Category: Sociology

People have always been trying to capture the evasive nature of beauty. In most cases, these attempts usually result in creating a set of poorly coordinated measurements for body parts and facial features. As a result, a wide variety of interpretations of beauty has emerged throughout centuries. Nowadays, with numerous influences being the relics of…

In the United States, society has come up with strategies aimed at helping children with disabilities to realize their potentials. This is done through the provision of care services, raising the welfare, offering quality education, and enhancing development. The society upholds the idea that the needy and the physically challenged should be provided with the…

The perception of beauty by society has been changing in the course of history. Thus, it was treated as a virtue by ancient Greeks, considered unnecessary in the context of Christianity due to focus on moral values, and finally became a power in the contemporary world. Nevertheless, Susan Sontag argues that beauty became a trap…

Table of Contents Introduction Factors leading to U.K immigration Problems caused by U.K immigrants Difference between integration and assimilation References Introduction In the current world, there tend to be different social and political activities that take place. Different people across the borders migrate in and out of different countries, with several reason attached to their…

The concept of American identity involves many contradictions, and one of them is a denial of existing disparities in cultures, traditions, and language dialects. Therefore, the American model of assimilation and the formation of new identity created many challenges for different ethnic groups scarifying their beliefs for the sake of creating equal opportunities. All these…

There is hardly a single place where the word ‘immigrant’ is associated with anything positive or at least neutral; becoming a modern equivalent of a curse, immigration remains a double-sided sword, for some of its aspects are just as painful for the country of immigration as they are for the immigrants themselves. However, despite the…

Alberto Cairo’s talk about the changes people can promote in their personal and professional lives turns out to be an educative source of information because of several reasons. First, this speaker can combine his personal experience and professional ethics in one interesting talk about the importance to employ people and support the idea of humanitarian…

The postwar American society witnessed a mixed occurrence of events that ranged from rapid economic growth, industrial and technological advancement, increased the birth rate, population growth, and life expectancy. America transformed into a consumer society in the 1950s. The economic explosion witnessed during the period fuelled consumerism habits. For example, the gross national product “grew…

According to Goffman, in his 1959 article on presentation of self in everyday life, he argues that the first impression is very essential in determining the subsequent relationship between interacting parties. He gives an example of a waitress and explains how the waitress serves a customer on the first instant the customer takes a seat.…

Table of Contents Introduction Marginalisation Addressing the imbalance Conclusion References Introduction Throughout history, females have been marginalised in the areas of religion, work, and advertising partly due to the reason that most societies in the world are male dominated. Females are considered generally weaker in comparison to their male counterparts. Various religions have reduced the…