Annotated bibliography – faculty of color at community colleges

A significant number of students of color in institutions of higher education are taught by faculty at community colleges. In a report published in 2015, the National Center for Educational Statistics found that 38 percent of undergraduate students attended public and private two-year colleges, of all full-time undergraduates, 24 percent attended community colleges and among … Read more

Do women have equal rights today?

It is no surprise that throughout the years of history, there have been many inequalities towards different genders, different races, and even different ages. Women till this day cannot vote, and many injustices are still happening in the African- American community. Revolutions were no exception to these injustices and failure of equality. Many social and … Read more

Status of income groups and housing indicators

1. Introduction Buying a house is often the biggest deal for a family in its lifetime. Furthermore, economic, social, and physical properties of the neighborhoods have short term and long term impacts on the residents’ physical and psychological status (Ellen et al., 1997). Accordingly, inappropriate housing would bring about many health risks, in a way … Read more

Patriarchy, toxic masculinity and gender conflict

Despite the progress made in gender and culture, there are still numerous incidents of gender-based discrimination, harassment, violence, abuse, and hate crimes. This essay will examine the notion of patriarchy, toxic masculinity, and gender conflict. Years and centuries of history, cultures, traditions, norms, and practices have shaped us into today’s people, including our tolerance towards … Read more

America’s Racial Caste and the Policing of Racial Order

Introduction: A racial caste is a group that is locked into an inferior position. Once placed into the racial caste you are deemed as a permanent second-class citizen. Our system perpetuates a racist divide in our country by creating (and re-creating) systematic ways to maintain white supremacy and black subordination. The United States, successfully, has … Read more

Beauty as a social construct

Social media has become such an integral part of modern society that the way in which we represent ourselves online has become important above all else. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter, each present manners for us to represent ourselves and to form a unique identity online. Snapchat, specifically, allows … Read more

The line between “work” and “play” in modern society

The emergence of a leisure economy has been discussed at length by many scholars in recent years, and has called into question the definitions of both “work” and “play” in modern society. With digital labour dominating much of the leisure economy, the intersections of technology, leisure, and work must be examined separately and together in … Read more

Do violent video games affect an individual’s level of desensitisation?

According to the Office for National Statistics (2018), violent crime has been slowly rising over the past 15 years. In response to this, many researchers have raised concerns over the content within video games, violent first-person video games in particular due to the explicit violence displayed to those playing (Staude Muller, et al., 2008) as … Read more

Women’s representation in video games

1.0 Introduction For my case study I will be looking at women’s representation in video games and the over sexualised way they are represented. From the birth of the industry, females have always been underrepresented. Not only in the real world but females often played the role of background characters offering no real difference to … Read more

The idea of a ‘racial capitalism’

In recent years, the idea of a ‘racial capitalism’ has become increasingly proliferated amongst scholars and activists, especially in light of a number of instances of police brutality against unarmed African-Americans. Left-wing activists believe beyond reasonable doubt that capitalism and racism are inextricably linked, with the main concern being why this isn’t a more widespread … Read more

Is masculinity and masculine history becoming increasingly repressed?

In the wake of the increasingly popular feminist movement in modern USA, is masculinity and masculine history becoming increasingly repressed? Synopsis: This piece aims to investigate if masculinity is being repressed in contemporary American society. By drawing on contentions made mostly by accredited historian Michael Kimmel’s ‘Manhood in America,’ which outlines the course of masculine … Read more

Evolution of medical sociology

First reading was The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness by Gregory L. Weiss and Lynne E Lonnquist. The main focus of this was how sociology came about and what sociology is about and what it will be about in the future. Though sociology has changed and grown since it’s early days, sociologists still use … Read more

Embryonic gene editing – should the US change current legislation?

The future of embryonic gene modification continues to present a heavily complicated ethical dilemma for various intellectual individuals. Some believe that it is highly likely one day humans will intentionally modify their babies to fit a certain standard, while others argue that it seems unlikely for this to occur. When discussing whether the United States … Read more