Tyler Cowen

Sudhir Venkatesh is an Indian native who was a student at the University of Chicago beginning a journey studying sociology in the 1980s. Throughout this journey there will be riveting moments I personally did not want to end and some that make me want to stop reading. Sudhir takes the readers throughout the lives of gang members and ones living in poverty to further explore this section of Chicago. Venkatesh starts his excursion in the housing projects of Chicago to complete research on…

Annotated Bibliography Greenhouse, Steven. “Driverless Future?” The American Prospect, Prospect.org, 21 Mar 2017. http://prospect.org/article/driverless-future. Accessed 6 Feb 2018. In “Driverless Future”, Steven Greenhouse discusses the potential beneficial and adverse effects that self-driving cars will cause in the future. Greenhouse begins by laying out the two most talked about effects of automation: job displacement and safety increase. In terms of jobs, he asserted that there would…

These effects are -- at their roots -- economic, yet they mean different things to different groups of people. For the upper class, this is a sociological impact. The article “The Benefits of Wealth” by David Henderson analyzes a quote from Tyler Cowen, an American economist, when he says “Wealth does protect you from the depredations of others, such as being treated very badly by the police or legal system. In this defensive sense wealth can give you a good deal of power” (Henderson). This…

Introduction Social media, the internet revolution that has impacted the world and everything in it. Social media has been rapidly growing since its creation, and has grown to touch billions of people worldwide. Resulting from this recent growth is a lack of knowledge of the general effects it can have on society. Sociologists review issues like this through four main perspectives: functionalist, conflict, feminist, and interactionist. Functionalists think that everything in society has a…

The Great Recession—which authoritatively kept going from December 2007 to June 2009—started with the blasting of a 8 trillion dollar lodging air pocket. The subsequent loss of riches prompted sharp lessenings in buyer spending. This loss of utilization, joined with the budgetary business sector disarray activated by the blasting of the air pocket, likewise prompted a breakdown in business venture. As customer spending and business speculation became scarce, gigantic occupation misfortune took…