How I Changed My Life

Sociology is the study of how social forces influence individuals living within a society. Any society is made of norms, values and beliefs that have the effect of constraining individuals’ thoughts and behaviors. Through understanding and sociological imagination, individuals can remove or at least lessen the social forces’ impacts that are causing the constraints.

Sociology 101 has changed my view on human interaction and has opened my eyes to polar views on the world we live in. Over the course of the semester, we utilized advanced sociological methods to evaluate some of the most controversial topics facing our generation. This class has impacted my life in numerous positive lights through the teachings that Dr. Morlock has provided us.

The history of how society came about is very old but short, only emerging during the 19th century. Therefore, it is one of the youngest as well as one of the oldest of the social sciences. According to the American Sociological Association sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts. In comparison to other majors, sociology has a broad scope with relevance to research, theory, and application of knowledge. Sociology provides many distinctive perspectives on the world, generating new ideas and critiquing the old. Because sociology addresses the most

After reviewing the article titles given for this first assignment, I believe they indicate that Sociology, generally speaking, is not only a study of diversity or commonality in traits among people; it is also a science about factors in a person’s life and how these factors culminate responses. Interestingly enough, its topics of concern seem to be directly determined by current and common events of the world. Through the invention and expansion of new ideas, popular trends and fashions through time, Sociology adapts to responsibly to service the very subjects of interest it studies; for, even the slightest change of a person’s daily experience can have an insurmountable impact on attitude, personal growth, family

Kendall, Diana Elizabeth. Sociology in our times: the essentials. 10th ed., Boston, MA, USA, Cengage Learning, 2016.

My name is Phat Lam and I came from Saigon City, Vietnam. I have immigrated to California with my parent for almost three years and I am now living with them. I didn 't understand how much my background and life chances are extraordinarily affected by numerous complex sociological factors before I am taking Sociology. I understand now that using my sociological imagination permits me to interface my own encounters, practices, and behaviors to the bigger social structure. A portion of the sociological topics that show in my life are the means by which ethnocentrism, social mobility, Cooley’s looking-glass self theory, minority group,peer group, and social institution have assumed a part in adding to my sociological autobiography.

Professor Howard stresses the importance of sociology as a field, especially in how it opens up people’s minds to the realities of the world. It helps people understand the dynamics of how the world operates and how our own personal worlds operate. Also, sociology allows people to witness how social forces influence us and shape our actions every day.

Sociology is a part of everyday life. People experience sociological changes when they get married, get a new job, or get discriminated against. All of these things can alter a person’s perspective on a group of people or even the world. Since the beginning of this class, I have personally endured several sociological changes in my life. I recently started a new job. I’m meeting new and wonderful people and I no longer dread having to go to work. I have also begun setting plans for my wedding to the one girl who I know will make everyday better than the one before. But, perhaps the one instance that has affected me the most and the deepest was when my parents got a divorce.

Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Family life is reflected in all sides of the sociological spectrum. There are many ways a family can be effected socially. Social class and the way you choose to raise your children is a primary way your daily life can be influence by sociology.

It was rather ironic that the question for this final was the same question that my mother had asked me before I actually started this class. When I told my mom I was taking sociology, she asked me what sociology was and at the time I didn’t know exactly what to tell her. I had no idea how broad a subject this would turn out to be or how much it would encompass from our everyday lives. Over the course of this semester I have found out the answer to the question and that there isn’t a single area of our lives that isn’t contained within it. I’m going to tell you what sociology is and what sociology means to me.

Thus college introduced me to sociology and concepts like the sociological imagination, a theory that shows that personal problems are connected to a larger one. It allowed me to articulate my experiences. Sociology encompass all disciplines –education inequality, racial inequality, worker rights, and politics—. Therefore, sociology makes me feel connected to others because I know that I am not alone in my experiences. Therefore, as an educator and scholars to tell them that they are not alone in their experiences and that I’m looking out for them.

Looking back over the course of this quarter. I feel that I have learned many new and interesting things in both English and Sociology. In this essay, I’ll talk about what interested me in particular. At the beginning of the quarter, the study of sociology caught my interest. I was fascinated with how Sociology is used to study human social behavior, which provides different ideas to better help us understand the social world that we live in. What really caught my attention were the three sociological perspectives. Which are; Symbolic Interactionism, Functional Analysis and Conflict Theory. Some things that intrigued me about the three sociological perspectives is that each perspective analyzes different types of social behavior. I see these as sociological tools and just like tools, each perspective has its own purpose.

At the beginning of the semester, I knew very little about sociology or even what it was about. I just knew I needed to take the class for my degree plan to transfer to a four-year university and that I would be doing a lot of reading about different terms and theories of society. However, this first month of class has helped me improve my understanding of what sociology is about and shown me how my personal society has impacted the way I view society. Not only did I learn about the relationships between society and myself, but I have also learned different concepts that have helped me gain a better understanding of how society works. There are three specific sociological concepts that has helped me improve my understanding of the relation

As I reflect on sociology 100, I realized that this is truly a course that opens up one 's mind. I admire the fact that this course really going to teach me a lot. I was really scared to take this class because honestly I had no idea what Sociology is? I never took this class but my professor made it easy and he made very clear that how we can keep an A in the class and what he expects from us. The first week of the class was just about the syllabus and what chapter we gonna cover throughout the semester. In total we studied nine chapter. They all helped me a lot to understand the true meaning of sociology and why it is useful. The first chapter was The Social Imagination, The second chapter was Studying the Social World, The third chapter was Social Interaction, The fourth chapter was Social Structure, The Fifth chapter was Culture, Media and Communication, The sixth chapter was Power and Politics, The seventh chapter was Social Stratification, Inequality and Poverty, The eight chapter was Race and Ethnicity and last but not least was Gender and Sexuality. I will just discuss the what I found most interesting, why they are important. First of all What is sociology? Really? I never asked this question to myself until the first day of class. Sociology is the study of "social behavior or society, including its origins, development, organization, networks and institutions." It allows you to go to different paths, it affects how we talk, it helps us to understand what 's going

Another thing that stuck out to me relating to this topic was the small green piece of paper that Linda held up in class. We were able to give it any meaning we wanted (plant, everyone gets 100). It’s interesting to look at something and give it meaning and follow that for many years. It’s important to see the world through a sociological lens for a many reasons. Keeping in mind that not everyone was raised the way you are, not everyone has the same beliefs as you and keeping an open mind will help you understand why the world is the way it is. In other words, it is always good to keep an open mind that society shapes us as humans. Looking at society from a sociological perspective makes you think more about why things are they way they are. Another thing that I often think about is the strange in the familiar that we learned at the beginning of the semester, which means taking something that seems “normal” to us and asking ourselves why we do this? For example, we can take something familiar like a birthday party and analyze it. We put a birthday cake in front of a child on their birthday and have them blow it