Last but not least, I would like to give examples and give my point of view on the word sociology, such as what does it mean to me! First, I would like to define and explain what sociology means to me! Sociology explores people and society. It examines our social institutions; our families, the state and social relationships like gender and ethnicity, to help make sense of how we both see and interpret our rapidly changing world. Sociology examines how our behavior individually and in groups is influenced by social processes and what that means.
To begin with, raising the tax will bring in more money to the government from since demand is inelastic for cigarettes and people will keep on buying them. The extra amount of income could be used to help the well being of the country and to provide more public goods. Also, cigarettes are a demerit good, a good which is considered unhealthy or damaging in some and can be physically harmful to the consumer and other surrounding, so when price increases, demand will fall. Even if it is a small fall in demand, it is most likely to be for the young smokers to demand since they have less income than adults. If more young smokers quit, the healthier the next generations will be since smoking is a main reason behind a lot of health issues including lung
Personality and cognitive factors, such as optimism and the tendency to view challenges in a positive or negative way, as well as social factors, such as the availability and use of social support, appear to influence how people adjust to trauma (Brewin, 2005). For example, both patient parents were drugs addicts who were not avaliable to her at an early age as she would have loved. This may have laid the foundation for her sucepitability to depression, as well as poor coping
The NHS will also suffer from the negative externalities created as smokers who were reliant on therapeutic gum will now be suffering the effects of smoking again. Another intervention can be information provision which can be provided through the medium of social media, television advertising and radio. This will correct the information failure, and can be used in conjunction with tax to increase the effectiveness. However it does not provide an instant effect do it does not solve the short term problem. There is also a large amount of information needed for it to be effective.
Materialist and structural explanation Due to data gotten from statistics, this explanation supports the idea that social factors like gender, ethnicity and class play an important role on the impact on health. It explains the level of health patterns and inequalities in the population between the social classes. However a weakness is that believes people should not be responsible for the risky lifestyle choices they make and also believe that people do not have the power to their health experience. The Materialist explanation concentrates on the hazards in society and to which some people have no choice but to be exposed eg the lower classes are exposed to more unhealthy environments because they do more dangerous work, have poorer housing, have fewer resources available to secure good health and are unable to use the health services. * -------------------------------------------------
This essay will examine two sociological theories: interactionism and functionalism. Firstly, the key concept of Interactionism and functionalism will be defined discussed, analysed and followed by comparisons and contrasts between the two of them. Then, there will be a short discussion to explain how these two theories are related in their contribution to the knowledge of health practitioners. Interactionism in sociology is a theoretical perspective; it is focus on aspects of social life is subjective rather than objective and is based on human’s interactions rather than societies interactions with humans. Instead of looking at social systems at a larger-scale, such as the entire population of a country or third world countries, interactionism focuses on smaller-scale social interactions, such as the interactions between individuals or small social groups (Interactionism in Sociology: Definition, Examples & Quiz).
* Write one paragraph that summarizes the social problem in the news article. 2. Choose two different theoretical perspectives that help to explain the situation. You will need to decide whether the situation calls for a macro perspective (demographic groups, whole societies, cultures) or micro perspective
Matthew Redman Grade 11 Law CLU3M1-01 Should Marijuana Be Legalized? Marijuana like any other drug is harmful to a person’s body and should not be consumed. It isn’t nearly as bad as some of other drugs though, and some scientists believe that it is less harmful than fully legal alcohol. If Marijuana were to be legalized experts say that it would bring billions of dollars into our economy. It would end lots of drug crimes, and possibly stop major drug gang wars.
Marijuana being illegal is only making us spend more money. All of this would make America better in my opinion. The only downside I see to legalizing marijuana would be the easy access to everyone. Specially the children, they are ones we worry about, but if we are as strict as we are with cigarettes and liquor, I think things will be ok. We will just need to raise the fines and be harsh with them. Now stores would not want to sell it illegally to minors.
Social pathology is a term used to describe social factors, such as poverty, old age or crime that bolster social disorganization. At the same time, the term refers to the study of these factors and the social problems they may lead to. Social pathology as a concept appeared late in the 19th and early in the 20th century, when sociologists classified as social pathology all human actions that contradicted with ideals such as residential stability, sobriety, habituation to work, sexual discretion, family solidarity, neighborliness and discipline of the will. The study of social pathology is crucial to the maintenance of social health. Similar to pathology in medical science, a more definite knowledge and deeper understanding of social pathology gives sociologists an insight into the healthy social organization.