Sociology of education

The Hunger Games is film/book series set in a dystopian society believed to be future America. Panem, which is the name of the country that The Hunger Games is placed in, consists of 13 districts that all work together to supply for the capitol. To maintain control over the districts and remind the districts why they should not rebel, the annual “Hunger Games” were put in place. During the Hunger Games, two tributes between the ages of 12 and 18 are taken from each district and put in an arena…

I was first inspired to look into Social Work as a career when I began learning about Family in AS Sociology as it was intriguing to learn about the factors that influence children and their development as well as their socialisation into wider society via the education system. I first met a social worker when my parents divorced over ten years ago and feel that her intervention and advice made a positive impact on me and my siblings when the transition from being raised by two parents to one…

There is one central element that I have learned by participating in this social problems course that I found essential to understanding sociology. The common aspect that was presented in about every discussion board topic for this course as a possible solution was education. Without the proper understanding and education for each topic that was provided for us to analyze, I would not have been able to accurately evaluate the various social problems we encountered throughout the semester.…

Discuss the Malthus theorem and the likelihood that it will result in world crisis as predicted. Please also include both New Malthusian and Anti-Malthusian points of view. The Malthus Theorem is a prediction that was created by an English economist named Thomas Malthus. He is known for his world acclaimed book, “An Essay on the Principle of Population”. He believed that population is geometrically doubling as it grows, while the food supply is increasing arithmetically. This eerie thought…

Functionalism The Functionalists looks at the family like a nuclear family structure, which usually is a mother, a father and one child, in some cases two children. The family meets the needs of the society by socializing norms and values leading to social stability. Murdock believed that there is a nuclear family in every society. Murdock's defined the nuclear family as a universal human social grouping. Either as the sole prevailing form of the family or as the basic unit from which more…

Socl 3013: Sociology of Work Estranged Labour with in contemporary forms of work Karl Marx’s study of estranged labour plays a vital part in understanding today’s contemporary work place. The notion of estranged labour is the separation of labourers or workers from the products of their labor as well as the labor process, their fellow works and from their bodies and human potential. All taken away and alienated by the employers in an attempt to dominant the work force (Marx 1964:111). One of…

certain social institutions such as, the economy, politics, family, religion and education. The three sociological perspectives used to analyze social institutions are the structural functional, conflict and symbolic interactionist perspectives. In this essay I will focus on the opposing macro level perspectives, structural functionalism and conflict theory. According to the structural functional perspective of sociology, these social institutions work together to keep society stable…

Erik Olin Wright’s, “Envisioning Real Utopias” was a lot more scholarly type of reading that I was not expecting considering this was a general education class. Although the reading and studying was more difficult than expected I found that this book was very useful in forcing myself to really study and buckle down with my study abilities. The reason for this is because I found this book too flow more like a scholarly journal rather than a regular book or textbook, the terms and definitions of…

concept…“largely in American sociology, away from micro-macro extremism and toward a broad consensus that the focus, instead, should be on the integration (or synthesis, linkage) of… levels of social analysis. (485). In support, a linkage between to the two micro and macro aspects in sociology would be completely necessary when trying to get into contact with all of the main elements in sociology. For this reason, an alternative perspective when discussing and analyzing parts of sociology, it…

message within “Sociology Making a Difference” is that his sociological research, along with the Community Service Society, is being utilized to assist the poor of New York City, which makes up roughly one third of the city’s population. Thus, this sociology based research is impacting a lot of people and making a difference. 2. Identify the major theme(s). What are the sub-themes in the article? The major theme in this reading is the impact that research (maybe not just sociology based) can do…