Essays on Sociology

Free Speech and Hate Speech Free speech is considered as the freedom of communication for the people. It includes the liberty of the press and the people to say what they want/like and liberty for the people to assemble like protesting peacefully. Also, freedom of speech gives people the opportunity to...

Al-Krenawi, A. (2013). Mental health and polygamy: The Syrian case. World Journal of Psychiatry, 1-7. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3782180/ Annotation: The author conducted the study in Syria to investigate the psychological, family function, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and marital satisfaction. Also, the scholar strived to highlight the extent of consent among the polygamous...

My line of career is community health worker. The position requires one to have the right educational background and technical skills that will enable one to execute the job in the best way possible. My career dream, is to be a community health worker so I can be in a...

Australian indigenous community has been thought to be one of the world longest continuous culture ever existed. Despite this perception of several hundred years of cultural enrichment, aborigine’s culture is in near extinction due to main media influence on the communities. This started when the Europeans invented Australia and changed...

According to essentialist concept racial groups have underlying essence that denote deep-rooted abilities, creativity and traits that cannot be altered. It is hypothesized that essentialist mindset is reluctant in considering other perspectives causing a generally closed mindset. Race as a social construct however shows that race is a socially constructed...

Sociologists use three perspectives to study the society. These are symbolic interactionist, functionalist and conflict perspective. The perspectives suggest a platform for explaining how people influence the society and vice versa (Schaefer 13-16). Symbolic interactionist perspective uses face to face interactions and guides sociologists to contemplate symbols and details of...

Impact of Technology and Mass Media Over the past years, the advancement in technology and the rise of mass media have greatly impacted the normalization of pornography. The display of sexual acts as well as sexually explicit materials is increasingly shifting from the traditional status of being a taboo to an...

Pornification is the acceptance or rather normalizing of pornographic and sexual themes rotating in social media platforms. Today’s society living in an internet environment. It is slowly by slowly emulating and seeing it as normal for existence of sexual and pornographic sites that are all over the internet. Pornographic creations...

Body Image and Society's Expectations Body image of a woman is defined by her negative or positive perception. The bodies image is influenced by the facial characteristics, body shape, and overall appearance. In this new era, the media has the power to control women's idea of a good body which ends...

Unemployment and its Effects on Society Unemployment represents a situation where an individual is willing to work but has none. Unemployment has many effects on the society. These impacts can be mental, physical, and economic. Unemployed people usually tend to have less money to spend and are unable to buy some...

Cool refers to something dangerous, original, a style and always related to sex. The feminist movement has always been cool throughout history. Some of the feminist movements that represented cool in the 90s include the Riot Grrl and the spice girls among many others.  Feminists usually ascribe to girl power...

Feminist Economics: A Pluralist Approach Feminist economics can be considered as a pluralist comprehensively; various ontological methods are accommodated, to a wide range of ways of research. Notably, it is not evident in seeing reference to feminisms', rather than 'feminism' and these phrases themselves are discussing the pluralism nature inside the...