Breaches of Contract

Examples of Breaches of Contract in the following topics:

• Crime

  • Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
  • Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
  • While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example, breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offenses" or as "infractions. " Modern societies generally regard crimes as offenses against the public or the state, as distinguished from torts, which are wrongs against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action.
  • Similarly, changes in the collection and calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given "crime problem."
  • Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society.

• The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

  • Symbolic interactionism is a social theory that focuses on the analysis of patterns of communication, interpretation, and adjustment between individuals in relation to the meanings of symbols.
  • This emphasis on symbols, negotiated meaning, and the construction of society as an aspect of symbolic interactionism focuses attention on the roles that people play in society.
  • In social contexts, the uncertainty of roles places the burden of role-making on the people in a given situation.
  • Ethnomethodology, an offshoot of symbolic interactionism, examines how people's interactions can create the illusion of a shared social order despite a lack of mutual understanding and the presence of differing perspectives.
  • Harold Garfinkel demonstrated this situation through so-called experiments in trust, or breaching experiments, wherein students would interrupt ordinary conversations because they refused to take for granted that they knew what the other person was saying.

• Factors Associated with Divorce

  • Numerous studies have tried to determine why 50 percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce within the first 25 years.
  • More narrowly, infidelity most commonly refers to a breach of the expectation of sexual exclusivity that is expressed or implied in intimate relationships in many cultures.
  • Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.
  • The age at which a person gets married is also believed to influence the likelihood of divorce.
  • Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing.

• Protecting Research Subjects

  • One of the most infamous was the Stanford prison experiment.
  • Subsequently-adopted ethical standards would make it a breach of ethics to conduct such a study.
  • Subsequently-adopted ethical standards would make it a breach of ethics to conduct such a study.
  • In the context of sociological research, a code of ethics refers to formal guidelines for conducting research, consisting of principles and ethical standards concerning the treatment of human individuals.
  • Identify the core tenet of research ethics, the importance of research ethics, and examples of ethical practice

• Education and Industrialization

  • It has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth.
  • People are sometimes unaware of the importance of education, and there is economic pressure from those parents who prioritize their children's making money in the short term over any long-term benefits of education.
  • This has been found to be true, once the threshold has been breached, even if the potential economic value of the children's work has increased since their return to school.
  • It has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth.
  • The brain drain is often associated with de-skilling of emigrants in their country of destination, while their country of emigration experiences the draining of skilled individuals.

• Norms

  • An example of an explicit social norm is a law, such as a law that prohibits alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21.
  • An example is the use of deoderant.
  • Students demonstrate social norms of personal space by violating the norms.
  • This type of experiment is called a breaching experiment.
  • Explain the origin, reinforcement, and significance of social norms in a society or group

• Sociology of Emotion

  • The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions.
  • The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions.
  • Systematic observations of group interaction found that a substantial portion of group activity is devoted to the socio-emotional issues of expressing affect and dealing with tension.
  • Ethnomethodology revealed emotional commitments to everyday norms through purposeful breaching of the norms.
  • Examine the origins of the sociology of emotions through the work of Marx, Weber, and Simmel, and its development by T.

• Elder Abuse

  • Elder abuse is the use of physical or mental harm against people of an older age.
  • Regardless of whether the perpetrator is a family member, friend, or institutional caretaker for an older person, a central theme throughout all of these different types of abuses is the relationship of dependency of elders with those who care for them.
  • Of course, the horrible consequences listed above can arise directly from the physical abuse of a victim.
  • Imagine if the people elders depended on the most, such as these community transport service workers, were to breach that trust and abuse them.
  • Analyze the various types of elder abuse and the implications each has for an elderly person's quality of life

• Research Funding

  • A conflict of interest can occur when a sociologist is given funding to conduct research on an issue that relates to the source of the funds.
  • For example, if Microsoft were to fund a sociologist to investigate whether users of Microsoft's product are happier than users of open source software (e.g., Linux, Openoffice.org), the sociologist would need to disclose the source of the funding as it presents a significant conflict of interest.
  • If the funding source for a research project has an interest in the outcome of the project, this can represent a conflict of interest and a potential ethical breach.
  • The existence of a conflict of interest, or a potential one at that, can call into question the integrity of a sociologist's research and findings.
  • Examine the process of receiving research funding, including avoiding conflicts of interest and the sources of research funding

• The Nature of Marriage

  • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that creates kinship.
  • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between spouses that creates kinship.
  • The most frequently occurring form of marriage is between a woman and a man, where the feminine term 'wife' and the masculine term 'husband' are generally used to describe the parties of the contract .
  • Outside of the traditional marriage between monogamous heterosexual couples, other forms of marriage exist.
  • The most frequently occurring form of marriage is between a woman and a man, where the feminine term 'wife' and the masculine term 'husband' are generally used to describe the parties of the contract.