Essays on Sociology

Explore the relationship between celebrity, fashion and consumption - past and present - in order to answer: Why do some people dress like celebrities? Contents Introduction                                                                                                                        3 Relationship between Celebrities, Fashion and Consumption                                           3 Conclusion                                                                                                                         8 Bibliography                                                                                                                      9 Introduction Celebrities are individuals who are easily recognizable by people in a specific region or country either mostly because...

Helps us understand our own world and around the world. Relies on description, prediction, explanation and also control (Basak 35-60). Deals with the phenomena the physical world. Human activity like DNA exploring (Grubbs 38-70). The reading, thinking, analysis the stories (Grubbs 38-70). The...

Storytelling is one of the oldest techniques used in the delivering of information. Different people found the habit of storytelling as an effective method in which information can be relayed to individuals that makes the viewers and the listeners to critically think if the information is being relayed and thus...

Fashion as an Art and Culture Fashion is both an art and a culture. As an art, fashion focuses on using appearance and aesthetic value to bring artistic look and status. Eco believes that clothing uses non-verbal cues to communicate a message to the wearer or the person seeing the garment...

Subculture and Streetstyle, and a Fashion Identity as an Expression of Postmodern Values The concepts of streetstyle and subculture can lead to the development of fashion identity to express postmodern values (McDonough and Braungart, 2010, p. 481). Postmodernism is a term that describes a wide range of change in thinking to...

Silove, D., Steel, Z., Detention of asylum seekers: assault on health, human rights, and social development. The Lancet, 357(9266), (2001): 1436-1437. In this article, the authors demonstrate the extent to which western nations have undermined the international commitment to provide humane protection to all individuals seeking safety and fleeing...

The Emergence of Media Art The emergence of media art brought transformation to everything in the field of art and the world at large. Through the institutionalization of these media art, the arts that were technically oriented developed significantly because the institutions made it possible for the artists to access these...

The media tends to portray women athletes in a way that make them appear sexualized.  Various media across the globe use sexualization of female athletes as a way to differentiate between genders. Unlike the male counterpart, women are not shown by the media as performance athletes, but they are used...

Double eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty is on the rise in Korea and other parts of East Asia. The procedure is one of the most of the popular cosmetic surgery in Korea and entails the placement of a pretarsal crease in the individuals’ eyes that lack a fold. The surgery causes...

The selected topic for this week is the space (Purcell 43). Space topic was interesting because it provided insights on the complexity attached to the discovery of what space is and what it is not. Thus, human beings have not had the single opportunity to discover the entire constituents of...

Absence is the first discourse that explains how local participants in the study deny or minimize the existence of racism. In the discourse, people claim that racism is not an issue in their area (Nelson, 2013). The argument still holds despite evidence from collected data of instances of racism in...

Media has a great impact in today's society. The more people rely on media for their communication, the more it affects their lives and relationships. Media tells people what they need to do, whom they are, and how they are supposed to conduct their relationships. The mass media is a...