By Paul Andrew Bourne INTRODUCTION The education system is a mode of psychosocial and cultural socialization for all societies (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). It is through this medium that many children are exposed to the requirements of an organic society. Societies function on the basis of solidarity; the purpose through which the educational institutions is to fashion. Despite the primacy of the family in the socialization process, the school is an important agent in value an...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom Gerald C. Hynes W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) DuBois was born to Alfred and Mary Burghardt DuBois on February 23, 186...
By Paul Andrew jBounre, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Political Sciences cannot be viewed in a vacuum from the other sub-disciplines within the social sciences as it is continuously interfacing with subjects like sociology. The branch of study in the social sciences that looks at socialization is sociology. As such, in order that a comprehensive evaluation of this topic be forwarded to readers, the author will critically examine how sociologists view the i...
by Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Introduction The doctrine of sociology emerged in the nineteenth century from the major discipline of philosophy; and it is primarily accredited to Auguste Comte. Despite Comte’s formulation of the terminology, sociology, and its basic tenets, the subject was also fashioned by Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Many academia and other pundits have attributed those scholars as pioneer, fathers, of this branc...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Introduction Marx theory on economic socialism represents the bedrock upon which many postulations emerged including conflict and dialectics that are tenets of a social space in explaining the functioning of society. His thesis played a pivotal role in the formulation of the functioning of dialectic materialism in justifying consensus in capitalist society, and the evolution of revolve from the proletariat class because o...
Paul Bourne, BSc. (Hons.) INTRODUCTION Topology of typology - Jamaica Eastern Jamaica represents extremely steep and rugged topography with the crest of the Blue Mountain Range reaching 2254 m within about 10 km of the coast. Landscape in eastern Jamaica is geologically young (Quaternary). It is seismically most active part of the island and appears to be undergoing geotectonic uplift. Watersheds are relatively small and steep. Rivers flow through steep canyons on...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom Gerald C. Hynes W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) DuBois was born to Alfred and Mary Burghardt DuBois on February 23, 1868 in a small...
An investigation into the attitudes of school personnel toward ‘gifted’ children in two inner-city secondary school in Kingston, Jamaica. By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION The education system is a mode of psychosocial and cultural socialization for all societies (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). It is through this medium that many children are exposed to the requirements of an organic society. Societies function on the basis of solidarity; t...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The hegemonic categorization of the Jamaican landscape is primarily the justifiable reason for the sophisticated demonstrations and the social hemorrhaging of the masses. Many of those happenings are caused from the lack of monologue of the business constituents. This group of elitists has exponentially benefited from playing the proletariat class. They have not offered their clientele the respect of a voice on matters of social concerns or po...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Many developing countries continue to grapple with deficient economic resources, reprehensible government policies and a robust hegemonic class that exploits the laboured class; with a social welfare system, that does not ameliorate the wellbeing of the poor. With time, it is revealed that the demagogues are primarily concerned with self, associates and the perpetuation of the status quo that oftentimes excludes the plebs. Such societies refr...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Contemporary societies hold particular social prejudices through their interpretations of the world, which unfold in their actions, policies and thesis. Many systems are designed against stated groups. Single mothers are oftentimes viewed as outcast, and if they are young – the label is ‘whore’. This group is marginalized by societies in comparison to the orthodox married couple. Businesses’ policies, directly or indi...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The W.H.O must be credited for its involvement in advancing women’s ‘rights’ more so in the area of freedom of reproductive choices, and its effort in the coinage of a conceptualization on the phenomenon. This organization coupled with the United Nations (UN) has extensive researched population issues. They have spearheaded a number of conference to which policy papers have been fashioned and issues have germinated that will address many ...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Capitalist ideology is the main source of interpreting the socio-political world since the late fifteenth century. (Addo, 1985, p.20) This Eurocentric edifice is generally promulgated as the ontology of this social and physical universe. Europe has not governed the world since its inception but their philosophy is so similar to that of the Greek-imperialism, the Roman-supremacy and the Babylonian-dominance but the former has made its theori...
Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Booth (1994) wrote that, “in the early 1980s there was a widely share sense that social research and theorizing about development had reached some kind of impasse.” He continued that “crucial real-world questions were not being addressed and the gulf between academic inquiry and the various spheres of development policy and practice had widened to the point where practitioners were raising fundamental do...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The Keynote speaker at the ninth Bob Marley lecture was Dr. Patricia Anderson, sociologist within the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mona Campus, University of the West Indies. Pat Anderson formulated her presentation around the theme “Govament Yaad”. The session took the form of a historical background to physical infrastructure and social issues of low-income individuals, t...