...JASMINE STIEKEMA. S00169720. 0431681838. HLSC 120: SOCIETY, CULTURE AND HEALTH. REFLECTIVE WRITING ESSAY. 2751, WORDS. Step 1: Carefully choose one question from the Reflective Learning and Writing section of eModule 1 or 2 to guide your reflection: 1.2 Reflect on and discuss some of the underlying causes of world hunger? * Historical Factors * Cultural Factors * Structural Factors * Critical Factors (Germov, 2014, p. 7, 8). During this assessment I am going to be using the factors from Germovs Sociological Imagination template. Step 2: Reflect upon and analyse your experiences in relation to the topic of the question from step 1, using factors from Willis’ Sociological Imagination Template. There are many factors that are involved in the underlying causes of world hunger some factors include: environmental conditions such as climate change, high temperatures and humidity, natural disasters, land rights, lack of democracy and ownership, crop insect infestations, famine, war and corruption, economic causes, socio cultural causes, microbial growth, excessive food wastage, political and governmental factors, limited access to education and educational supplies and a lack of infrastructure and thus no way to manufacture products or ship them to the rest of the world (Holland, 2013). World hunger and the underlying causes are advertised in various ways on a daily basis through social media. These charity organizations primarily target the impacts and effects world...
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...exercising become to much?. The main reason Americans make exercising a part of their daily activity is to stay fit and some workout to define what society calls skinny or to have a "perfect" body. One can use their sociological imagination to see the dangers of over exercising and how social structure plays a role in the result of over exercising today. Sociologist C. Wright Mills writes "The sociological imagination enables it possessors to understand the largest historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and external career of a variety of individuals." (Chap 1 pg. 2). C. Wright Mills presumes the sociological imagination was a helpful way for people to allay their suffering by looking at their problems as if they were not the only ones going through it. Rather, look at the situation through other peoples eyes. Think outside of the box and get a clearer understanding how our experiences and troubles are affected by social structures. Society is very judgmental which is why we try to be the best we can be. If we are overweight society tells us to go on a diet, if we are underweight society tells us to eat more, if we are average society might encourage you to become more toned. Through advertisement on T.V, billboards and social media our societies ideal girl is expected to have a flat stomach enlarged hips and a skinny waist. A solution many people partake in is working out. When you become a victim of addiction it may feel as if there...
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...The study of sociology has caused numerous thought processes to be stirred among various kinds of people and cultures. It involves looking at why things are the way they are and what causes people to act the way they do. It has also instigated many moral questions and the causality of our actions. When thinking about sociology and the sociological imagination applied to it, it is not uncommon to think about yourself and your own place in the world. The sociological imagination is the ability to look at yourself and your own issues and connect them to the larger social problems or issues while being able to recognize the difference between the two and how you yourself can affect it. My own sociological imagination has been shaped by the effects of society and I have came to realize its’ repercussions to myself and the way it has both hurt and helped my subconscious view of my surroundings has a Caucasian, American, and middle class person. When I was born I was endowed certain attributes that coincided with my culture and socialization. These attributes at birth can be considered part of my ascribed statuses among society. As I grew up I acquired more status’s threw the addition of family members, hobbies, and sports. These acquired statuses are considered achieved statuses because you have to earn them; they are not given to you. For me, ascribed statuses are those such as a son, grandson, or nephew. Where as most ascribed statuses are easy to point out as your relationship...
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...To define sociological imagination, I will discuss my role as female and as middle child, while growing up with a low socioeconomic class and how it has shaped me today to go to college and earn a degree. The basics of sociological imaginations can be defined as a way we look at every day things, our “normal” or familiar, compared to public issues. Personal Explanation Throughout most of my childhood, I was raised in either a single parent home or a blended family, but mostly with a single parent. My father died when I was 14, but prior to his death, he wasn’t in the picture much. My blended family consisted of a stepfather and stepsiblings. I had to help take care of my two brothers, one younger, one older, while my mother typical worked at least one job, sometimes two. I would have considered us very low on the socioeconomic pole, although we weren’t below poverty level, but not far from it. Looking back, I realized how tight things were for us. Very seldom we would go out to eat, go shopping, or go out for entertainment. Our goal at that age was to get through high school, and a college degree had never been mentioned. My mother worked very hard to keep us with clothes, food, and a home. Although I have to wonder if college was never an option because of it was part of our culture (no one in our immediate family had gone to college) or if it was due to the lack of funds, or knowledge to get started with college courses. Sociological Imagination In today’s...
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...Sociological Imagination Nicole Badders Galen College of Nursing Professor Sanjay Sociological Imagination Social Imagination is defined as the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual’s life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces (Conley, 2012, 5). C.Wright Mills’s theory was thought to help us connect what happens to us on a personal level to what is happening to society as a greater whole. This concept can be seen as a way to also help us realize we are not alone in our struggles and decisions. I will be using this concept and applying it to a situation that I went through almost twelve years ago, when I married my husband just two weeks after I graduated high school. Personal Explanation I come from a somewhat religious background. I was always taught that you do not live with someone of the opposite sex unless you are married, you do not have sex before marriage and that you respect your parents. All these things and more caused me to make decisions that I might otherwise not have if I had been able to be a little freer to think for myself. When I was fifteen we moved from San Antonio, TX, where I was attending a huge high school to Boerne, TX where I was thrown into what I would call a culture shock of a high school. The high school I had previously been attending had so many students that no one really knew anyone. The new high school was very small and everyone knew everyone, so walking onto campus everyone knew...
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...facing difficulties perceiving their housekeeping responsibilities and wanting to become something more than just a homemaker. These various private tensions may seem very personal. These dilemmas are all related to a bigger world called society and this is known as the sociological imagination. Sociological imagination suggests that people look at their own personal troubles as social issues and, in general try to connect their own individual encounters with the workings of society. The personal problems are closely related to societal issues such as unemployment, marriage, war and even the city life where the private troubles and the public issues become clearly apparent. With the understanding of the sociological imagination, I began to notice the daily choices I make, the classes I attend, the way I was raised by my parents, the group of people I choose to hang out with, the things I like to converse about with others are all somehow affected by public issues and what society tends to make us believe is right. There are many areas in my life where I feel that I am greatly affected by various sociological theories such as events dealing with gender and sexuality, family and culture, ethnicity and race, and social class and work. Even though our country supports equality in gender, differences still exist. This issue of gender and sexuality of our society has had one of the biggest impacts in my life since I was raised with five brothers. Since birth, I was immediately...
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...The “sociological imagination” (Mills 1959:4) gives us the ability to understand the correlation of biography, history, and traditions at the side of the knowledge of the social and historical impact and have an impact on society might also have on that person or institution of people. Mills' belief compels us to research into a person's biography and existence, and vicinity their findings in the surrounding occasions in which occasions occur with a view to understand the entire image of the society in which people lives. “Mills says” to understand this “imagination " could be to look the connection among non-public issues and public issues. Personal issues that means, troubles that are felt personally that are because of occurrences or feelings...
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...This essay will discuss the sociological imagination and social construction. It will offer insights of problem families and will look at it from a feminist theory and functionalism theory it will discus oppression and the impact on social institutions and underpin social work practise and the relevance. Charles Write Mills was an American Sociologist. His most famous was The Sociological Imagination, where mills states that personal troubles should become issues of the public. (mills books) By sharing these personal troubles with society will help a person realise they may not be alone and others maybe going through the same thing for example if a husband with his wife and children loses his job and is struggling to find another one. By...
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...2/18/15 DATE Social Science/Education DIVISION x REQUIRED COURSE NEW COURSE X ELECTIVE COURSE x REVISION LAKE LAND COLLEGE Course Information Form COURSE NUMBER SOC280 TITLE Introduction to Sociology SEM CR HRS 3 LT HRS 3 LAB HRS SOE HRS ECH COURSE PCS # (Assigned by Administration) PREREQUISITES: None Catalog Description (40 Word Limit): Study of human interaction focusing on social influences shaping personality, structure and dynamics of human society. Topics include: sociological perspective, culture, society, social interaction; social change in global perspective; socialization; families; social class; and social stratification; race and ethnicity; and deviance. | | |CONTENT LECTURE LAB OUTLINE | |HOURS HOURS | Study of Sociology (What is Sociology, Methods) 5 Individual and Society (Culture, Socialization, Social Interaction, Groups, Networks, Organization, Conformity and Deviance) 10 Stratification (Class, Global, Gender, Racial and Ethnic, Aging) 15 Social Institutions...
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...STEP 1 Question: Why do poor countries have a predominance of infectious diseases as opposed to the lifestyle-related diseases of wealthy countries? What is your response to the global health inequalities that exist? STEP 2 Historical factors- The historic components like living in neediness inclined zones or in the territories where sufficient administrations are not accessible, have prompted the spread of irresistible ailments. Urbanization has helped affluent individuals to abstain from getting any contamination yet their stationary and inert lifestyle likewise helps the horrible conditions like weight and discouragement. The ordinary practices of ignoring the presymptoms until the sickness investigates, is still pervasive. In addition, the act of permitting any part from the neighbour to treat the patient with their insane information of drug is additionally the purpose behind this contrast in the wellbeing conditions in country and urban nations. Structural factors- The structural variables like the globalization, dissent of human rights and benefits and a lot of people more prompt the expanded rate of movement of mortality because of contaminations in the poor nations. Such nations need water offices, legitimate convenience, sanitation, sustenance, wellbeing administrations and what not. Absence of assets and method for correspondence and their detachment from the urban territories all help the commonness of irresistible ailments. Then again, in the rich nations, regardless...
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...STEP ONE Why do poor countries have a predominance of infectious diseases as opposed to the lifestyle-related diseases of wealthy countries? What is your response to the global health inequalities that exist? STEP TWO When we think sociologically we make links between our own personal experiences and public issues. The sociological imagination template helps to investigate public issues in a way that analyses four important factors, these being; historical, cultural, structural and critical. Historical factors take into consideration how the past affects the future and for many poor countries a complicated and unstable past has influenced the countries ability to develop. The political environment of a country generally has a huge impact on the countries social and economic development therefore an unstable government of corruption and greed can hinder a countries ability to advance. Wars caused by political tension between countries also impact nations as they are torn apart by death and demolition leading to a division within the country itself. Many countries such as Rwanda and Cambodia have found it extremely difficult to recover due to poor government decisions made in the past that has significantly effected entire generations. This in turn leads to people living in poor and unhygienic conditions where they are surrounded by death and disease. The political environment of a country can also influence whether or not the population is financially stable due to political...
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... so the health quality and services are more available for everyone. However, if I compare between city and country side, I can see much difference between them. In the country side, many people suffer and died from inadequate of health care systems. Furthermore, there are another reasons for this, for example lack of facilities and equipment to do operation or surgery and also can be low income cause some people tend to stay at home rather than go to city to spend much money to get a better treatment . On the other hand, in the city, there are many hospitals and also have full of equipment to do big operation. Yet, they tend to have bad lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart attack because of their daily food. My father has passed away because of heart attack. The reason is He did not really care about his health condition; he smokes and eats everything that he wants. I think in Indonesia, people in the country side are healthier because of their good lifestyle diet. They eat food from their farm which is more natural and no junk foods. Besides, the environment is better than city which is many trees and fewer vehicles if we compare with city which is full of pollutions. For Australia, I know about their culture and lifestyle roughly. I can see that many people have party during weekend and some people do every night in a week in which way they drink alcohol and worse thing is they have a free-sex lifestyle. However, if I compare the health care systems between...
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...Sociological Perspective of the Blind Side Social problems within our society continue to arise. In an ideal world, it is appropriate to say that as individuals we all wish to live life in peace. Unfortunately, getting a whole nation to come to a consensus is nearly impossible. Social problems are controversial societal or behavioral related issues, which can affect the environment, people and social institutions (Leon-Guerrero 2013). These social problems can range from global concerns to racial issues such as discrimination and through our sociological imagination we are able to differentiate problems using our own discretion (Leon-Guerrero 2013). Choosing a movie to analyze from a sociological perspective was an interesting experience because you become aware of the many social problems that were always there and never paid attention to. The movie "The Blind Side" is a great example, which highlights the three main social problems that will be analyzed and interwoven in this paper: social class and poverty, education, and alcohol and drug abuse. "The Blind Side" is based on a true story, outlining Michael Oher’s life from an impoverished child to a successful athlete with the help of the Tuohy Family. The Tuohy family took Michael in and ended up adopting him. Michael came from a broken home, growing up in the inner city of Memphis, Tennessee with a mother who was a drug addict and an absentee father. After running away from several foster homes, Michael was fortunate...
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... so the health quality and services are more available for everyone. However, if I compare between city and country side, I can see much difference between them. In the country side, many people suffer and died from inadequate of health care systems. Furthermore, there are another reasons for this, for example lack of facilities and equipment to do operation or surgery and also can be low income cause some people tend to stay at home rather than go to city to spend much money to get a better treatment . On the other hand, in the city, there are many hospitals and also have full of equipment to do big operation. Yet, they tend to have bad lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart attack because of their daily food. My father has passed away because of heart attack. The reason is He did not really care about his health condition; he smokes and eats everything that he wants. I think in Indonesia, people in the country side are healthier because of their good lifestyle diet. They eat food from their farm which is more natural and no junk foods. Besides, the environment is better than city which is many trees and fewer vehicles if we compare with city which is full of pollutions. For Australia, I know about their culture and lifestyle roughly. I can see that many people have party during weekend and some people do every night in a week in which way they drink alcohol and worse thing is they have a free-sex lifestyle. However, if I compare the health care systems between...
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...Q1. What is a social problem? What are the characteristics of social problems? A social problem (which is also called social conflict, or social illness) can be explained as an issue that influences a considerable number of individuals within a society. A social problem in other words, is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. It is made up of general factors that affect and damage society. A social problem is normally a term used to describe problems with a particular area or group of people in the world. It also affects how people react to certain situations. The first characteristic of a social problem is that it changes the situation in such a way that a problem is created to the point where existing social order has to be changed. It can also be identified by the fact that it has injurious consequences for society. All social problems are deviations from the “ideal” situation, this being a general feeling among the masses involved. All social problems have some common basis of origin. Other characteristics will point out that social problems are social and political in origin, and that social problems are caused by pathological social conditions. All social problems are usually interconnected and are social in their results. Social problems call for united responsibility and they require a collective approach for their solution. That being said, as long as people are not aware of the problem, even though it exists, there is no...
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