Essays on Sociology

The Portrayal of Egyptians and the American University in Cairo The release of the Egyptian film a southern Egyptian at the American university not only brought chuckles to may Egyptians by representing the depth of their backward but also portrayed peak of the westernized modernity. The film portrays Egyptians are as...

In The Flight from Conversation from The New York Times Magazine, Sherry Turkle focuses on the shift towards a technologically connected society. She believes that the trend reflects “a process in which we shortchange ourselves.” Turkle thinks that the current generation is unable to distinguish between conversation and connection.  The...

In the advert: Using Frequency to Pass the Message The producer of the advert uses frequency as a means of passing their message and more importantly getting the audience to remember the theme of the short video. More importantly, making the message memorable. Analyzing the use of the word "greatness," further...

Two years ago, I was in a relationship with a person from a different town. We started as friends and later on decided to date. There were concerns about the distance between us and if the relationship would work out. However, we ignored the fear and continued the relationship despite...

In most cases, people make decisions that are hinged on certain factors. Among the those considerations include political and religious affiliations. What this means is that it is hard to persuade people whose thinking is driven by certain political or religious perspectives. However, by reading the articles provided in this...

The Concept of Prestige The prestige is widely and commonly applicable term, yet highly contextualized. There are questions of where prestige resides, whether in people, in things, possession, or in the relationship with things. However, scholars have determined that prestige resides in the roles or functions that a person performs. The...

Allen (22) describes a rhetoric situation as a fundamental context of any rhetorical event consisting of a set of constraints, issues, and an audience. There exist different leading views of the rhetorical situation. One implies that problems are made silent by rhetoric to make conditions, another argues that situations lead...

Cultural Diversity and the Threat of Globalization Cultural diversity is one of the fundamental principles that explain the origin of different communities all over the world. The author equates culture to the roots of a plant, which replenish the individual with information on cultural background and values treasured by the society....

Globalization Globalization refers to the development of practice from the original culture to the international scale where diverse communities copy the games. The article demonstrates varied sources of different games. For example, sports such as tennis and rugby originated from England while martial arts and gymnasium developed from the Asian countries....

Moral panic has been identified in the sociology of deviance as a prominent issue. In Australia, child abuse is one of the problems believed to be resulting to moral panic. Child abuse refers to the physical and psychological damage that a child faces as a result of the abusive tendencies...

The Photo of Deer in the Wild The photo, presented in the format of nature’s capture, represents the image of deer in the wild. At the foreground is one deer that on-looks the photographer while two others facing away appear in the distance. All the deer stand on grass that indicates...

According to Fuchs and Christian, (2017), media conglomerates focus on media and popular culture issues because they act as a link between the society and the government. The community experiences social problems for instance poverty, insecurity, unemployment, inadequate education systems, religious conflicts, and inequalities. Some of these issues need to...