Sociology of the family

Of Domestic Work: An Underground Economy And The Exploitation Of Undocumented Workers. Depaul Journal For Social Justice, 3(2), 245-276. Gorfinkiel, M. D. (2011). Migrant Domestic Work and Changes in the Ideas of Childcare. Journal Of Comparative Family Studies, 42(5), 739-749. Hess, S., & Puckhaber, A. (2004). 'big sisters' are better domestic servants?! comments on the booming au pair business. Feminist Review, (77), 65-78. This article argues that au-pair programs around the world have…

finding something that I found an interest in pursuing. Throughout my first and second semester, I went back and forth between a sociology major or a major in allied health technologies. All I knew was that I wanted to spend my life making an impact on others’ lives. Although I am still enrolled as an undeclared major, I have chosen to pursue a career path in sociology, particularly with social work, children and young adults. My plans for after graduation are to help people that are going…

Émile Durkheim--born in 1858 and died in 1917. He was born in a small town, Épinal in France. His father was a rabbi and he was expected to become a rabbi himself. However, as many young adults do, he rebelled against the family traditions and chose not to follow the path towards becoming a rabbi, but to ultimately walk away from his faith in Judaism. In 1879, he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure, which was a prominent school in it's time. He was for some time a professor at the…

Norman F, Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. Cantor sections his book to explain to his readers the effects of the plague that caused so much destruction. The Black Death was a pandemic that occurred in the 1300s and left civilizations destroyed from the massive amount of people it killed. Cantor explains that there will most likely always be a degree of uncertainty about the plague because of the limitations from the medical…

I was surprised to read and hear about the existence of multiple non-binary gender systems. I was aware that people in other countries did things differently from the United States because I took Sociology 121: Understanding Cultures. However, I did not realize that gender is performed in many and varying ways across the world. In the textbook, the authors talked about how “some societies acknowledged three, four, or even five genders” (Wade & Ferree, 2015, p. 12). It was interesting to read how…

The purpose of this essay is to synthesize chosen degree cognates of Business, Social Science and Public Administration. I am doing this with a perspective to a career focus of Child and family social work. I chose Liberty University and an Interdisciplinary degree to offer me some assistance with achieving my professional target because Liberty University 's vision is to create students with the qualities, learning and aptitudes to make a difference in the world. With an Interdisciplinary…

Van Krieken et al. refer to identity as “who people think they are and also how we see others” (2010, p.255). The term ‘Aboriginal’ was originally used by the British colonists, to identify the diverse tribal groups of Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Australian continent. Although the term was originally used to disempower the Indigenous peoples by way of categorisation to fit into the colonialist view, it has remained today as part of the nations legal definition and also as a term many…

Our secret Amen Mukhlis. Dr. Monette English 110 October 15, 2015 10 mile walk in Susan’s shoes Our Secret is a chapter from one of Susan Griffin’s books “A Chorus of Stones: the private life of war” the winner of the Bay Area book reviewer association award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. (Bartholome); the story revolves about concealing the truth and secrecy. Thorough our secret Griffin exploress Heinrich Himmler a Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel; a leader of the Nazi Party…

ideas of Emile Durkheim. Durkheim was a French social scientist and philosopher, born in Epinal in 1858 and died 1917 in Paris. [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emile-Durkheim]. He was fascinated by suicide, and wrote a book Suicide: A Study in Sociology. The book deeply examines suicide and reveals that there can be social causes to suicide. Durkheim emphasises that everyone needs a certain level of human interaction. Through Durkheim’s research we see how the reasons behind suicide can…

abusive parents, being male, and family conflict (Shader, p. 4). Some protective factors include: a high IQ, being female, parental monitoring, commitment to school, recognition for involvement in conventional activities, friends who engage in conventional behaviour, and warm, supportive relationships with parents or other adults (Shader, p. 4); scouting has the potential to offer several of the above protective…