Max Planck

Draft of Personal Statement My intended major is Sociology. My interest in Sociology developed when I took a course in Crime and Deviance and Introduction to Sociology during my junior year at Berkeley and Contra Costa City College. The fact that Sociology is applicable to everyday life from seemingly trivial to the utmost important issues is what fascinated me. I find I am able to use the information I have learned in Sociology in my day to day life and to better understand how individuals and…

Social theory a systematic idea about the relationship between individuals and societies. Also, the analytical frameworks for understanding the social world. It enables us to see the social world differently. It’s like putting on a pair of 3D glasses. Since your eyes are spaced about two inches, your eyes see the same picture from different angles. Therefore, your eyes see the world in a different perspective. Something you’ve ignored all your life might make more sense to you. You might ask new…

1. Introduction Divorce has become a prominent feature in modern day families. For children of divorced families especially, it can feel isolating and unique to the individual. Through using sociological imagination, the situation can be viewed through a different perspective and it can be determined if being a child of divorced parents is a personal problem or it forms part of a larger, public issue. 2. Sociological Imagination Sociological imagination according to C.W. Mills, encompasses…

Sociological imagination is a person's ability to connect their personal experience to society in a large extent. The main focus for the sociological imagination is to view personal troubles and interlink them to a society issue. When I read this question the topic body image came to mind. Body image is a picture or mental image of one’s own body. Many females and males struggle to be happy with their bodies. They see themselves as fat and ugly, or skinny and ugly. As I was growing up I was…

Erving Goffman is famous for having developed the Dramaturgy Theory to help explain social interactions and individuals identities. During the time that Goffman was developing his theory sociological theory contained a wide variety of influences and ideas. It was full of classical theories which were being reformulated in new ways. Goffman drew upon classic American pragmatist thought as well as the social psychology of Mead to develop a school of thought that focused on the meanings and…

What do I understand by the biopsychosocial model? Biopsychosocial model describes the quality of life; health is no longer considered just the absence of illness. It includes the daily intake of vitamins and minerals. How much you exercise and sleep. It differs for people depending on their economic-social status. This is why the model is broken up into the three categories. Bio- talks about the genetic prediosposions we are affected by. We can't change these only change how they influence our…

According to Brown and Hannis the process raising consciousness is “the ability to see social, economic, and political oppression and to take action” (Brown & Hannis, 2012, p.78). In case study these community members are facing social, economic and safety and other related problems. Therefore, I think creating an opportunity for community members in form of group discussion about the current issues and analyzing those problems helps in their solution. In addition, during group discussion I…

Sociological imagination is the awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society. Similar to that in psychology of having a metacognitive thinking skill, sociological imagination is where an individual must think outside of their societies restraints and into a much wider view of a larger society. C. Wright Mills explains that the term means the ability to view one’s own society as an outsider would, rather than only from the perspective of personal experiences and…

In this modern age, a person can feel lost based on the labor they are producing for the owners of different companies. Both Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim discuss how alienation and anomie are problems that are affecting an individual within their workplace. Karl Marx talks about the perspective of how the worker feels alone in an overregulated society. On the other hand, Durkheim argues the opposite, how a person can experience issues of feeling under regulated in society. Marx and Durkheim…

The Roman Empire was an empire that expanded by wars and conquers places. Therefore, the State had many slaves in addition to a steady flow of new people acquired by the conquests to put them to work, and their economy was on exchange of goods and agriculture. The Roman Empire used to collect some sort of taxes from its people to boost its economy in many ways. Those collected taxes were spent for the military expenses at first, and the rest of them were spent at Rome. The Roman economy had…