Sociology

There was this girl who was studying 4th grade students. The teacher held an object and asked “what is this?” These students were shouting out answers. Some answered a “sail of a sailboat, A block, etc. “ These answers are correct and incorrect. The true answer was the answer that should be given now. The answer was a triangle.

M2 - Use different sociological perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups

How would you describe your inner mind? crazy? genius? They say that both are two sides of the same side. Through my experiences, I shape the world around me, developing a unique perspective from my worldview. When it comes to how I perceive reality I just summarize it in these six concepts: culture, meaning, self, self-fulfilling prophecy, and scripts, and self-serving bias. My culture defines me down to my very genetic core. It explains why I drive the way I do, how I talk, what is socially acceptable, why I react to things the way I do , why I attend LIU, etc.

Which of the following groups have the highest incidence of use and abuse of alcohol?

A) Compare and contrast the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist theoretical approaches to the study of society. How does each approach view society, the individual, social order, and social change? Your textbook analyzes sports in terms of various perspectives. Using the analysis of sports as a model, analyze the role of television from the functional, conflict, and interactionist approaches.

According to Durkheim, Social fact or social phenomenon are the main subject matter of sociology. He said in one of his pieces that social fact must be studied distinct from the biological and psychological phenomenon. Social order is the trend of behavior being used to exercise power over another person. It has become rules and regulations that have been set up by some authorities to be obeyed by another group of people who are being undermined in a society, it is a situation that oppressed people and limits them from their liberties. When people go through these situations they cannot function the way they are supposed to function because they are limited by their freedom. These social orders are not only laws but rather certain norms created by the authority to put a whole race into a situation where they are very far from freedom of speech, movement, and knowledge. African Americans are an example of a race that has been through discrimination at workplaces, schools, community etc. They are one race which has been a label or put in a class where the situation will never permit you to climb the ladder of success. Although you might have all the certification, qualification, the best schools, etc. but the fact that you came from the poor class or the lower class, it becomes very difficult for the Caucasian people to give you the opportunity you deserve, because of this, the citizens of American have been grouped into different classes which are upper, middle, working,

After reading both chapters 8 and 9, they both discuss the relationships between the productions and consumption of contemporary popular music and how complex they are. In these both chapters sociologist has studied the different aspects of popular music and popular music in the society. In chapter 8, one section that really stood out to me was, the ‘Young people and cultural productivity’. In the beginning of this section it states that “Willis and his colleagues (1990) argue that as human beings we are symbolically creative, saying that ‘we argue for symbolic creativity as an integral (“ordinary”) part of human conditions, not as inanimate peaks rising above the mists’ “. In other words, humans like to create meaning to everything, including the music we listen to.

Even though the movie, The Help, was fiction, it was based on actual events that happened in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960’s. By watching this movie I can see how being born into a certain social structure can dictate what one’s life becomes. I also see how one person having the courage to stand up for what they believe can actually change society’s behavior. Skeeter, one of the main characters had the courage to write about the very people who helped raise her and in essence help mold her into the person she was. These people, the help, were more of parents to the white children than their own parents, the white’s in the society. I cried a lot finding it

The Truth: Irish immigrants were driven to America by the potato famine of the 1840s. This caused a massive influx of immigrants to New York City who were forced to settle for the cheapest and shabbiest lodgings in a poorer area of the city, known as Five Points. These kinds of conditions resulted in dirty, overcrowded spaces with relatively poor standards of living. Men typically worked at a trade, what we would now consider blue collar, or working class jobs, to provide for their families. Due to the fact that in this time, women were still not welcome in the workplace, many unmarried or widowed women were forced to turn to prostitution in order to support themselves.

Chapter four’s main idea is the effect of social class on education. As this chapter lays out, there is a strong relationship between student achievement and the various schools that students attend. Research from the Coleman Report shows that “differences in achievement across race and socioeconomic status are not easily explained by differences in school-based resources.” (Banks and Banks, pg. 65)

Imperialism is the policy or action by which one country controls another country or territory.

Imperialism, a way of governing people when a stronger nation takes over a weaker nation.

Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in order to give a voice to the struggling classes in Europe. In the document he expressed the frustrations of the lower class. As Marx began his document with "the history of all hitherto societies has been the history of class struggles" he gave power to the lower classes and sparked a destruction of their opressors.1 He argued that during the nineteenth century Europe was divided into two main classes: the wealthy upper class, the bourgeoisie, and the lower working class, the proletariat. After years of suffering oppression the proletariats decided to use their autonomy and make a choice to gain power. During the

Sociology is a study of society social life, social change, and social causes and consequences of human behaviour and allows us to gain an understanding of the structure and dynamics of today’s society, looking at the interlinking links patterns of human behaviour. Sociology looks at the in which social structure and institutions affect our everyday life. Sociological imagination was founded by C. Wright mills in the 1950`s it is an overall understanding of that some of the things that happen in society may lead to a particular outcome. Mills said

Other events of that period also had an impact on the development of sociology. The paradigm shift in the social order and social perception as well as political revolutions that were in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries had an emphasis on social change and formation of social order that still concerns contemporary sociologists. Furthermore, early sociologists were particularly concerned with the Industrial revolution, rise of capitalism and socialism. Moreover, growth of the cities and secularization caused many changes in lives of ordinary people. Also, demand for education and luxury were growing. Traditionally extended family bonds were disappearing and attention now felt on individual and his skills. It was common to see few nuclear families packed into small apartments in urban