Mathematical sociology

Comp 110 Final Essay All individual families all have cultures of their own. Each child is raised in two separate, often competing, cultures. The one their family presents and the culture that the surrounding society presents. This semester, we have read and analyzed many different cultural norms helping me to get a better look at the culture that I was raised up in. Being raised in a family that is Christian, has had the largest effect on my life. Praying before we ate, before we went to…

The fifth circuit court has recently voted to halt Obama’s executive orders known as deferred action for parental accountability, DAPA, and deferred action for childhood arrival, DACA. The two orders would prevent deportation of immigrants whose children were born in the United States as well as children who had arrived in the United States before they were 16 and before June 2007. The issue will be taken up by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2016. The Supreme Court will decide…

Social Problem There is not enough services and support for employed, low income adults. I came to realize this issue because there was a time in my life when I was homeless, and I was practically told that there would be no immediate help available to me since there are no adults under the age of 18 who live in the same household as myself. My mother and I were evicted from our home in December 2014, just a few days before New Year 's Day. For confidentiality, I will refer to my mother as…

social structures. Sociology can be so broad and the subject matter is diverse; ranging from crime to religion, from family to the state, from the divisions of race and so much more. Most importantly it helps explain important matters in our personal lives, our communities, and the world. A sociology instructor at Kingsborough community college, located in Brooklyn New York, decided to incorporate students’ everyday life experiences into the classroom in an introduction to sociology course.…

Culture Change It is very clear that the DDOT had a poor organizational culture, which was expressed by members who had little freedom in their duties, and where norms were not sufficiently clear to employees. DDOT first move towards a culture shift was the Institutionalization of Performance Management. For instances, employees were now evaluated based on a set of essential competencies. Further, the institutionalization of performance culture began to use the concept of cascading goals. This…

The violence that can erupted over such trivial things like the color of one’s skin or the way in which someone talks is both shameful and destruction. When performed, hate crimes carry the same process and message as terrorist actions; the effects are the same, harm or intimidated those deemed unfit for the community. The sad thing is, hate crimes are enduring, no matter the consequences and no matter the buffers; the reasons, hate crimes do not even have to be acts of violence, it could be a…

The Thundertones as a Social Network The Thundertones have been a central part of my social network during my time at Wheaton College. Thundertones is an a cappella group that pulls its members exclusively from the Wheaton College Men’s Glee Club. Being an elite section of a larger group gives the Thundertones an interesting social network in side of the Men’s Glee Club; however, due to the limitations of this project I have chosen to focus primarily on the social network of the Thundertones…

Ordered to Death Women have not always existed as equal to or near equal to men in society as they do in modern day America. In fact, during the Shakespearean era, women in England were socially and mentally restricted until they practically had no personal identity without men. Few characters embody this concept more accurately than Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The female social order operated under such extremes within the play that the men in Ophelia’s life constantly instruct her on…

The emergence of a standing army in seventeenth century Europe is one of the first stark contrasts between the Renaissance and “modern times.” Before standing armies, lords retained and raised troops on their own volition or at the request of their king or pope. Under absolute monarchs, armies were raised and then continually maintained under one banner as a stalwart projection of power and as protection for the state. The troops were needed at all times in the modern era, not just during times…

Culture is everywhere; it controls what we do, who we interact with and who we become because we are influenced by it from birth. Cultural values are at the heart of any society, everywhere there is a connection with culture everything people do is influenced by society. Cultural Symbols important to our society are the liberty bell, the United States Flag, the bald eagle, and the Statue of liberty. Learning more about our culture can help us to be more professional because it will help us…