Kenneth Burke Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5‚ 1897 – November 19‚ 1993) was an American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke’s primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics. Burke became a highly distinguished writer after getting out of college‚ and starting off serving as an editor and critic instead‚ while he developed his relationships with other successful writers. He would later return to the university to lecture and teach. He was born on May 5 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania
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RACE Definitions/Concepts Racial Formation: idea of how race is created. Race: socially constructed categorization process that describes phenotype‚ not genotype. Ethnicity: nationality/origin. Whiteness: ideology tied to social status‚ provides privilege for those labeled white; process by which non-white “other” created for benefit of whites. Racism: about structural advantages/disadvantages placed on people based on perceptions of their race. Can be individual or institutional. Covert: not hiring
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The number of people getting tattoos seems to be on the rise. According to the most recent Harris Poll‚ conducted in the summer of 2007‚ approximately 40% of Americans ages 25-40 have at least one tattoo‚ as compared to 3% 20 years ago (Hawkes‚ Senn‚ &ump; Thorn‚ 2004). The increased popularity of the tattoo is apparent if you compare those findings to the 1936 Life magazine estimate that 10 million Americans‚ or approximately 6% of the population‚ had a tattoo (Swan‚ 2011). According to Kang and
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and the father sat at the head of the table‚ organizing paper work. The second pictures shows us the family enjoying tea. The woman sits with her apron on‚ the two girls sit dressed in nurse uniforms. the father again sits head of the table. As Erving Goffman‚ the sociologist suggests‚ We act out in a whole range of different roles which are rather like parts in a play. (Woodward‚ K‚ 2004‚ p.14). In the pictures we can clearly recognize the gender roles being played out‚ but we also we see the transference
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Dear Mr. Mayor‚ Crime over the course of 10 years has risen and dropped due to the change in culture in your city. LA has numerous unsolved murder cases‚ stemming from the disconnected youth population. From the broken tethers at the home the community looks for comfort within each other. This drives up the numbers of gangs and local crimes. Teens and young adults get labeled as criminals because of actions they commit out of boredom. These same crimes committed by teens of a higher class standing
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parent‚ worker‚ or political leader. impression management • Preparing for the presentation of one’s social role. Erving Goffman was a highly influential sociologist who created a new field of study called microsociology‚ or social interaction. Goffman believed that sociologists needed to concern themselves with seemingly trivial aspects of everyday social behavior. Goffman argued that the study of such apparently insignificant forms of social interaction is of major importance in sociology
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On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City The author Alice Goffman does a remarkable job with the details and really goes above and beyond to understand the subjects at hand. Goffman’s motivation for her study on the fugitive life in Philadelphia caught my attention right from the start. On the Run serves as a kind on eye opener for the war on drugs in the United States. The war on drugs was aimed mostly at young African American men. This destroyed any trust between residents of an urban community
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by differentiate them according to their characteristics. This essay will focus on the correlations of self and identity‚ and society. It will stress on if self and identity are separate from society with scholars’ support‚ particular on Mead and Goffman. George Herbert Mead is widely considered as the founding father of theoretical thinking concerned with the self and identity. There are two main innovations in Mead’s work: the social nature of self and the importance of symbolic communication in
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Setareh Salehi Cop in the Hood Peter Moskos‘‚ Cop in The Hood‚ is the story of a sociologist going native by going through the Baltimore police academy‚ becoming a cop and working for over a year. The book follows Moskos chronological journey‚ from the academy to the street and the last part of the book is dedicated to a pretty thorough analysis of the War on Drugs. The first interesting observation from Moskos’s work is his analysis of the police academy as relatively useless for the job:
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FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY A. The Science of Sociology and Anthropology Sociology is the scientific study of human society and its origins‚ development‚ organizations‚ and institutions.] It is a social science which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity‚ structures‚ and functions. A goal for many sociologists is to conduct research which may be applied directly to social policy and welfare
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