The Sociological Imagination

The Impact the Sports Industry has on Social Inequalities Introduction It was 1998, on a cool October afternoon in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium when my passion for sports began. From countless football games, baseball games, lemonade freezies and hot dogs, to cheerleading for my high school football team alongside my dad as a football coach, sports have always been a huge part of my life. Over the last nineteen years I’ve been to over forty college football games starting when I was only two years…

of pausing and looking around myself. This includes temporally, situationally, and location. The reason is that to gain a better understanding of my own biography, it is crucial to look at the ‘bigger picture.’ This is the epitome of the sociological imagination, which allows people to better comprehend the social forces at work both at micro-and-macro levels. In turn, one can form an unbiased explanation of their own life.…

engagements with popular culture and attitudes towards the future are in line with findings that youth are negotiating future risks constituted by privileged cultural capital (Threadgold & Nilan, 2009, p. 48), all while preserving class as an embedded sociological concept. The arguments made by Threadgold and Nilan support the proposition that reflexivity is mediated through the habitus which remains class-based, encapsulated…

Emotion management is a daily routine for most; everybody memorizes and follows cultural scripts in order to maintain social norms that make emotions easier to deal with. Because emotion management is so significant, innumerable sociological theories examine this phenomenon. Even though emotion management is under the feminist theory in the textbook and all the major theories can explain emotion management well, symbolic interactionism explains this concept superlatively. Symbolic…

provide feedback to one another. During my first year in the program, watching more advanced students present their research projects and engaging in various discussions of different projects and methods helped me develop a more sophisticated sociological imagination and refine my own research focus. This year, I will be presenting my project on black LGBTs attitudes toward marriage at the workshop to improve its theoretical and analytical focus and developments with the feedback I receive from…

I was fortunate to be born in the United States and it has afforded me many privileges that have allowed me to achieve success. My mother immigrated to the United States from Taiwan when she was young, and hadn’t she done so I would not have the same opportunities that I do now. Being asian but having the appearance of someone who is caucasian I have never had to experience discrimination and all that comes from it. I had the privilege of a free public education and the ability to pursue higher…

Most humans who become involved in trafficking are tricked into it. They are women or children who come from very poor families. Someone who is wealthy sees how poor they are and takes advantage of them. They offer the poor woman or child a job as a maid or a salesperson then take them away to some brothel or bar to work as a slave. There are also families where, if the family is poor enough and they have enough children, they will sell some of their younger children to get money to live.…

different from sociological knowledge? Common sense knowledge is usually generalizations. Common sense observations are not subjected to the strict forms of testing that is necessary for valid sociological explanations. Myths are stories of people explaining natural or social phenomenon involving supernatural events or beings. Myths are also widely held false beliefs or ideas. Sociological knowledge usually start with a theory that can be tested in a systematic way. 2. What is the…

handful of social functions. The first few chapters focuses on things such as culture and a group of people’s values in their world; so as we read further into the subject of Sociology, we will begin to see more and more of just how exactly the sociological imagination is identified. Chapter one in our textbook explains in great detail what makes a society exists, and the ways in which it forms over time. By the time you have read only a page or two, you will already know that a society is…

I know many people are really against these modern ways of dating. Many older people think traditional dating is the only way a man and woman can fall in love. They believe in the popular boy meet a girl, boy asks girl on a date, and girl and boy fall in love. I happen to agree with those people who believe in the traditional ways of dating. Online dating does not allow you to get the girl or boy in his or her natural element. While online dating sometimes does show the favorable result, the…