Teresa Wright

cultural relativism and the sociological imagination have greatly influenced the social sciences of sociology and anthropology. According to Newman, cultural relativism is defined as a “Principle that people’s beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of their own culture” (Newman, 2017, p. 462). As humans, we view the principle of cultural relativism as a challenge, due to the fact we’re confronted with cultures or beliefs that conflict with our own. For example, in modern France,…

Irony of Irony The Lottery, All Summer in a Day, and A Jury of Her Peers all include irony. Irony is something happening in the opposite way of a prediction, has an amusing result, or is only clear to one view. Dramatic irony, directed to movies or plays, is shown in A Jury of Her Peers. For example only the women that knew the evidence was found because they hid the it from the other characters in the story. Situational irony, an unexpected outcome, displays in All Summer in a Day and The…

C. Wright Mills argues that individuals are mindful of what they do in their own life that involves their visions being limited in the close-up scene but move vicariously in other social environments. In our society, there is an underlying sense of being trapped. Individuals that know what they need or what they feel they need carry a quality that will help them apply information and to acquire reason to understand what is going on in the world and what may be happening within themselves. This…

he movie the group decided on is called Dead Silence, and the chosen clip is when the main character of the film, Jamie, was at a funeral burying his dead wife, Lisa. His wife was killed by a possessed ventriloquist doll named Billy. The main cast of the movie are in attendance, Jamie being desperate for answers stumbles across the Billy’s owner’s grave, Mary Shaw. In the funeral scene we see a good example of Chiaroscuro Lighting in Zettl’s book. All the people are wearing dark clothes and you…

The poem I created was based from the play by Susan Glaspell called “Trifles.” In trifles the reader finds out about the murder of Mr. Wright, where he was found strangled to death. Throughout the play the men which include the County Attorney, Mr. Hale, and Mr. Peter spend most of their time trying to find evidence on the killing while ignoring the small details believing that they are meaningless. Even though the women Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are discovering details that could help solve the…

the entrance of three men and two women into the kitchen of the Wright household the day after a neighbor, Mr. Hale, finds Mr. Wright's dead body. The men of the story are the county attorney, the sheriff, and Mr. Hale: They are there collecting evidence, and believe Mr. Wright's wife, Minnie Wright, killed him while he slept. The women, Mrs. Peters; the sheriff's wife, and Mrs. Hale are gathering items to take back to Mrs. Wright. When the men begin to search the home they immediately…

play was Mrs. Wright who suspected of killing her husband, Mr. Wright. Mrs. Wright sent to prison for the crime. They opened an investigation about the crime to find out who really killed Mr. Wright. Several people led the investigation including Mr. Hale and his wife, the sheriff and his wife, and the County Attorney who was curious one among all to find out what happened. While Mrs. Wright was in prison, they were investigated at her house to find out who really killed Mr. Wright. The men were…

My life experiences and sociological training shaped my mission as a scholar and as a mentor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI). At UCSB and UCI, I research the power and politics of marginalized people. In particular, I focus my research on social mobilization, economic and political development, and the state. My sociological training forged my theoretical and methodological approaches to understand how economic and social…

Your example of comparing a vacation to using the sociological imagination for an alternate perspective was very striking. It is quite the concept to “become fully immerged in this false reality and see every aspect of your life from a new light,” as you mentioned. This concept effectively illustrates how one has to remove themselves from their own personal bubble, which is especially true when observing other cultures to avoid the habit of ethnocentrism (Chambliss & Eglitis, 2016, p. 76). The…

Most of Delilah's presumptions with regards to Noel were duly disproved once she crossed the threshold to his quarters. Had he portrayed antagonism, he would be met with indifference; tartness with civility; detachment with sympathy. Yet, with a conjunction of diffidence, self-deprecation and courteousness, a catch-22 met her at the helm. For someone who was all but reclusive whenever their session with Dr. Walt commenced, this somewhat accommodating acceptance was a pleasant turn of events. It…