Sociological terms

In American society to be socially responsible is to do a part in helping your community. Helping the community comes in a variety of ways including doing community service acts such as feeding the homeless, picking up trash in the parks. Also helping by teaching others acquired skills have. This is being socially responsible because you are doing your part to help others. If everyone would do there part of helping. Then life would go by a lot smoother because instead of leaving these…

Who is Responsible? Johnny Mendes was a professional mountain climber who scaled the world's tallest peaks, until, he wasn't. One night he decided to scale a small but rocky mountain near his homeland without any protection and he fell to his painful death. Life is made up of choices and actions each leading up to their consequences. Whether it's education wise or life wise the choices and decisions one makes make up his future. Although many blame the parents and teachers it is ultimately the…

“ You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today,” Abraham Lincoln. Although responsibility is difficult to dodge, it presents itself with multiple benefits such as trust found within, and you are seen in a positive light. First and foremost, one of the benefits that come with being responsible is the trust that you preserve. To illustrate, during the Revolutionary Era, James Armistead was always punctual and loyal to the Patriots; furthermore, this responsibility led to…

As human beings, we possess the power to express ourselves in diversified ways. Since we live in environments that require socialization, our senses of making social cue are more active. Our motives of adopting social cue to express ourselves could be verbal or non-verbal, and this is done by the fashion we send signals through body languages and expressions. These expressions can be facial, gestural, or the way we portray ourselves in different situations. It is evident that individuals utilize…

To be a socially responsible Citizen in America means to take on roles in society that will positively affect the economy based on someone's actions. The best way to make every citizen socially responsible will be to educate the young members of society by teaching them their social responsibilities in school. Schools should take into consideration that kids are not learning anything in school anymore so it is the responsibility of the well knowledge to pass down their knowings and skills by…

1.) While a behavior, trait, or belief may be considered deviant at one circumstance, it may not considered deviant at another circumstance. Deviant simply means "different". It does not mean "good" or "bad". Typical food that we eat for breakfast may include eggs, sandwich, oatmeal, etc. These are norms and standards. However, if you choose to eat steak or a whole chocolate cake for breakfast, that would be considered as deviance. The definition of "norm" varies. Everything depends on societies…

My Responsibility to America What do you think responsibility means? To me the word means to take ownership for my actions and words, taking charge in a situation that I know I can handle, and doing my duty to God, my country, and others. The official definition is the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or having control over someone. But what is our responsibility to America? Here are a few things I believe they are, first you need to pay your own way not have the government…

Most people don’t view themselves as deviant, even though committing deviant acts is not uncommon among our society. According to Patricia and Peter Adler, deviance is “violations of social norms” (Adler, 2012, p. 11), because of this not all acts of deviance are criminal (Adler, 2012). There are three different levels of deviance folkways, mores, and laws. Folkways are “simple everyday norms based on custom, tradition, or etiquette” (Adler, 2012, p. 11). An example of a folkway is “standard of…

Overwhelming, exciting, and joyful are only a few adjectives I would use to describe Lancer days. It wasn’t anything that I expected it to be, it was much better. Kami was so helpful and was willing to help us with answering questions, showing us our classes, and making us feel welcome. Everything seemed so enlightening and eye-opening. There are so many different opportunities for everyone. Those opportunities include anything from sports, clubs, fraternities, sororities, and many other…

no extra vigilance on your part is called for, and that he will see to it that all goes well. ‘Responsible’ in this sense is an adjective, denoting a quality of character and mind, not a position within a web of dialectical obligation . . . .It is a term of high commendation, though from an external point of view. We want to have responsible people about in positions of authority, performing their duties reliably and well (Lucas 1993, p. 11) This quote explicitly explains the type of position…