Mathematical sociology

Section A – Question 1 Evidence from Canada and elsewhere suggests that new computer-based information technologies are having differential effects on employment and the quality of work. Which groups of workers may be benefiting from the implementation of these technologies and which groups may be negatively impacted? Why? Is the situation any different for workers in the information-services economy compared to workers in the older industrial economy? It is undeniable that technology,…

Mead (1978, p. 64), claims that culture is a standard quality that is passed from ancient period of time to new time, however on account of the unique creativity of the Internet several people are not picking up from their generations, but instead from the Internet. Generally speaking, the recent exploration of cultures over the spread of the Internet has made many people lose their cultural uniqueness and qualities. However, the western culture has been extremely useful to discrete social…

Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1910, (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press), “Part.4 ‘The Progressive and the City’, pp.189-292.” Zwia Lipkin, Useless to the State: Social Problems and Social Enginerring in Nanjing, 1927-1937 (Harvard University Asia Centre, 2006). Useless to the State written by Zwia Lipkin’s investigates the history and urban development of Nanjing between 1927-1937 and recounts in detail how the Nationalist aimed to boost the image of the…

Economic stratification refers to the condition within a society where the upper, middle, and lower social classes are separated along economic lines. A good example of this would be what many people buy in abundance. Clothes. When walking into a public school, you are able to perfectly understand the definition of economic stratification. Schools have their own little hierarchical world inside an even bigger one. In many public schools, what you wear determines who you may and may not hang out…

The status of the power elite has been maintained for decades. People who exist outside of the elitist group have wondered about how such a group is not only maintained, but similar in characteristics. Some people may argue that working hard is the only way to ensure success and entry into the upper-class, since people in the upper-class may have had similar experiences when working towards being successful. Although it may seem that working hard is the only way to gain entry into the higher…

Justice isn 't quite the knight in shinning armor that it pretends to be. It is a very abstruse idea that will changes form with its wielder and protect the ideas it that correlate with it. A central idea of justice is that it seems to adhere to the morals, values, and beliefs of the people at the time. As the people 's ideas change justice slowly changes along with them. Justice 's core values can shift quickly if the ideas of the leaders choose to take a different route than the current…

Ingleharts theory on value change identifies the fact that many states have moved from Materialist values to Post-Materialist values. Meaning that as states economies have grown, their values have grown and changed with it. Inglehart had suggested that when a state had been developing, their first values were materialist. Why? Because Materialist mostly focus on keeping order in their countries or making sure that prices on goods and services are not rising too much. As a society starts to…

Structural Functionalism There are many advantages to the structural functionalism in our US educational system. The primary goal is to provide an academic education to the citizens of society. However, so much more is gained from an organized academic educational environment. At an early age young students experience and interactively learn socialization. The academic educational classroom environment is the base for a stable pattern for social behavior. During the closeness in the…

To begin, the topic presented in week five reflected the taken for granted notion of sexual subjectivities. Entering this course, I was not aware of the significant influence culture and gendered roles had on sexual subjectivities. Through the lecture (Dundon, 2015), tutorial and readings of this week, (Lorway, 2010; Blackwood, 2010; Schwartz, 2007) I came to understand how sexual subjectivities are considered to be an individuals’ sense of self as a sexual being, which links to their sexual…

In what felt like a stumping search for something interesting to share about the uses of language in my family, I was reminded of an anonymous metaphor that easily relates to ethnography, “It is not the fish that discovers the water,” which recognizes the challenge of me as the fish to see the social world that surrounds me; ‘water’. Introspectively becoming that fish that does ‘discover’ the water that surround me in a socio-linguistic sense, I took a harder look at irregularities I had never…