Sociology

Podcast Script The 1960s was the beginning of a cultural revolution in America. The counter- culture of the 1960s was viewed by some as “mankind’s best, maybe only, hope; others saw it as a portent of civilization’s imminent ruin. “l…

Social Mobility Sean Murphy SOC/100 02JUN2010 Social Mobility Social mobility has two separate varieties and reflects on the similarities and differences between the generations with stratification variables. Absolute mobility is the movement of an individual through socio-economic structures of society.…

Where people live matters. Neighborhood environments have consequences for their families’ well-being and their children’s long-term life chances. The quality of local public services (particularly schools), the prevalence of crime and violence, the influences of peers and social networks, and…

Is the primary effect of the American Dream, which Itself Is an Idea that seems simple, but Is strangely hard to define. At the root of It, Is the sense of a society’s greed for success obtained by hard work,…

The term ‘stratification’, essentially means a formation of layers in which different institutions cluster together to make the whole of society. Within the ELK, stratification is class based and traditionally views class through norms, values and life style – it…

The terminology of forming social classes came into societal presence during the 18th century and was widely used in the 19th century. It was then that certain classed (or categories) of people would be divided into more specific groups, sometimes…