Humanitarianism

project(s) have you been involved and in what capacity? Although, I do not have any formal experience working in international development. I have conducted a number of projects and volunteered with non-governmental organizations dedicated to humanitarianism…

While sociologists have always been concerned with social change, the issue of medicalization has received particular attention as a result of its wide impact on society as a whole. This process of defining previously non-medical conditions or normal life processes as medical problems has been subject to much analysis and commentary. Namely, medicalization has been criticized by sociologists as many consider it to be a tool of social control, as well as a process that can both exacerbate…

including cultural, social, and personal factors. Cultural Factors Today’s American cultural ideologies consist of achievement, success, activity, efficiency, practicality, progress, material comfort, individualism, freedom, external comfort, humanitarianism, and youthfulness (Kotler & Keller, 2016). Within the media industry the cultural…

Romanticism is the artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe. The strongest theme within The Grapes of Wrath that portrays romanticism is innocence and experience. In Steinbeck’s novel the main characters must migrate from their own fields of innocence in Oklahoma to the experience of highway Route 66 to California. Each character in the novel is affected differently by this ambiguity. Muley and Grandpa being the most stubborn…

According to Schafersman (1995) humanism can be defined three ways, studies of humanities such as history, European Renaissance rebirth of curiosity and critical inquiry in Western traditional literature, and last humanitarianism. Although he describes it in those three distinct ways he actually focuses more on naturalistic humanism, also referred to as Humanism. This type of Humanism focuses more on the news and less about the side of Humanism that is supernaturalism…

The film Pleasantville depicts an idyllic 1950's community that experiences profound challenges to its unquestioned, taken-for-granted social norms. The movie works well in an introductory sociology class as an allegory about a settled or stable society that undergoes rapid social change following a major disruption in the worldview and widespread norm breaching. Specifically, the film depicts challenges related to the use of language, modes of communication, family formation, sexual norms,…

legislation was enacted that made illegal all abortion unless they were to save the life of the mother. In the year 1869, Pope Pius IX claimed all abortion to be illegal, which led many to follow suit. Abortion was seen as a very risky procedure and humanitarianism in the mid-19th Century sought to protect women with laws. Aspects of medical care for women were usually carried out by woman mid-wives, but soon turned to male doctors. These same male doctors did not give women the respect to…

When we hear the phrase “Viva La Causa!” translated as “long live the cause” It holds little to no meaning in our life. For many Latinos that phrase symbolizes the struggles or prejudice and affliction of livelihood that their people have overcome all thanks to the effort and hard work of one man. That man is known to all Latinos as Cesar Estrade Chavez. Just like many civil rights leaders Chavez fought towards what was dear to his heart. Cesar Estrade Chavez was born March 31, 1927 near Yuma…

Bring Us Your Weak and Your Weary During the worst humanitarian crisis of our generation, more than ten million Syrians have found themselves displaced from their homes by a tumultuous civil war, and now more than 50% of them have fled, seeking refuge elsewhere. But in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and, more recently, the terroristic shooting in San Bernardino, CA, many Americans are more hesitant to offer their support to the migration of Syrian refugees to the United States for…

Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad in 1899, is the account of Charles Marlow’s journey along the Congo River into central Africa to retrieve Kurtz from the interior, where he is trapped and dying. Heart of Darkness looks into the immorality of imperialism and the Congo Free State and the harm caused by the careless exploitation of the native people. The Europeans that Marlow associates with in Africa are motivated by self-interest only and their morals are questionable. The consequences…