Social sciences

While Struggling with a learning disability such as ADHD, the feeling of discouragement and illiteracy negatively impacted my academics as a child. I have faced several obstacles growing up with ADHD, but I realized that adhd is not a “disability”, it’s the ability to process knowledge at my own pace. That self-confidence is what gave me the encouragement and drive to seek a higher level of education and meet all my life goals. When I was a child and others would ask, “What do you want to be…

explain sociological events in Chicago. W.I Thomas (1863-1947) was an influential sociologist who was at the University of Chicago in the early 20th century. Thomas mainly focused on the importance of the interactive dependence of individuals and social life and culture. He is well known for his term “the definition of the situation”. This term means that before an individual acts, he or she examines and deliberates the situation. He argues that individuals will make decisions based on how…

research methods allows researchers to describe, explore and explain various social phenomena. Quantitative methods seek to obtain information about the social world that is already in or can be converted to numeric form (Conley, 45). This method is similar to the scientific method in use of trying to use treatment and control (placebo) groups to determine how changes in one aspect of a situation affect another social outcome. Information gathering using quantitative methods is…

As one continues to interact with the world and its inhabitants, it is common for one to maintain a rudimentary understanding. To combat this and allow for individuals to think more deeply in their evaluation and perception, sociologists use their imagination to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces in history. After all, sociology is the study of human society, making the familiar strange through successful questioning and careful analysis (Conley 2015: 3).…

Quantitative research techniques are employed by many a researcher to study a process and delve into the answers, and then present them to promote social change. Dennis et al (2013) employs this method by first formulating a series of research questions to guide them in their research. These questions are as follows: 1. Is the quality of the teaching-learning process dependent on the organizational climate? 2. Is there a different relationship between quality of the teaching-learning process and…

Rather, he sees the task of a cultural social historian as one of uncovering the threads of voice and action that permit us to reconstruct some dimensions of “French peasant worldview” and to see how startlingly different that worldview is from the modern view. Our distance from the French peasant…

I was first intrigued by Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, due to the focus of the story being on the Thai-Burma Railway (or the Death Railway as it was also called) during World War II (WWII). This setting interested me as I have always had a curiosity about history and the study of history. Similarly I was also interested in the Thai-Burma Railway as last year I had done a project on it in my history class. However as I started reading the novel, the setting became less important…

inequity, ableism, prison abuse, and global inequality. All the problems I will talk about will be analyzed through lenses critiquing how capitalism, racism, and classism uphold the systems of injustice enacted by the State. As I will be arguing for a social revolution, I will explain what I define as being revolutionary and why revolution…

Margaret McMillan’s compelling speech on “using history to understand the present” introduces several major points that construct her idea on how History is used to understand the present. Her points revealed a different way as to how history can be used responsibly and irresponsibly. Furthermore, encompassing two ideas on the validity of history and how it is irresponsibly conveyed to the public. One of McMillan’s first major points was the argument that “humanity deprives itself of a very…

The Publication Process: The New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is the world’s leading medical journal (NEJM, n.d.). The journal receives approximately 5000 submissions a year and the majority of them are from authors not based in the United States. Upon receipt of the manuscript, at least five experts edit and review it prior to it being published. The review process is stringent and NEJM accepts only five percent of articles submitted for publication…