Steven Weber

Social interaction is an essential social behavior of humankind (Richard E & Robert B, 1965), and it is also a serious part of the sociological research. However, the researching must be based on the study of social ties. With the advent of globalization and commercialization, the competitiveness of connection is an increasingly important issue. The research finding reveals that “the money you make in any endeavor is determined only 12.5 percent by knowledge and 87.5 percent by your ability to…

Information technology refers to computer-mediated work where a task is accomplished through the medium of the information system rather than through manual or direct physical contact with the task (Zuboff, 1985). Two basic opposing views exist regarding the impact of information technology on individuals. First, some argue that the computerized workplace is inhumane and workers' jobs are robbed of enriching elements (Attewell & Rule, 1984). These deskilled jobs produce dissatisfaction,…

The concept of utilitarianism gives rise to a question- What do human beings stand to gain from giving autonomous machines the power to make decisions for us? In order to answer this question, we have to firstly, consider the cost-benefit analysis of autonomous machines substituting human beings in the decision making process. “Replace one human worker with a general-purpose artificial intelligence, and the total unemployment of the species is yours for the extrapolating”- Stuart Armstrong From…

Being Socially Imaginative The Sociological Imagination is the concept by C. Wright Mills, and it expands on the notion that sociology has a role in everyday life. Another way of seeing it is expanding one's view from their own lives to a broader spectrum of society. Two of Mills’ methods for cultivating a sociological imagination include thinking historically and thinking across kinds of sources, although Mills recommended avoiding using only one method since it could lead to biased results.…

Why is responsibility such a significant theme in An Inspector Calls? In An Inspector Calls, the central theme is responsibility. Priestley uses the Inspector as a representative to voice his opinions on the main theme and the idea of socialism. Throughout the play, he presents each character with a role of responsibility and tries to make them aware, through the Inspector, that they are all guilty of Eva's death. The Inspector wants The Birlings to share their responsibility; Priestley's focus…

John Steinbeck was a communist during the Great Depression. Communism is the idea that the working class shall rise up, in order to establish a society of all people equal in wealth and power. Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men takes place in the Salinas River Valley, California. The story follows the journey of two ranch hands during the great depression. Ranch hands are people who move ranch to ranch working during the season to help ranches. In his novel, Of Mice and…

Instead of agency theory, stewardship theory offers a different perspective of the relationship between board and management. According to Davis, Schoorman and Donaldson (1997), Stewardship theory has its roots from psychology and sociology and is defined as “executives as stewards are motivated to act in the best interests of their principals”. Managers are viewed as ‘steward’ rather than the entirely self-interested rational economic man of agency theory (Muth and Donaldson,1998). Meanwhile,…

My theoretical tendencies on social change are most aligned with critical theory. This is not because I am overly critical of all aspects of society, however, I am most often critical of the structural systems in place that appear to work as machines of oppression and interest groups rather than social justice and equality. This personal predisposition supports an approach that is congruent with structural social work theory. Structural social work critiques existing social, economic, and…

Discussion and analysis of Marx, Durkheim and Freud, ideologies INTRODUCTION This essay attempts a discussion, analysis and evaluation of the ways, Marx, Durkheim and Freud applied sociological and psychological theories to define and understand the social world. It also does the same to Marx’s work on alienation and its impact on health, Freud’s work on psychoanalysis and its impact on contemporary understanding of mental illness and Durkheim’s work on suicide and its explanation of the causes…

A literary work exists because of society. Literature is a written work and relates to the society, they cannot be separated. Through literature, we could see how the author depicts the society and their social circumstances. Therefore, literary work is the reflection of the real life. It can describe the events in our life, and also contains the stratification which indicates that literature and society is closely related because literature expresses the situations and problems existing in…