Mathematical sociology

Considering the three most common indicators of socioeconomic class (SES) occupation, education, and income, I clearly hail from a significantly higher class than that of my students. According to a 2005 interactive graphic produced by The New York Times, I am in the 83rd percentile of Americans (The New York Times, 2005). This is in stark contrast to my students that fall somewhere between 185% of the poverty line to below the poverty line. The community where I own my home is predominantly…

One Last Goodbye My sister and I are smiling posing for a picture, well at least my sister is, while I on the other hand am sticking my tongue out looking who knows where. I don’t remember much about this day, but how much can you really expect a 4 year olds brain to retain? I do remember us being closer than ever though, she was like my best friend…actually she was my best friend. We were meeting up the last time before our adoptions were finalized. In the background is our social worker, he…

The Marxist Education Knowledge is a vital resource in the modern world. Education is one of the single most important aspects. It allows people to move up in society and create greater opportunities for themselves. When analyzing society, a lens often used is that of class struggles or Marxism. In a world that is still clearly divided into upper and low sections, the ideas behind Marxism are still relevant today. Marxism in the modern era can clearly be seen when analyzing the educational…

There is no doubt that education has a large impact on our society nowadays. It changed hugely and improved greatly from the past. Education is really important nowadays as it plays a significant role in the creation of a progressive society, due to which most of the people and many other philosophers have realized its importance. The overall development of a society requires a good educational system, which could lead to technological advancements and many scientific discoveries. According to…

Anthropology in the 19th century was composed more so of the evolutionism of ideas, which differentiated cultural structures through different stages of evolution using the single deductive theory. Learning from the failures of the horticultural dependency dilemmas, the Neolithic Revolution began allowing people not to depend on nature to gather food, but rather produce their own food through labor. Which later developed a whole new world for humans, transcending from hunting and gathering to…

Social workers have to regularly deal with the dilemmas and ethics of dealing with people and working with an alienated youth is one such situation. The ethics of the situation can include the youth as the reasoning for a youth to require social work intervention before dealing with the friends behaviour is important as why haven’t they spoken of the behaviour or ‘coming out’ or at least attempted too. Has the client assumed discrimination and is now using the social worker to justify extreme…

What is Islamophobia? It seems to be an easy question and yet it troubled most politicians around the Western world. After the September 11 terrorist attack and the subsequent War on Terror launched by the United States, tensions against Muslim in the Western world rose. Scholars have summarized this climate of anti-Muslim situation as Islamophobia. Unfortunately, Islamophobia is becoming more prevalent and socially acceptable in the modern world. Bipolar extremes of both sides typically…

Beginning our early childhood, we learn to accept and fit in with the society we live in. Ritzer explains that socialization is “the process through which a person learns and generally comes to accept the ways of a group or of a society as a whole” (Ritzer, 108). For example in our first years of life, we learn the “acquisition of language, identities, gender roles, cultural routines, norms, and values from our parents and other family members” (Ritzer, 109). From the youngest age we are being…

One Thursday at Loblaw’s Superstore, I was shelving chips in the aisle next to a woman browsing through the baby section like any other customer would. A few minutes later, I caught her stealing baby formula and had no choice but to report it to the manager. I was sent upstairs with the woman to the Loss Prevention room, where the footage was reviewed for further proof. Five hours later, police arrived and the woman was charged and I could go home. This experience gave me a broader perspective…

1. False: This statement is false because, in recent years, a number of precautions have been taken to reduce gun violence in schools. Certain federal and state laws have made schools gun free zones, and, as a result, fewer students are carrying guns, and it is more difficult to get a gun into a school zone. Also, many schools have surveillance cameras placed on school grounds, which may deter those planning to commit a school shooting. Another action taken to reduce the danger of a school…