Sociology is the study of human behavior that is in the society. Sociologist analyzes social phenomena from a different perspective and at the different levels. There are three different levels namely micro, middle, and macro levels. The micro level focuses on patterns of social interaction at the individual level (Kornblum & Smith, 2012). The middle level focuses on social phenomena that happens between small community or businesses. We can see that the middle level is small than the whole society
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1. Cultural Relativism: Culture relativism is the view that all cultures are equal. Regardless of the cultural differences, no culture is better than another. Each culture sets their own moral and ethical standards to live by. An example of Cultural Relativism would be how in some cultures they believe women’s bodies, hair, and face must be covered at all times outside of the home when other cultures do not. Not every culture has the same beliefs. 2. Aristotle’s theory of Hylomorphism: The theory
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From the opening line of the preface, Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel is nothing if not an ambitious work: “This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years” (Diamond, 9). This is a bit misleading, however, as Diamond’s motivation is not simply to provide an overview of our species since the dawn of civilization; his aim is to answer the question of “why history unfolded differently on different continents” (Diamond, 9). In the near five-hundred pages of
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Coming from Mali, one may think their culture is completely different and unaccepted in America. But one might be surprised. Talking about an American culture isn’t that easy : indeed defining what is the American culture, what it reflects and how one lives it in an everyday basis are still unclear and need clarification and further definitions need to be established in order to live or survive in here. When contrasting, it is always interesting to compare America to a kaleidoscope of cultures
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World history is in regards to all of humanity’s past. It is not just with reference to certain countries, groups, or cities. It involves all the people of the world. This is why it is important for everyone to learn about world history. All people today need to be educated in regards to the humans of the past. It is important to know what people were like in the past. Knowing how much humans have changed since the beginning can give a sense of what technology will be like in the future. It also
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The moment that we were born, people were given a label? If you were Black, White, Asian, Hispanic or any other race, you are given a label, regardless, because that’s how the world works by labeling things, places and people. The world feed us things that help us understand who we are and others around us. In “The Fallacy of Race: A Post-Racial America," Otto F von Feigenblatt argues that a complex construction of a new understanding for America is the idea of race from cultural studies, which the
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The Ruby Sipar belongs to the Clan Kin and therefore the removal of it from the Canyon Complex does not violate any international laws. There are two common philosophies when dealing with ownership, the first being Cultural Nationalism, and the other being Cultural Internationalism. The idea of Cultural Nationalism emphasizes national interests, values, and pride. It is their argument that certain artifacts have more importance to certain cultures when compared to others. This philosophy is
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Sociologists aim to analyze how people live. To do this, they use sociological perspectives which help them “understand human behavior by placing it within its broader social context.” The three sociological perspectives sociologists utilize that I will be focusing on are symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory. Symbolic interactionism is “a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the
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As evidenced in this discussion, a growing body of scholarship distinguishes and analyzes multiple dimensions that comprise the concept of race. Increasingly, race is observed to be experienced not primarily as an identity, but as constructed through a variety of sometimes conflicting dimensions. In her article, “The Multiple Dimensions of Race,” Roth (2016) offers three categories on how individuals’ race can be determined: first, by how individuals self-identify their race, second, how their race
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History shows that racism existed and still exist. Although, it is not very clear when and how the term racism come into existence. There are several discussions and research in trying to understand how the concept of race prejudice found its way into humans. The Pinder chapters attempt to explain the controversial historical emergence of whiteness, race prejudice and the superiority feeling of the whites over other ethnic groups of color. At some point, race prejudice is thought to have found its
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