During the COVID-19 pandemic, African Americans were identified as being more likely to die from the virus than any other race. Recently, I had a conversation with a colleague who strongly advised me as an African American woman to take the necessary precautions to protect...
Have you ever wondered what holds a society together or what potentially tears it apart? Sociological perspectives seek to explain how society and people influence each other. Three of the major perspectives are structural functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionism. Each perspective provides insight to the...
In society, your social identity is often determined by your status, which is the term used to reference the position an individual occupies. Statuses are fluid and will change many times throughout an individual's lifetime. Also, an individual can occupy multiple statuses at the same...
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Conform or not conform? Social norms are present to help facilitate order in society. The unwritten rules set an expectation of what behavior should be displayed in a social setting. When individuals don't conform to norms, they are considered deviant. Individuals have different views of norms...
How much do you really know about gentrification? Is it really about healing low income communities or displacing them? How is gentrification connected to redlining? Overview According to the dictionary, gentrification is the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to...
Socioeconomic status (SES) can be viewed as the social standing or class as it relates to an individual or group. Usually, it's categorized into three levels - low, middle, and high but it can be expanded to lower, working, middle, upper middle, and upper levels....
According to the American Sociological Association, sociology is: the study of society a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies the study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contracts between anonymous...