Sociology Essays

Our three protagonists in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress are sent to re-education in a remote mountain; there they are greeted by monotony. The discovery of a hidden treasure chest of forbidden foreign books enriches their lives with the value of intellect, literature, liberty, love, friendship and desires. It …

The author Thomas Hardy lived and wrote in a time of difficult social change, when England was making its slow and painful transition from an old-fashioned, agricultural nation to a modern, industrial one. Businessmen and entrepreneurs, or “new money,” joined the ranks of the social elite, as some families of …

Jean Baudrillard’s essay, “The Violence of the Global” is a very expansive view on the effects of thought patterns, dogmatisms, and to a lesser extent, arrogance on a worldwide scale. Baudrillard separates three distinct tiers of moral and values. Those tiers are singularities, universalized, and globalized. Baudrillard identifies the spreading …

Like a Winding Sheet, written by Ann Petry in 1945, is a story that begins with a black man’s tough day at work, but takes a twisted turn. Johnson comes home after a hard day planning to kick his feet up and enjoy a relaxing evening at home with his …

Stereotypes are the defining and labeling a specific group of people. All of us have a range of images of people, places, or things which are unique to our personal outlook, but these are of interest our mentalities which appear in our instant. Impacts of stereotyping in our multicultural groups …

In traditional Chinese culture, many judgments were made about a person just by observing their sex. The woman was looked upon as an inferior being and she had little or no status in society. Furthermore, very little was expected from women and they were discriminated against when they tried to …

John W. Blassingame was born in Covington, Georgia, in 1940. Blassingame joined the faculty of Yale University in 1970, where he taught in the African American Studies, History and African departments. He chaired African American Studies for most of the 1980’s. He is the author of New Perspectives on Black …

‘Life for a Life’ is a short story written by a famous white South African author who became involved in the fight against apartheid. It is a story about the murder of a rich white farmer and the revenge killing of a black shepherd. The story was written at the …

John Updike’s story “The Rumor” is about the struggle of a married couple to maintain their normal (and rather boring) existence amid rumors that Frank Whittier, the husband in this modern couple, is having a homosexual affair with a young man. The rumor that begins the story brings a sense …

1. Do you believe the Bush administration was correct in imposing tariffs in March 2002 on a wide range of steel imports? I believe that President Bush needed to do something to protect the US steel market. At the time that President Bush decided to impose temporary tariffs on steel …