The Sociology Blog with Joseph Dahl
this is my blog for my sociology class with Harry Mersmann
In this article, Philip Meyer talks about Stanley Milgram’s study to simulate the effects of the holocaust and obedience. Milgram was hoping to prove that Americans were less obedient than the German people and that the holocaust could never happen in the United States. Milgram’s experiment mimics the holocaust by placing people of an ordinary …
Continue reading “Meyer, if Hitler asked you to electrocute a stranger, would you?”
In down to earth sociology page 249-264, this section was about how people in the funeral industry try to reduce the social stigma of their profession, as they are often seen as cold, unfriendly, or unfeeling. to combat this stigma, embalmers and funeral directors use softer language in their line of work to be more …
Continue reading “Thompson, Handling the stigma of handling the dead”
This chapter is about the sociology of consumption. The chapter talks about the many reasons why we shop or why we buy certain things and the social pressures that go along with it. We shop for many different reasons like buying something we absolutely need like food or buying something we simply want out of …
The village people who seek out the witch doctor for the appearance ritual varies from villager to villager. usually men who wish to maintain their normal image would seek out this priest once every one or two moon cycles while the maidens rarely ever get the ritual done during the four seasons. For me, a …
Continue reading “Describing a haircut the way Horace Miner would.”
thanksgiving is an old american tradition that most american family’s (including mine) participate in every November. every thanksgiving we have turkey as the main course for our feast and it never changes in our family or most other american family’s who celebrate the holiday. i feel like you cant enjoy a thanksgiving dinner with the …
Continue reading “Contrasting Durkheimian and Marxist perspectives”
I cant exactly remember the first thing i bought but the earliest thing that i remember that i bought was something that i really wanted was a wild west video game called red dead redemption. As a kid i saw the trailers for the game and i immediately wanted it. As a 10 year old …
In this first chapter they talk about blue jeans and use this subject to introduce the concept of sociological imagination like why is something like this in our society and how does it affect us? The book talks about blue jeans, why they are so popular in today’s culture and what effect they have on …
Continue reading “My thoughts on Ch 1 Jeans/discovering sociology”
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