IHSS Blog 2019-2020

Alex Karni Mr. Roddy 9th In 1897, a book called " Le Suicide " was published by a man named Émile Durkheim, a French Sociologist. Nowadays his text is tough to psychology students. He was able to publish the first book that was capable of presenting psychological study of suicide, rather than having it due to someones temperament. At the time, it was totally new concept but one that was groundbreaking. Basically, his text went like this.   The  content  of Suicide  advertised  an examination of how suicide rates at the time  varied  by religion.  Particularly , Durkheim analyzed  contrasts  between Protestants and Catholics. He found a lower rate of suicide among Catholics and theorized that this was due to  more grounded   shapes  of social control and cohesion among them than among Protestants. Durkheim also found out that Suicide was less common between women than men, more common among single than partnered,...

Cidette Rice Mr.Roddy IHSS 9/26/19  The Asch Conformity Experiment ‘If all your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you?’  I’m sure many can remember a time in their life where they have been asked this, typically as a response for wanting trendy clothes or the newest IPhone. It’s used to brush off the asker, saying that conformity is a bad thing, that it could have consequences. If this is so, why do so many people conform? Why would people participate in conformity if it’s viewed negatively? The Asch Conformity Experiment was a sociological test on various groups of college students. All but one student in the group knew what was going on, and they were playing the role of unassuming student. The students who were on the inside were called ‘the confederates’. During the experiment, confederates and outlier alike would be shown two pieces of paper, the first having line ‘A’ drawn on it, and the second showing lines ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’, with two of the lines ...

Isabelle Saxon 9/29/2019 The Sociology of Education For my Sociology Blog I read “The Sociology of Education” by Ashley Crossman. The article describes how education effects society and how society effects education. Crossman describes how education is thought of as “a pathway to personal development, success, and social mobility.” Sociologist Emile Durkheim in particular believed that “education was necessary for society to exist” and this way of thinking founded the Functionalist Perspective on Education or Functionalism. Functionalism states that “an institution only exists because it serves a vital role in the functioning of society.” However sociologist have found that schools produce more than just homework. Recent studies suggest that educational institutions have become breeding grounds for gender, class, and racial hierarchies. One way this happens is through the “teacher expectancy effect.” This happens when a teacher expects certain behavior from stude...

Fabricio Guerra Mr. Roddy IHSS 30 September 2019 Poor Wages and Working Conditions      Ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, products have been way easier to produce, transport, and refine. This means that (in a capitalist society) you needed people to run factories and people to work in them. The workers, who frankly had very little rights and horrible working conditions, were paid dirt poor wages which made it very hard to get by. After the start of the Industrial Revolution, industry began to spread from simple things such as electricity production to more complicated things such as refined oil, especially during the outbreak of the First World War. During the booming 20s and the Great Depression, the gap between rich and and poor began to grow exponentially. During the 20s you had rich businessmen taking advantage of workers to produce as many products as possible so they could make boatloads of cash, and during the Great Depression in the 30s...

Edison Moudry Ihss Mr Roddy 30 September 2019 Fear These days fear is everywhere it spreads like wildfire and kills like attila the hun. The media has a large part in spreading the fear. Every time there is a report on something about people dying for example a plane crash or the attack on the twin towers during 9/11. The media spreads the news and hence the fear. This is what my article talked about the aspect of fear in our modern society and how there are many ways that we see fear. The article talks about how the news media covers threats that are not important thoroughly and they will make them sound a lot worse than they actually are. Then they will take serious threats and make them sound like they arn’t so serious and that can be deceiving. This makes things like everyday incidents like accidents and plane crashes sound like the endo of the world. Don't get me wrong you can definitely die in those events but they arn’t as serious as the 9/11 tragedy. The way the media...

I chose the article “The Communist Manifesto” which is originally a book by Karl Marx, the founder of communism. Throughout the article, it addresses what communism is, how it was created, as well as how it’s still being used today through the ideas of others. The book is used as a way to help cope with some of the critiques of our new era capitalistic society. In the book, Karl Marx writes that the system itself would collapse on itself due to the fact of how peoples’ minds work; people would end up revolting. Karl Marx personally believes that the goal of communism is for people to work together in unity while getting the same pay or goal. In some countries today, communism is still in use such as China and North Korea. However, even in capitalistic societies, people still have a belief in such communist ways. Such as in the example provided which states people revolting through the wages needed in Chicago which aren’t equal to everyone else’s wages in other states or cities. Karl Ma...

The blog I chose was "The Social Transformation of American Medicine" by Paul Star though I read the summary by Ashley Crossman. She tells us that the book was two parts with the first regarding the rise of professional sovereignty but the second built on the transformation of medicine into an industry. She goes on to write that early on the medical field received hostility as it was seen to be built on privilege. Later though, as licenses and codes of conduct were introduced the field became more acceptable. The social class also came in in the first book as he states that there was originally a large amount of inequality as their class was more based on their families status. Another interesting topic was the development of the hospitals throughout different stages as they started out being for particular things then changed to be the all around care we know today. With the changes of the hospital came the changes/evolution of different roles in the hospital as well. The ar...