Sociology Essays

The city of St. Louis has been in the news due to its increased crime rates starting from the 60s throughout 90s although in 2011 there were declines in the crime rate. The rates of property and violent crime have increased in the city despite the decreasing crime rate. This has led the city to be ranked one of the most dangerous cities in the US.

Certain characteristic typifies individuals as in the case of individuals. For instance, the U.S. operates as a national group, particularly in the form of attitudes, values, and beliefs, which shape the citizens of the country. Sociologists lay emphasis on the ways that people live as opposed to individual contexts that people live in.

The stereotypes about the African Americans which determine Black men as criminals and Black women as hypersexual and having little desire to work, add insult to injury, and the situation is deteriorated by the fact that the cultural and political aspect of life of the end of the 20th century have turned out to be rather conservative from the racial perspective.

From the interview that was conducted by the author, the lady has had two abortions, in which they both were legal. The reason is that her first abortion was because it was an ectopic pregnancy. The second abortion was triggered by the fact that the fetus had an acute brain abnormality (Merritt, Para 3).

Since the 1970s the United States of America has been noticing a rapid increase in economic inequality. The rich people are always getting richer while the poor of middle class are continuing to drown in dept and live a life that is not desirable. Robert Reich shows this factor clearly in the documentary directed by Jacob Kornbluth.

The settlement of Mexican immigrants on the US soil has to lead to a lot of benefits, especially, contributing to the growth of the US economy. The US government should, therefore, give them guest worker permits, residency, green cards and amnesty to encourage their efforts towards becoming important human resources in the US.

The Social Network has now become a common term in the United States and other parts of the world. This is a term particularly used to describe a broad range of services that are based on the internet. This services may vary from online participation in the exchange of ideas, a creation of academic contents, and the inclusion of online communities.

This essay “the Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA)” investigates the MELA society that was formed primarily as one of the activists opposing the construction of a prison in a small low-income community in California made predominantly of Mexican Americana and Afro-Americans. The group is made predominantly of women aged 40 to 60 years, Mexican American.

As the paper stresses Amnesty International and the Girl Effect are two US based organization that are fighting for gender equality. Amnesty International is Non Governmental Organization that primarily focuses on the rights of the girl child and has received support from other organizations and states across the world.

The reality of globalization is indisputable, but its efficiency, effectiveness and relevance in eliminating economic growth disparities remain contentious. It is in this respect that proponents and opponents advance diverse theories to explore the phenomenon.

The present research has identified that social conflict in the neighborhood increases the ages where economic relations were more frequent and the reason for meetings. The sociologists are able to know how people’s lives are affected and how most people manage to go through each day even when the crisis is at hand.

Race represent biological differences among people of different groups. Scientist and Anthropologist have carried various studies to determine what causes the differences in skin color among people. They went around the world collecting blood samples of people from Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Central Asia.

The industrial division of labor refers to the narrow specialization of tasks within a production process. As such, the industrial division of labor enables each worker to perfect his or her skill in a given line of production, or a particular production process, whereby he or she ends up as a specialist in doing one thing.  Workers gain more experience while performing these tasks.

African Americans faced housing discrimination from the past and it still exists. People are not treated the same when they are buying, renting, leasing or selling home-based. People are discriminated based on their origin when it comes to acquiring the loans to acquire housing. The groups of people who receive prejudice are the African Americans.

According to the paper, Solution Centered Sociology, the origins of Metropolitan Police Department Washington could be traced back to 1860s when the central part of USA was combating serious law and order issues and there were rise in concerns regarding the safety and protection of people and places.

This essay focuses on establishing economic implications of the shift in demographic policies in China. These impacts are analyzed in terms of labor force and employment. The change in population is attributed to a one-child policy of the government. That also led to an increase in the proportion of older people as compared to younger people.

Having been accused of heading and actualizing change in my association executing, I should build up a far-reaching plan to guarantee the achievement of the project. As a mid-level supervisor in the organization, I should distinguish the means that should be taken to finish the points of the project.

The hypothesis is that because society is becoming increasingly technologically innovative and people are consuming even more and more electronic goods.

The influence of the Internet started getting visible and prominent from the era of the early 21st century when the outlook for the community bonds and ties started to change. Several types of research show that in the last decade, the Internet usage has grown by almost 3 times, compared to its usage in the 1990s.

In India, as well as in other countries, there are a lot of important problems of social character. The situation is redoubled by the system of caste division which refuses the human dignity of some groups of people. Speaking about varna-caste division we should pay attention to the main characteristics of the caste (these characteristics are closely connected with the main points of race discrimination).

As the paper declares Lenser was not the only child of her father. Her step mother who was now a widow had two daughters, both of whom were older than her. The family of four had to face a new life with its challenges with Lenser's step mother as the key breadwinner. Lenser had to adjust to the new family way of life.

The paper dwells on the arguments of Karl Marx that the contradictions of capitalism will eventually lead to the destruction of this social formation. It will lay a considerable emphasis on the various contradictions of capitalism and how they destroy social formation. It will outline examples where capitalism has led to its own destruction.

The thing that underpins the functionalist view of religion as a contributing factor to the continuation and health of the society is that fact that it views it as one of the major components that make up the society besides family, school, education, mass media, economy, and polity (Beckford, 2006). 

Crime against property entails unlawfully attempting or taking the property of someone else is damaging his property. Property crimes might or might not involve violence against a particular person. An example of a crime against property includes theft like stealing someone else car or taking something from a house.

Research has been carried out over the past years to assess the effect of high cost of college fees on the equality in access to higher education. Researchers have focused on the impact of high college fees and the effect it has on admission processes as well as students selection criteria. Researchers have focused on the impact of high college fees.

The researcher states that in Canada, child care facilities that are family based are preferred to private residential options. This was mainly after researchers proved that therapeutic foster care for children were less restrictive in relation to placement outcomes compared to private residential child cares.

Qualitative methods include informal and in depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, ethnography, bibliographical research among other methods. Each method has an area of application that could lead to success, but it also creates the soil for drawbacks if applied in situations that may be different.

As the report stresses there are issues of unemployment, poor access to quality health services and education. Most of the people who are arrested and serve jail terms are the breadwinners in their families and so when they are arrested such families are left stranded. Domestic violence and family conflicts is a common problem. 

The USA is a plural nation consisting of people from diverse racial, ethnic, geographical, religious and cultural backgrounds. People should never be ashamed of their diversities, but need to be proud of them. If it were this way, US would be a highly inclusive and accommodative society that does not discriminate upon anyone irrespective of their origin.

The gendered nature regarding the ‘new’ profession further reveals the professional story before the WWII, which was established by women’s ideas, values, and visions which were built structurally into the occupation.

Although the rates of child abuse in Californian can be said to be on the decline, the statistics are still very discouraging. In the year 2013, there was a total of 482, 265 reported cases of child abuse in California (KidsData, 2013). Of these reports, 17 %( 81, 381) were verified to be actual cases of child abuse and neglect.

In recent times, the battle for racial recognition has been on the ascendancy in the U.S. This has taken place largely through series of shooting events, most of which have had White police officers as culprits and Black citizens as victims.

In any business unless personal, professional or company norms are laid out people would not be able to resist crossing the lines of acceptable behaviour. However, lack of business in ethics is at an all-time high and ethics in simplest terms means to be able to discriminate between the right and the wrong.

Currently, Colombia is among the leading locations that have the highest users of smart phones in Latin America, joining such countries as Brazil and Mexico that have since been the pioneers of the use of smart phones within this geographical segment (Emarketer.com, 2015).

HIV discriminates against no one, people do. This statement has been in use ever since scientists and researchers identified the ways and means through which HIV can and cannot be transmitted from one person to another. However, even with the cosmic education and information about HIV, being circulated all over.

The researcher of this essay focuses on the gender and race based violence, these acts include physical or mental abuse, or the warning to do an act of violence on a person based on their gender or/and race. The effects of violence are particularly adverse because they leave the victim with low self-esteem.

A high percentage of these people live in the south (58.7%) with most of them living at home, that is, with their parents. Their education levels vary; the majority of them have gone through high school education (about 70%) while about 33% have attended college. The group spends a lot on clothes and shoes.

The author states that after the implementation of the Chinese Execution Act, the Chinese who were already settled in the United States had to face many hardships. They had to get a certificate issued every time they wanted to leave the country due to which they were not able to go home to their families very often.

The paper is aimed at exposing the gains made by the already existing Chinese welfare system. The writer seeks to give an idea of the different methods used to collect the data that serves to inform this paper. When carrying out a comprehensive study, it is important to carry out both a statistical data analysis and document analysis to get a clear picture.

It claims that the reason why most of the African Americans are poor in the ghettos is not that of the alluded lack of enough resources and opportunities but a consequence of their own underdeveloped character. Racism and especially when it is related to the blacks and the other minority groups is blamed on the high levels of inequality.

Despite the illegal status of the parent, the US government recognizes them as U.S citizens. The same also applies to the children who are born to the aliens or the tourists. The US government has allowed the practice of automatic bright right citizenship without considering the legality or the duration of the mother’s presence.

More often than not people within communities are considered as problems that require solutions usually by specialists who think they know what is best. The second point of view is an economy that is abundant founded on life in the community, hospitality as well as gifts of the people in the community.

One of the first challenging issues that police professionals could encounter with regard to working with diverse populations has to do with a lack of cultural appreciation that can be exhibited by the police. For instance, something that is perfectly acceptable with regard to one culture and demographic background might be completely unacceptable with another.

Knowledge of socialization imposes restrictions on the man in much the same way as religion. While a person does not believe in religion, he is free to the maximum possible limit. Such a person can make love with anyone, can eat and drink everything he wants, and can talk and do anything, because he has no reason why he should hold back.

Yet somehow or the other he finds himself stuck in a quagmire of which he cannot find any solace. Alcohol addition has completely ruined his life and it has left him in shambles in front of one and all.

The company was able to maintain their profitability despite the low prices of their goods. Apparently, this was possible because of increased sales, as the people preferred such cheaper products, which are of substantial quality and locally available in the country.

As the paper stresses institutional racism denotes patterns, practices, procedures and policies that operate within a social institution to disadvantage non members of the racial or a certain ethnic group. The institution then places a great importance on the dominant group and the minority group is viewed as being inferior.

The increased movement of cultural globalization has had a huge impact on populations all over the world. Informational services all over the world have seen an internationalization of technologies such as Internet. Even though this expansion of technology has had some bad influence on some populations, such as the creation of Digital Divide, one cannot deny the advantages it has brought to the world of technology.

This essay focuses on exploring of the American Association of Retired Persons that was founded in 1958 by a high school principal, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus and is dedicated to to display her theory of aging productively, to provide the defense and advancement of various activities such as lobbying at the national and state government level.

If everybody in the society changes his or her life for the better and live according to his or her ability, then the whole community would harmonize to a very conducive culture where everybody’s needs are addressed. In contrast, a structured culture in society is always bound to oppress a certain group of people, mostly the majority.