The degree and manner in which a sociology course might affect the way a student sees him or her self depends to a great degree on the individual student and course. In general, sociology should help students understand how they…

The modern increase in media sources is not necessarily a good thing for American politics since each source presents information and issues from a particular position and through the lens of particular presuppositions. Many people automatically gravitate toward sources that…

William Thomas is best known for the Thomas Theorem, which is a sociological theory about what is and is not real.  Thomas’s theorem holds that situations can have real consequences whenever people define them as real.  His theorem helps to…

I don’t know how thoroughly this subject has been studied. It would seem to me that it would take more than sociology to come up with definitive statiistics. Obviously it would require physical examinations of tens of thousands of married…

Comte’s connection to other sociologists is that he essentially created the discipline of sociology. Comte believed in the idea that society could be studied in a “positive” manner.  That is, people could look at society and try to analyze it…

Research on war and violence is difficult because there is no way to establish or observe a control group. In most fields, researchers are able to identify a group of people who do not possess the attribute being studied. For…

First of all, someone must apologize!  My second step would be to ask for help.  One good way to do this would be to ask someone from the offended culture to come talk to my employees and help them understand…

It would be more proper to talk about the Navy as a whole as a subculture with social stratification as one of its aspects.   Social stratification is one of the aspects of the Navy as a subculture.  There are…

There are several challenges in studying popular culture. Let me name a few of them. First, popular culture constantly changes. For this reason, the study of popular culture has to constantly change as well. No one can rest on their…

The role of music in the culture of a place has more than one dimension, including the dimension that music expresses current changes in the culture and engenders further changes in that culture. 1. According to scholars of musical change,…