Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Fall 2022 semester.
“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 […]
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA, 2013) was established to protect minorities in the workforce. Transgender employees, however, continue to report job loss due to their gender identity. Within the last five years, many trans people have described the many ways their employers have forced them out of employment while avoiding the consequences of the Employment […]
The opening line of Langston Hughes’ poem Harlem asks, “What happens to a Dream Deferred?” The poem speaks about the pain of not realizing one’s dreams amid the racial inequalities Black Americans faced in the 1960s. Likewise, people impacted by the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAMers) currently face the pain of […]
Black children are disproportionately subject to school discipline in the United States (Crenshaw 2015; Entwisle 2007; Farkas 1990; Onyeka-Crawford 2017; Owens 2016; Skiba 2014). Although the disproportionate discipline of Black boys has generated much scholarship (Losen 2010; Raffaele Mendez 2003; Owens 2016), less attention has been paid to the disproportionate discipline of Black girls (Crenshaw […]
