Essays on Anthropology

Society is the culmination of a group of people involved in continuous interactions. It is built on the everyday interactions and communication amongst each other to develop relationships between individuals who share different cultures and experiences. These everyday interactions are what we call socialization as...

Praying mantises, named for its prominent front legs, which are bent and held together at a specific angle that suggests the position of prayer. In fact, in China, the praying mantis has long been honored for their majestic and strategic movements. The mantis never makes...

The current modern environment and society which we are living in is very different to the hunter-gatherer society in which people hunted for their food, in our modern society we don’t need to hunt for food anymore because we have people who do this for...

Over the course of the last 200 years; humanity has seen a population jump unseen before. This population leap has brought with it its worries and concerns throughout the years.  To have a good perspective on the problem we must first understand the background. The...

Ruth Ginsburg said “women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception”. Females have always been seen as people who belong in the kitchen and taking care of the home and their family, yet it is...

Texas has a government that works under the Texas constitution. Elections in Texas are done after every four years. In recent years, voter turnout has been said to be very low. This is said to be because of the diverse demographics. A great number of...

Many people have suffered from financial and economic problems throughout the globe. The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has sparked this trend. The magazine known throughout the world. The UBI is an actual cash payment for all people (2016), the economist states. Indeed,...

Since time immemorial, human beings have believed in the existence of supernatural beings. A good example of these supernatural beings include: God, Satan, ghosts, demons, werewolves, vampires etc. This essay examines the concept of the vampire from a social/anthropological perspective based on the cultural context...

“We should respect that other cultures have different values, even if that means they reject human rights.” In the first section of this essay, I will touch upon the long-standing dispute between the universality of human rights and cultural relativism by discussing the persecution of...

Today, technical titans or corporate connectors such as Apple, Amazon, Google, etc. are developing their trajectory in such a way that within a decade, they have a perfect chance to become a dominant force in the development of our society. Any hope that they would...

In 1976 General Jorge Rafael Videla overthrew the government of Isabel Peron and led a military dictatorship all the way through 1983. In 1976 it was argued by Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Massera, and Orlando Ramón Agosti in the military junta of March 1976 that...

The Giver is an award-winning novel that tells about a utopian society- a perfect world envisioned by its creators. It has eliminated fear, pain, hunger, illness, conflict, and hatred—all things that most of us would like to eliminate in our own society. The author mentions...

There is still reluctance among many high school students to accept Shakespeare work as an author who speaks to them and their problems. This misguided them into thinking and focusing on the fact that Shakespeare’s language is “too difficult”. His work shows various perspectives that...

Land to live and grow food, water for drinking and daily use and pure breathing air are some of the resources gifted to us by Mother Nature. Each living being on this planet uses these resources on daily basis. However, all these resources are limited...

Population control is one of the oldest conspiracy theories in the social sciences, its roots can be traced far back as ancient Greece with Hippodamus defining the optimum population for a city as 10,000 people, and any number above this would lead chaos. Population control...

What is a sociological imagination? The sociological imagination is the ability to see how social factors and structures influence our lives socially and individually when we live in a society. It is basically the connection between an individual and society on a whole. Our social...

Introduction In this essay I am going to look at what the sociological imagination is as defined by C Wright Mills. I will then distinguish between personal troubles and social issues. I will then look at suicide as a problem that South African university students...

Introduction The neighborhood I was grown up in was totally different from that of the original Code of the Streets. In the first part of this paper, I will compare my childhood neighborhood with that of the original Code of the Streets. I will use...

Introduction It was the end of the 1970s, and the Chinese government was realizing that they had a problem. Their population was growing at an enormous rate, and they knew that if it kept growing as it was the government would have a difficult time...