Essays on Sociology

Introduction The book Enrique’s Journey written by Sonia Nazario, focuses on the long journey a Honduran boy must make in order to reunite with his mother in the USA after many years of separation. This paper looks at the book from a sociological perspective. The...

Grey’s Anatomy is an extremely popular medical drama that first appeared 2005 on American Broadcasting Company, better known as ABC. The television show is based around Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, and her journey through internship, residency, and eventually her role as an attending...

Anyone familiar with Grey’s Anatomy will agree that the show is over dramatized. The show writer, Shonda Rhimes, tries to add more drama to the show to make it more interesting. The show can be misleading on how hospitals run. Although it has not been...

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...

In both A Doll’s House and Woman at Point Zero, the female protagonists are forced to suppress their identities. Henrik Ibsen and Nawal El-Saadawi hide the individualities of Nora and Firdaus in their play and novel respectively from the other characters, however, the audience are...

Women at Point Zero is a novel that tells the story of a prostitute, Firdaus. She is waiting in jail for her death sentence. She experiences sexual harassment which causes her traumas throughout her life in Egypt. The title of the story, Women at Point...

In Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi explores the struggles that women face in societies. The protagonist, Firdaus, faces years of discrimination from men throughout the text. The assumed dominance that men take on is shown through their oppressive behavior and the perceived subservience...

Martin Scorsese, an American-Italian filmmaker produced and directed “The Wolf of Wall Street” that was released to the public in 2013. This film tells the story of Jordan Belfort, who was a stockbroker living a luxurious life on Wall Street in the late 90s. Belfort...

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...

We live in a world where how much you earn will determine your place in society. The short story “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker gives a perfect example of this important issue. The main theme in this story is classism. More specifically, classism is...

The Interlopers by Saki shows many different challenges, from Man vs Man to Man vs Nature. This is a short story that begins with Ulrich Von Gradwitz. A man who was watching out for his forest hoping to find his “enemy” or the man he...

Hidden beneath makeup, fashion and jewellery, lies a unique, beautiful woman. Who would have thought that we could all be so different? Yet, society has moulded women to conform to today’s standards. Following celebrity fashion trends, latest beauty hacks, like how to get bigger, lips...

Historically women were held in lower social standings than men. Women were not allowed to have any significant roles in society, other than being the wife or the mother. Decameron and 1001 nights demonstrate this. While they may not have any meaningful social standing, women...

Violence in the media does not always make people violent. Violent films alone do not make people violent, but the combined effects of violent media exposure along with other serious risk factors that could potentially create a violent or aggressive person. Films like Reservoir Dogs...

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...

According the stories of Boccaccio, Margery Kempe, and Abelard and Heloise, it can easily be assumed that religion, culture, and social life in medieval Europe did bring restrictions to the activities of women. Although some women who lived in medieval Europe do show cases of...

Throughout the history, the class stratification exists everywhere, for example: empires, countries even in some special group or area. The class stratification can be defined as a form of social orders that in a society which tends to divide people at different ranks that result...

As a nation of immigrants, American society is composed of major groups such as White and a variety of minority groups such as African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American and so on. As the number of immigrants increased over a long period of time,...

“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,...