Anomie

Health and ill-health, was once used to ascribe biological and natural conditions. Overtime sociologists have been able to prove that the spread of diseases is influenced by the socioeconomic status of individuals, beliefs, and other cultural factors. (White, 2002). Medical research has gathered and produced statistics on a disease, whereas sociological perspectives on illness has provided an insight on what external factors cause people who contract the diseases to become ill. (White, 2002).…

II-Introduction: The topic I am interested in is to see if social inequality leads to the creation of gangs. I believe growing up in the city we experience more than those who did not. We are accustomed to seeing things other people would not be used to. One thing we are accustomed to be violence, more specifically gang violence. Gangs are that have been around for ages. Dating back to the mafia in the roaring 20s all the way to present day gangs like the Bloods and Crips. It’s hard to imagine…

What Dreams May Come Grief, Bereavement, & Suicide This is a critical analysis paper using academic literature to analyze the movie “What Dreams May Come.” The topic to be analyzed is grief, bereavement and Suicide. This movie gives us a serious picture of the cost of grief, bereavement. This movie is also about the suicide of the wife, because of her loss of first her children and later her husband to car accidents. Depression and a sense of hopelessness often precede suicide attempts. The…

Criminology Essay LO2 A reflective study on adoptees taken out by Mednick et al (1987) focused on court convictions in Denmark and established that there were 14,000 adoptees within the small European country. He wanted to examine the relationship between the adoptees criminal convictions and the convictions of their adoptive and biological parents. Mednick then looked through the data that was based on a register of adoptees in Denmark, which has information on them and their biological and…

Stanley Cohen and Jock Young are two of the most influential sociologists, and their work on crime and the media has done a lot to help identify and understand moral panics. Thanks to Cohen’s and Young 's work it now allows for news stories to be properly assess and to help determine what is and what isn 't a moral panic. Which is very important because being able to skip to through all the nonsense that the news companies produces and find the real important issues that should be discussed is…

In this world division of labor and capitalism is essential for capitalist, most people would also think is important for the workers as well. Which it is for a period of time, but after a while the benefit fades away. There are more negative consequences of division labor and capitalism than you think. This essay will analyze all the negative consequences of the division and labor and capitalism arguments by Smith, Marx, and Durkheim. In Adam Smith’s book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes…

Labeling theory came from the concept of symbolic interactionism (Stogner, 2016). During the early 1960’s, labeling theory challenged the functionalist version of anomie which was seen as the main archetype in criminological theory (Scimecca, 1977). This theory is viewed as a person who has being labeled as such based on the act that was committed (Stogner, 2016). This is saying that an individual who has committed…

Man-kind has a long history of attempting to formulate explanations for the unknown. Sociology is just one of many fields that illustrate our overwhelming urge to find answers. We also seek, through sociology to label what we observe and give an organization to it. Whether it be researching socialization, social structure, deviance and crime, or even race and ethnicity the goal is interpret the findings and help explain some facet of our vast and complex social systems. There are many practical…

In Randol Contreras’ book, “The Stickup Kids” he does an ethnographic study of what is known as the Crack Era in the South Bronx. Contreras studies how society shaped people growing up in the South Bronx that led them into the world of drugs and crime in order to fulfill the American Dream. He does so by providing detailed field notes, creating a sociological framework of how components such as culture, deviance, socialization, crime and race contribute to the society as a whole. In this book,…

David Kennedy, professor in the anthropology department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City, is the author of the book, Don’t Shoot, One Man, A Street Fellowship, and The End of Violence in Inner-City America. In his lecture to students at Millersville University Kennedy explains how he found what he saw on the streets of America to be “unconscionable” or very wrong. Over the course of many years, he observed the behavior of drug addicts and street gang members in Los…