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. INTRODUCTION Many peoples throughout the world and in particular Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain or any such indicators, and therefore they address those symptoms. This is a simplistic perspective that some have on the subject but health is the absence of illness and the psychosocial well-being of the individual. People casually perceive health, and then they will addre...

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...

Introduction The doctrine of sociology emerged in the nineteenth century from the major discipline of philosophy; is primarily credited 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 branch of thought. One contemporary sociologist, Dr. Orville Taylor, who is a se...

AUTHOR: Mohammed TEXTBOOK: Contending with Destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century EDITOR: Professor Kenneth Hall and Denis Benn Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Mohammed (2000) in “Contending with destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century” forwarded a viewpoint on the changing roles of women in Caribbean societies that exposed some of the socio-cultural biases in past as well as contemporary societies. The writer’s monograph lacked critical s...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (pending), BSc. (Hons.) “Poor people have to meet the increasing price of foodstuffs whose extra cost does not necessarily mean an increase in nutritional value; indeed in many cases much of the food in advanced societies is losing its food value.” Andrew Webster, 1970, p.16 Webster’s sociological perspective clearly shows that the disadvantaged within our societies are continuously confronted with the situation of having to meet the rising cost of...

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...

A historical comparative perspective of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impact on the Jamaican adolescents. By Jamar Davis and Paul Bourne B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu. Introduction/Background In Jamaica, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has unleashed its supremacy over the general populace. This virus is single-handedly annihilating the productive sector, and it is equally removing from the landscape of this society its future human resources. Despite the many social marketing campaign t...

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...

BY PAUL ANDREW BOURNE, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Drug use among youth is explaining many of their social deviant behaviour. With the widespread availability and enormous variety of drugs, serious implications are placed on the society. Kleber (1994) confirmed that the use and abuse of drugs is a critical issue in most societies and it is associated with social and economic consequences. The desire to pursue this study is based on prevailing concern of the prevalen...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Health status is the bedrock upon which all human society exists; hence, the health of a populace plays an imperative role in the wellbeing of population transition. Many peoples throughout the world and in particular Jamaica conceptualize health and health care as the absence of physical pain or any such indicators, and therefore they address those symptoms. This is based on the biomedical conceptualization of phe...

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...