Wolf's Sociology 204

An excellent research paper by Kristy Reddick - Spring 2008

Throughout the countless wars of human history, rape and other forms of sexual violence have been perpetrated against citizens by advancing soldiers and occupational military forces. While in the past, rapes and other sexual aggressions have been considered as random occurrences taking place in the "fog of war", increasing evidence may prove to debunk this social myth, especially in cases of ethnic cleansing and genocide. The opportunistic rape and pillage of previous centuries has been replaced in modern conflict by rape used as an orchestrated combat tool, (Smith-Spark, 2008) used to humiliate and demoralize individuals and cause ruinous rifts between spouses, extended family members and whole communities.

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This is an excellent research paper by Jeremiah Ashbaugh - Spring 2008

I chose this topic because there does not seem to be a week that goes by that I hear some comment from a friend, family member, the media, or just someone in passing that seems to falsely explain the poverty situation. It has become obvious to me that American's in general really buy the "pull yourself up by bootstraps" theory, hook, line and sinker. My mother, who raised me, came from a poor family of twelve brothers and sisters and sometimes around mealtime, it was survival of the fittest. Needless to say, I have also been socialized to think that the homeless and poor create their own problems and if they wanted to do better, they could, just like my mom and her siblings. That the lower class and poor are lazy and that they do nothing but drain the money out of the hard working pockets of people who have pulled themselves up by their boot straps. Through much observation, life experience, a decent amount of reading, and some informative classes I have concluded that this issue is far more complex then the general public understands.

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An excellent example of a research paper by Tiffany Rozee - June 2008

Today, roughly149,000 women are incarcerated throughout the United States. (TIME Magazine Tammerlin/ Drummmond, Miami 2000) What has contributed to women being sent to jail, and how are they treated in prisons that were designed and structured for men? When a new methodology was introduced called the feminist scholarship (Belknap in 2001) there was more information brought to light on why women committed crimes, and how gender plays a large part in the type of crimes.

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An excellent example of paper 2 by Autumn Kniel - spring 2008

Through reading Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, the reader is introduced to two very different societies that live on Earth together, but not so harmoniously or cooperatively. These two societies are the Takers and the Leavers. The Takers can be seen as the people of "civilized" cultures and the Leavers as those of "primitive" cultures (Quinn, 39). In other words, the Takers are you and I and culture of Ishmael's pupil, while the Leavers are those people of all the other cultures besides our own lumped together (Quinn, 39). Also, according to Ishmael, a story is a scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods, while culture can be seen as a people enacting a story (Quinn, 41). To enact a story is "to live so as to make the story a reality" (Quinn, 41). It is here where we dissect the stories that the Takers and the Leavers are enacting, as well as the effects of having the Takers and the Leavers co-inhabit our planet.

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An excellent example of paper 2 by Aliesha Powers

What is the perfect body? Who gets to decide such a thing? Most importantly, why does a person care so much about their image? These are all legitimate questions I would love to ask to our so called "mother culture". You can see these body image "standards" all across our country everyday. They are strewn across our televisions and magazines daily. " The perfect body" consisting of a 6'2 girl that has tan skin and weighs 110 pounds. Women in our culture strain and strive in unhealthy ways to achieve such a body.

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An excellent example of paper 2 by Tiffany Rozee

Advertisers work as social agents, a social agent is defined as "those who pass on social expectations"(Andersen, m & Taylor, F "Sociology in Everyday Life; chapter 4 2008) we know that Family, Religion, Peers and Media are all strong influences in the socialization process, but how do advertisements fit into the picture. We view them all over the world, there are studies to prove you can not ignore adds, even when turning off the sound, the visual picture alone can influence us. Even on a subconscious level we still absorb the message. It has been said that "People are most influenced, when they are not paying attention at all" ("The Ad and the Ego" Boihem, H. 1997") "Advertising monopolizes our space by reaching the culture by which we live"(The Ad and the Ego" Boihem, H. 1997")

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Excellent example of paper 2 by Devin Rentz

It is the sound pounding in peoples' heads that is so loud, most people have become accustomed or even deaf to it. Culture is the essence of mainstream. It is the dominant system of language, norms, folkways, mores, beliefs and values of a given society. It is imbued in children from the time they are able to be instructed. Its presence is overlooked simply because it is everywhere one looks. It is not necessarily a sinister bunch of ideas lurking in the shadows, but to realize the effects, both positive and negative, it has on the thoughts and actions of people, it deserves a closer examination. Mother Culture, which will be explored more after an understanding of culture is established, is a term used in Daniel Quinn's novel, Ishmael, to describe a peoples' early culture, their perception of this culture, and its relevance to the offspring culture they are presently a part of.

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Excellent example of paper 2 by Kristy Reddick.

While various systems of trade and currency exchanges have spanned the globe for thousands of years, the late 20th century and early 21st century has been witness to the advent of a bona fide global economy. Rapid advancements in industry, technology and the birth of the "information age" have had dramatic effects upon business's ability to produce and market goods and services the world over. The West, most notably the United States, has been at the forefront of the commercialized global economy, exerting an incredible influence upon fellow industrialized states and developing nations. The fashion icons, franchise logos, foods, and film industry of the United States have radically impacted the material cultures of other parts of the world. Yet the affects of the globalized commercial economy and world wide information network extend beyond the absorption of US products and services. The nonmaterial aspects of world cultures are being vastly influenced by globalization. This phenomena is being embraced and celebrated by many people the world over but is met with opposition by others who view our cultural influence to be detrimental and dangerous to their societies. My intent is to briefly explore how nonmaterial aspects of culture in nations such as those in the Middle East have been influenced by the inclusion of material culture from the West.

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An excellent example of paper 1 by Ngan Nguyen.

Hong Nuong was born and grew up in a poor farmer family in Southern Dong Thap in the Mekong Delta Region. When Nuong was a high school junior, she left school to help her mother with the farming and take care of her sick father and younger siblings. Although Nuong and her mother worked hard in the field from sunrise to sunset, they couldn't earn enough money to support the family. Gradually, Nuong's family was in heavy debt. Nuong moved to Cao Lanh and worked at a restaurant in town to earn more money. After a few months, the restaurant's owner gave Nuong the phone number of a matchmaker in Saigon who promised to find girls rich husbands from Taiwan. Nuong thought so much about it. Nuong knew it would be difficult to live with a strange husband, who didn't speak the same language, in a strange country, but it was Nuong's only way to escape from poverty. Through a matchmaker in Saigon, Nuong married Wang Liang, the thirty-seven year old Taiwanese man, and received $5,000 from him. For Nuong, the dollars from her Taiwanese husband was significantly important to her family in paying off family's debts and going to support her four younger siblings in school. But was it really better when she put her happiness in the hands of fortune and marriage decided by dollars?

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An excellent research paper by Maggie Kercher.

"Caneo, why do you always call me, 'usted'?" I had known Spanish long enough to understand that Dominicans only use the formal pronoun 'you' (usted) for those of very high rank--the boss of a corporation, or a political official--never with an acquaintance or friend. This had bothered me for some time that Caneo referred to me in this way; I considered him a friend just as I would consider any young man with whom I'd spent some time conversing.

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An excellent example of a research paper by V.S.

It's in all the media outlets; obesity is on the rise in the United States. "More than one-third of adults or over 72 million people were obese in 2005-2006 (CDC)." These stories tell us that Americans are the fattest people in the world and the number of people who are obese is getting higher every year. How would a sociologist view what the causes are for this trend? How does obesity affect our society as a whole? Who has been affected the most? What can we do as a society to reverse the trend?

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An excellent example of a research paper by Reid Stady.

After only taking a few glances around at this man-made American culture, it's fairly easy for most to come to the realization that our daily rituals are devastating the planet and other humans as well. The truth is that our government, which controls the most powerful army and weaponry on the planet, uses oil, at least to some extent, as a primary reason for entering into devastating wars. Now that our favorite natural resource is diminishing, a few very powerful countries around the world, including the United States, are scrambling for a new means of powering the amenities we've come to enjoy, with side-effects possibly even more devastating than the oil wars we've engaged in over the last few decades.

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An excellent research paper by Sonya Scott.

Imagine yourself as a parent of a young, active child. You are taking your child to a routine doctor's appointment because although your child has had high energy their whole life, this energy is not being "harnessed" properly as your child is getting older. During the appointment, numerous questions are asked regarding your child's behavior and activity level. Some of these questions may include: What is the duration of your child's attention span? What is their ability to follow directions? Are they able to sit still for long periods of time? Do they interrupt conversations frequently? After replying to the above questions, and with further discussion, your doctor informs you your child has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Both of these diagnoses can be commonly referred to as Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (AD/HD). After this visit and diagnosis from your doctor, you are now among the millions of parents in the United States that lives with this common disorder in their children. In 2003 alone, 4.4 million children ages four to seventeen were diagnosed with AD/HD, 2.5 million were prescribed medications, and 3.3 billion dollars was spent in medical costs relating to these disorders (http://www.cdc.gov).

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Excellent example of paper two by Jacklyn Ferraris.

It could be heard from blocks away. Drums, singing, chants, excitement as people gathered to march through the city of downtown Portland. On this Sunday there would be a "peace march" that would follow a specific path for thousands of people to protest the war. As I walked to the park blocks I was nervous and timid. The thought of leaving crossed my mind, but as I walked closer I realized there was an alarming amount of people. So many that I felt comfortable as if I blended in.

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An excellent of paper 2 by J.L.

In Daniel Quinn's novel "Ishmael" the gorilla compares the Taker's way of life to a trial attempt at flight (104-110). At first I found this analogy difficult to believe, but then as I thought about perception up close compared to far away, it made a lot of sense. It was difficult to assume with so many diverse cultures on Earth that we could lump them all into two groups. Then take one group and further lump them into one person attempting flight, hardly a sufficient sample size. Of course Quinn goes on to give another example of a flight with a craft that the Takers all use together called the Taker Thunderbolt (107). The initial descent of the lone pilot seemed ludicrous. How can one not see they are dropping not flying? Then I thought if the canyon was large enough that you did not immediately see the ground and you could possibly soar, then any direction that was not nose down would seem like flight. This was the same as any situation that one is too close to see the entire reality. Life, to each person, is seen from a narrow perspective. As much as we try to look openly, we still see with the blinders of our own individual experiences. In comparing this final acceptance of the analogy I can see clearly how it compares to the Takers as well as Society today.

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An excellent example of paper two by M.J.H.

I recall reading about horrific genocides in grade school, practiced by colonizing European nations on the multitudes of Native American nations. Sometimes, it was found in my favorite childhood literature which included stories about Kit Carson, Calamity Jane, or in a T.V. miniseries special, such as The Last of the Mohicans. Bad traders would be introduced, who intentionally traded in blankets inoculated with small pox; with the horrific intent to "wipe out" entire tribes of Native Americans. Other times, the genocidal activities where retold in stories of the Trail of Tears, the name given to a historic U.S. government program, in which Native Americans where marched, the majority to their death, across huge expanses of America, in the dead of winter. Sometimes, the genocidal activities where more social or cultural, as in Spanish missionary schools, and Australian adoption programs, in which children were removed from their native cultures and families, and forbidden, often beaten or tortured, for speaking their own native languages.

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Excellent paper 2 example. Student's name withheld.

What is Socialization? Socialization is the process by which human beings learn the social expectations of society. (Andersen & Taylor) There are numerous social expectations that come across in everyday life. These expectations, either clear or unspoken, can pervade our entire presence and attempt to shape us. Who we are; how we define ourselves and the set of values we judge ourselves by is the product of multiple forces. What is the process by which socialization shapes individuals? How does this affect the world in which we live?

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An excellent example of paper 2 by Keaton Snyder.

Getting a tattoo has long been a discussion for many individuals. It is a practice that has been around for centuries, yet is still an evolving part of society. Not too long ago in the US it was a practice that only lower class people participated in and was looked down upon by society. But more recently society has started to change the way that tattoos are seen. This is in part because it has become much cleaner and people know more about it, as well as tattoo artists being required to have a license to practice. In fact there are even schools that teach the art of tattooing. How does having a tattoo affect the way that American society sees an individual and why does American society see it this way?

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An excellent example of a student research paper by Kerri Thorpe.

Absolute autonomy of the individual is a fanciful dream. At one point or another we all believe that we are sovereign beings, independent on our self governing islands of existence. A large majority of us also at one point believed that a large fat man would squeeze down our chimneys to give us candy and presents. As time went along, it was clear that the Santa Claus was our mother, but we wanted the presents so we decided to keep believing. Likewise we decide to believe in personal autonomy because it is so attractive. Our ego's have an appetite for control and have a thirst for recognition. Personal autonomy means that we cannot be controlled by outside forces, that our actions, decisions and results are governed solely by our individual self. We are in control of our life. The only thing that can bring us down is not taking responsibility for ourselves and looking for someone else to blame. Belief in the autonomy of the individual is a very popular thought mostly among people who belong to dominate groups. It is also an avenue dominate groups believe non-dominate groups should utilizes a means to break free from the subjugation of oppression. Ironically this focus on the individual and not the community significantly contributes to all forms of institutional oppression.

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An excellent example of paper 3 by Ryan Crab.

It is not hard to find a myriad of cultural stereotypes when looking at videogames. Stereotypes based on race are everywhere with in the medium. While in general, we as gamers might think we value diversity, what we ingest as entertainment is far from it. Could this be a factor of the general immaturity of the industry and its struggle to find its voice? Or is it a representation of an industry that is mainly in habited by white males, at least in the North American market ("Game"). I personally have a vested interest in the future of the video games industry. I am currently on a path to develop my skills to enter into the industry, to potentially one day become a game designer. So I am very much interested in finding new ways to tell stories from alternative perspectives.

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An excellent paper 2 example by Morgan Waldroff.

What is the first thing you heard when you were born? Can't remember? It was probably something like loud voices, crying, laughing, cheering, the television. That's right, the television, almost every room in hospitals across America have at least one television set. The average American consumes some form of media 71 hours per week; about 32 of those hours are spent watching television (U.S. Census Bureau 2004). That's more time than most children spend in school! In many homes across the country the T.V. is on most of the time, these homes are referred to as "constant television households", often being African American families (Gitlin 2001). Other forms of mass media are magazines, radio, Internet, movies, and advertisements.

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An excellent paper 2 example by Dawn Duran.

Socialization is the process by which people learn the expectations of society (Andersen 83). In the past most socialization occurred within the family unit. We passed on our values, morals and beliefs to our children through daily interaction. As adults we received validation from our families and peers. In today's world we receive our socialization from many areas of society. In addition to the social institution of the family we receive socialization from school, the media, religion and peers. In American society the focus is put on individualism as opposed to collectivism as is done in so called "primitive societies." Our individualistic approach dictates that some must fail in order for others to succeed. In a collectivism society when everyone succeeds it serves the whole community (Wolf lecture 2/12/08).

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An excellent paper 2 example by Natalie Stager.

Marilyn Frye's birdcage analogy is meant to represent oppression. She talks about how, when looking at a birdcage microscopically, there seems no reason that a bird couldn't fly out of the cage. It would seem the bird was stuck due to the fact that by looking at it this way, all the observer would see is one wire and they wouldn't be able to see that, in actuality, the bird is surrounded by a series of wires that contain it in a certain space. In Frye's writing entitled "Oppression" she concludes, "It is only when you step back, stop looking at the wires one by one, microscopically, and take a macroscopic view of the whole cage, that you can see why the bird does not go anywhere..." (Frye). In the original work, Frye speaks about the oppression of women, but her comparison of social structures that keep people from reaching certain levels or leaving certain spaces to a birdcage can be used to describe many other types of oppression found in society today.

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An excellent paper 2 example by Chelsea Fuller.

From a young age our parents and family always asks, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Many answer extravagantly with occupations like a doctor, a super star, a pro athlete, and sometimes even an astronaut. Often, we are then told that we can be anything we want to as long as we work hard. That is until we get a little older, and our dreams undeniably doubtful. As we go through adolescence we begin to be asked the same question, but this one comes with a little extra, being asked to discover who we will be as an adult and how will we contribute to society. Having just recently turned eighteen I am personally facing many obstacles in answering that question. Realizing it is a lot more complicated now than when it was asked as a child. The multiple social locating factors that we use to identify ourselves cause many challenges as we shift into our adult lives.

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An excellent paper 2 example by Christine Jones.

My 23-year-old son, Shaun, is a charter member of a new subculture--the cyberculture. (or virtual culture). I intentionally use the term "charter" because he began his involvement in this particular culture at the beginning of its formation around 1995, when he was only 10 years old. At that time he took an after-school class to learn how to use personal computers and then encouraged his teacher to start an after-school computer club, which he attended until we moved the next year. He learned quite a bit from his mentor and acquired his own computer and convinced his father and I to set up an account with AOL, which connected him to the internet and the cyber world of which he has been a part of ever since. It has played a major role in his life, and though he may at times take part in other groups, the majority of his social interaction takes place in this subculture. He has also earned his income through it since he was 12 years old. Therefore I thought I would do my second paper on cyberculture with the objective of gaining a better understanding of it as a subculture.

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An excellent paper 2 example by Megan Chambers.

Question: Identify a group on you campus that you would call a subculture. What are the distinctive norms of this group? Based on your observations of this group, how would you describe its relationship to the dominant culture on campus?

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An excellent Paper 1 example by Thao Mai

" Guess what? The Nazis didn't lose the war after all. They won it and flourished. They took over the world...This took a long, long time, but when it was all over, everyone in the world was one hundred percent Aryan, and they were all very, very happy. Naturally the textbooks used in the schools no longer mentioned any race but Aryan or any language but German or any religion but Hitlerism...After a few generations of that, no one could have pit anything different into the textbooks...because they didn't know any thing deferent. But one day two young students were conversing at the University of New Heidelberg in Tokyo....Kurt said, " I'll tell you, Hans. There is something that's troubling me- and troubling me deeply"... "it is this" Kurt said. " I cant shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we are being lied to about" (Ishmael, 27). If one day Kurt can get out of that Hitlerism planet, he will find out what he has been lied about; Based on my own story, I can guarantee this. In past seventeen years living in Vietnam, lot of things in society did not make sense but I had no ideas what I had been lied about. One day, an airplane took me thousands miles away to America where I have enough critical distance to realize that my brain has been "washed" pretty well.

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An excellent example of paper 1 by Mandy Dye.

What I am about to tell you may seem shocking. Indeed, you might be tempted to label me an armchair conspiracy theorist or a perma-baked dilettante junior hippie. But before you judge, consider the evidence that I use to support my outlandish claims. The peculiar point of view I propose is this— what we call reality is fake, but its consequences are real. Of course, I am engaging in hyperbole, but only to help shift your brain into a different gear. Trust me, it will help when I begin to explain myself. What I really mean by my statement is that most people don’t tend to think about why the world seems to operate as it does, and how this has shaped their own experiences and respective positions in life. Nor do they go on to consider that they also affect reality through their action, inaction and ideas.

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This is an excellent Paper 1 example by Maggie Kercher.

I come from their very ranks. I have a deep understanding of what it means to “conform” to the social norms of the group. A “deep understanding” is most thoroughly valuable when one has personally experienced the subject in question—which is just what I have done.

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This is an excellent Paper 1 example by Kay Pettygrove.

Diversity at Portland Community College appears to be everywhere. But is it? Diversity is defined in the Encarta English Dictionary as “ethnic variety, as well as socioeconomic and gender variety, in a group, society, or institution.” Based on that definition, it appears that Portland Community College embraces a culture rich in diversity of all types. Walking the campus, it is easy to identify the many different ethnic groups as well as the varying ages of the students. What is more difficult to determine is the differences in socio-economic groups and particular sexual preferences of individuals. Is diversity however, a numbers game? True diversity should be judged by the institution’s efforts to increase educational opportunities that identify and promote understanding of the differences and similarities among different cultural groups. Being able to meet a predetermined quota of minority students is not enough.

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This is an excellent Paper 1 example by Kindra Kerp.

Pick up a National Geographic magazine, flip through the pages and describe what you see. Perhaps the pictures that stand out are the ones that display people of different cultures practicing rituals or chores that you find extremely odd, maybe even frightening and horrifying. Why do you think that is, and what is it's relevance? What conclusions do you make about the people on those other-world pages?

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In April of 2006, officials with Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released projections that the nation’s nursing shortage would grow to more than one million nurses by 2020 (HRSA, 2006). A report by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) states that nursing schools in the U.S. turned away 42,866 qualified applicants from nursing programs in 2006 (AACN, 2007). The current nursing shortage and the difficulty of qualified applicants getting into nursing programs is therefore an issue that interests me so I am choosing it as the topic of this paper.

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Seeing Through New Eyes: The Sociological Perspective

By Student Author Genevieve Andersen

What is Sociology? Sociology is the study of human behavior in society (Andersen & Taylor 2006). ‘Well, that’s all well and good,’ you say, ‘but what do you mean by that statement? There are many components to human behavior, not to mention human interaction; many parts and pieces of society. In fact, what does one mean by society? Does a sociologist study the individual or the group as a whole? Does he or she study the reasons for behavioral patterns and or simply the statistics – what they are? What is so special? And why should it matter?’

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