Essay on Participant Observation: Understanding Society

For my virtual observation, I watched Graduating Peter from YouTube and observed Peter Gwazdauskas through middle school and high school. This documentary made in Blacksburg, Virginia. Graduating Peter has a setting based on the 1980’s educational system. Peter has down syndrome. In addition, Peter was diagnosed with depression. Also, I observed his daily life task and challenges.

An example of this would be managers using the data I present in my essay about the weight room to decide which machines they should reduce, and which machines or pieces of equipment they should order more of.

These two Case Studies come from a National Center on Case Studies. I think that a case study approach is very useful in applying knowledge and this is what makes you learn it better. They may be a little daunting when you read them but I will help you go through them. Please ask for help so this topic becomes more enjoyable for you.

Cal. Evid. Code § 352 (West. 2016) Evidence of gang membership cannot be admitted when the sole relevance is to show the defendant’s criminal propensities or bad character; such evidence is only admissible when it is logically relevant to a material issue in the particular prosecution. People v. Perez (1981) 114 Cal.App.3d 470, 477. The court can admit this relevant gang evidence to establish the defendant’s motive, intent, or some fact concerning the charged offenses so long as the probative value of the

You must make it clear which are case study examples and which are actual examples of your real practice

chances for his entire life, also the social mobility was his change within the social hierarchy.

Where we are, and what we believe affect the way we view society. Social lenses are the preconceptions we make about the world around us. It is what makes people come across the same situation have different perspectives and understandings it. They are caused by gender, sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and all in all experiences. As life goes on, a perspective over a situation can change because of the experiences faced in life. Social lenses have affected my perspective on the education system, the “Black Lives Matter” movement, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

Gang culture was not necessarily known to the public, but the show’s creators tried to

The irritation and despair of Esther Belin’s Night Travel flows with the fearless attitude of Laura Da’s Vantage. Both of these women are Native American, but are from different tribes and regions of the country.Yet they both express their Native American spirit separately through their poems. Laura’s style in poetry includes elements of time, travel, history and place. As for Esther Belin, her work portrays the experience of a Native American living in urban Los Angeles. She attempts to bring Native Americans into mainstream American culture and receive recognition, as well as discussing issues regarding racism and isolation (Poetry FDN).

A norm is defined as expectations, or rules of behavior that reflect and enforce behavior.(Henslin, 2009) When people are in public settings we expect individuals to behave in a certain way. For example when standing in line to see a show or to purchase an item we expect everyone to stand in a single file line. We expect individuals to wait their turn as they proceed to the front of the line. Another expectation or norm is we expect individuals to have dinning etiquette when eating in restaurants. We expect people to dine using the proper utensils. I thought about this example as I was pondering for an observation to perform. I decided that I would take a chance and visit a well respected restaurant in my area and break the norm

Let me start out by saying that your discussion response was very impressive, and I enjoyed reading it. As you shown in your discussion there are four fundamental foundations of making an anit-social act a criminal offence the one that I see that has affected our society for the past four decades is the political and sociological classification of criminal acts is the difference between the classification of crack cocaine and powder cocaine (Larkin, 2014). During the mid-80’s there was an epidemic use of crack cocaine that had deeply affected every community in the United States. The prices of crack cocaine were low compared to that of powder coca even though they come from the same plant with the same base product. The price differences

This was a group project that consisted of me and another person from my clinical. My colleague and I both researched all three topics so we would be equally as knowledgeable about them. After the

Social structures are constraints that affect the lives of both the affluent and the indigent members of society.  Each society has its own set of social arrangements for example; class, gender and ethnicity are all constraints that each society has to deal with in one way or another.  One of the most fundamental of the social structures would be class.  Class structure is found in all societies and is the key source of economical inequality.  Members of different class groups start their lives with unequal opportunities.  This means that when someone is born into a poor household   they will undoubtedly remain in the same economical situation they began in.  Gender is another important

Reality is not an objective thing that is imposed upon us, but is created by us. Reality does not exist externally but internally, as each individual or group interprets it, and is always changing. Due to these concepts sociologists often speak about the “social construction of reality” which is essential to understand when attempting to explain human social behavior. Since realty is the basis of people’s actions, W. I. Thomas states, “If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences”. The “social construction of reality”, human social behavior and W. I. Thomas’s statement are three concepts that fit hand in hand and are important when trying to explain one another.

Explanation of common sense and sociological approaches to the study of Human Societies, with examples.