Author Archives: Abby Ramirez

As I look back to my childhood I can always remember eating a bowl of rice, beans, cut up tomatoes, and pepper. This became one of my favorite dishes and comfort food. On average, my family would it eat it about once to twice a week depending on how much we craved it. I rememberContinue reading “(JBC) Contrasting Marxist and Durkheimian Perspectives”

Sympathy is a trait inside most people that create connections among us and is used as a form of communication. Among humans, sympathy has become a way of expressing sentiment among each other. For example, when a dramatic and tragic event may happen in a person’s life, others tend to express sympathy for that person.Continue reading “(H) Clark, Sympathy in Everyday Life”

Body language is an important part of communication and how others interpret you. When being approached, people have different expectations of how the other person should behave around them. Unknowingly, we as humans each portray out thoughts and feelings through our body. Whether t forcefully make it known or not, body language can have aContinue reading “(H) 109-117 Hall & Hall”

Looking at the different forms of analyzation, there are a number of studies that each cover it’s independent area. Sociology starts by being the one to discuss the topics of society and categorization of why certain cultures, ages, ethnicities behave certain types of ways. For example, the social settings have complete influence in the livesContinue reading “(H) 8-19 What is Sociology?”

The term sociology sounds proper and can be intimidating when it comets mind. Sociology in itself is simply the study of society and human involvement in it. However, it is more than a study. Sociology is found everywhere where people don’t think to look. It can be connected to practically anything in society. Many peopleContinue reading “(JBC) Preface”

The Nacirema people look to their healing magical experts to seek relief and cures. However, from the perspective of a person with insurance and doctor care, the methods used by these people seem useless and exploitative. The dragging process of going to an all knowing man that sends you with a cryptic prescription to obtainContinue reading “(H) Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”

Food is a necessity in the daily lives of human beings all over the world. However, the different foods eaten in different parts of the world have significant impacts on society. Nowadays, there are stereotypes of the various types of food each culture has but the differences are not necessarily taken into consideration when weContinue reading “(JCB) Chapter 2”

I remember being around 4 years old still living with both my parents and saving up my money to buy myself a wallet. As a kid, I would always see both my parents being grown up and responsible because they had a wallet of their own. I took it upon myself to save any spareContinue reading “(JBC) pg.26 The First thing I Bought Was…”

The notion of fear comes from within and is something a person creates internally. A person who creates their own fears uses them and creates their values around them. Each person’s personal values reflects who they are and what they tend to make of their lives, the concept of fear adds to that which theyContinue reading “(H) 20-27 Mills, The Promise”

The topic of sociology does not simply mean the study of social life but it is an idea used to create questions on the “why” of things. When a person steps back from a certain position to look at the macro view of a subject in a different perspective, it invokes different questions and concepts.Continue reading “(H) 3-7 Intro to Sociology”