Social Location In Haiti

Question 1: In sociology, social location is a key component of how they determine your identification towards society. Social location is something you can’t necessary choose it’s based on race, gender, class, where you live, ability, age. Also with social location we know there level of power they have when it comes down to their society. Social location groups compare you to the other people’s social location all over the world. (Who gets to graduate, pg. 3) In the article, Vanessa is having an issue to get into her dream school due to social location, she may have the grades, but unfortunately cause of her social class. Her dream cannot come true. Yet, someone who comes from a higher class wouldn’t experience that issue. They might not even have a GPA that is above average, but because of their social class they get better opportunities.
The article “On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below” (by Paul Farmer) states "Life for the Haitian peasant of today,’’ (pg. 1). Haiti is a country that contains boundaries. The poverty
From studying this we have the choice of picking where we would want to live. Living in a big city, which is giving us the opportunity to discover “culture shock”. In today’s day we live in a “melting pot” society which we can learn from each other to choose or not to choose certain cognitive behavior. Therefore even though we can learn from each other we can support and assist those who live under pressure or lack economic resources. Studying the different layers of social reality all over the world can give us more information on how to help to improve society such as social class, religion, and social group, dependent on their customs and beliefs, attitudes and their opinions which are all around us. Social reality is an