This course has given me insight on the many social problems, occurring in today’s society. During the course, we have touched upon many topics including the ones I will be writing about in this reflection. Becoming familiar with the several social topics, has enhanced my understanding and knowledge to comprehend such areas of focus into the matters of the world today. Sociology covers the study of all social beings, cultures, and societies. It examines patterns of social organization, the resulting
Kristenn Saintilus Reflection Essay There are many different sociological theories that sociologists have come up with in organizing today’s society. Three being Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism and Conflict theory. Functionalism has to do with an organizing set or a set of rules that are organized in an institution. Symbolic interactionism has to do with developing a perspective focus and relying on the process of social interaction. Conflict theory emphasizes a higher power
This was an exciting week as I began our course in sociology. In fact, this is the first sociology course that I have ever taken. Somehow, I’ve touched on nearly every one of the subjects we have read about this week: religion, economics, culture, psychology, and more. Sociology takes all these subjects and figures out how they fit into society so we can learn about who we are. Humanities are always interesting to me. So, I look forward to this course! In the first chapter I got introduced to concepts
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
don’t believe prestige is the most direct path to the other two p’s, but it can certainly happen. I expected most people to agree with me. However, I was shocked to see that a lot of people chose prestige over the other p’s. Perhaps, this is a reflection of the Christian ethics that Roberts teaches. I value prestige very highly. However, the question asked what the best path to having all three p’s was and I said wealth. I did not respond directly to it on moodle,
how I made the choices I made, and crossed the paths I crossed is by looking through the lens of the sociological imagination. The concept of the sociological imagination was introduced by C. Wright Mills [1916-1962] in 1959 in his paper titled: The Sociological Imagination. Mills defined it as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society” (1959). The sociological imagination is the ability to construct one’s personal experiences with society at a large scale. It
Shortly after the modernization time period there becomes a development of key ideas/ sociological ideas from Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, and Emile Durkheim. The most interesting thing about learning their key ideas were and where they originated. August Comte obtained the key ideas of the Renaissance and the formation of a good society that consisted
have learned there are many different terms and theories about society that I feel like I can relate to and have a much better understanding about the concept of sociology. For the last paper of this class I would like to talk about the last three sociological concepts that I feel have helped me improve my understanding of the relationship between society and myself. The three concepts that I will talk about are: fictive kin, agenda setting theory, and lastly, bystander effect or diffusion of responsibility
about social problems is that they are socially constructed. This means that people decide if societal condition is a social problem. Natural things like earthquakes and hurricanes are not social problems. I was also able to learn about the three sociological perspectives theories: Functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. These three theories make up a large part of how these social problems are viewed and why they occur. Functionalist compare society to a self-adjusting machine
things, were social constructs. It took randomly deciding to take a sociology course on a whim for the veil to be lifted. This class gave me the ability to wield my sociological imagination as a sort of lens to hold up to the world, and have those invisible borders be revealed. Through this lens, I have decided to take on the sociological perspective and look at the way my life has been shaped and molded by the hands of the society I grew up and live in. Through this perspective, I have come to realize