The Sociological Imagination

What does affect your role in a social group? Your skills, knowledge, abilities or strength (physical or moral)? Are you sure that you will have the same social place with different people? It seems that we choose how we behave among our countrymen, but it is not. First and foremost, it all depends on the conditions in which the group is. Consider one of the most interesting and controversial experiments in psychology and sociology . Didier Desor conducted a study on the behavior of rats…

(criminal) or a social norm (non‐criminal). The sociological view that pertains to crime (any violation of a law) is criminology; better known as criminal justice. The idea of deviance is mind boggling in light of the fact that standards differ from race to race; country to country and time period to time period. At the end of the day, what one culture may think about satisfactory, another may think about degenerate. I agree with the sociological rationale of Emile Durkheim; society…

Derek A Kreager, Kelly Rulison, and James Moody set up an experiment to look at the structural and behavioral characteristics in teenage peer groups to see how these two features affect delinquency. Their goal was to find the correlation between levels of delinquency to the cohesiveness, stability, popularity and centrality of adolescent peer groups. They based their research on four prior researched competing theories and hypotheses. One theory argued that groups with higher delinquency and…

Humans enjoy organizing things. More specifically, we enjoy grouping other humans. Many social categories are formed based on the similarities of people in them. Stereotypes are clusters of characteristic that are associated with all members of a specific social group, often including qualities that are unrelated to the objective criteria that define the group. They are based on the assumption that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Attributing…

Deviant behavior and criminal behavior have different implications. A behavior that is deviant is defined as a behavior, belief, or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs. A criminal behavior is defined as a behavior that violates criminal law and can be punishable by fines, jail terms, and other negative sanctions. The main difference between the two behaviors are the laws that support it and the repercussions that come with it. Deviant…

For this assignment I watched the TV show House. I only counted about 3 truly deviant acts in this episode which did surprise me because House is known for being a consistently deviant person. One example in this episode was blackmail. House blackmailed a fellow doctor just to get some leverage on him and enforce that House was superior. Normally, the police would be involved in any kind of blackmail attempt but the other doctor didn’t seem too phased by it as House was just like that and he…

Deviance is anything different from the common social rules or something that goes against the rules. This could be serious situations such as crime, but is generally associated with named social rules deemed as common sense. Normally, deviance is just the general things people see as wrong or disturbing. Deviance is explained several different ways in sociology. Symbolic interactionism is the theory that as humans, we take action according to how we analyze a situation and that is why…

Accepting your responsibilities can be tough depending on the situation. It’s a part of growing up. For Hiram Hillburn from the book “Mississippi Trial, 1955”, it was hard. His responsibility came with the possibility of life or death. Hiram Hillburn did not accept his responsibility when it came to his friends, family, and society. First of all, Hiram did not accept his responsibility when it came to his friends. For example, when R.C. beat up Emmett Till, Hiram did nothing to help him. He…

Deviance is when individual or group of people participate in something that is just tempory, the acts that occur are temporary and the place. Deviance is doing something for a bit because society looks at it wrong. You're able to be deviant at Mardi Gras, as mentioned in the article “A Theory-Based Approach to Understanding Sexual Behavior at Mardi Gras” by Robin R. Millhausen, “ Mardi Gras has also been considered a "time out" place (Jankowiak & White, 1999) or, similarly, a “backspace”. So…

A socially responsible company treats their employees well, is environmentally conscientious, and has consumer satisfaction. The company should be giving their employees a fair wage with benefits and a safe working condition. They are also environmentally conscientious and care for our earth. They do either minimum to no damage through the entire process of creating apparel to shipping it to the consumer. Once the consumer receives their apparel, whether it was shipped to them or they went to…