Essays on Individual and Society

An explosive trial leads the moderately quiet town of Hillsboro to question their faith in Brady and thinking factually. Belief is pitted against evolution, and Brady vehemently believes that religion is the only valid sect of the case. In the play Inherit the Wind written...

The play “Trying to Find Chinatown” published in 1996 by David H. Hwang describes two strangers who happen to argue in the middle of the street in New York. Ronnie an Asian American male who identifies himself as a musician and Benjamin a Caucasian who...

Remember the Titans is one of my favorite movies because it is an inspiring story about defeating and overcoming prejudice. I chose this film to show the conflict theory behind it. In this film the battle between the races for limited positions and scarce resources...

“Who am I?”, “Who are we?”, “What am I?” and “What are we?”. These are 4 of the most prevalent questions asked throughout from the time humans have been able to think and discern. And for eons, we have tried to answer them through literature,...

Storytelling is central to the human condition, connecting individuals by conveying universal concepts such as female oppression, which transcend both time and social context to bring audiences to recognise the continuation of such issues. Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) explores the powerful role...

Introduction  As Josie said in Melina Marchette’s novel, ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, “You can’t hate what your part of. What you are. I resent it most of the time, curse it always, but it’ll be part of me till the day I die.’ In today’s ever-growing...

Identity is essentially who a person is, the way he thinks about himself, the way he is viewed by the world and the characteristics that define him, however in the novel these factors can vary and increase with each character, identity is unique to each...

Literary texts are a pervasive medium for expressing opinion about the human condition and, as a result, common moral and ethical messages are found across a diverse range of stories. The novels Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Kafka on the Shore are...

Introduction I have always been skeptical of the United States’ criminal justice system, and accordingly, the system is anything but just. The discontent involves the treatment of African-Americans in the country and the rising cases of discrimination and prejudice directed towards people of color. The...

Just Mercy highlights the importance of resistance to injustice. It describes the racism, corruption, and cruelty that exists in the American court systems and lead to the systematic abuse of African Americans. As Bryan Stevenson said, “The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite...

“Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance.” — Lily Fairchilde After reading this statement, one can be fully immersed into perceiving Australian author, Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites, through the lens of...

Do you comply with your social status? Social mobility is the shifting of social status, It is a change of social status relative to one’s current social location within a particular society. Pitirim Sorokin shared this concept of social mobility with his book “Social and...

As the market and money economies came to replace the predominant agricultural society, social mobility began to develop within Tokugawa Japan. Those from social classes lower than the samurais as peasants, artisans, and merchants, who were formerly restricted by the class tradition, were now opened...

In The Hand of Ethelberta and Mary Barton, the strong relationship between parentage and social mobility is evident, particularly the maternal relationship and effect on the female protagonists, with the latter being dictated and restricted by the former. As such, Gaskell and Hardy present the...

Social mobility is “movement up or down the social class leader” (Henslin, 2017, p. 279). There are three types of social mobility. One type is intergenerational mobility, it consists of upward social mobility (moving up the social class ladder) and downward social mobility (moving down...

Introduction The Wave (1981) directed by Alex Grasshoff is a short film based on a 1967 social experiment in Palo Alto, California. The purpose of this one-week experiment was to teach students about fascism during the Second World War and demonstrate how the German populace...

The term political socialization was coined in 1959 by an American professor of sociology, Herbert H. Hyman as the “ learning of social patterns corresponding to his societal positions as mediated through various agencies of society” (1959, p.25). This essay is a personal reflection on...

Socialization and resocialization are social processes that individuals experience throughout their entire life span, that involves teaching norms that are generally accepted by society as a whole and is how one inherits these norms, customs, ideologies, and skills and/or habits for being proficient members of...

In the short story, How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, Halfie, there are many different forms of identity that can be taken from the story as a reader. This short story is about a boy who is about to go on a date with...