Sociology of the family

Allen, D. (2001). Review article: Nursing and sociology: An uneasy marriage? Sociology of Health and Illness, 23(3), 386-396. Retrieved from http://0-proquest.com.sultan.tnstate.edu/docview/60401206?accountid=14275 In this article the author spends a lot of time explaining how nursing and sociology go hand in hand. The article tells how nurses in hospitals and doctors’ offices need to approach their patients a certain way and how they nurse-patient relationships are viewed. In the article, it…

clueless about what I wanted to do and I was rushed into picking a major. I declared sociology as my major. The first time I told my family and friends about my choice they looked at me and said “what is that?” To be honest, I was barely getting to understand it myself. Sociology is the study of how…

validity of census information as a tool in sociology in his article “Reading reflexivity”. He goes over several historical accounts and examples to back up his point of view. Curtis argues that census information is often unreliable due to the inherently haphazard nature of information collection, stating that often individuals being asked questions for data collection don’t know how to answer them correctly (for example, he brought up the point how many families didn’t know how to answer…

African-American youth being killed by white police officers, as in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (Introduction to Sociology 2e) or, as in the case of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen year old black teenager who was allegedly racially profiled and subsequently shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a white-Hispanic community watch program coordinator (Introduction to Sociology 2e), has garnered not only the attention of the media but has resulted in the national movement called…

treated differently by judicial system and police, and so on. https://www.thoughtco.com/sociology-of-social-inequality-3026287 Researches of social structure make the effort to give an explanation in subjects such as trends in inequality and integration. In these researches, social categories, rates of birth or crimes, social categories and institutions are examined by sociologists. Also known as formal sociology, this approach is not used to examine interpersonal interaction and individual…

course to take. Learning about sociology has given me a better understanding of people and their behaviors. Our society is constantly changing, so with sociology, it helps to understand it all. Learning more about sociology allows me to take these skills and apply it to my life. There are a few concepts that I found very interesting throughout this course. The first thing I will be taking away from this course will be the three theoretical frameworks of sociology. Every life situation can be…

On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 I attended Edward Flores’, Ph.D. lecture on his book, God’s Gangs. The event was held in room 190 in Fresno State’s Music Building, and was Co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology. It was a part of the 2016-17 Lecture & Film Series, “Lived Experiences, Social Justice, and Social Science”. In his lecture, Dr. Edward Flores spoke a little about his background, how he got started writing his book, and of course talked about his book God’s Gangs…

Carrie Dvorsak Max Maloney Principles of Sociology November 29, 2017 The Analysis of Social Life: The Three Sociological Perspectives Social phenomena has been analyzed from different perspectives throughout history. Over the course of this time, sociologist have been able to make everything from concrete explanations to broad sweeping generalizations of a single, minute event, to the grand scheme of social life and what it all entails. These perspectives are, to be simply put, a way to view,…

36- The major difference between a subculture and a counterculture is that a subculture can coexist under the a culture, while the people who belong to counterculture go again all the values, beliefs, norms etc. Therefore, counterculture is against the norms of the main culture, but subculture only has some differences from the main culture. 37- Rapport is the feeling of trust between the researchers and the people they are studying. It is very important to establish rapport because that will…

The article I read was Charles Jarmon’s, “E. Franklin Frazier’s Sociology of Race and Class in Black America,” from the spring 2013 Edition of The Black Scholar. Jarmon’s article was found using the Infotrac College Edition database. The aim of the article was to observe the origins of Frazier’s sociology career in connection to Howard University, discuss his views on and contribution to understanding the socioeconomic situation of blacks in the United States, and lastly to discuss his view of…