Conditions of access to maternity wards in the city of Recife
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In order to answer the question "how to build the experience of motherhood in popular urban community in Recife? we rely particularly on the contributions of two authors: the theory of social experience by Dubet, and sociology of the generation by Luc Boltanski. These theoretical approaches are...
Bring back the dog in the social sciences
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This work is rooted in the finding of a weak analytical perspective in social sciences to study the relationships between man and pet. The field of social sciences has often focused on the perceptions and symbolic meanings that the animal, example the canine mind, took when compared to the minds...
The nodes of the thought of Durkheim's sociology as a moral science
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Durkheim placed at the center of his work, the problem of morality. He believed that it was not possible to lead a social life without morals. Morality drew its binding force, i.e. its constituent element, from society. It is true, therefore, that there is no social life without morals. For these...
The concept of risk in the heart of modern societies
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The concept of risk can develop a type of relationship between man and environment; natural hazards are the risks that nature imposes on society. Natural hazards are often amplified. This concept of risk is at the interface between the size and nature of society. Risk is a potential hazard that...
Racism in contemporary America. Permanence, diminution or transformation?
Essay - 18 pages - Sociology & social sciences
All across the world, the United States of America is often considered through myths, symbols and simplifications. The bubbles of their Coca-Cola, the strength of their athletes, the height of their skyscrapers or the lively melodies of their pop stars would be, in many people's mind, enough...
The discourses and stereotypes about the figure of the immigrant?
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Recent developments in the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of culture, with the contributions from ethno methodology, etc. constructionists have shown the attribution of it's meaning to reality. The image of an immigrant, a foreigner is along the normal stream of speeches and...
Morality in Boltanski: love as a relationship with the other
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In this document, we present an analysis of the book, State of peace. Sociology of love. It is based on the journey into the ethical thinking of a French sociologist who has practices morality. In his book "State of peace. Sociology of love ", the writer presents his analysis of morality within a...
The sociology of disasters
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It is customary to consider the disaster or a catastrophe as a phenomenon essentially tied to the vagaries of nature or as a byproduct of human activities. In both cases, it is approached through a perspective of emergency that rarely leaves room for interpretation on the functioning of social...
Sociology without borders: For public sociology?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the first issue of Sociology, the online magazine, the editorial says that the birth of the project sets an ambitious goal with reference to an article from The Buroway. It makes public sociology a scientific discipline. This does not mean that it makes it more accessible by simplifying its...
The influence of minorities: the study on conformity to Serge Moscovici
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Social psychology has long been believed that only the majority could influence the individual or the minorities. The French social psychologist, Serge Moscovici, through his experimental studies, has introduced a new location, that is rich in developments and which by no means is negligible....
The Cajun identity
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I have chosen this subject for my first class about Louisiana. The Cajun people just fascinate me as I consider them as the last French people in America. Paradoxically, when they speak French on television, we have to subtitle their words to understand them better. I wondered how they could...
Integrating the Latino minority: a time trial?
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It is common knowledge that the Latino minority constitute a little less than one third of the United States population in 2050. The Latinos are already the largest minority group, representing 15% of the total US population, and according to the previous 2050 forecast, their population is...
Ethnographic Research Project: Yoga To The People - published: 04/01/2010
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As our mantra says...this yoga is for mothers, brothers, sisters and grandmothers, poets, bakers, painters and artists. This is Yoga to the People! So let all of your doubts or questions be set aside... come and explore the world of yoga', are the words one can read when entering Yoga to the...
Analysis of a moral struggle
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"Public should not exercise authority over any marriage", says Nathan Warner in a recent article. Is it that simple? Should marriage really be a private matter, on which the State has no control? A few years ago, the Economist published an article dealing with polygamy practiced by Mormon...
Culture shock for students abroad: a new trend
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For years, a lot of business schools in the world have proposed a year of study abroad in order to enrich the student's culture. Some people are not aware of the difficulties students face in this kind of adventure. It is worth analyzing how students live through this brutal experience. First...
Masculinity challenged in suburbia
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As we said in class when we talked about Suburban Men, gender is something performed and performances are constructed throughout the things you do. For its part, masculinity means: the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men (word reference online dictionary). Masculinity changed a...
Ritual killing - the logic of Sacrifice
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Sacrifice usually involves violence and is thus morally problematic. On the other hand, something new and presumably good comes into being through this violence. This paradox has been at the core of many interpretations since the logic of ritual violence exists since the beginning of times as an...
Are we born with Charisma or can we learn it?
Essay - 15 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For generations, the representation of the charisma concept has been characterized by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, John F Kennedy, or more recently Barrack Obama. Although these leaders engaged in completely different things in their life to be recognized as charismatic, they...
America offers the best and the worst
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
South America and North America form two very different realities of the American continent. Histories, languages, democracies, or policies are various elements which distinguish politically, geographically and economically these poles of America. That is why, if we have to study it, we will need...
Cultural relativism and multiculturalism
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Nowadays, we observe a developing phenomenon of identity-assertion and an increasing number of requests for recognition of cultural specificities. Globalization and massive immigration create a melting pot. There are now 175 million international migrants (twice more than in 1965), and it is...
Theories of social problems
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As Gandhi said "the soul of India lives in villages". The culture of India was born and is still living in them. The village is the smallest territorial unit, and since 3/4th of the Indian population lives in villages, understanding rural life leads to a larger understanding of the Indian society...
Theories of social problems - publié le 30/06/2009
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
All the societies in existence control their own organizations, in order to live, develop and survive. This is why one tries to notice and solve social disorders and problems. Sociology has developed as a science that studies how social problems are emerging. Studying the theories of the social...
Are Celebrities the heroes of today? A contemplative approach from Modernism to Postmodern times
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"President John F. Kennedy had a significant impact on my life. I practically worshiped him. His charm, grace, and simplicity made me aware of the essential qualities of a person. I cherished his words and wisdom and complete absence of flaws. I have hoped in my own mind that the man I end up...
Could we know if we are being manipulated by society?
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For the purpose of this paper, manipulation can be defined, "As a way of obtaining a behavior in an elaborate, expected and predictable manner from an individual or a group, without them being aware of the influence of external forces?. The theory of manipulation therefore suggests that the...
Asian-Americans in the United States of America
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The term Asian-American was first used in the 1960s by activists who disliked the term Oriental, saying that it was derogatory and colonialist. Historian, Yuji Ichioka, popularized the expression and today, the term Asian-American is commonly used. In the U.S. Census, the word "Asian" refers to...
Is gender a useful category for understanding the experiences of immigrants in France?
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
An analysis based on the gender category consists in distinguishing women and men in their experiences, in order to find out whether there are noteworthy differences between them. Within the particular framework of immigration in France, it is a remarkable fact that only a minority of writers...
Levi Strauss theories : nature and culture and myth
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Thanks to the Levi's Strauss work , we are able to think more profoundly about the self and the others : he has underline deeply that we have to remember in every anthropological study that others have other way of thinking and of doing. In this essay I will try to show that by reading Levi...
America's middle-class
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
We have examined throughout the length of this course the fact that America's lower class does not have the ability to voice their political concerns that the wealthier classes have and thus, when focusing on the issue of welfare it is important to realize that most of the policies enacted...
One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (de Beauvoir). Discuss with references to determinist, constructionist and deconstructionist theories of gender.
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.' This famous assertion, excerpted from Simone de Beauvoir's Deuxième Sexe, concentrates the idea that sexual identity is an identity that one acquires, and whose acquiring is influenced by socialization, education, ideology and cultural...
Conceptions of the relationship between mind and body vary across cultures: Discuss with detailed reference to ethnographic examples
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Having an insight on our personal perception of the body and mind, relationship is often revealing. Since I was a child, I strongly felt ‘something' in my body. While practicing dance, I had the feeling that 'I' controlled my body, that 'I' decided the movements 'I'...
