sociological Analysis

The logic of signalling theory is emphasised in Gambetta’s Codes of the Underworld (2009) and Hamill’s The Hoods (2010), which empirically study violent acts as examples of signalling theory in action. In the contexts of jails and of the hoods in Belfast, as respectively depicted in Gambetta and Hamill’s works, anti-social behaviours and tough attitudes are adopted as well as displayed by individuals for their own self-interest to establish their position in a hierarchical structure, making themselves less vulnerable to the troubled realities they inhabit. Sustaining the thesis of these researchers, signalling theory is thus a valid social mechanism which explains violence by instrumental rationality; given the numerous disruptive consequences that its use might entail, the adoption of violence is often seen as irrational. Nonetheless, according to cost-benefit analysis, in low trust environments such as the underworld’s streets and behind prisons’ bars, individuals’ inability to engage in violence or credible threats of its use would be taken as licence for abuse, tarnishing their reputation and worsening their status among others (Gambetta, 2009). However, in his works Collins exposes counter-arguments to the rational action approach used by Gambetta and Hamill, as he focuses on situations rather than individual motives and highlights the significance of emotions in the explanation of violence.

This research will focus on the Galilean ministries of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. This paper uses sociological analysis, particularly on the value of altruism. The objectives of this research are (1) to write a paper in the light of Asian values and; (2) to show that the Great Commission necessitates the proclamation of the gospel and social action. Altruism is the act of helping people in need without expecting anything in return. It comes when it is needed. It does not discriminate, self-seeking, or delay. In addition to the general understanding of altruism, this research will also study altruism from the lens of the Filipino value of kagandahang loob. The word maganda refers to beautiful. The basic meaning of loob means inside or inner space. Connotatively, loob may refer to the human soul, mind, or will. The ministries of Jesus conducted in Galilee can be considered manifestations of God's kagandahang loob. The key to understanding the study can be found in Matthew 9:36: When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. The ministries conducted in Galilee include healing the sick, feeding the crowds, and delivering people from the bondage of evil spirits. The featured story in this presentation is the healing of the centurion’s servant (8:5–13). The appeal of this research is to show that kagandahang loob results in social action. The mandate of making disciples of all nations should include the imperative of social action.

In the 1980-1990-ies in the life of Russia there have been cardinal changes in state ideology, the political structure of society, the economy, the consciousness and psychology of people. This period proved to be very fruitful in terms of collecting and accumulating information, actively conducting research. Social processes and phenomena, the study of which had previously required to spend decades, were firsthand for a very short period for the life of the country. Of particular interest is the evolution of the country's military organization from the powerful multimillion-strong Armed Forces of the Soviet Union to the Russian army, which has serious financial, material and technical and social problems.
In the course of the work on the book, the authors used the capabilities of the automated data bank of the former Center for  Military-Sociological, Psychological and Legal Studies of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (CMSPLS) as a source material, which is a unique repository of information on research conducted 1989-1995. The data sets were subjected to processing, secondary analysis and interpretation. In order to demonstrate the practical importance of research, most of them provide a retrospective review of the conclusions and recommendations that were reflected in the memos and reports. This makes it possible to evaluate from the standpoint of the present day the extent to which this or that study has proved to be a vital and weighty application in the applied plan, whether it caused a proper response from the organs of military and state administration. Some of them have not lost their relevance even at the present time.

Migration in 1970s India and Survival of The Main Character As Reflected in Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Anggun Tri Pramesti
HendraDarmawan
Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia


ABSTRACT

This thesis entitled “Migration in 1970s India and survival of the main character as reflected in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi: a sociological approach”. The objectives of the research are migration in India in 1970s and its causes as reflected in the novel, the survival of the main character in the process of migration and moral value can be taken from the novel.
The type of this research is library research. This research is intended to make the researcher to follow the library research procedure in collecting the data. The subject of the research is the novel Life of Pi. The object of the research are migration in India in 1970s and the survival of the main character of the novel. The method used in this research are reading and making a note from the novel. To collect the data, there are two types of data; primary data and secondary data. The primary data taken from the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel that was published in 2001 and the secondary data are taken from the books, several electronic articles source that have relevant with the subject and support the object of the research. To analyze the data, the researcher uses several theories. They are theory of sociological by Subhan (2015), theory of sociological by Wellek and Warren (1956), theory of diaspora by Sen (2005), theory of survival by Darwin (1896), theory of survival by Spencer (1864) and theory of morality by Robert (2007).
Some of the important research findings can be stated as follow: first, migration in India in 1970s is called as Gulf Diaspora and it becomes a government project which increases economic in India and it is as an effect migration becomes a culture of Indian. Second, survival of the main character becomes survival for migration which is Pi must survive because of shipwreck happens in the middle on Pacific Ocean goes to Canada as a destination. Third, the spirit to continue the journey after the tragedy and brave to take decision, they can be categorized as moral values.
Keywords: Migration, Survival, Moral Values, Sociological Approach

Sociological Analysis Formative Assignment selected as example essay for the class in Week 6 of Michaelmas Term 2020.

Diffusion is a powerful tool in the explanation of collective protest; theories on the flow of social practices show how protests can rapidly spread, as each new group of individuals becomes hopeful enough to organize and start a movement, other groups are inspired by their organization to follow suit. Numerous theoretical models and empirical findings on the study of social change suggest the value of the ongoing synthesis between a social movement and diffusion theories; studies by Biggs, and Andrews, explain the upsurge of collective protest adopting a rational action approach, in contrast to researches such as the one by Barberena et al. which rely on collective behaviourism. Furthermore, while Kim and Pfaff’s work emphasizes the importance of bridging actors in diffusion through networks' ties, Vasi and Shun highlight the significant role of digital communications in the emergence and escalation of protest waves.

Amid the covid-19 epidemic, figures indicating no increase in suicide rates (John et al., 2020), might result puzzling; as a consequence of self-isolation measures, widespread predictions have been made on the number of individuals intentionally causing their own death. From the early months of 2020, numerous countries have adopted severe lockdown restrictions, to which vast amounts of people are still subject to nowadays; these health guidances which serve to contrast the pandemic, are associated with a deterioration in population mental health, in addition to a higher prevalence of reported self-harming behaviours and feelings of loneliness. Nonetheless, possible explanations to this absence of alteration in suicide rates are an increment in social cohesion and a social change in values.

The classical literature assumes that individuals form preferences and vote for political parties and proposals that are most likely to bring about individual economic gain. However, individuals may hold views that appear to be against their self-interest on the basis of internal values and feelings of belongingness, as it is evinced from studies by Fowler and Kam ‘Beyond the self: Social identity, altruism, and political participation’ (2007) and by Rueda ‘Food comes first, then morals’ (2018). Despite voting behaviours being seemingly senseless, other-regarding preferences are conveyed by rational choice theory, as methodological individualism does not necessarily assume individuals to be selfish, but only self-interested, which rests on individual values including altruism. The ballot box success of Brexit and Trump in the 2016 US presidential elections, constitute sociological puzzles whereby high percentages of individuals from lower economic classes have voted for political right ideas in spite of the left-wing, whose principles generally promote redistribution and thus would be expected to better align with the working-class’ interests. Integrating values and social identity theory with rationality, arguably, allows us to provide explanations to these types of sociological phenomena which rational action theory seems limited at, such as themes related to the paradox of voting—the idea according to which, for a self-interested individual, the costs of voting usually exceed the expected benefits (Downs, 1957).

For about a hundred and fifty years, it has been continuously expressed that art has been facing a deadly crisis and this crisis roots itself from the reality that there exists no concrete answer to the question of ‘what is art’. However related with the non-existence of consensus on what art is, it’s nothing more than a weak understanding to claim that it is impossible to talk about art. Thus, it can be acknowledged that the continuous repetition of the question of ‘what is art’ and non-existence of consensus on this subject is a clear proof of existence of a sharp struggle in art; and the state of non-consensus and historical continuity of the struggle can be acknowledged as the main source of dynamism of art. For this reason, in this study, it is acknowledged that non-existence of a concrete definition of art is a historical incident; and this controversial state about what art is and calling it the crisis of art itself was made the subject of a sociological analysis. In this ana...

This study investigates the impact of tole problems on the vocational commitment of Protestant min-isters, using a s mple of 667 in the Chicago area. h tests the explanatory power of two approaches-Blizzard's analysis of tole preferences, and Campbell and Pettigrew's analysis of reference systems. Re-garding the first, preferences among the six roles (preacher, pastor, p iest, teacher, organizer, and ad-ministrator) are only moderately preclictive of vocational commitment. Regarding the s concl, problems of role clarity and conflict are very important for ministers'commitment to their present pastorates; the largest problems are with congregational l y leaders, not denominational leaders. Also ministers stress-ing intentional career planning ate less committed to the ministry in general. When both approaches are used simuhaneously, the reference system approach is by far the most explanatory for commitment to one's present pastorate, whiIe both are needed for e x...

Sociological Analysis Formative Assignment selected as example essay for the class in Week 3 of Michaelmas Term 2020.

The classical literature assumes that individuals form preferences and vote for political parties that are most likely to bring about individual economic gain. However, individuals may hold views that appear to be against their self-interest on the basis of internal values and feelings of belongingness as it is evinced from studies by Fowler and Kam 'Beyond the self: Social identity, altruism, and political participation' (2007) and by Rueda 'Food comes first, then morals: Redistribution preferences, parochial altruism, and immigration in Western Europe' (2018). This idea is also conveyed by rational choice theory, which does not necessarily assume that individuals are selfish, but only self-interested, which rests on individual values including altruism.

Social historians do some of the best sociology of religion today, and Breen is among them.  His essays in this volume invite the reader to consider:  how did 17th-c Chesapeake & New England colonies differ;  why;  and what was their relation to the mother country?  He argues that the former ("Adventurers") and the latter ("Puritans") formed, from the outset, two very different societies, with different patterns of piety, individualism, social control, demography,  markets, globalization.  His portrait, thus, has interesting implications for current sociological debates on "the dominant ideology thesis" as well as for mainstream American studies;  for  it would seem that the history of American society, from the outset, was never simply "the neighborhood of Boston" writ large.  (This review appeared in Sociological Analysis 41(4):383-384 [1981].)

... contain an assessment of the justice of Troeltsch's fate at the hands of Barth, Bultmann and ... Faced with this set of 8 Zeitschrift fur Theologie und Kirche (1893/4), III and iv (hereafter ZThK ... one particular case of the under-standing of the world and of nature common to antiquity ...

For about a hundred and fifty years, it has been continuously expressed that art has been facing a deadly crisis and this crisis roots itself from the reality that there exists no concrete answer to the question of 'what is art'. However related with the non-existence of consensus on what art is, it's nothing more than a weak understanding to claim that it is impossible to talk about art. Thus, it can be acknowledged that the continuous repetition of the question of 'what is art' and non-existence of consensus on this subject is a clear proof of existence of a sharp struggle in art; and the state of non-consensus and historical continuity of the struggle can be acknowledged as the main source of dynamism of art. For this reason, in this study, it is acknowledged that non-existence of a concrete definition of art is a historical incident; and this controversial state about what art is and calling it the crisis of art itself was made the subject of a sociological analysis. In this analysis, it is concluded that; the actual crisis is not the crisis of art but that of aesthetics'; and that this crisis roots itself from the replacement of aesthetics regime (which dominated art for a very long time) with the non-aesthetic 'artist regime' in the beginning of 20th century and the nonfunctioning of aesthetics by this new regime.

The pastoral circle, or spiral, is a four-step process that opens up dynamics for faith and action. The process--insertion, social analysis, theological reflection, and pastoral planning--can be applied to the life and actions of small Christian communities of all stripes. This is a valuable resource particularly for the animators of smaller groups.

... Ritual criticism: Case studies in its practice, essays on its theory. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Grimes, Ronald L. (b. 1943, d. ----. PUBLISHER: University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1990. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0872496929 ). ...