Physical anthropology

Sociology is known to be the study of society itself, the relationship between people and the community; this is used to understand how our actions shape everything around us. They investigates social causes or issues such as the effects of a community on a person, gender identity, as well as race. To do so they may design research projects, collect data through observation or surveys, and collaborate with sociologist all around the world to seek help to test their theories out. To look at the…

Violence, an integral part of modern society, constitutes the lives of individuals that lead to reactions in the sociological perspective. In terms of sociology, violence grasps the control one’s realities. Sociological impact of violence is so intertwined with side factors that individual get derailed in conducts transforming personalities, emotions, thoughts, world views. This study deals with violence in the sociological view and its implications as depicted in Conrad’s The Secret Agent.…

“You could be anything you wanted to be in America”. In different places people have different perspectives and ways of life due to their unique cultural identities. Your culture is composed of your values, beliefs, customs, language, etc. These different perceptions of culture can cause conflict between family members, friends, strangers, and even yourself. In the articles “Two Kinds”, by Amy Tan, “Everyday Use”, by Alice Walker, and “Ethnic Hash”, by Patricia J Williams, the authors illustrate…

“Stranger in the Village” by James Baldwin explores the ideas of racism in earlier and present societies. This topic is of current interest, especially in today’s time; America and other nations are presently partaking in many social and racial justice movements. Baldwin opens his story by describing the first time he went to a small village in Switzerland. Due to the town’s inaccessibility, a person with black skin had never set foot in this remote village before, so Baldwin became a spectacle…

My Personal Worldview Influences Worldviews are beliefs that affect how someone views and responds to the world. Everyone has different worldviews shaped by many factors such as how they were raised, their cultures, experiences and education. Along with attempting to assess where the worldview stems from, evaluating the worldview is also significant in discovering what is blindly followed and what parts of the worldview makes rational sense. Worldviews are defined by the nature of humans, the…

The Theory of cultural Differences works in my everyday life by multipool reasons and reasons that my not come as a norm to most people not in my culture. In my workplace and with family and friends, I experience multiple Cultures that are different than mine. I myself am more of an individualist instead of a collectivist. The reason that I am more of an individualist than a collectivist is for the reason that if I am not up to my standards I have nobody to blame but me. I know how many hours…

The interpretive writer shapes and forms his work in such a way that we gain greater understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live in. Similar to a spotlight shining down at the performer on stage. Interpretive literature shines on the worlds issues and helps us to broaden our understanding of the human way of life and existence, and to illuminate certain aspects of life. Both stories, Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and Identities by W.D. Valgardson, are still pertinent today…

Through the detailed works of Erving Goffman’s: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life compared to Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality, assessed the daily social occurences of everyday life that create the basis of people’s behavior through social interactions. The extensively observe the interactions of people in a variety of scenarios as their learned behavior is applied to those certain situations. Their observations reveal how the social interactions of…

Essay 1-1 Before this assignment I had not really thought much about what the differences between history and social sciences, such as political science, anthropology, and sociology, might be. After giving it some thought, I came to notice some of the differences, but I did struggle because the majority of my history classes focused on the United States while briefly touching on the history of the world. As stated in the lecture, both history and social sciences examine the past, but while they…

Visiting a museum has always been a top priority, since it not only house the ancient cultural history but also communicates in a symbolic manner to all age groups. Today the very concept of the museum has undergone a drastic transformation. Museums in contemporary times are not restricted to ancient people and history, but museum today comprise histories and impart stories of human beings. As a result there are different types of museums focusing on diverse issues such as eco-museums focus on…