Due to the format of this blog I have to call this idea a “cool” concept, though in my personal belief (and presumably others feel the same as I do) this concept is not cool in anyway. However it is the most interesting of this week; the concept to which I am referring to is […]
The concept I have chosen as this weeks coolest concept is “Cultural Universals”; or in other words the fact that all cultures across the world have some things in common with one another. Examples of cultural universals (CU) are rules/laws against: Incest, and causing harm unto others. This is this week’s coolest concept because I […]
Reflective Essay An essay about only one of the many important topics of sociology seems as if it isn’t giving as much to its readers as it could be. But for the sake of this paper I have chosen to write about the social imagination, as opposed to the global social imagination. This concept was […]
What Questions did the text raise? How did the text answer this question? How does the answer match with our own ideas and experiences? How are race and racism interdependent? How is race artificial? Which “race” is red? Who created race and/or racism by extension? What are the different standards for the definition of race? […]
What Questions did the text raise? How did the text answer this question? How does the answer match with our own ideas and experiences? Why is retribution the first idea? Why not go after North Korea and China if they want to do some good for human rights? Why does the US constantly seek out […]
Summarize the Reading (No more than half a page) The reading is about how the – debatably – most powerful nation in the world (the United States) is overzealously spending its time hunting down radicals. Instead of using the tremendous amount of money being spent for better purposes. The reading outlines how the US is […]
What Questions did the text raise? How did the text answer this question? How does the answer match with our own ideas and experience Why would America arm countries which are just going to use the weapons to kill their own people? Why are we (as a global society) simultaneously praising and despising these people? […]
