse than I supposed. One of them shouted out: …

The poems ‘Telephone Conversation’ by Wole Soyinka and ‘You will be hearing from us shortly’ by U A Fanthorpe both discuss prejudice and discrimination through the use of tone and language. The poem ‘You will be hearing from us shortly’ uses the voice of the interviewer to convey the prejudice. …

Minorities have been variously defined in international forums. First the following definition was constructed prior to the Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1977 to Article 27 of International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (16 Dec. 1966) Minorities were considered to be a group numerically …

Apartheid was a major historical event, and perhaps the biggest event in South Africa’s history. Apartheid is a policy of racial segregation, the word means ‘separateness’ in Afrikaans. It was introduced in 1948 by the white minority and made sure that the whites were superior in every possible way. However, …