Category: sociology

• The Impact of Social Stratification

  We’re all human. None of us have a say in what circumstances we are born. Pretty much any other characteristic by which people can be defined produces some form of social stratification. Thinking about it boggles the mind. I’ve grown up with the ideas of caste and class, and tried to understand how anyone can…

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  eyeofparadox

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  Aug 21, 2007

  discrimination, end of the world, evil, fair play, individuality, jobs, minorities, personal musings, social stratification, society, sociology, suicide
• The Best Way to Fit In? Don’t Stand Out

  Grouping is an activity that comes instinctively and automatically to people. It is part of a filtering process that allows us to make sense of our universe. Anything can serve as criteria for grouping, but because this is a perceptual-interpretive process; differences and similarities in physical characteristics are the most prevalent. As we learn and…

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  eyeofparadox

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  Aug 12, 2007

  discrimination, fair play, individuality, minorities, personal musings, society, sociology, transgender
• The Price of Admission

  What is a society, what is it made up of and how does it work? The simple answer is, jobs. Society is all about jobs. Living in the wild, surviving on their own, human beings had no jobs. Their lives were defined by the tasks that needed to be done in order to be able…

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  eyeofparadox

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  Aug 6, 2007

  fair play, jobs, personal musings, society, sociology