Visual anthropology

What exactly is a social imaginary? A social imaginary can be defined as the interpretive understanding of the world, what a good life looks like, and how we can attain it. A Social imaginary encompasses the creative and meaningful dimensions of the real world, the dimensions through which people in our society create their ways of living and the rules by which they live on earth. Growing up in an African American household, my parents taught me that life is tough and I would have to work two…

Sociology is known to be the study of society itself, the relationship between people and the community; this is used to understand how our actions shape everything around us. They investigates social causes or issues such as the effects of a community on a person, gender identity, as well as race. To do so they may design research projects, collect data through observation or surveys, and collaborate with sociologist all around the world to seek help to test their theories out. To look at the…

Violence, an integral part of modern society, constitutes the lives of individuals that lead to reactions in the sociological perspective. In terms of sociology, violence grasps the control one’s realities. Sociological impact of violence is so intertwined with side factors that individual get derailed in conducts transforming personalities, emotions, thoughts, world views. This study deals with violence in the sociological view and its implications as depicted in Conrad’s The Secret Agent.…

“You could be anything you wanted to be in America”. In different places people have different perspectives and ways of life due to their unique cultural identities. Your culture is composed of your values, beliefs, customs, language, etc. These different perceptions of culture can cause conflict between family members, friends, strangers, and even yourself. In the articles “Two Kinds”, by Amy Tan, “Everyday Use”, by Alice Walker, and “Ethnic Hash”, by Patricia J Williams, the authors illustrate…

“Stranger in the Village” by James Baldwin explores the ideas of racism in earlier and present societies. This topic is of current interest, especially in today’s time; America and other nations are presently partaking in many social and racial justice movements. Baldwin opens his story by describing the first time he went to a small village in Switzerland. Due to the town’s inaccessibility, a person with black skin had never set foot in this remote village before, so Baldwin became a spectacle…

My Personal Worldview Influences Worldviews are beliefs that affect how someone views and responds to the world. Everyone has different worldviews shaped by many factors such as how they were raised, their cultures, experiences and education. Along with attempting to assess where the worldview stems from, evaluating the worldview is also significant in discovering what is blindly followed and what parts of the worldview makes rational sense. Worldviews are defined by the nature of humans, the…

In Between: An examination of three anthropologists’ moments of liminality Liminality is a term used in anthropology to describe a period of transition concerning social structure and understanding. Liminality consists of a pre-liminal state, a liminal period, and a communitas state. The pre-liminal state is characteristically defined as a time when events occur under specific conditions that start to press against an individual’s normal social structure and thought process. The liminal period…

The Theory of cultural Differences works in my everyday life by multipool reasons and reasons that my not come as a norm to most people not in my culture. In my workplace and with family and friends, I experience multiple Cultures that are different than mine. I myself am more of an individualist instead of a collectivist. The reason that I am more of an individualist than a collectivist is for the reason that if I am not up to my standards I have nobody to blame but me. I know how many hours…

The interpretive writer shapes and forms his work in such a way that we gain greater understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live in. Similar to a spotlight shining down at the performer on stage. Interpretive literature shines on the worlds issues and helps us to broaden our understanding of the human way of life and existence, and to illuminate certain aspects of life. Both stories, Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and Identities by W.D. Valgardson, are still pertinent today…

Through the detailed works of Erving Goffman’s: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life compared to Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality, assessed the daily social occurences of everyday life that create the basis of people’s behavior through social interactions. The extensively observe the interactions of people in a variety of scenarios as their learned behavior is applied to those certain situations. Their observations reveal how the social interactions of…