Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 INTRODUCTION I know that in writing the following pages I am divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I have guarded far more carefully than any of my earthly possession; and it is a curious study to me to analyze the motives which prompt me to do it. I feel that I am led by the same impulse which forces the unfound out criminal to take somebody into his confidence, although he knows that the act is likely, even almost certain...
The Tourism Product – Challenges, Contributions and Transformation By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. Introduction "The economic gap between rich and poor countries has widened over the past ten years. However, to create new industries and to transform rural life in Asian, African and the Caribbean and Latin America countries is a gigantic task. The relevance of tourism to this situation is that income from international travel can bring the foreign e...
MYTHS AND FACTS: THE LONG MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION Paul Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); BSc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. 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...
By Paul Andrew Bourne Over the decades, the elitists among us have continued to "scuff" at Creole (Patois) as a language. This is because of its "mediocritic" origin and the social class associated with its usage. In order that finesse is brought to this discourse, a position must be provided on what constitutes a language. In addition, we must be able to comparatively analyze those factors in order to establish whether or not Creole is a language. We need to move this debate beyond social...
ALBERT EINSTEIN - WAS HE CORRECT . . . ? By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), Bsc. (Hons) Economics and Demography 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 anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my view, the mai...
Religiosity and Hiv/Aids Impact on well-being among the elderly: A Scientific model of the discourse By Paul Andrew Bourne Religiosity From theologians’ perspective, spirituality and religiosity are critical components in the lifespan of people. They believe that man (including woman) cannot be completely whole without religion. With this fundamental concept, theologians theorize that man cannot be happy, lowly depressed or feel comfortable without a balance of spirit and body (Wha...
By Paul Andrew Bourne Inflation is a monetary phenomenon Mishkin (2003, p.11). It is created by ‘more money chasing too few goods’. When goods and services are scarce in a particular locality, an increase in money supply will only fuel a higher valuation of those commodities. The reality is businesses and government are forced to pay higher costs increased products and so further cost increases are inevitable. This phenomenon affects the economy through a multiplier effect of pri...
By Paul Andrew Bourne Introduction It was during the unprecedented social upheavals in Europe that the formal study of sociology was developed. The industrialization of the topologies at the time meant that people were migrating from rural to urban areas, and the traditional agents of authority, such as the Church and the landed aristocracy, were losing much of their influence. This period earmarked the birth of organized labour, modern industrial capitalism and many revolutions and...
Sociopolitical Socialization: An overview of the influence of the school and the family on ones sociopolitical socialization PAUL ANDREW BOURNE, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. The University of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7, St. Andrew Jamaica, West Indies Introduction Culture has three major tenets, and these are: ‘technological’, ‘sociological’ and ‘ideological’ (Bourne, 2006; Thomlinson, 1965) Political Sciences cannot be viewed in a vacuum dis...
By Paul Andrew Bourne Introduction It was during the unprecedented social upheavals in Europe that the formal study of sociology was developed. The industrialization of the topologies at the time meant that people were migrating from rural to urban areas, and the traditional agents of authority, such as the Church and the landed aristocracy, were losing much of their influence. This period earmarked the birth of organized labour, modern industrial capitalism and many revolutions an...
By Paul Andrew Bourne ABSTRACT Poverty couples with ‘in-access’ to tertiary level education continues to be a pivotal challenge to national governments because of its influence on development, and the social chaos that will arise if the matter is felt unabated. This paper analyzes the social determinants of admittance to post-secondary level education of poor Jamaicans with data from the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions, 2002 (i.e. JSLC). Poverty has a significant negative linear infl...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc.; B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. Introduction It was during the unprecedented social upheavals in Europe that the formal study of sociology was developed. The industrialization of the topologies at the time meant that people were migrating from rural to urban areas, and the traditional agents of authority, such as the Church and the landed aristocracy, were losing much of their influence. This period earmarked the birth of organized labour, modern industrial capitalism and ...
Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc.; B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The hegemonic categorization of the Jamaican landscape is primarily the justifiable reason for the sophisticated demonstrations and social hemorrhaging, which is displayed so frequent in the society. 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 voice on ma...
The department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work within the Faculty of Social Science at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, recent carried out a quantitative/qualitative study of adolescents. The research was to explore urban St. Catherine adolescents’ reproductive health practices and their survivability. A group of social researchers carried out this study, and chief among them was Herbert Gayle an anthrologist. Mr. Michael Yee Shui one of the researchers presented the fi...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), BSc. (Hons.) Introduction: Contextual Framework and Background The government of Jamaica and by extension the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) through the Minister of Education, the Most Honourable Mrs. Maxine Henry-Wilson, recently took a principled and land marked position. They argued to allow all the current students (May 2004) of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, to write their April/May 2004 examinations despite the candida...