Social Issues And Critical Thinking

In the spring of 2016, I decided to take my first sociology course ever. The course title was Sociology 110 Social Problems and Social Justice. This course began with talking about critical thinking. My teacher wanted us to be able to think critically about social issues like a sociologist would. Critical thinking would lead us into the micro and macro social issues in culture and structure. Once our class understood how to think critically, we began driving into social issues like gender, sexuality, race, and more.
This course is definitely a course that you get more out of the more you put into it. Since the course is mostly discussion based, if you didn’t read the articles for the day on the particular topic you would be quite lost. There …show more content…
Both of the articles talk about how a lot of state prisons are becomes private, because it cost less oney for the state to run but ends up making more money because of rules them implement. For example, a minimum occupancy rate. The Corrections Corp of America proposed a deal to prison officials in 48 states that they could buy and mange these prisons to save the state money, but if they agree, the prison must be kept at 90% occupancy rate (Whitehead, 2012). These finding lead to do more research on my own about lobbying in prisons. The numbers I found on the lobbying in prions were astonishing. The lobbying in prisons is a topic that very few people know about or care about. It is so significant, because billions of dollars are being given to private prisons to keep criminals in prison longer than they should …show more content…
I know I will take information from this class with me into the workplace. Some of the topic in class like gender and sexuality will definitely play a role when getting a job and once in the workforce. I want to be well liked in my occupation as a woman, but I will not take discrimination for being a woman in a male dominate field. My mother taught me this before I even took this course. She has experienced the discrimination though gender in her work place when she was fulfilling a role than was previously done by a man. I want to use the knowledge I learned from this semester throughout the rest of my college career and into the workplace. I want to help be the change of sexual harassment in the workplace towards women. The International Labour Organisation found that 54% of 272 participants had experienced some form of sexual harassment in the workplace (2014). 54% is way to high of a number to feel sexually harassment in your workplace. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is slightly interested in the social problems our society is facing