Sociological imagination

Step 2: My mother is a career of a disabled man of low socio-economic status and so I have a lot of experience and observations in regards to health and illness of a low socio-economic person living with a chronic disability compared to the heath and illness of a person opposite. Luke is blind 34 year old man and has Bardet- Biedl syndrome (Koenders, 2016). He was told he would not live very long but he has already passed the age and beyond that he was expected to live. Luke is morbidly obese…

exposed to many Western perspectives on gender. However, being the first generation to grow up in New Zealand meant that many traditional Chinese views on gender norms were still incorporated into my upbringing. This socio-autobiography will explore sociological gender concepts across time and cultures, and how they have shaped my life. My focus will be on “doing gender”- with an emphasis on my “tomboyism” as a child-, gender inequalities within my family structure, and the enduringly…

Since the recent rise in secularism, specifically within the social frameworks of Western culture, religious and spiritual practices have repeatedly been pushed aside and neglected. Although followers’ adherence to religion has seen a significant decline (Altemeyer, 2014), the notions and practices usually attached to religion or spirituality remain relevant in contemporary culture. The relevance of these religious notions and practices are seen explicitly through examining mental health,…

In 2008, author John Green published his book Paper Towns. After reaching number five on the New York Best Times Sellers List and receiving the 2009 Edgar Award for best young adult novel, the Young Adult Book popular amongst the younger generation received it film adaptation on July 24, 2015. Both the book and film center on a group of High school Students who live Florida. The main characters in this story include Quentin Jacobson (protagonist), Margo Roth Speilgleman. From a young age,…

Rebecca Harding Davis novella called “Life in the Iron Mills” takes place in the old mill town of industrializing workers and how they lived in America culture in 1800’s. In this story, she tells her readers about gender inequality, upper and lower-class workforce, immigrants, racism, and horrible working conditions in the mill. Therefore, Davis wanted to explore these five genres call Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Sentimentalism, and Regionalism (Local Color). Meanwhile, the narrator is…

In this article of Jessie Bernard, she noted that marriage is not a single entity, "that there are actually two marriages in every marital union. "( Macionis and Benokraitis, 2007.) Based on the research that she conducted on selected partners, it shows that most couples have different understanding about the concept of marriage with regards to sexual relationship, companionship and specifically, domestic duties . I would like to discuss this article according to the social conflict theory,…

At the time, law enforcement did not appear to think much of him or his friend who had just died but rather blamed the incident on him. Rios makes a point of saying that this point was the defining moment where he developed a sociological imagination and realized that he needed to find out more in regards to the interactions between youths of his community and the police, (xi). Unlike the boys that he talks about, Rios was lucky and had resources at school who were both inspiring and…

culture by using cultural relativism, I was able to see the reasoning behind their rebellious sexual actions. According to Freud, the flappers were releasing their satisfactory needs in order to stay healthy. Then, using the sociological perspective the larger society, older traditional women, norms and behaviors were restricting women from living their fullest lives from their ethnocentric views on their behavior. Again, that is why I feel that the flappers? actions were more…

Adaptation in film industry has not received much attention in the past. Rarely has the issue of adaptation been covered in such a way. Andrew’s attempt to approach this complex issue is simply to show adamant scholars that it is possible to adapt literary works. Looking at the article’s title, one would never assume its overall aim. It was first published in 1984 in Concepts in Film Theory. From the very outset, Dudley Andrew probes the mysteries surrounding the loose use of the term…

Individuals form subcultures with different distinct values and norms within a larger culture (Innocente 2016). The subculture is usually influenced by many sociological aspects of society. Society helps form the values and norms which structure the way the individual will behave in his social group. I was born in Canada and studied in Canada until grade 4, then I was sent to an international boys boarding school in India. At my residence, I was given an identity of NRI (Non-residential Indian)…