Essays on Sociology

Nowadays, people feel the need to read more about celebrities’ lives and scandal news than any other form of news or entertainment such as books or other healthy habits. Therefore, the media today provides much more information about famous people’s private lives then it did...

Many people have a misunderstanding of what gossip is. They believe it is when you talk bad about someone that isn’t in the conversation. Gossip has many definitions and again it all just comes down to how you would like to interpret it. According to...

Introduction Everyday, minorities are faced with discrimination and prejudice that deteriorates their mental health. Certain groups such as bisexual women are especially vulnerable to these confrontations known as microaggressions, which are characterized as verbal attacks and harassment. Whether it be implicit or explicit, these comments...

Introduction Having a polite tone when speaking is considered an unspoken societal expectation in order to function in today’s world. Everyday we initiate each conversation with a simple but polite greeting and end it with a mannerly farewell. Those who use polite speech say they...

India is a place brimming with different cultures and languages, is also filled with another thing- People. Lots and lots of people. With a population of more than a billion, it is not surprising that India is home to some of the most populated cities...

Even though many refer to earth as our “home,” a place that is supposed to protect us we should in turn protect it as well. We should be returning the favor, but instead we thank Earth by having it house 7.7 billion people and having...

Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth. This scenario can be illustrated in case such as, for example a square feet normally can placed about 7 people, but due to ‘overpopulation’ factor, the square...

Introduction Sexual harassment and sexual assault is a widespread problem in society. This problem has a tremendous negative impact on the community. It is such an activity in which a person sexually touches another person with the intention to touch in a wrongful manner without...

Social death can be defined as the condition of people not fully accepted as human by the wider society. From various studies conducted on social death, three underlying notions have arisen: ‘a loss of social identity, loss of social connectedness and losses associated with the...

Society alludes to set of people; who live respectively in a community, where they share same culture, norms, values, and beliefs. Societies have been categorized accordingly to their different stages of industrialization by sociologist. Emile Durkheim explicates society’s evolvement and its function through social norms...

Many people have an idea of what the “perfect” family is. Maybe this ideal includes parents that love their children unconditionally or children who enjoy and tolerate each other. In all reality, the flawless family does not really exist at all. Most families at least...

It is now widely established that the prevalence of premarital sex in Indonesian societies, particularly in large cities, is rising. Estimates of the prevalence of premarital sex in contemporary Indonesia are as high as 42%, falsifying the claim that premarital sex does not occur in...

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,...

Gender performance is the act that people perform certain behaviours to show ‘his/her’ gender. For example, a person wears a dress and high heels to show that she is a female. While gender performativity is the theory that, a person’s performance is naturally produced and...

In this essay, I will demonstrate the effects of the Harlem Renaissance on society in the United States through using different modes of expression such as poetry, religion, and music. Centralized around New York City’s Harlem district, a blossoming of cultural advancement would use music...

The Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement was instigated through Alain Locke. In March 1925 he edited an issue of the Survey Graphic magazine entitled Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, followed by an anthology titled The New Negro: An Interpretation. This anthology was abounding...

Judith Butler, one of the most influential gender theorists of the modern era, fundamentally altered the landscape of feminist philosophy with her theory on the performativity of gender. Her work, subversive in its own right, effectively disproved the idea of gender and sex as naturally...

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...

Emile Durkheim explains four types of suicide; egoistic, altruistic, fatalistic, and anomic suicides. He describes suicide as “madness” and defines each type of suicide based on its distinctive characteristics. Anomic suicide is made up of both egoism and anomie which causes a person to lack...