To be an audist, the ability to hear is not the main factor because many deaf people can be audists as well. They repress each other and may not even realize that. Audists continue to judge a deaf person’s intelligence and success due to their ability of language. The ability or inability to hear does not have anything to do with superiority among humans. The main point in life where the deaf community encounters discrimination is during an interview or applying for a job.
Sociology examines how our behavior individually and in groups is influenced by social processes and what that means. In fact once you start seeing things with a sociological perspective – things will never be the same. It’s knowing how and why we do what we do that engages us with the world around us and makes us more effective agents for social change. However, sociologist C. Wright Mills describes sociology as “the intersection of biography and history?” A lot of you may wonder what he mean: well from my studying and perspectives; The reason why he say sociology is the interception of biography and history is because, Biography: happens to individuals and History: happens to society. For example, every
The historical facet analyses the historical context of a subject matter to better understand the subject in the present. The purpose of history is not only “to study the past as an end in itself but as a way of reflecting on the present” (Holmes et al, 2003, pg. 10). Hence, the sociological imagination demands that it is not enough to examine the society merely in the present. The cultural aspect of the sociological imagination involves the “learned ideas, values, knowledge, rules and customs shared by members of a collectivity” (Holmes et al, 2003, pg 11).
And, some people who had been deaf do not get the cochlear implant surgery, wanting to be remaining deaf as they used be. Bobby Jo Duffy who became deaf at the age of 2 and half states, ‘I value our own culture, our own language. How I express myself, my education is with deaf community. (qtd in ‘Voices of Deafness Transcript’) A consultant of Cochlear Implant Surgery says some patient with cochlear implant feel more comfortable when using sign language as they used to. (‘Sound and Fury’) There might be a group of people who are hearing with the help of implant surgery, but wanting to be a member of deaf community at the same time or sometimes.
Leah Hardy Mrs. Strickland English Honors 9 16 November 2012 The deaf community is a world of its own. The way they see and interpret the world is very different from the way everyone else does. The challenges that they face are completely unlike those of hearing people. But they have not been completely neglected by society. Many innovative technologies and even several laws have been created to aid deaf individuals in conquering obstacles that they might face due to their impairment.
Due to the fact that those who were deaf did not use their tongues and used their hands instead to communicate, they were seen as being “sub-human”. Things that were discussed in the video shocked me. I never realized that those who are deaf were treated in such ways, that they had to coin a term for such oppression. Deaf individuals were scorned for signing; their hands were swatted with rulers. Doctors thought in order to “cure” someone from being deaf that they should go to an oral school.
However, deaf people are troubled as they lack the ability of spoken language, the easiest and most simple form of communicating. The definition of deaf is, lacking the power of hearing, or having impaired hearing. This disability prohibits the person to be able to speak or hear. Most deaf people in the world today use ASL to communicate. ASL stands for American Sign Language.
The first goal is to gain knowledge about the Arabic and Muslim cultures and be able to know the differences between the two groups. My second goal will be to explore some of the social and economic barriers both groups face because of their race, ethnic, religion and culture. There is a difference between Arab and Muslim. Many times Arab and Muslim have been understood to be the same. In the readings Arabs are an ethic group and Muslims are a religious group.
According to Mills (1970) “we must think ourselves away from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew”- The sociological imagination is the ability to think of human society as well as personal experience. What C. Wright Mills called the ‘sociological imagination' is the recognition that what happens in an individual's life and may appear purely personal has social consequences that actually reflect much wider public issues. Human behaviour and biography shapes society, and vise-versa and one cannot be properly understood without the other. If a sociologist was trying to understand two friends having coffee for example then they would examine it as social interaction, as acceptable drug taking, and as part of a complex mix of social and economic processes. They might also assess the fact that coffee is produced by the poor but drunk mainly by the better off, they would examine the history of coffee drinking.
The sociological theory upholds that, people are not instinctively good or bad, happy or depressed, and intelligent or ignorant, but are rather shaped into their own individuality over time by the interactions, connections and relations that one endures along with the situations and circumstances which are undergone throughout a lifetime. First off what is sociology? Well it is the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society, or to put it more simply it is the scientific study of social structure. With that is where the understanding of the sociological perspective comes into play. There are two major aspects in regards to the sociological perspective, the first being interaction between social structure and an individual and the idea of two levels of analysis.