Category: Applied Sociology

  • The Uncomfortable Awakening: What happens when You become a Sociology Nerd

    When you become a sociology nerd, or when you have been studying sociology for a very long time, you stop seeing society the way ordinary people do. You begin looking at the structures of society through a sociological lens of your own. You become obsessed with questioning things that most people never even notice. You…

  • An Interview with Dr. Noel Packard – Karl Marx and Max Weber on Machines Dominating Labour

    In this interview, we speak with Dr. Noel Packard, independent researcher and session organizer of “Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour,” a call for papers featured on the Sociology Group website. Dr. Packard discusses how Karl Marx’s idea of the self-reproducing machine and Max Weber’s notion of the “Machine…

  • Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction by Paul Robbins (Study Notes)

    Ecology refers to the relationship between the human beings and their physical world or surroundings. Robbins inscribes about political ecology through an instance of East Africa. The ecology of East Africa is beautiful and on the same hand important. The flora and fauna (lions, hyenas, baboons etc.) gives the natives as well as the other…

  • FEMINIST (RE) INTERPRETATION OF CSR ACTIVITIES

    Gender diversity is an essential component that adds value to a company’s decision-making process, affecting its financial performance. Despite an increase in female literacy rates, gender inequality is still prevalent across the globe. Women’s participation in the labor force is meager. According to the SIGI (Social Institutions and Gender Index), which measures discriminatory laws, social…

  • Question of agency: Interactionism, Structuralism and Male gaze

    Introduction: Contributing to the debate of structure and agency, Erving Goffman and Talcott Parsons differentiates in their perspectives but their theories do not necessarily run parallel or opposite to each other, instead there are points of confluence. I would also argue that reading their work side by side enables one to understand more comprehensively the…

  • Deviance, Disability, and Anomie – Essay in 4000 Words

    It is a fact universally acknowledged that the world is burdened with extensive and pervasive social inequalities, most of which serve to target the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of society. As a result, persons in minority groups have been the recipients of countless forms of maltreatment and have been required to endure nearly constant…

  • What is Sociology of Cryptocurrency? All you need to know

    This article briefly draws on the history of cryptocurrency, tries to define the sociology of cryptocurrency and analyses how various sociological theories have been used to understand the global phenomenon of cryptocurrency use and its impact on the world. Money’s origins are difficult to ascertain, for they have been shrouded in mystery. Some scholars think…