Collectives

In the previous class, the professor used a pendulum to determine my, or at least the collective classes, consciousness level. My consciousness level was around 390, the level of Acceptance. I want to improve this because I don't just want to accept people as they are. I want to be all to accept and understand why they act the way they do.…

Emile Durkheim, world renown French sociologist, has developed through his career the scientific study of social systems and phenomena in our world. The use of the scientific method to examine culture and society produced crucial differences with his predecessors or colleagues such as Herbert Spencer or Max Weber. Trying to know if society is something tangible or a social construct, Emile Durkheim wrote his famous book The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) that laid down the guidelines to…

In the “Freedom and Resentment” chapter, Connolly analyzes freedom and morality. By recognizing that as humans we are mortal, we tend to find who we are soon. Once determining who we are in this world, we can enjoy freedom by having an array of endless possibilities. Connolly also suggests that death is not the only mechanism that can connect individuals to the larger world, but so can gratitude. By giving gratitude, we acknowledge our setting in society and enables us to think of other…

Ancients believe that the polis should be a symbiotic relationship; one that positively benefits both the individual and the city. Ancient philosophers Tacitus, Sallust, Cicero, Aristotle, Livy, and Aurelius believe that the regime or polis makes collective meaning, order, justice possible by…

this way is important because neighborhoods of a lower socioeconomic status are positively correlated with higher crime rates. The reverse is also true, that neighborhoods with a higher socioeconomic standing are associated with higher levels of collective efficacy (Sampson et. al, 1997). Crimeville reported that 90.59% of its households’ report having an earned legitimate income and 2.35% of those households use public assistance. Over 9% of the households in Crimeville stated they did not earn…

(Glowacki- Dudka and Barnett, 2007) When reflecting I consider to look multiple perspective while maintaining open active of thoughts to draw understanding. Through this examination group collective assumption and consequence of the work goes according to group development phase without comprehending. Tuckman describes our co-operation and it is very learning experiences. (Riebe, et al. 2010) The group development launch with creating group…

The neurological model is the predominant view of mental functioning in modern times. Whatever the causes for this attitude, valuable approaches towards the mind have been abandoned. Despite differing in distinct ways, these philosophical psychologies agree that the neurological approach is too reductive. Several important aspects of the mind are left out in the neurological approach. This paper will analyze the psychological views of Freud, Jung and Laing. Their views on the nature of the mind,…

Within society there are many perceived inequalities, whether it be economic, political or environmental, which are distributed unequally creating minority groups of people with a collective identity (Polleta, Jasper 2001: 285). A minority group will create social movements through collective action in order to improve their situations or eliminate discrimination from themselves, causing social change on a local, a national or even a global scale (Furze et al. 2015: 455-457). This group of…

According to ‘Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy’ written by Robert Sampson, Stephen Raudenbush, Felton Earls, stated that for the majority of this century, social researchers have watched varieties in rates of criminal violence crosswise over neighborhoods of U.S urban communities. In which, violence has a relation with low financial status and private unsteadiness of neighborhoods. Their fundamental examination all through the article is to express that…

This paper is aimed at reviewing two cultural terms and two collective action terms and relating them with American and French politics. The two cultural terms that I will be looking at are egalitarianism and libertarianism while the two collective action terms that I will be looking at are externalities and conformity cost. To start with, egalitarianism is defined as the ideology that all humans are equal and the social credo to eradicate any inequalities between humans. In French politics,…