Essays on Sociology

Our society I filled with famous people, socialites, and artists who are often termed as celebrities. These celebrities have an impact on the culture and behavior of the society members as many people view them as role models. There are social networks where people get to talk about these celebrities popularly...

Gentrification is a highly debated topic in urban planning and political science because it involves the crucial aspect of housing and property in the community. The concept is defined as a process of renovating an old and debilitated neighborhood by the way of entry of new affluent residents who improve...

Cultures and the Discrepancy between Ideal Culture and Real Culture Cultures around the globe experience a considerable discrepancy between the ideals upheld by a culture and life's realities within the culture. Ideal culture encompasses the norms and values that a culture claims to have (Kreps, 2017). It includes an idealized, rigid...

The media through television TV shows depict diversity in families as well as the gender roles.  Gender roles are presented since the society has chosen to accept them; however, it is enhanced by the media (Stamps, 2017). This paper will analyze the following three TV shows based on how they...

Education in Singapore has been the centre of focus over the last few decades.[G1] The major reason being that education is marred by inequalities, where children are not given equal opportunities[G2] (Brown, 2017, p.5). The ultimate test of any education system is whether it offers equal learning opportunities...

In the series Vikings, episode eight of season two there is great concern over the birth of Ragnar's fourth son, Ivar, since he is unlike the others. His birth was a sign of a prophesy come true whereby he was described as being boneless and a monster. From the kingdom's...

Crime and its Socioeconomic and Political Gains Crime and criminal related activities have dominated the socioeconomic and political atmosphere since man became in existence. Adverse policies have been formulated and implemented, to include capital offenses, but the vice proves dominant. Even though the society associates crime with negative connotations, they have...

“Class” in Marxist terms, is defined as portraying a person objectively, based on  one's relationship to the methods of goods production. One either has ownership of the means of production, in which case they are with the bourgeoisie, or the ones who have to sell their work, in which case...

Interactionalism and the Halo Effect Interactionalism is a theoretical perspective that uses human interaction to derive social processes; the halo effect is a cognitive bias where ambiguous judgment is deduced from concrete information. Chambliss uses the theories to analyze different experiences of the saints and the roughnecks in accordance with the...

Avram Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky is an American cognitive scientist, a linguist, historian, political activist, and a social critic. Having being born in December 1928 to a middle-class Jewish immigrant family in Philadelphia, he went through his studies at the University of Pennsylvania with interest in linguistics, philosophy, and mathematics....

1. (7 pts.) What are the effects of assortative mating? Discuss the positive and negative aspects of this phenomenon. Assortative mating is where individuals of the same income or education marry one another, the like pairs with the like. The positive aspect of assortative mating is that it builds prosperous as...

The word able is dated back to 1895 when it was first used. Ableism is a deliberate form of discrimination against people based on their abilities (Bruce, 2016). Ableism insists on inferiority of the disabled compared to the “able.” There are several forms of ableism such as mentalism. Mentalism is...