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…
Essays on Sociology
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…
TikTok is a social media app made by a Chinese company, ByteDance. The app was released in September 2016, and it has become very popular lately. TikTok allows people to make short videos with a duration of one minute or shorter. People use this platform…
Bacon’s Rebellion within the early fall of 1676, armed horsemen cantered on the Middlesex road. Tumult, riot, and rebellion had come back to Virginia. The troubles had begun aloof from the Indians and English were still in touch (as they weren’t in Middlesex), and also…
The Virginians grow tobacco, in 1617 and need labor, at first, they the Indians and African blacks had begun but was not yet the primary source of Labor in Virginia. So, to get the labor need to run their plantations, another source is the European…
Growing up in the 1950s, Mike Rose spent his childhood in a diner where his mother, Rosie, worked. As he observed all of the workers, he was interested by their adjustment to concur with each other. Being first generation to attend college, he majored in…
Symbolic interaction theory is a term that refers to the language and symbols a person uses to see how it will make others respond (Griffin, Ledbetter & Sparks 2019). The symbols for this theory uses verbal and non-verbal cues. The theory was developed by social…
For as easy as it sounds to write about it was quite hard for me. I was born on February 21st of 2000. I was born on President’s Day that year. I was born in Voorhees Township and grew up in Winslow Township. My parents…
Based on real life events, “The Pursuit of Happiness” takes a complex look at the family environment, where dedication and a commitment to upholding one’s family overwhelm personal barriers faced. Chris, played by Will Smith, is a salesperson for medical equipment, and has dedicated his…
In his article Blue-Collar Brilliance, Mike Rose is an American professor who studies blue-collar work. Rose contradicts the argument that links intelligence with education and believes that intelligence is not associated with the grades and IQ results a person has received. Throughout his article, Rose…
Introduction Many are the times that people think that their personal challenges outweigh those of others. Individuals are blinded by obstacles they come across and forget that even more bigly and complicated issues are faced by others in different social structures. Literally, this may seem…
I read an essay called Once more to the lake by, Elwyn Brooks White. It is a reflective piece on the power of memory and the chill of mortality. He writes about himself suffering from an identity crisis as he revisits a lake that he…
The problem of the Common Pool Resources (here after CPR), all member of the community jointly owns this resource, all the equal rights over the resources. The economic features of the common pool resources are rival by competitive and non-excludable (Professor XU Jintao Microeconomics &…
Moving on to the views of what is the term “sense of place” in sustainability, ‘The notion of place in the construction of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in Singapore’, by Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh, argues about the proper definition and importance of how ‘place’…
Writing of the essay under this topic is quite a challenge for me. After all, as someone who was born in Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars, who was educated on stories about crimes during the World War II, and someone who is witnessing right wing…
“The black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness” –Marcus Garvey, (Cammock-Gayle, 2013). This is a quote from one of Marcus Garvey’s teachings that sought to give the black people a sense of pride in their blackness…
Dark Snake Killaz is a full-length narrative film about the protection from the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film investigates moves made by water defenders to stop the development of the oil pipeline and features moves made by law implementation, military, and corporate soldiers of fortune…
Mental health and illness have had a negative stigma on the African American community for decades. It is a conversation that has been ignored and looked over, but when are we going to face the real issue? Most people don’t understand the definition of mental…
Problem Statement For years now, discrimination within the criminal justice system has indubitably contributed towards the mass incarceration of African Americans. During the late 60’s President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on crime, however, this was nothing more than a discreet way target the black…
Introduction African Americans have been treated unfairly in all outlets of the media. African Americans are always given the short end of the stick and portrayed as savages and inferior to whites. This paper discusses the ways in which the media aids in the destroying…
Women’s status during America’s immense experiment as the world’s first democracy has undergone significant changes over the generations. According to Leila Aboulela, Minaret, “All through life there were distinctions – toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women – then, at…
My interviewee of this assignment about Experiences of Aging is professor Z who is a Literature instructor in the department of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. For instance, he was born in Nanjing, China and became the visiting scholar at Simon Fraser…
As Picasso once said, ‘Good artists borrow, great artists steal,’ and pop culture has been built on the foundation of inspiration from the past. In a sense, just about any song imaginable is a collection of ideas that preceded it. In 2013 the music industry…
Introduction When an infrastructural project such as the Dakota Access Pipeline is going to be built on native land, the native community would heavily oppose its construction by starting a protest. The protest by the Sioux Tribe would attract a lot of attention throughout the…
Cases across the nation are often corrupted because the arguments are one-sided opinions claimed by prejudice perspectives. A court system’s results may not always be as accurate as they claim to be due to the evidence not being considered. Corruption in the criminal justice system…
The blind spot quadrant of the Johari Window describes the dynamics of information that is unknown to one person, but known by others. As applied to relationships between a supervisor and a subordinate, the blind spot consists of activities that the supervisor expects the subordinate to…
The Hull House, is an example of a settlement housing in Chicago which was co-founded (prior to Hayden’s article) by female sociologist Jane Addams and the activist Ellen Gates Starr. At its infancy in 1889, it was deemed as “a community of university women” who…
Juan Flores is the author of the essay “The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity” from his book Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity. In the essay, Flores examines Puerto Rican immigrants/migrants and their experience of moving from mainland Puerto Rico to an urban city…
The Syracuse University mascot used to be a very controversial topic back when the mascot was the Saltine Warrior. This racist mascot divided the community and now Otto is bringing the community one step closer to healing that divide. While the controversy and pain of…
In 1921, Carl Jung introduced the terms introversion and extraversion to distinguish the way people interact with their surroundings. Whereas extraverts’ interests and energy are drawn towards the outer world of people and things, introverts tend to prefer the internal world of their internal thoughts…
Social networking has an extreme influence on today’s society, yet despite its huge influence, many hindrances become apparent in it which negatively affects the world. Social networking is defined as “the activity of sharing information and communicating with groups of people using the internet, especially…
Objective: In the first half of the essay I will highlight the importance of studying representation of identities in media and the influence of media in enforcing or challenging the hierarchies of social power. I will draw focus on femininity and feminist movement. My research…
The phrase “just pray on it” is a common saying in regards to mental health issues, disparities and emotions in the black community. Major mental disorders are often ignored due to lack of knowledge and understanding. There’s this stigma about psychological openness, and help-seeking, which…
Successful aging specifically particularly is important because we all particularly essentially want to live long happy and healthy lives, which mostly actually is fairly significant, which is quite significant. We all generally want to mostly actually be pretty active up to our very last days,…
Introduction As humans get older, they experience increased risks and rates of disease and disability. Above the age of 65, 80% of seniors experience at least one chronic condition, with common diseases being heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, and cancer (Flood, 2007). On top of these…
Puerto Rico is a carribean island that became territory of the United States in 1898, after the Spanish-Cuban-American War. Puerto Ricans became United States citizens in 1917, allowing them to legally migrate to any state. An influx of Migration to the US began after the…
Matthew Rhys, who is well known for the television series “The Americans” once said, “I’ve suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It’s why I went into acting.” This quote can relate to people in many different ways because, when you don’t know who…
As mentioned above, we knew that social influence can be categorized into implicit expectations and explicit expectations. The differences in controllability, intentionality, alertness, or efficiency are the ideas to characterize implicit and explicit attitudes. Implicit expectations are unspoken rules which are inaccessible to consciousness and…
As being part of the nation, it is important to know how to operate within the boundaries of the statutes given by our forefathers. Obedience is a refiner that molds an individual to maintain order and respect. Especially in these current times, some unfortunately have…
Women are an integral section of the society. They play a very vital function besides which a society can’t go forward. “She” is the mom of mankind. Despite preserving such an im-portant and essential position, function of women has been defined via guys over millennia….
As Mary Mcleod Bethune (1950) states “ We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power towards good ends.” The youth activism of Newsboys and Mother Jones…
The field of psychology can be supremely helpful in reducing health care disparities especially for minority individuals in America whose voices often go unheard. Findings from a 2002 medical journal stated that Spanish speaking Hispanic patients were far less likely than English speaking Hispanic patients…
Money talks. This phrase is more prevailing in the current world economy than it ever has been. It was only a matter of time before an innocent human life got a valuation placed on it and in 2017 some Americans did just that. The Dakota…
Social media has lots of cons. One of the biggest main concerns is how social media aids the spread of hate groups and online bullying. Around 10,000 tweets per day contain racial slurs. Many children may endanger themselves because they do not understand the public…
Judith Ortiz Cofer is a Puerto Rican immigrant and a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia. Cofer has written many books, poems and essays in her career. As the author of “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met…
The podcast “Serial” created and narrated by Sarah Koenig, was the fastest ever podcast to reach 5 million downloads and the biggest podcast in the world in 2015. The weekly podcast is Koenig’s investigation into the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and whether the…
Many people often hear the word HBCU but don’t comprehend the that means behind it; an HBCU is a Historically Black College or University that was once installed earlier than 1964 with the mission of assembly the academic needs of Black Students. African American college…
Self-disclosure, in a nutshell, is the Johari window. Businessballs, (2019) referred to Johari model as “ feedback/disclosure model of self-awareness.” The Window model was created in 1955 by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham; thus, the Johari window name comes from the first names of the…
The basis of morality brings about a multitude of questions; how do we behave toward one another? How are we to learn morals? Why do we need them? What are the rules? Morality is a social phenomenon that I contribute most of what has been…
Imperialism a common act done by developed nations colonizing less developed nations for their people, resources, land, etc. Prior to freedom in India, the British effectively exploited their lands for their own economic and political gain. During the British occupation of India, a nonviolent civil…
Over 90% of indigenous women have experienced violence in their lifetime. 86% of those women were sexually assaulted by a non-tribal member. Although Native Americans make up a mere 1% of the total population (United States Cong. Savanna’s Act), the US Department of Justice estimates…
Indian Home Rule (1938) by Mahatma Gandhi Inspires the Indian people to work free from British colonial influence during the 20th century. The book outlines Gandhi’s criticism of India’s domination by Britain; it urges the Indians to reject English traditions, laws, and the business sector…
“Boys don’t cry”, “don’t be such a baby”, “be a man-get over it” are all stereotypes that sets a standard for what a male behaviour should be. This discourages men showing displays of emotion and allowing each man to be their own unique personality. By…
Sense of place has its distinctive characteristics, whereas usual places do not actually impress people. It can be explained in many different ways, but normally, it means that people find meaning in places through their own experiences (Department of Commerce, 2012). This essay aims to…
Sense of place is an aspect that has been considered from multiple viewpoints and by academics from numerous disciplines. Its significance in different aspects regarding people’s perception of it, the importance of feelings of belonging and attachment to place (Buttimer, 1980; Liu, 2014; Marcu, 2012;…
By the year 1970, the Chicano movement was heavily dominated by young students in high schools and colleges. González explains how they focused on problems that they experienced at their educational institutions, and how they were committed to the concept of cultural regeneration. By definition,…
Introduction “According to Richard P. Adler (2005), Civic engagement refers to the ways in which citizens participate in the life of a community in order to improve conditions for others or to help shape the community’s future (p 236-253). Kent E. Portney stated that “The…
Fallacies are often used to support arguments on an illogical contention, that can weaken one’s argument and used as an unreliable reference. Logical fallacies are seen throughout different aspects in of media, ads, radio, and television. Companies and corporations intended reasoning in using logical fallacies…
A wealth of theoretical and empirical research has been devoted to causal explanations of youth offending, and to identifying risk factors that lead to delinquent criminal behaviour. Through the lens of risk factors, researchers have viewed youth offenders as those who are living in poverty…
Early masculine ideals display a fear of being viewed as feminine which leads men to compete with others for dominance and become aggressive. As explained in the video about toxic masculinity, these views are learned throughout life, no one is born this way (McIntosh, 2016)….
Has someone ever formed a stereotype of you rooted from a single story? The single-story mask and stops the ability to observe the difficulties, variety and similarities that assembles the world. The one-sided story keeps us from seeing people as people but for what they…
I was born and raised in the still developing, air polluted, birthplace of hip hop: The Bronx. I am an Afro-Latina Queer woman and I have no shame of where I come from; despite it being rough around the edges. The Bronx is honorably raw,…
Introduction Civics, which is defined as the study of the privileges and duties of one as a citizen of a society, undoubtedly plays a big role in our lives. We are surrounded and moreover affected by civics every single day, but even so, a number…
In her essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” (1987), Gloria Anzaldúa asserts that foreigners were treated as inferior because of their language. She does this by giving her readers insights into her own life, through the usage of imagery and description. Anzaldúa hopes that…
The term ‘sense of place’ can be described for some as just a physical place, while for others it’s more a feeling of perceptions held by people. Each of us have a different perspective on the term ‘place/space’. People can give a different sense of…
The Chicana Feminist Movement came to be as a result of other identity movements that emerged from the 1960s in the U.S. With the combination of their unique experiences with race, gender, sexuality, and class, the Chicana women were able to fuel their fight against…
I was born and raised in America and I could recall my earliest memory of “boys being boys”. In kindergarten, I remember my male classmates pushing girls around saying “ew” or that girl had “cooties” as a means to separate themselves from the girls. It…
On Wednesday November 20, 2019 I went to go visit the exhibit “LA Starts Here” located in LA Plaza de Culture y Artes. My really close friend from high school who is currently my roommate came along to visit the museum with me. She was…
Why don’t all the guys in this room right now man up? Like seriously, why are you guys just sitting there when you could be at work supporting your family? This is not okay. Saying this will never be okay simply because it is incorrect….
There are different reasons why people commit crime, some of them are caused by inner factors like psychology and emotion, however, on the other hand, some others may become crime due to outside factors like the label given by the society or authority. And that’s…
Throughout history, there have been many influential individuals producing ideologies for and against those afflicted by mental health. Meaning that societal views have changed the way in which people perceive mental illness in general. This is extremely important to note because it applies the foundation…
The Chicano Movement of the mid-twentieth century marked an era of revolution, resistance, and re-organization as there was a far-reaching cry for equality by Chicanx individuals. People from different generations, genders, and sexualities in the Chicanx communities joined in the movement, however, their contributions have…
When I finally narrowed down my search for colleges to Miami and signed up for newsletters, information and updates, I began to get notified of opportunities for minority students on campus. One of the first programs I was informed of was the Bridges Scholars program…
“Babe, can we talk,” he asked with a nervous tone. “My parents are racist,’ my caucasian boyfriend Asher blurted out, sounding defeated and helpless. My heart made a sudden jolt and then quieted down in my chest as a crippling fear wrapped a tight grip…
Civic engagement is a process through which individuals or groups of individuals come together in order to find a solution or come up with ways that they can use to improve the society. Civic Engagement “is a process in which people take collective action to…
