Sociology

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.

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

An ogre named Shrek is mad at Lord Farquaad for putting all fairy tail creatures in his swamp. He goes to his castle with an annoying donkey to make him get rid of the creatures. Lord Farquaad makes him a deal. He tells Shrek to go save Princess Fiona so she can be his wife and he can become king. If Shrek does this, he can get his swamp back.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

One topic that always comes up with tombs with mummies is that they all have curses and anyone who enters or sees the mummy will be killed within the next 24 hours. One curse that is worldwide famous is the curse of the Pharaoh where anyone who disturbed king Tut`s tomb would be killed by a horrendous curse. The same with a mummy found in the Alps in Italy that was named after the mountain it was found on it is commonly known as Otzi, he also has a horrendous cures that ends with death. Both mummies have curses that are deadly but they both have different stories and one doesn't even have any warnings about if he is disturbed then he will curse the occupants until death or anything like that, another thing is that how the occupants died and

Hemingway uses the imagery of the setting to symbolize jigs indecision towards her abortion. In the story Hills Like White Elephants Hemingway, illuminates the fragility of and emotional emptiness at the center of a relationship that is threatened by the interjection of an unborn child. Their inability to communicate with each other effectively with one another, the selfishness towards her, and the evasion of the responsibility that they will be having if they decided to have the child. Inability to communicate effectively with one another because in the story “Hills Like White Elephants” is the often conversation between the American man and his girlfriend, neither of them truly communicates with the other, highlighting the rift between the two. Both talk, but neither listens or understands the other’s point of view.

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,

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

Social upheaval was the second origin of sociology. This origin was what the people in the Industrial Revolution experienced. Many of their lives were completely transformed. For many of them, there was work and that meant that there would be a roof over their heads. Wages were going up, there was insurance, but many owners were not too happy (Henslin, p.5).