Essays on Sociological Theories

John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century political theorists are known for their social contract theories. The social contract theories assume that initially people used to live in a ‘State of Nature’ without the presence of a state. The common theme visible in the...

An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John...

Social Contract Theory almost as vintage as philosophy itself, is the view that person’s ethical and political responsibilities are based upon asettlement or settlement among them to shape society. Socrates makes use of some thing pretty like a social agreement argument to provide an explanation...

The question is why do people abuse drugs? What causes them to go against society with this deviant behavior? Society has set its norms concerning what behavior is acceptable and what is not acceptable. In this paper, I will summarize three Sociological Theories of Drug...

In recent years, China has been expanding their Internet censorship in significant manners, carrying them to the cutting edge of the media spotlight. The government has been tightening their grip and applying more restrictions on information and content that is published online. China filters internet...

In this paper, I will examine One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest movie by Foucault’s concepts and thoughts. The first thing that comes to mind when watching the film is Michel Foucault. Because of his studies on various institutions (prisons, hospitals, mental hospitals, etc.) that...

In Michel Foucault’s essay, Panopticism from ‘Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison,’ he introduces Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon, a circular building with a tower in the center that enabled guards to have a perfect viewpoint of each prisoner in their cell. For Foucault, the...

The Digital Age, also known as New Media Age, Computer or Information Age, is a period that associates with the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century which led to the nowadays technological development era (in the 21st century). Digital Age is characterized by the rapid...

This essay will set out the dystopian novel of The Circle, which overtly deals with the aspect of the possible dangers of social media and surveillance. Set in the future, the story of Mae helps grasp the naivety of civilians which is then combined with...

Culture is the customs, background or the lifestyle of a person which reflects the personality and nation of a particular person. In today’s modern era there are many people who were adopting other culture and forgetting their own culture and adopting other culture style is...