Mathematical sociology

Reading Response to “Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong?” For my reading response, I chose the article “Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong?” by Parul Sehgal published on www.nytimes.com. Sehgal argues for her belief that cultural appropriation is not always wrong. In times where cultural customs, clothing, hairstyles, etc, of minority groups are being used by majority groups (white people), where personal gain or profit is involved, then it is negative cultural appropriation. This is…

Most often female employees are offered a lower salary than their male counterparts for the same job position and equal qualifications. Women in Asia countries earn 54 to 90 percent less than their male counterparts. Most corporations in Asia have no female employee in the senior management. Only 1.1 percent of female across Asia hold a powerful position in corporations such as Chief Executive Officer. In Hong Kong over forty percent of companies have no female on the board of directors. Given…

What Makes Us Who We Are What makes us who we are is the environment that we grow up in, our labels that we affiliate ourselves with and our social interactions. When it comes to identity, human beings are abstruse individuals, or in other words, hard to understand. What makes us human, what makes us who we are comes with an immeasurable amount of answers. We ourselves judge and are being judged, placing each other within the conjugal frames of society. We are put into molds and when we don’t…

DOING ETHNOMUSICOLOGY REFLECTION In this reflective essay, I intend to broadly outline a range of pertinent questions, issues and methodologies in ethnomusicology, and their relevance across the disciplines. The seminars were guided more in a way of deep contemplation on global concerns and musical customs rather than hypothesis driven inquiries, introducing us to a vast array of literature in a highly interactive and interdisciplinary environment. I made some rousing discoveries in my assigned…

THE SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME AND DEVIANCE AC 1. In this essay I will be explaining the distinction between crime and deviance within society and be able to provide illustrative examples to acquire an easy understanding of them. Later, evaluate and compare some sociological perspectives and their points of views in terms of crime and deviance as well as recognising limitations about particular methods of measure crime. Deviance is not defined as an act of crime regarding to laws and rules, on the…

1) My journey to becoming a social worker began when I was making my decision to purse an undergraduate degree. In high school I knew that I wanted to work in the human services field. I have seen myself as being empathetic and compassionate from a young age, and always saw myself in a helping role. I was interested in clinical work, helping individuals and families. Choosing between different fields of helping professions, I knew that becoming a social worker was going to be my destiny. Other…

A. I received the Knight family as a referral. As a social worker the skills I would use to begin working with them would be “Preparatory reviewing, preparatory exploring, preparatory consulting, preparatory arranging, preparatory empathy, preparatory self- exploration, centering, preliminary planning and recording” (Cournoyer, 2010). In order to do preparatory review, I will take in consideration the information provided to me by David Tidwell. Mr. Tidwell, a hospital social worker, received…

In this class we have discussed a few different ways of looking at interpersonal communication, these include the relational, quality, goal and social media lens. For the first part of my paper I plan on explaining why I prefer the relational over the quality lens. Following that part I will discuss how the social media lens has impacted my life, concerning romantic relationships. I find the relational lens discussed in Chapter 1 of the Floyd textbook is more inclusive and can describe more of…

1.) Socialization is the process by which people learn the basic norms, values, and attitudes by observing the people around them. Kids do this from the time they are born to learn how they should act towards others and what things are considered normal. One way that this is done is through the way parents communicate around and to their kids. In Unequal Childhoods Lareau talks about how the language that is used in a child’s household can have long term effects on the child’s future speaking…

Michael Schwalbe is a sociology professor at North Carolina State University. He is also an author and participates in both, “The Good Man Project” and “The Common Dream: Breaking New Views for the Progressive Community” websites. Much of his research has been dominated by gender and inequality topics. As a sociology professor, he is committed to trying to increase his student’s “sociological mindfulness”.…