Environmental social science

power was the public execution, that of democratic power is discipline, imprisonment away from public eyes. If power is relational rather than emanating from a particular site such as the government or the police; if it is diffused throughout all social relations rather than being imposed from above; if it is unstable and in need of constant repetition to maintain; if it is productive as well as being repressive, then it is difficult to see power relations as simply negative and as…

In his article "The Promise of Sociology", Mills defines “sociological imagination” as the ability to see things socially, and shows how they interact and affect each other. "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understand without understanding both." As this quote shows, Mills believes that the individual cannot understand themselves as individuals, yet they can’t understand their role in society without this understanding. Therefore it is required to understand…

Symbolic Interactionism focus is on wanting to understand society. They focus and argue on the micro, the small day to day interaction with peers, groups etc. The way we engage in things and the way we do things. Symbolic Interactionism argues that human behavior is not an objective fact. You attach the means to what people do. The emphasis is on habits, the norms that build society. Society depends on symbolic culture, language and meaning, which examines the roles of people day-to-day…

southern Los Angeles. Lee breaks down the actions of the members of this freestyling society through the perspective of Goffman to discover how these freestylers work together in their social situations of rapping. This article discovers the nonverbal and verbal cues that freestylers use to maintain the flow of a social situation by looking at it in a sociological perspective. 2. The most important information in the text is: (What supporting evidence, facts, experience, or data do the authors…

researchers seek to “explore and understand individuals or groups ascribed to a social or human problem” (Creswell, 2014, p. 4) and rely on data typically obtained through words and other non-numerical symbols (Bryman, 2012). Based on an epistemological foundation of interpretivism and an ontological orientation of constructionism, the qualitative research paradigm is based on the fundamental belief that reality is a social construct and open to interpretation (Bryman, 2012). The…

Every moment of the day, there are many life changing events that happen. Most of these events only affect a few amount of individuals, while other events affect the entire society. Each event that happens can be seen through different sociological perspectives, “a conceptual framework for thinking about and explaining how human activities are organized and/or how people relate to one another and respond to their surroundings” (Ferrante, 2014, p. 23). There are three different perspectives…

the focus on the social is very significant because it allows sociologists to see much that escapes the notice of other observers (McIntyre, 2014, p. 29). The focus is not on one particular individual, instead the focus is on the social environment and the ways it affects people. To do this, sociologists rely on their sociological imagination. “Which is the ability to look beyond personal troubles of individuals to see the public issues of social structure. Which are the social forces operating…

Outline the similarities Frye see between the sciences and the humanities. (4 mark) Frye outlines multiple similarities between the sciences and the humanities, he states that they both cover the same topics, he acknowledges that they require the same mental processes, he says that they require the same key skills, and he states that laws and principles exist in both, (Ricker, 2). Through group discussion (Sept 7) additional similarities between science and the humanities were brought to light…

common social phenomena of everyday life from different points of view. Functionalism was thought of by English philosopher and biologist, Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). He compared the interrelated parts of the body to parts of a fully functional society. Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) took this a step further by applying Spencer’s “Structural-Functional Theory” to explain how societies change over time. Functionalists looked beyond the individuals of a society and started examining society’s social…

capitalism into communism. Instead of having a capitalistic society making wealthy people wealthier at the expense of hard working laborers, the socialist society will work towards making sure the poor gets paid equally with everyone else and to eliminate social classes. Karl Marx political and economic views…