...This sociological analysis will define the negotiation of feminist ideology and the problem of absolutism for gender identity in the public sphere. The gender role of women in schools and in the workplace define important contradictions in the way women are victimized or empowered in comparison to men in the public sphere. Webber and Williams (year?) define the complex role of female employment in the relation to negotiations with males in the domestic sphere. In some cases, women were able to free themselves of the “domestic servitude” by having the father care for children, which often involved negotiating with fathers to take on more domestic responsibilities. These complexities in feminist ideology are also related to the problem of gender identity for Muslim girls that are educated within primarily white Christian schools in Canada. Often, western European “feminist” propaganda has depicted Muslim girls as victims of...
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...By using my sociological perspective however, I have been able to better ignore the bias that the various social structures in my life have brought upon me, and instead, focus on the topic at hand from both points of view. For instance, I have realized that not all Republicans are selfish beings, and in fact, many great U.S. Presidents have been Republicans. Instead, the problem is that their image has been easily tainted by people like Donald Trump, and Mike Pence, which makes them easily disliked by many. This can be seen as an example of symbolic interactionism, a microscopic approach to the sociological perspective. By associating Republicans with negative figures, such as Donald Trump, and through the teachings of my family and educators, I have grown up to have a negative attitude towards Republicans. Similarly, the same can be said about Democrats, especially regarding the Hillary Clinton scandal pertaining to classified government documents. Furthermore, I realize that people believe in something because they are invested in it, much like...
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...The movie starts with a text which states, “From the ashes of The Ruin, the communities were built. Protected by the boundary. All memories of the past are erased” (The Giver). This text gave us a clues on what happened before the current setting of the movie. Moreover, it gave us a clue on what changes they did for the community that was created. Let us now analyze the meaning of the phrase. The first sentence says “From the ashes of The Ruin, the Communities were built” (The Giver). The phrase “from the ashes” might be a familiar expression to some of us. This phrase refers to the the mythical creature called the phoenix. A phoenix is mythical bird that symbolizes life, death, and rebirth (signology.com). The phrase means “emerge as new form from something that has been destroyed” (dictionary.com). The Ruin somehow sounds as a historical event: an event which caused “a state of destruction” (merriam-webster.com), as the name implies. This might be the clue that some sort of apocalyptic catastrophe happened which leads to creating a new society. This society refers to what they called Communities. This leaves us wondering what kind of catastrophe happened that lead them into creating this Communities. According to an interview made by Calderon with Lowry, the mind behind The Giver, in the book it was never mentioned what kind of destruction that made them built these new Communities. But in the second book of The Giver, “it refers to some sort of – its not explicit – some sort...
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...To break down the word, social means having to do with the society and interaction with others, while structure “is a key to sociological practice, because it points to a great deal of what gives social life its familiar and predictable shape” (Johnson 64). Therefore, concluding that social structure is the formation and administration of a social system. Social structure also deals with two key concepts including organization and distribution. Organization is all about the positions and relationships held in a social system, while distribution is concerned with the responsibilities of a social position. These social positions are also referred to as social statuses (Bobbitt-Zeher 02/06/17). A social status can begin from something you achieve or from being born into. With these statuses come expectations for how ones should behave, also called roles. These roles are a...
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... The first woman sociologist is Harriet Martineau she was from England and introduced sociology where she lived. She claimed that if someone studies a society they must focus on every detail that there is about the topic including political, religious, and social institutions. She wanted sociologist to do more than just observe and that they need to be beneficial to society. W.E.B. Du Bois was the very first African American to earn a doctor degree from Harvard University. He claimed that one's self and identity are influenced by historical experiences and social situations such as slavery that deals with segregation and prejudice. He mostly focused on race relations in the United States because of the color line. W.E.B one member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that dealt with the struggle with African Americans. In the Theoretical Approach in Sociology, Comte and Durkheim believed in Functionalism, Marx viewed marxism while Weber and Mead trusted in symbolic interaction. According to all of this it all symbolized our beings and identities. The main point is the symbol of each process such as a tree. Mead said that humans have richly symbolic universes. When we all talk to each other, we look for clues that shows us what type of behavior is right when interacting with an individual. Symbolic interactionism deals with sense and what others say or do. Functionalism falls into play it's the thought of sociology and how we analyze society as a whole...
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...To start off with I would like to tell everyone a story. Once upon a time there was a young boy who lived in the land of average-ism. Everyone made the same amount of money, everyone went to the same school, same opportunities, and yet some had different amounts of work. All his life our young hero wanted to be special, wanted to escape the disease of average-ism. He wanted people to remember him, he wanted to be famous. Unfortunately our hero lived in a Socialist society and he ended up fading into the background. Socialism, as defined by the Merriam Webster online dictionary, is "any way of organising a society in which the government takes control of major industries and distributes goods equally." Keep this in mind it will be important later. The theory of socialism sounds pretty good, and even I, who is very opposed to socialism, can see the appeal by the raw definition. If only it was easier done than said. As many who have lived in Socialist countries have said, "it sounds good at first, but the charm quickly lessens." There are many problems with socialism including a lacking work ethic, extreme taxation, and limited freedom. Work ethic is the building block of capitalism. As defined work ethic is the "principal that hard work is worthy of reward." In capitalism the harder you work the more you are rewarded, this is not the case in socialism. My favorite example of socialism not working is the "school house" example... One day the class was talking and they had a sudden...
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...Sociological Imaging is the ability to identify that one person’s actions or experience can directly affect his or her surrounding society and vice versa. In the midst of all of the police brutality and murders came a story reported by Fox News. An anchorman reported that during a Baltimore protest a black man had been shot by a police officer while protesting. The Baltimore police later released a statement clarifying the man was not gunned down by police and the story was not correct, in fact, the man dropped his gun and it discharged once it hit the ground. The news team did broadcast a retraction of the story and clarified the reality of what happen on the streets of Baltimore as well. This information was solely to release the latest...
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...A distinctive class of individuals benefited with the natural effect of social evolution, while the citizens of the disadvantage social economic status were affected negatively. The economic structures within capitalism are controlled by the wealthy who have and manipulate the means to produce excess. The view of the natural effect by Marx contradicted the political economist; for Marx it was a social evolution “as instruments of oppression that dramatically affect people’s life chances” (Allan 2014:60). Marx perceived the “oppressive social relations” as a determined factor to alienate the labor force, “from the work process, the product, and other people” (Allan 2014:71-72). Marx did not develop these theories, he only built on Adam Smith’s theories to differentiate product value, the worth of human labor, and profit. Marx identified capitalism as something that can have “production benefits, but that it also takes a toll on human spirit” (Allan 2014:56). The capitalism economic system determines laws, the type of government, and the role of society in day-to-day life, that is why Marx mentioned that capitalism is “socially based” (Allan 2014:56). In a capitalistic system, economic decisions are made by every producer and every consumer who is controlled by the free market; it is also where private actors are allowed to own and control the use of property in accord with their own interests. The intervention of the government include the protection of private property...
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...Jason Caprioni Professor O’Hara Sociology 12/10/15 Fight Club: Sociological Analysis Fight Club is one of the most bizarre but fantastic movies I have ever seen. The story starts about showing us the life of Jack (the mostly nameless narrator played by Edward Norton), attending a support group to help subdue his insomnia which emerges from his tasteless life and boring career as an office worker. He begins to attend many support groups, even though he is not diagnosed with any of those illnesses since it helps him feel better. Eventually, he meets Tyler Durden. The "two of them" create a men-only underground fight club which later evolves into Project Mayhem, while also creating soap from human fat stolen from liposuction clinics. While the...
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...As Good As It Gets is a movie about a pessimistic, homophobic, obsessive-compulsive novelist, Melvin, who forms an ironic friendship with his gay artist neighbor. Melvin also falls in love with a waitress who is also the only one who can tolerate his obsessive compulsiveness and generally hateful attitude towards everyone. The movie follows and focuses on the unlikely pairing of the three, the obsessive-compulsive novelist, the single working mother, and the gay artist, as they set out on a road trip together. As Good As It Gets was a good choice for writing a sociological essay over as it covers many different issues, including healthcare, poverty, sexuality and homosexuality. Sexuality and homosexuality is a big theme in this movie. Homosexuality...
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...Jillian Wain Composition 101 Adams 16 Nov, 2015 Preface event paper This preface event I attended was “Making sense of animal abuse” and it focused on the cruelty shown towards animals. Dr. Clifton Flynn, a professor of Sociology was our speaker for this event. He is also the chair of the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Women’s Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He has written a book on the topic of discussion titled, Understanding Animal abuse: A Sociological Analysis, which makes the lesson more interesting because he is not just using outside sources for this event. He discussed what social factors are related to animal abuse and identifications of the abusers. We learned that animal abuse is not always physical...
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...concept that highlights what I’ve learned and how the knowledge gained as a result has impacted my personal experiences is the “Sociological Imagination”. The Sociological Imagination is a unique way of thinking that allows individuals to see the interrelation between private troubles...
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... In addition, we need to address other factors that affect political and social participation as race alone does not solely attribute to the way citizens participate politically and socially. Class, gender, sexuality and race are only a few variables which make up a person’s identity that consequently alters the way in which a person partakes in society. Traditional gendered roles confine females to the private sphere as it is perceived that the likely role of a woman should take up is a carer who is financially dependent on men. This combination limits access to political citizenship. According to Jordan and Weedon, social class was used in the UK to restrict access to education. This deterred boys of lower class backgrounds who emerge from school with substantially lower levels of educational attainment not to participate. Therefore, it is now necessary to challenge how the state and social structures can uphold uneven power relations which limit democracy and undermine people’s ability to participate politically and socially14. Furthermore, within British society there has been a new surge of social discrimination against the white underclass in which the ubiquitous term ‘chav’ is commonly being associated with this social group. Though racial divides are relevant to political and social participation, these did lead to, and come from, class divides as well. The socio-economic disparities between different groups of people produces a definitive class division, outlined by...
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...Management Behavior on InterClean-EnviroTech Merger The current essay has the intention to briefly analyze the merger situation between the two companies InterClean and EnviroTech, after the acquisition of the latter from the former organization. As a part of InterClean’s new strategy newly proposed solutions/service model, sales reps from both companies will be set into multi-functional teams taking advantage of all the expertise gathered mutually from these organizations in the Cleaning and Sanitation Industry. A merger or fusion between organizations is always a sensitive subject to deal with, since the human capital from the companies involved will experience a cultural, structural and managerial change that needs to be handled delicately during the transition, in order to impact the least on areas like employees social identity, behavior and attitudes toward organizational commitments, turnover intention of key players among the company, to name a few. Lipponen, J., Olkkonen, M., & Moilanen, M. (2004) explain the approach of social identity theories, by stating that they “share the same fundamental assumption that individuals define themselves in terms of their social group memberships and that group-defined self-perception produces distinctive effects on social behaviour and intergroup relations. This means that the more an individual conceives of him- or herself in terms of membership in a group or, in other words, identifies with the group, the more his or her attitudes...
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...Abstract This paper explores the movie “Any Given Sunday” and attempts to discuss the movie in detail by focusing on character examples of the personal functions of sport such as feelings of belongingness and social identification, the socially acceptable outlet for hostile and aggressive feelings, and the role sport plays as a cultural element to bring meaning to life. Additional attention will be given to aspects of extra-sport character behavior and a determination of whether or not such behaviors support sport stereotypes and/or deviant characteristics. Through internet research, library study, and the use of periodical articles found in the ProQuest databases, I intend to apply the functionalist model of society to show that the fictional football team “The Miami Sharks” highlighted in the movie supports stability and equilibrium in the community of Miami based on common interests and convictions. The world of professional sports, especially professional football, is a world that most will only see on the television or through movies. “Any Given Sunday,” by Oliver Stone, is one such movie. It highlights a portion of a season for the fictional team The Miami Sharks with the interpersonal struggles on and off the field experienced by the characters related to the team. This paper explores the movie “Any Given Sunday” and attempts to discuss the movie in detail by focusing on the socially acceptable outlet for hostile and aggressive feelings, masculinity and gender...
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