Durham College ( ) • Sociology

this documents covers all the chapters that I've studied and summarizes important facts about said chapters.

Sex is a basic need that all human beings require for a psychological, emotional, as well as physical wellbeing. People who are incarcerated lack access to this basic need. It is no surprise then that most of them engage in same sex relationships to fill the gap. The ethical question of such sexual relations is complex. Inmates who engage in a sexual relationship with mutual consent should not be judged. This same precept justifies homosexual relations out of prison. It would be wrong to apply t...

According to Noam Chomsky language is innate in human beings. That means that children inherit the ability to learn and speak a language from their parents. Thus children do not necessarily need to be taught a language in order to speak it. The documentary presents two cases to support this claim. First, consider two parents, one corrects their child every time it makes a mistake and the other one doesn’t. If language was learnt rather than inherited or coded in human genetics, then logic dict...

The topic of love has been discussed at lengths by sociologists and biologists over the years. Though the discussions vary significantly, there is agreement that people are naturally drawn to each other in a romantic bond, which is usually between members of the opposite sex. This research shows that there are a variety of factors that determine who we fall in love with. These factors can be broadly categorized into social, environmental and biological influences. From a social point of view, pe...