Essays on Sociological Theories

In an on-going process that serve the purpose creating a South African society where learners can realise their potential, our Education system has undergone fundamental transformation. However, despite these changes, the education system of this country seems to remain hampered with rigid unwavering language policies...

And while London is in urban decay, the whole of Oceania is a totalitarian society that can also be described as a Panoptic society. The Panopticon is a prison model created by Jeremy Bentham where the inmates are under constant surveillance by guards, who are...

Intersectionality, a term coined in the late 1980s by black feminist, Kimberle Crenshaw, identifies how interlocking systems of power effects those who are most disregarded by society. Intersectionality has travelled widely and been implemented by multiplicity of academic disciplines for example, literature, feminist studies, queer...

An attempt to understand what it actually means to be looking at a social issue or evaluating the same from a sociological perspective has been carried out by various thinkers. These perspectives guide sociological thinking on different social problems -as they look at the same...

 “The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.” ― C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills defined sociological imagination as ‘the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society’....

Introduction This article presents the sociological imagination, structural, structuration and functional theories. The article defines the theories, discusses their rationale and applications in sociology. The article examines the extent to which each theory fulfils the criteria of sound theory which include: if each theory makes...

This essay describes the sociological theory and analysis of globalization and colonialism. The essay will highlight the theory, impact of globalization and colonialism on modern history, criticism encountered, challenges to the theoretical convention, and foundation developed by classical sociological theorists. The early display of colonialism...

Asians are bad drivers, Jewish people are stingy with their money, women belong in the kitchen, blondes are dumb, pink is for girls. Our society has grown bigger with more developments. In today’s society, stereotypes and labels are part of our everyday lives. It puts...

Punishment has always been a method to show the dominance of the powerful over the weak. But punishment is not complete without surveillance. So a question automatically arises, what is surveillance? Surveillance is like a regulation, a constant power working over each and every person,...

Algorithmic surveillance and post-panopticism are considered as the main means of surveillance used today. Recognized more commonly as surveillance as biopower, but for the purpose of this paper we will focus particularly on gamification and how it plays a part in algorithmic surveillance, and simulation...

The panopticon is a conceptual prison that was created by Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The main idea of this prison was that the guards would be able to view and monitor all prisoner activity from one location. In this prison, a tower was placed in...

Social contract theory states that people live together in society, on the bases of an agreement that establishes the moral and political rules of conduct. Some philosopher, like Hobbs, and Rawls’ believe that we live morally according to these social contracts chosen by society, rather...

The AMC drama The Walking Dead follows a small group of survivors as they struggle in a post-apocalyptic world in which zombies have wiped out most of mankind. Despite its roots in the horror genre, however, The Walking Dead focuses more on the “people” of...

Introduction In 1859, Charles Darwin published his notions on natural selection and the theory of evolution in his influential book ‘On the Origin of Species’. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was a scientific theory which focused on explaining his observations about biological diversity...

First, we must examine what social Darwinism means. In the 19th and early 20th century this theory gained in popularity to rationalize policies that were imperialist, colonialist, and racist as the Anglo-Saxon culture spread out and took land and territories from other cultures. Social Darwinists...

Social Darwinism is an ideology that occurred around 1865 to 1900 and was developed by Charles Darwin. Social Darwinism was used significantly to encourage human competition because doing so will help with evolution in the human society. Charles Darwin used Social Darwinism to justify his...

This research paper will discuss the ethical theories of Emotivism and Social Darwinism, and their applications to abortion, capital punishment, and digital media/piracy. Ethical Theories Emotivism – General Beliefs Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional...

Social Darwinists took Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection and ran with them. Taking genuine ideas and skewing them to uphold injustices bestowed upon the poor and lower class. Hard-working citizens who were doing anything they could to sustain the wellbeing of their...

Following the events of the Civil War, a new era of development and success evolved, known as the Gilded Era. The reforms of the Gilded Era stirred large debate over being successful or ultimately a failure. On the surface the Gilded Age exhibited growth and...