Sociology Course At Environmental Problems

One subject that I loved was in 8th grade History class where we were learning the Civil War. For some reason, knowing that people have lived through those hard times, and how they didn't know about simple things, like germs is cool to me.

The topic that was the most influential to me was the personality types. This topic has also been something interesting to learn about. First we were able to find our personality type and I turned out to be an ISTJ. Learning my personality type made me realize different things. For example, it has given me the idea that I need to be more extraverted to be an excellent nurse. It has also given me the chance to learn the best way to study. Being an ISTJ, I learned that I like to be very organized. Since my personality type states that I am a person who is very organized. This is true because I like to organize all of my information, especially notes, in a certain way. Or when I need to study, the best way to study would be in a quiet and isolated place. Introverts are known for liking their quiet and alone time.

There were many good topics we learned about this semester and the topic that I think is the best is when we learned about was the 19th Amendment. the 19th Amendment was created to give women their rights. Around the roaring twenties there was a big protest called the women’s rights movement which caused women to have their rights granted to them. Before this movement women did have the right to do anything really, they didn’t have the right to vote, they didn’t have have the right to own anything, they could not go out and buy anything because they could not work, and they could not do as they pleased. Women only really had a few jobs and that is stay at the house all day cook, clean, and take care of their husbands. This is why the Women’s

Since this assignment, not much has changed about me as a student. I find that if I am engaged with the material of classes and with my classmates I will have a lot to discuss in class. My Psychology of Gender class further proved to me that professors who are very open to different ideas and veering off the planned topic promote the greatest learning and reflecting. I was able to reflect about societal issues and norms more in the class than any other class before it because of the great atmosphere that the professor

My favorite calculus topic was learning how to solve integrals. I like solving derivatives, and solving integrals is the same thing in reverse. I find it fun to think about what numbers the solution will be. I also liked doing integration by parts. I had researched integration by parts and had made a presentation on it in a previous math class, so I knew a lot about it and was good at doing it.

One of the classes that I enrolled at Seattle University that introduced me to social justice was UCOR-1640 Paradise Lost: Social Problems. This course explored the social justice of basic institutions and social structure of America. In addition to social justice, the course reflected on the origin and nature of American values and character structure and problems. This course strongly emphasized the importance of the concept diversity at Seattle University. A diverse environment improves the students learning experience because it is going to teach them how to accept and deal with people with different backgrounds. Moreover, it is going to prepare them to how to be active in a multiethnic society such as the US. During this course, I was

In this first 9 weeks of disease and society, we've zoomed through many topics. We started by outlining classroom procedure and just ended the semester with STDs and their impact on the community. In disease and society we learn about various broad issues that plague our society. We then, through research, pick apart and dissect these issues as a class, in groups, an individually. This research process is one of the biggest things I have taken from this class so far. Knowing that I'm going to need this skill in the future, I am glad that I'm getting practice now. My favorite project that we've done so far is the one where we had to pick a controversy, present it, and then choose a side. My group chose legalizing prostitution as our controversy

Classroom Civility is a topic on how to behave in a classroom and how to effectively get the most out of your education and money. Classroom Civility goes through great examples of how to improve as a student such as Participation, Communication, and Being on time. Participation is taking notes in class and joining in on class room discussions being more active and applying the knowledge that you learn, this is a characteristic that I constantly try to improve on because it makes my class time more efficient and gives me less work to do later on. Communication talks about how to approach your Professor in different situations and how to stay focused in class by not having small conversations with others. I learned that by not staying focused in class I distract and annoy other classmates and the Professor, by using my class time effectively I will get my work done without bothering anyone.

For this week’s readings, the syllabus, beginning with the course description I look forward to learning more about minority and majority groups and how each groups factors influence social values. I believe when starting this course most of the class should already have an understanding of these topics based on the fact that we deal with them every day. When we interact with people in our own group and people of other groups we are unconsciously making judgements based on their status just as much as they are too. I believe it is important to be aware of those thoughts and be curious about why we might think that way. From the course objectives and assignments listed, it definitely seems like this class will have each student questioning themselves

1. On the first day of class, several different course themes were introduced to us the one on success and failure is one that I would like to address. The story I choose for further discussion was one that I found while reading the book Wherever There Is A Fight by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi this book provided a series of different stories that relate to the different course themes, but the one I liked expressed the course of success and failure. It talks about African-Americans and how they were treated unfairly simply because of the color of their skin. There were different periods in time that provided a series of different difficulties for African-Americans. During the Spanish/Mexican period, there was a sentiment of different feelings

According to the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, a global women’s foundation, women comprise the majority of the world’s poorest individuals and experience systematic marginalization, discrimination, and violence . This disparity for women as compared to other populations makes them especially vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change and environmental degradation. Many of them take actions to mobilize for environmental rights, but when they do, they are often faced with a myriad of obstacles because of their activism and because they are women. Female activist leaders are vulnerable and the nature of their work

I started the day with the mentality of an environmental sociologist, that society and environment are interrelated (Bell, 2012, p. 2). Using my sociological imagination I was able to conceptualize my interaction with the environment on a local scale. I was able to see how I impacted the environment, even when I wasn 't consuming or wasting, versus what would occur if I was wasting. I realized that I impact the environment in more ways than just purchasing and disposing of goods, and I truly saw this in the change of lifestyle for a day.

Throughout our semester together, our Social Issues class has discussed many different aspects of race, class and gender. We have had many opportunities to discuss and share our opinions on different topics and problems we face today. During this course, my outlook on life and other people has changed significantly. The use of projects and papers has further enlightened me to understand the perspective of others. The readings that we have been given each week have proven themselves very beneficial and have assisted greatly in furthering my awareness towards different races, classes and genders.

The authors of the book “Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology”, Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis, provide a critique on the interactions of various social systems and ecosystems by many different scholars and institutions. A combination of neo-Marxist ideas are used as a base of the world-system theory to create the system for the neoliberal theories (Gould and Lewis p. 39). The world-system theory is looking into economic relationships based off of social changes that are occurring around the world and determining whether the country is benefitting or not (Gould & Lewis p.39). This theory is built upon the perspective of the modernization theory; these societies are being directly affected by the lack of modernization within their

Development processes is connected with environmental degradation and use of natural resources. Rudel et al. (2011) assumes the present of two distinct waves of development power which control environment. The first wave of political economy deals with the power of capitalism as the main agent for environmental degradation, while the second wave concern with the social power (community) to control the use of natural resources.