Perspective

Having spent the greater part of my life in an African culture--where issues about dying or death were shrewd in secrecy, treated as sacred, and almost never freely discussed, I sometimes criticize this part of our culture. It is a shame that in some parts of Africa, religious leaders are considered “experts” in palliative care and are given much more freedom than qualified healthcare professionals to discuss end of life issues with patients and their families. Some people pay a huge sum of…

When we hear the term psychology we assume this is a general form of therapy for an individual. A person like myself never thought or knew that just like medical doctor’s different treatment based on diagnosis, there are different approaches psychologist use to help a person that is having psychological problems within themselves. A few of those different approaches include psychoanalysis, behavioral, and humanistic therapy approaches, which I will later explain. Each approach that is used is…

Gender and sexuality are two of the most important and complex factors of human existence. For decades, biological determinists have argued, and continue to argue, that these phenomena are a result of our ‘natural’ biological and genetic make-up and are purely created and acted upon from something which is ‘innate’. However, sociologists have countered these positions by insisting that gender and sexuality are in fact, culturally and historically constructed. Various examples, such as the…

Freud also welcomed/influenced women into the psychoanalytic stance. Melanie Klien was one of the first to put emphasis on the pre-Oedipal stages (Ethan R. Plaut, 2001). Her and her partner, D. W. Winnicott, created an object–relations school to solve what they believed to be the central problem in life: finding a balance between independence and dependence on others. The way people reacted to this separation and loss is mostly determined by the first two years of our lives. A baby requires it’s…

The Randomness of the Universe In the movie, Match Point, directed by Woody Allen, the scales of fate and justice in society are determined by the mere uncertainties of the universe, in other words, by random chance. Chance is the random occurrences that people experience every day, and is a result of entropy. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the universe has a tendency to move towards disorder or a randomness. This characteristic of entropy can explain how fate is actually an…

Sociology in a whole is very complex conversation but has been broken down into three different perspectives. The three different perspectives are the functionalist perspective, the conflict perspective, and the symbolic interactionist perspective. To start let’s look at the functionalist perspective. The functionalist perspective is basically how our society is run today. The government provides education for the children which in turn have to pay taxes to keep each state running smoothly. The…

social perspective of the poem along with the archetypal perspective. When reading from a social perspective, it is important to make connections to the events going on in correlation for when the poem was written or set. When reading from an archetypal perspective, it is critical to take note of the symbols which express universal human longings. In the poems The Explorer by Gwendolyn Brooks and Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden, each express social perspective and archetypal perspective.…

Social Problems and Responsibility Perspectives Mikle D DeShazer University of Oklahoma  Crime, Criminality and Social Perspectives Crime is the act of breaking a law which can result in punishment, those whom commit crimes or violate social norms are said to be part of the criminal element. The two main categories of crime are property and violent crimes. Property crimes can involve damage or theft of property and are among the most common types of crimes in the United States. Violent…

The sociological perspectives are ideas that make an effort to absorb and clarify events in the social behavior of humans. In Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers,” he attempts to give explanations for the reasons of why some people become successful, and some do not. These “outliers,” as he identifies them, are generally believed to hold a sort of talent and intellect that is distant from the average. He challenges this popular belief by researching the history of various well-known outliers.…

Analyzing Article Using Perspective of Globalization Globalization is the interaction between person-to-person, local-to-local and nation-to-nation to preserve and develop trade, technology, and education globally. Globalization is not a current phenomenon, but it was started thousands and thousands of years ago. The history of the Silk Road, which connects Asia and Europe as well as Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolutions, is the early steps of globalization. However, some…