Essays on Sociological Perspective

There is no event similar to attending a concert of your favorite artist in the world. Watching a live performance must be the most exciting thing you have dreamed about; events like those teach you to live in the moment. When you are singing along,...

The purpose of this study is to pragmatically identify and analyze the Conversational Implicature contained within the thirty selected dialogues of seven main characters in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter focusing on Grice’s Cooperative Principle (1975) to find out whether the seven main characters flouted or...

“After you won the American visa lottery, your uncles and aunts and cousins told you, in a month you will have a big car. Soon, a big house. But don’t buy a gun like those Americans”. Imagine you get your visa done, set up, and...

The concept of being poor is a worldwide phenomenon with more than 700 million people still live in extreme poverty and struggling to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, and access to water. The World Bank Organisation (WBO 2020), describes poverty as hunger,...

Society has long dictated people’s beliefs, views, appearance, and even thoughts. What poses a problem is that, unintentionally or not, these norms dictate everyone’s actions, or lack thereof, and can sometimes lead to the repression of one’s feelings, which has a detrimental effect on mental...

The scholar and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois, became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895. He wrote extensively and was the best-known spokesperson for African American rights during the first half of the 20th century. In 1909, Du Bois...

The Tea Party (TPM) emerged in the American political sphere out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis. It was created out of conservative populist anger towards government bailouts of banks and the economic conditions, that had bestowed American society since the financial crisis...

In the film V For Vendetta, a freedom fighter who lives in the shadows, who goes by the name V, plots to overthrow and take the current British government due to tyranny. Many sociological perspectives are presented throughout the film from sociologists such as Karl...

According to Didier Fassin in Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries, borders represent clear lines drawn between states and people to create seperate, defined, and classifiable entities. With regards to states, borders separate territories from one another, marking the division of land. With regards to individuals, borders...

This essay will establish Dworkin, Goldman and Ackerman’s viewpoints on the subject of paternalism, and directly relate them to a case involving the withholding of substantial information from a person. This case revolves around the concept of withholding significant information, specifically the death of a...