Essays on Sociological Theory

The article “Ethnographies of Race, Crime, and Justice: Toward a Sociological Double-Consciousness” aims to introduce double-consciousness thinking into ethnographic studies of race, crime, and justice (RCJ) in order to “redefine what it means to study practices, structures, and cultural processes within the field” (Rios, Carney,…

We can see that Darwinism was used significantly to encourage human competition to oppose intervention in the natural human order and was the idea that humans compete for the struggle of existence Charles Darwin came up with the theory of natural selection called survival of…

Peter Higgins offers ways in which men can be just as oppressed as women in Three Hypotheses for Explaining the So-Called Oppression of Men. By doing so, Higgins’ goal is to explain how the expectations imposed on men being directly linked to their masculinity is…

Introduction The concept of intersectionality intended to mild up dynamics that have frequently been ignored by using feminist actions and principle. The emergence of intersectionality challenged the notion that gender became the primary thing identifying a woman’s destiny. This essay will be focusing on showing…

The term intersection was originally coined by Kimberly Crenshaw; which was to do with the identities of black women. This essay aims to unpack the definition of intersectionality and then further explain how it works with ideas and differences. Another aspect that will be tackled…

W.E.B Du Bois was born Feb 23, 1868, Great Barrington, MA. He was an influential African American rights activists. One of the first African American sociologist, to earn a PH.D. from Harvard University in 1895. He mostly grew up in a white American neighborhood where…

Conflict has been a crucial element in society and human relationship and coexistence. America is a multicultural nation, which made it a fertile space for interracial conflicts. The greater one was the African Americans conflict. According to Du Bois, “the problem of the 20th century…

Cultural appropriation, a term that makes people uncomfortable and qualmish when mentioned. We hear about it and see it, on the internet , outside , and even on the headlines of our big newspapers. The definition of “cultural appropriation” is ‘the adoption or use of…

In 1859, Charles Darwin had published On the Origins of Species, which talked about the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. Thinkers at the time had applied Darwin’s discoveries to human society; one of them…

It’s the beginning of sophomore year and my whole life flashed before my eyes. I’m all alone with nobody for guidance. This was it, I was really going to have a record, and it’s not for the music industry. A couple of weeks into sophomore…