Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Spring 2020 semester.
Even though shootings are frequent and even normalized by some people, there are many misconceptions about the circumstances that create a school shooter. In sharing this graphic, I hope to bring awareness to these misconceptions and the realities of how school shooters can go unnoticed. Nowadays, school shootings are so common in the United States […]
While mental health has been a problem for millions of people around the world, it is typically seen as a personal problem, rather than a societal problem. Since the beginning of quarantine, life in America has drastically changed. Schools have moved online. A lot of stores only allow a few people in at a time […]
“I was walking through the subway a couple weeks ago and a gentleman came up to me and just started yelling racial slurs, most of them directed toward my Chinese ethnicity.” This statement made by Dr. Chen Fu, a hospitalist at NYU Langone Medical Center, exemplifies the bigotry experienced by members of Asian communities who […]
We as humans are multidimensional. In this post I am going to focus on the athletic part of my identity. As a member of the baseball team, much like a theater group or an orchestra, there is a powerful individual and group performance component. It requires peak performance on both levels. The group doesn’t exist […]
By: Jocelyn Spencer I wanted this collage to reflect some of the common unrealistic expectations (hence the title of the piece) placed on women, which are reinforced through messages on social media. A woman isn’t supposed be too skinny, but she also shouldn’t be too fat. A woman is supposed to show a little skin, […]
C. Wright Mills states, “Perhaps the most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works is between ‘the personal troubles of milieu’ and ‘the public issues of social structure.” (Mills 1959) This distinction is important in order to study to improve upon society. If many men are suffering the same troubles it becomes a public […]
Being home during this pandemic has me thinking about what the word ‘home’ actually means. I haven’t been ‘home’ for longer than two weeks in almost three years. Now that I am back for an indeterminate amount of time, I feel out of place and long to return to my home at school. I have […]
By Philip Bernstein The Effect on Wealthy NYC Neighborhoods Walking out of my house in Brooklyn during the coronavirus crisis brings a strange sight. Although the perception of New York City turning into a ghost town during this outbreak is true of many neighborhoods across the city, my neighborhood of Park Slope is reacting differently. […]
Sheridan Road Magazine is a “luxury lifestyle magazine that delivers a colorful and passionate telling of neighboring events, fashion, beauty, finance, and the pursuit of leisure” (jwcdaily.com). It “offers engaging insight into the extraordinary people and lifestyles that make up Chicago’s most exclusive address — the North Shore” (jwcdaily.com). The magazine is named after the […]
By: Karson Saunders Insulin is a hormone that exists within the human body that helps to regulate blood-sugar levels. For those with Type 1 Diabetes and more severe cases of Type 2, their bodies fail to create this hormone and they must rely on insulin therapy to manage their blood glucose levels. Without insulin, the […]
