...Intro to Sociology When asked about transsexuals, Mildred Brown, author of True Selves quoted that it is a “dilemma of feeling trapped in the wrong physical gender.” Transsexuality is a phenomenon, which really has not been scientifically examined. Through talk shows such as Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones or the Maury Show, society tends to see a one-sided view on this matter. While watching the Maury Show, “Man or Woman”, the audience’s reaction to the transsexuals on stage were not of disgust but more of awe. They were in awe that a man could look so much like a woman and how some women showed very masculine features. The guests on this show were inevitably labeled as "freaks" regardless of whether it was verbally spoken or not. The talk show was a brief one. Maury Povich, the host, introduced 12 beautiful women onto the stage. There were two black women, five Hispanic women, and five white women on stage. They all flaunted their flawless bodies. Some were voluptuous; others were more on the thinner side, yet none of them seemed to be any “different” than any other model/porn star. All the guests on this show were in their mid twenties to their mid thirties. The theme of this show was for the audience to see if they could tell the difference between a man and a woman. Watching the faces in the audience, I noted that each and every one of them were judging all the guests. were 100% men, and some were 100% women. They all stood in a line and for each one, the cross-dressing...
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...Social Science i.e Psychology, history, political science, anthropology, Economics: sustains capitalism – 70% Systematic study of human society • Point of view known as “the sociological perspective” • Sociologist Peter Berger describes the sociological perspective as: seeing general in the particular or looking at the familiar in the strange. • Individuals are unique, but society shapes the lives of people. (Rich, poor, genders, executives, and faculty. • Sociological perspectives can show us patterns -of clothes people decide to wear. • By examining patterns scientifically we can predict human behavior and understand how society guides and shapes our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. : People’s attitudes and behaviors in the contexts of social forces and institutional arrangements that shape men. C.Mills Wright sociologist developed this concept • Focused how change in society experts direct profound influences on people living in it. - In this “Great Recession” - Not because of the individual or society inability to provide jobs - Do to outsourcing Emile Durkheim, early sociologist that studied suicide - Showed evidence of social forces where responsible for why people kill themselves • In late 19th century, Durkheim examined official records in various European countries - Found that some categories of people were more likely than others to take their lives. - Durkheim invented way to show evidence: men, wealthy...
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...“Observation at Local Fast Food Restaurant During Lunch” Author: XXXXX XXXXX XXX University Introduction to Sociology “Observation at Local Fast Food Restaurant at Lunch” Have you ever tried listening to everything going on at the same time at a fast food restaurant during the lunch time rush hour? Well, I did and I am going to share the results of my whirlwind encounter last week. Within my observation, I will go over the layout of the establishment in which my observation was conducted, as well as who came to the establishment, the conversations and the interactions that took place. I hope you enjoy my observation and respect my findings from this visit. The place I chose for my observation is approximately 4000 square foot, with a counter for ordering with cash registers, a kitchen or cooking area directly behind the ordering counter and a drink and condiment area. For dining in there are two separate sections within the restaurant and I chose to sit in the more populated section directly on the other side of the drink and condiment counter, with four tables on one side and three on the other. I chose to go at 12:30 pm, where I assumed that there would still be a large lunch crowd as my choice in locations tends to be quite busy at this time. When I arrived in the parking lot and walked through the entrance, the kitchen area was busy with everyone doing their own particular jobs, and the sound of a fryer’s alarm sounding off, to alert the workers...
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...Derek Thompson 02/03/2013 Assignment 1: Exploration of a Journal Article in Sociology Intro to Sociology Dr. Sandra D. Smith When I was looking for a journal to read about I came across the paper A Novel Approach: The Sociology of Literature, Children’s Books, and Social Inequality (singer 2011). Doctor Singer wanted to take a look at the impact on society and underlining themes in children’s books. This was the beginning of her work that she would use later in that she would be off of Windy Griswold work and she would try and prove combination of humanistic and social scientific methods in order to study American children’s novels and their production contexts. She was trying to find social conflicts that were coming up in the context of children’s books one of the key example she gives is when Griswold was doing this research before here she notice that British publishing company tended to label people into certain social dynamic such as many times they place the people of Nigeria into roles that place them in urban environments or villages which made people think that there country was most built this way. This was done because British publishing companies could sail the books better if this was done this way because that is what people expected to see. In America we do the same thing we put African American in unban city and from low income families because it is easier to relate to and except. Doctor Singer this moved on to look for stores that...
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...Richard Nicholson SOC 100 Mon. & Wed. 8:45-10:00 Introduction to Sociology Exam #1 Section #1 Public Issue: A public issue occurs when the system itself causes a problem or hardship that someone may face. Individuals tend to view public issues as personal problems which causes them to believe the reason they are not able to do something as an individual failure instead of a structural problem. An example of a public issue that I have experienced is that I had to take a year off from attending school. I took a year off from school so I could have money to support myself. At first, I believed this was entirely a personal issue because I could not afford it. However, looking at it from a sociological viewpoint, I can now see it as a public issue because the tuition rates and cost of living continues to go up yearly. Inequality: Inequality is a built in feature within our social system. This inequality dictates the access and distribution of the commons, or the resources all people need. Inequality is mainly based on the location in which someone was born and/or what family they were born into to. An example of inequality occurred when I attempted to take a loan out on a car. While I was, able to afford the payments on a loan, I did not have credit for a long enough period of time or the down payment the bank was looking for that a person in a higher social class would have through familial ties. Iron Cage of Rationality: An iron cage of rationality is the...
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...GED 216 Intro to Sociology Unit 2 Exam Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/ged-216-intro-sociology-unit-2-exam/ Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet) 1. Carol Gilligan’s work on the issue of self-esteem in girls showed that a. girls begin with low self-esteem, but it gradually increases as they progress through adolescence. b. at all ages, girls have higher self-esteem than boys. c. at all ages, boys have higher self-esteem than girls. d. girls begin with high levels of self-esteem, which gradually decrease as they go through adolescence. 2. George Herbert Mead considered the self to be a. the part of an individual’s personality that is composed of self-awareness and self-image. b. the presence of culture within the individual. c. basic drives that are self-centered. d. present in infants at the time of their birth. 3. Mead placed the origin of the self on a. biological drives. b. genetics. c. social experience. d. the functioning of the brain. 4. According to Mead, social experience involves a. understanding the world in terms of our senses. b. the exchange of symbols. c. a mix of biological instinct and learning. d. acting but not thinking. 5. By “taking the role of the other,” Mead had in mind a. imagining a situation in terms of past experience. b. recognizing that people have different views of most situations. c. imagining a situation from another person’s point of view. d. trading...
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...Inequalities, both domestic and global, illuminate the inevitability and functionality of stratification. Discuss. The title of this essay covers a very wide topic of stratification, and in this essay I will look at the many different forms of stratification that exist both at home here in Ireland and also on a worldwide scale, but to begin with I’m going to describe and define what stratification really means. In short stratification is basically how society ranks in hierarchy, which in detail means the vertical or hierarchical division of society according to rank, class or caste. Caste is defined as “a form of social stratification based on inherited status or ascription.” and this definition goes on to say that “ones social destiny is determined at birth with no chance or opportunity to change this class you have been born into.1”. It remains to be argued whether this statement is true or false, ! ! personally I think it is possible to change class or to move up or down a social class. Yes ones social destiny is determined at birth but it is possible to move up and down the social class ladder, all it takes is determination. Although if one is to begin at the bottom of the ladder, born into a family with harsh surroundings, it will be much harder to move up the ranks, as your success largely depends on your cultural background. If there is no one around you to support you with your studies or with any educational things you may be interested in, then doing any of...
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...0318194 Olivia Whiteside | | Course/Section and Title | Grade | Credits | CEUs | Repeat | Term | 1 | HIS_257 WA THE WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY | B | 3.00 | | | 13/SU | 2 | SOC_155 WB PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY | F | 3.00 | | | 13/SU | 3 | RDG_080 08 INTERMEDIATE READING | C | 3.00 | | | 13/SP | 4 | SPC_156 05 INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION | C | 3.00 | | | 13/SP | 5 | ECN_158 WA ELEMENTS OF ECONOMICS | C | 3.00 | | | 13/SP | 6 | HIS_256 WA MODERN U.S. & PA HISTORY | B | 3.00 | | | 13/SP | 7 | POL_256 15 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | W | 0.00 | | | 13/SP | 8 | HIS_255 07 EARLY U.S. AND PA HISTORY | C | 3.00 | | | 12/FA | 9 | SOC_155 05 PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY | W | 0.00 | | Y | 12/FA | 10 | HIS_249 WA THE CIVIL WAR | A | 3.00 | | | 12/FA | 11 | POL_155 15 AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT | C | 3.00 | | | 12/FA | 12 | CPT_145 03 INTRO TO COMP. TECH. | W | 0.00 | | | 12/SP | 13 | HIS_155 19 EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION | B | 3.00 | | | 12/SP | 14 | HIS_156 07 MODERN WESTERN CIVILIZATION | B | 3.00 | | | 12/SP | 15 | RDG_050 09 READING & STUDY SKILLS | C | 3.00 | | | 12/SP | 16 | CPT_120 WB INTRO TO THE INTERNET | W | 0.00 | | | 11/FA | 17 | CPT_150 21 MICROCOMPUTER CONCEPTS | F | 3.00 | | | 11/FA | 18 | MTH_050 09 BASIC MATHEMATICS | W | 0.00 | | | 11/FA | 19 | RDG_050 DA...
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...specific classes. I have highlighted, in yellow, the top five most influential classes that have inspired me in one way or another. CORE CLASSES Lecture Project Discussion Field Work Experimentation Research Senior Seminar x The Ancient World x Intro to Literature of the New Testament x Spanish I x Statistics for Social Sciences x Lifetime Fitness and Wellness x Music Appreciation x National Government x Survey of Math w/ Applications x Analysis of Text x New Student Seminar x Environmental Science x Development of Civilization x Intro to Speech Communication x Business Math x Composition I x MAJOR Lecture Project Discussion Field Work Experimentation Research Personality Theory and Assessment x Women and Crime x Intro to Philosophy x Techniques of Individual and Group Counseling x Psychology and Religion x Human Sexuality x Internship x Counseling Theories x Human Development x Addictive Behaviors x Abnormal Psychology x Intro to Human Services x Psychology Intro to Sociology x Gangs of America x Ancient Arts x Intro to Sociology x The very first semester I attended DMACC, I took Psychology. It sounded like a more difficult class, and I wasn’t sure I’d like it at all, but once I began the class, I found a new love. I realized that Psychology helped to make sense of all the...
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...Intro to Sociology Chapter 1 https://www.inkling.com/read/seeing-sociology-joan-ferrante-1st/chapter-1/module-1-1 Sociology – Study of human activity in society. More specifically is it the study of the social forces that influence or pressure to behavior and thought, including the things people do with and to one another. The activities sociologists study are age-old and too many to name, but they can include people searching for work, securing food, seeking the attention of another, adorning the body, celebrating, changing residences, listening to songs, traveling, burying the dead, and so on. These activities may involve just one or two people or billions of people. Social forces – Anything human create that influence or pressure people to interact, behave respond or think in certain way. Study sociology to avoid conflict, predict behaviors. Sociology covers different areas (Family, education, migration, population, gender and etc) and aspects of life. Thus the sociological perspective offers useful work that can be applied to work related issue and tasks and career oriented skills. Sociology studies through a global perspective A global perspective assumes that the force of globalization touch virtually every aspect of our daily lives. Globalization – Ever increasing flow or good, services, money, people, technology, information, and other cultural items across national borders. Ultimately globalization is experiences locality. Glocalization – The process by...
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...Is Sociology a Science? Intro: What is Science vs. what is Sociology? The term “science” refers the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Objectivity is seen as an important part of the scientific process, and involves value freedom and open-mindedness. Sociology may want to be a science due to modernity and the rise of technology. Scientists may be interested in how individual’s actions are influenced by the rise of technology and the secularisation of religion. Thus they may conclude that the only way in which they can be studied is through observations and experiments, such as lab experiments; which take place in controlled factors with controlled factors, as Popper suggests, science involves the hypothetico-deductive method to test through research. Also positivists argue that it should be a science when studying social facts. Arguably, Sociology wouldn’t want to be seen as a science, as the association with science connotes that we are dealing with emotionless electrons and atoms, as opposed to people with feelings and emotions. Thus some would disagree with the idea that objectivity that is associated with studying people within society, which science influences, as we are people and we cannot disconnect ourselves from society. For example, it is not simple to disconnect yourself when studying a rape or murder case. Positivism is the...
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...General Education and Arts & Sciences Req. Communications (9 cr.) Done: ENGL 1010 Crit Read and Expository Writing ENGL 1020 Crit Thinking and Argument Take one of the following (one of these must be taken and will count as the speech req, but not an Oral Intensive. If an additional one is taken it will count as Oral Intensive): SPCH 1300 General Speech SPCH 2300 Public Speaking SPCH 2320 Arg & Debate (meets A&S req) History (6 cr.) Done: HIST 2010 The United States to 1877 HIST 2020 The United States Since 1877 Using Information Technology (3 cr.) Done: CSCI 1100 or pass exam (schedule exam at: http://www.cs.etsu.edu/academics/signup) Science (8 cr.) Done: A sequence of 2 courses in the same field is required by A&S (e.g., biology). Psychology requires at least one biology course. Students can take two biology courses or two other lab courses and one biology. Take two of these BIOL or two other lab sciences in the same discipline and one of these BIOL: BIOL 1010-1011 Biology for Non-majors I BIOL 1020-1021 Biology for Non-majors I BIOL 1110-1111 Bio for majors I BIOL 1120-1121 Bio for majors II BIOL 1130-31 Bio for majors III Other lab science: Other lab science: Literature (3 cr.) Done: Take one of the following: ENGL 2030 Literary Heritage ENGL 2110 American Literature I ENGL 2120 American Literature II ENGL 2210 British Literature...
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...Internet Pornography Use Among Traditional-Aged College Students Joseph Roberson Jr Strayer University Author Note This assignment is being submitted on April 30th, 2013, for Professor Ogtabwe’s SOC100 Intro to Sociology Internet Pornography Use Among Traditional-Aged College Students I chose to review an article out of the periodical called Sociological viewpoints, on Internet Pornography use among traditional aged college students. This article was written by two gentlemen, William Beaver and Stephen Paul, and was placed in the fall 2011 edition. This article was new research as they set out to improve on experiments already done on the topic and find growth in the area. You can tell this is new research because the authors have a previous studies section and throughout the article reference those studies when deemed applicable. To achieve these results they chose to use surveys (Beaver & Paul, 2011, pp25-38). Mr. Beaver and Mr. Paul handed out a 24 question survey to 439 undergraduate students, received 407 responses, attending a private university and community college in Western Pennsylvania (Beaver & Paul, 2011, pp25-38). Those surveyed where primarily enrolled in introductory level social science courses, were between the ages of 18 to 26, and averaged an age of 19.9 years old (Beaver & Paul, 2011, pp25-38). After weighing the variables used and carefully reviewing the responses from the surveys they determined a couple things to be true. When...
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...strategy - benchmarking Definition Benchmarking is the process of identifying "best practice" in relation to both products (including) and the processes by which those products are created and delivered. The search for "best practice" can taker place both inside a particular industry, and also in other industries (for example - are there lessons to be learned from other industries?). The objective of benchmarking is to understand and evaluate the current position of a business or organisation in relation to "best practice" and to identify areas and means of performance improvement. The Benchmarking Process Benchmarking involves looking outward (outside a particular business, organisation, industry, region or country) to examine how others achieve their performance levels and to understand the processes they use. In this way benchmarking helps explain the processes behind excellent performance. When the lessons learnt from a benchmarking exercise are applied appropriately, they facilitate improved performance in critical functions within an organisation or in key areas of the business environment. Application of benchmarking involves four key steps: (1) Understand in detail existing business processes (2) Analyse the business processes of others (3) Compare own business performance with that of others analysed (4) Implement the steps necessary to close the performance gap Benchmarking should not be considered a one-off exercise. To be effective, it must become an ongoing...
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...California Berkeley, and previously taught at Yale University for nearly a decade. Professor Gamson has previously authored three other books in addition to Modern Families, some of which have received awards from American Sociological Association and the Society for Cinema Studies, as well as the Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. He has also published scholarly journals and some his work has been featured in magazines including The New York Times and The American Prospect. Professor Gamson’s field of study consists of sociology of culture (Western commercial culture and mass media), contemporary social movements, participant-observation methodology, and the history, theory, and sociology of sexuality. At USF, Professor Gamson’s offered courses are Intro to Sociology, Sociology of Pop Culture, First Year Seminar, and an Honors Thesis Workshop. Modern Families addresses sociology of the family, a subfield of sociology, which examines the family structure and how these structures are continually evolving creating a vast collection of different family arrangements. Modern Families is not as concerned with answering a research question as it is confronting, and seeking, to dispel a powerful ideology Gamson refers to as “One True Family”— that heterosexual coupling is the sole correct way to establish a family and anything else is illegitimate or unnatural. This book serves as the voice of couples that have endlessly fought for the same respect, support, rights...
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