Essays on Sociology

Contrasting Attitudes Towards Rhetoric: Aristotle and Plato Even though Plato and Aristotle shared some attitudes towards the use of rhetoric in politics, they differed sharply in most cases. Plato believed that the use of rhetoric could have serious negative impacts on the society if it were used by people whose character...

The advent of the mass media and its exponential increase in popularity has had significant implications for scientific research, social dynamics, and politics. The popularity of mass media has for instance provided social scientists with the previously unprecedented access to large quantities of information from which they could conduct extensive...

American Dream and Inequality American citizens believed in the American Dream where everyone thought that they had equal chances to education, employment of which would lead to an ability to become financially stable or wealthy. This idea prompted the people to suppose their endeavors would pay by being able to live...

Ethnicity can be defined as the aspect of favouring a certain group of people simply because they have a close relation to the leaders in power who belong to their social grouping. It can be said to be the excess reliance on one’s cultural origin which makes the person disregard...

The issue of media bias has been at the center stage of public talks for a long time now.  It is a custom in which media in one way or another gives out stories which are one-sided or in a prejudiced manner. Different people have different perceptions and views on...

In our current days, various kinds of depressive prosperity typically affect several residents residing in the United States of America (Gee, 2017). Many people tend to enjoy their vast wealth, joyful lives, and health; even though, there still exists some group of persons who always remain unnoticed. These people have...

In industrial nations, there are small communities that lack access to adequate supply of energy. The essay focuses of Teesdale community. Apparently, communities in the industrial regions have significant demand and community engagement. Teesdale community is used to demonstrate energy poverty. The energy demand is assessed and suitable sources selected....

Violence and its Different Forms Violence is a significant, universal political occurrence. There is hardly any difference between the history of violence and the history of politics Abuse can take different forms such as physical, economic, psychological, political, social, and identity-yielding (Siroky, 2012, P 350). It is vital to differentiate between...

George Zimmerman’s acquittal was met with mixed reactions from the public, media, and legal analysts alike (Foreman, 2013). Although the prosecution had a seemingly strong case linking to a second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin, the defense equally had strong counterarguments to that regard. In their submissions, the defense was succinct...

Guy-Uriel Charles, the writer of the article, “Stop Calling Quake Victims Looters” points out that the use of the term looters against victims of earth quake is contemptuous making of moral judgment. The author argues that the term looter characterizes an individual as a criminal contrary to describing or defining...

Deliberative Democracy Theory and Participatory Theories of Democracy Deliberative democracy theory is the idea that citizens or their representatives participate in making decisions on the laws to be enacted. Participatory theories of democracy, on the other hand, are the idea that citizens participate directly in the decision making without representatives. According...

Globalization is a phenomenon that is creating so much debate in the 21st century. Although it is more pronounced now than in the past, thanks to technological developments and policy, it is, however, an old phenomenon that existed thousands of years ago.  For instance, historical evidence shows that people used...