Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Fall 2022 semester.
I scroll myself into a deep hole as the clock strikes midnight. My thumb is robotic, swipe, flick, swipe, as I mindlessly scroll through my Tik Tok feed. Once again, I have fallen into the trap of the endless scroll. While scrolling, I encounter countless influencers who seemingly have the “perfect body.” I feel my […]
Million-dollar payouts. Flying in Private Jets. Fame. Traveling around the globe for his job. While fans are quick to spot the glamorous aspects of Tiger Woods’s life, they often overlook the mental and physical health struggles he has faced in his career. Golf has its own, distinct set of challenges, irrespective of whether you are […]
Black performers are rarely able to tell their stories onstage in a powerful and authentic way. There are various reasons for this, such as who is writing the stories, who is directing the stories, and which stories are mainstreamed. In the 2018-19 season of New York City theater, Black performers occupied 29% of all available […]
“Powerful groups inevitably create social and cultural systems that legitimate their own class advantage” mitchell stevens, Creating a class, p. 11 In no place is this more evident than college admissions. While powerful upper class groups are constantly legitimated by the higher education system, members of poor classes that lack the knowledge necessary to be […]
Tattoo Sleeve Collection: I was always told that the perfect Christian didn’t defile their body, because they belonged to God and were made in their image. While deconstructing my faith, I quickly realized that tattoos weren’t inherently immoral. For me, tattooing represented a transition away from an ascribed Christian identity towards regaining agency over my […]
Since 1896 at the Olympic Games in Athens, the tradition of marathons has spread globally to cities such as Tokyo, Boston, London, Chicago, Berlin, and New York. About 1.1 million people worldwide participate in marathons yearly (Sayer, 2022). Marathon running has increased from 25,000 runners in 1976 to 2 million in 2010 (Burkule, 2016). Boston […]
August 21, 2022, Crawford County Arkansas: 27 year old Randal Worcester is pinned to the ground by three deputy sheriffs, facing a barrage of punches and knees while immobilized. Each movement he makes due to the inevitable panic of the situation is met with fists, and tasers as he “resists arrest” (Tabachnik 2023). All over […]
Television distorts, mocks and marginalizes fat people. Fat characters are reduced to caricatures whose stories and identities aren’t developed and don’t matter. TV audiences look down on fat characters because they are made fun of on the shows they are shown in (Himes 2007:713). Not only is the representation of fat people overwhelmingly negative, but […]
An immense amount of work goes into a song’s final product. Record labels and talented artists depend on producers to help them develop and make their music sounds its best (George, 2016). Without them, listeners wouldn’t be able to experience the emotionally engaging songs that are loved and praised so much. However, nearly every song […]
“Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back…You will have an illegitimate president. That’s what you’ll have. And we can’t let that happen. These are the facts that you won’t hear from the fake news media. It’s all part of the suppression effort. They don’t want to talk about […]
