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...
MARGINALIZATION OF SINCLE MOTHERS Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hones); Dip. Edo. INTRODUCTION Contemporary societies hold particular social prejudices through their interpretations of the world; these unfold in their actions, policies and thesis and abstraction which are embedded in various discourses. 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...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons) UWI Kirszner and Mandel (1998, pp.3-20) in an article titled Writing Essays, posit that writing goes through a series of interrelated processes: "planning", "shaping", "writing", "revising", "editing" and "proofreading" before there is a finality of thought. Without planning, the writing process is oftentimes a maze to which the writer has no end in sight. The prelude to any form of effective writing is the planning stage. It is at this stage that t...
FOSTERING THE HEGEMONIC CRISIS IN JAMAICA Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The hegemonic supremacy and categorization of the Jamaican landscape is primarily the justifiable reason for the plethora of sophisticated demonstrations in some zones and this is an indication of the social hemorrhaging of the masses. Many of those happenings are caused from the lack of monologue of the business constituents. The elitists have exponentially benefited from playing the proletariat cl...
A historical comparative perspective of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impact on Jamaican adolescents By Jamar Davis, and Paul Bourne B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu. In order that the reader understand the conclusion arrived at, and how this discourse is intend, I will defined some terminologies which are specialized for this paper. Terminologies used in this paper: HIV/AIDS Awareness: the knowledge and beliefs about HIV/AIDS transmission (Ordinal variable) high ris...
A historical comparative perspective of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impact on Jamaican adolescents By Jamar Davis, and Paul Bourne B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu. In order that the reader understand the conclusion arrived at, and how this discourse is intend, I will defined some terminologies which are specialized for this paper. Terminologies used in this paper: HIV/AIDS Awareness: the knowledge and beliefs about HIV/AIDS transmission (Ordinal variable) high ris...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc.; B.Sc.(Hons); Dip. Edu. Abstract The use of substances by adolescent continues to be a fundamental social concern in the Jamaican societies. The consequences of drug use impacts directly on the psychosocial and the cultural behaviour of the adolescent, and since they are survivability of population dynamics, the well-being of the future stock of mankind is paramount to today’s existence. As such this must be of importance to policy makers and counsellors. T...
By Paul Andrew Bourne INTRODUCTION The education system is a mode of psychosocial and cultural socialization for all peoples of societies (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). It is through this medium that many children are exposed to the requirements of an organic society where the system functions on the basis of solidarity (or social order). This is the purpose for which educational institutions were established by the colonial demagogues. Despite the primacy of the family in the so...