An examination of the relationship between public expenditure on social programmes and levels of development Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 Department of Government Faculty of Social Sciences University of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston, Jamaica TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER 1: INTROD...
The positives: A content (or Textual) Analysis of an address to nation by [Former] Prime Minister of Jamaica, The Most Hon. P. J. Patterson on Sunday March 21, 2004 By Paul Andrew Bourne The Department of Community Health and Psychi...
Paul Andrew Bourne ALBERT EINSTEIN - WAS HE CORRECT . . . ? Introduction Albert Einstein, the renowned physict and pioneer in his contributions of natural phenomena to the natural sciences, in an attempt to display his academic prowess and show the scope of his ‘ideashanal’ made a sweeping position statement on economics that reads “The economic a...
PAUL ANDREW BOURNE INTRODUCTION Culture has three major tenets, and these are: ‘technological’, ‘sociological’ and ‘ideological’ (Bourne, 2006; Thomlinson, 1965) Political Sciences cannot be viewed...
Paul Andrew Bourne University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Kingston 7 St. Andrew , Jamaica West Indies INTRODUCTION It was during the unprecedented social upheavals in Europe that the formal study of sociology emerged as a discipline to explain social phenomena. The industrialization of topologies at th...
Source: National Park Service Photograph SEPARATISM, RACISM, AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION: THE BLACK THINKER : An examination of W. E. Du Bois’ Life &n...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, Dip. Edu., BSc., MSc., PhD (candidate in Public Health, Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica) The recent display of supremacy of the Jamaican athletes in ‘Track’ at the Beijing Games (i.e. Olympics) must be contextualized within their sociopolitical realities. Although the ‘show’ at the show was primary on Michael ...
Paul Andrew Bourne ABSTRACT The historical contributions, significance and potency of a particular sect of people within our space appear to lack impetus, whenever we begin to examine, analyze, and/or delve into the contributions of the same people to various arenas of world history. It seems that a black force covers the inputs of Blacks in our annals. The issues of racism, colonialism, separatism and apartheid become black, belittling, intense and even opaque during any disc...
By Paul Andrew Bourne Connell, Patricia, McKevitt, Christopher, and Nicola Low. 2001. “Sexually transmitted infections among Black young people in south-east London: results of a rapid ethnographic assessment.” Culture, Health and Sexuality 3: 311-27. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOHost (accessed February 9, 2007) Social marketing continues to be used by health professionals as a technique for addressing unacceptable sexual behaviour, of certain groups. The monograph cites that pr...
By Douglas Clarke, Paul Bourne and Lauren March Summary of Study - This is an ethnographic study on marginalized groups with emphasis on Puerto Ricans who experience socio-economic and political exclusion in El Barrio, New York City. The researcher sought to highlight the macro-structural and ideological forces that perpetuate inner city lived culture. From all indicators, he used informal consent to gather his data and participatory observation along with content analysis. In concludi...
The Aged Old Discourse On Economic growth and Economic Development Paul Andrew Bourne In contemporary as well as in traditional societies, economic growth continues to be a topical issue. Macroeconomists and developmental economists (for example Hanson 1986; Todaro 2000) have further sought to distinguish between development and economic growth. The latter is oftentimes expressed with plethora of mathematical notations, whereas the former requires the latter. To some scholars, ...
Within the Speech By Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 By Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 I see emptiness in their jargons I see corruption in their intent What is uttered is not meant in their speech its not words, it’s a craft – a toy engineered for fools it’s one that ostracized, but divide I see through the speech – for within the speech it’s emptiness crown master they label a speech, they label a tale, they label the Bible, they label poverty but they label no...
Within the Speech By Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 I see emptiness in their jargons I see corruption in their intent What is uttered is not meant in their speech its not words, it�s a craft � a toy engineered for fools it�s one that ostracized, but divide I see through the speech � for within the speech it�s emptiness crown master they label a speech, they label a tale, they label the Bible, they label poverty but they label not its solution but they say �...
By Paul A. Bourne Life a freshly cut rose a prize just won a delicacy of exotic foods a vision in a dream a potential lately discovered nature in its purest form. Life an abstract art a treacherous concept a vague cue a blank slate an open artery an enclosed desire. Life a philosophy.
Language: Cultural and Plural symbolisms in a society Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 Department of Sociology The University of the West Indies, Mona Kingston, Jamaica: West Indies ABSTRACT From a religious perspective, the evolution of man is embodied in a natural construction of a God whose function it is to fashion all the physical entities. This process ceases with the explanation of the Supreme Being, a spirit, unfolding his/her ...