Essays on Sociology

So, you’ve made it through the maze of online dating, or you’ve met your cutie at a bar or through a friend (or perhaps a fabulous dating coach). You’ve breezed through coffee dates, the first big dinner date, maybe even the first sleepover. Your gut…

In “Backpacks vs Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis”, Laura Bolin Carroll clarifies the requirement of rhetorical analysis to help with disentangling the reason and aim behind plenty of circumstances experienced every day. She elucidates the subject by depicting the means required to viably do this….

The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell is made up of nine chapters showing how racism is in America and how strongly it affects black Americans. Each chapter of his book presents a different fictional scenario through which we can see how the issues and…

As a child who loved looking at house plans, I was amazed at the various architectural building styles that were used to construct houses. As far as I can remember, I could always be found in any store with my parents looking for real estate…

The roll of social media is known to be significant in shaping the outcome and courses of political and socio-economic aspects known to the world. In countries like the United States, politicians use social media to inspire voters in their favor and secure their ballot…

In the realm of any profession, there is going to be situations that conflict with your moral obligations to yourself, and to the world. When these ethical situations arise, there is often little time to think about how to make a decision. The best you…

The Washington Post cites “a toxic collection of pathologies—poverty, unemployment, domestic violence, sexual assault, alcoholism, and drug addiction” as some of the many issues that afflict high percentages of the Native American community (Horwitz 2014). Statistically, minority groups in America have higher rates of poverty;…

History is important in another way. If Orientalist scholarship looked to the past to define the essence of Arab civilization, anthropology’s ahistoricism has tended to produce its own brand of essentialism—the essentialism of Arab culture. ” (Abu-Lughod, p. 301)Edward Said thought an orientalist is anyone…

Language to me is more than just the words I speak. It isn’t just one uniform way of speaking, but it is a variety of techniques of communication. It is how I understand the people around me. Like in the article “Mother Tongue” by Amy…

Collaborative leadership is becoming ever more important in the professional business world where generational differences need to be put aside to be able to effectively work together and gain competitive advantages. The modern workplace now consists of four different generations, soon to be five, for…