A definition of meritocracy offered by Levinson, Cookson and Sadovik is that “meritocracy conceptualizes merit in terms of tested competency and ability, and most likely, as measured by IQ or standardized achievement tests” (Levinson, Cookson and Sadovnik, 2014). The idea of a meritocratic education system…
Essays on Sociology
In literature, sometimes depending upon what you read will make you think about what is good literature and what is bad literature. My definition of ‘good literature’ is literature that helps you learn and understand as to what happened and why did it happen. ‘Remarks…
Meritocracy describes a system in which the people that are successful and get ahead, do so on their own merit and accomplishments. The concept of meritocracy grants all individuals a fair chance of success. In reality, the myth of meritocracy justifies the gaping inequalities in…
There is history of bias and discrimination against African Americans that is deeply rooted in colorism. Such prejudice exists both outside and within the African American/Black community. Discrimination based on skin tone within a racial group, known as colorism, is one of the many byproducts…
Michel De Montaigne’s book The Essays: A Selection is captivating and bold, especially considering the time that is was written in when hardly anyone would write about oneself due to sounding conceived with oneself, boring, biased, or uneducated. However, Montaigne’s book is neither of those…
Widely used in China but also in the United States and Europe, TikTok falls under new rules that prohibit content considered problematic by the Chinese authorities. Despite its success internationally, TikTok is not immune to Chinese censorship. The China Netcasting Services Association, which represents and…
Montaigne describes the barbarous people in his essay, `Des cannibales` as noble savages, who live in harmony with nature, share everything, lead a simple but honourable life and practice an uncorrupted religion without being tainted by Western societies. They hold two characteristic in high esteem,…
Is colorism about black people’s self–hatred or white people’s racism? Colorism began back in slavery when the lighter complexion was given more of a fair treatment than the darker complexion. To this present day, the lighter toned are portrayed as superior and viewed as the…
The effects of colorism have been bizarre. In the article “Why the Effects of Colorism Are So Damaging” by Nadra Kareem Nittle, mentions that colorism is consequence of racism, colorism is separation dependent on skin tone in which lighter skin is better than dark skin…
TikTok, a video sharing platform of 15-second video clips, rose to popularity among teens in 2018 gaining 96 million users in the United States and 500 million users worldwide. It became headline news when its valuation jumped to $75 billion, surpassing Uber ($72 billion) to…
If you haven’t been paying attention to TikTok, you haven’t been paying attention. It’s pretty evident that the impact of social media is astronomical and the distribution of information in today’s world is greater than anyone could have ever imagined. In just the past 15…
In Greta Thunberg’s UN speech “We’ll not let you get away with this” the speaker tells the international government that they are claiming to fix the global warming problem but they are really not fixing it even though they have the money to fix the…
Colorsim is discrimination against darker-tone individuals. Where the light-skinned individuals are praised for being lighter and the darker-toned individuals are criticized. Colorism is an issue in today’s society people need to be more educated on it. The people of the society need to know what…
Rene Descartes’s, Discourse on Method, helps with the understanding of both Michel de Montaigne’s Essay, Catalina de Erauso’s autobiography, as well as Peter Paul Rubens painting, Descent from the Cross. Their ideas added to the ways in which Europe helped conceptualized the New World. Each…
These past several years, the use of social media has increased significantly and have longer-term prospects correspondingly brighter all around the world including Indonesia. The growth of social media makes people easier to organize actions and share information around their environment. (Knuttila, 2011). Not only…
