Week 14

                                                       Unemployment

I choose that “unemployment” which is a national problem in the USA now. First, I would like to identify the cause leading this problem. The following are the principal causes:

      1)      Outsourcing

2)       War

3)      Corruption in realistic lending

Outsourcing: Some U.S. entrepreneurs and businessmen are moving some jobs abroad where wages are very cheap. Outsourcing brings more profit for them. However, it costs domestic workers their jobs. The displaced workers look for the similar jobs, but they find it hard to get jobs at their skill level. Outsourcing removes the jobs from here, but no initiatives are taken to create new jobs for the people who lost their jobs due to outsourcing.

War: The recent war cost U.S.A billions of dollars. However, the war is necessary to protect the security and interest of the country. The money that was used in war could have been used in creating job domestically.  Thus, job creation is foregone by war efforts reducing opportunities for employment.

Corruption in real estate: Greed motivated many bank loan officers to approve mortgage loan to people who were not qualified to buy their homes. Because it was easy to get approved for mortgage, more and more people tend to buy houses. Therefore, the price in real estate was sky rocketing. The prospective home owners thought it a good opportunity to invest real estate market for potential gain in short period time. But the bubble burst. The real estate market collapsed. The price of real estate fell down dramatically. People were unable to make their monthly mortgage payments. They could not sell their house because the market price was too low to cover up what they borrowed. Therefore, most of them defaulted on their mortgage payments, and bank lost a great deal of money leading to the brink of bankruptcy.

Government can step up to provide solution to these problems by taking initiative and creating programs for quality education for the next generation, staying away from wars avoidable for legitimate reasons, regulating financial industry.  But government alone cannot solve this problem. It requires team efforts to cope up with this problem. Every citizen, business owners, and entrepreneurs should come forward and contribute in building the prosperous economic future of U.S.A.

Week 12: The Family & Intimate Relationships

Family is a social institution where a group of people lives together. Generally, a family constitutes with parents and their children. Human civilization started with family. Family holds its members together in a loving bond. It fosters moral values and nurture loving relationship with each other. It promotes love, respect, and sacrifice for each other and offer motivation for education, sharing with each other. Children learnt their best lessons family. Families created society. A good society depends on good families that make it. Each family play a vital role to change the society it lives in. Educated parents bring up educated children who carry on the moral values of their parents and teach their own children accordingly or even better. Therefore, what direction the society will be moving towards depends on families. Thus, value of family in our society is endless. The concept of helping each other originates in family. The families hold society together; societies make a country possible; countries together make the whole world. However, the basis of all these is family.  Families are where we become what we are. It is our identity.

Racial & Ethnic Inequality

Last summer, i was working in a restaurant. Here is a manager who is white. But i am an Asian. My other friends are also Hispanic and African American. Also there are some working white people. Most of workers are student. Those white people didn't talk to us very much; they avoid the black people most of the time. They didn't like them. We talked about this with the manager but, he didn't take any step; he ignored us as well. This situation is very hurtful and for that reason i quit this job. This type of racial inequality always wound me.

Stratification and social mobility (week -7)

I have chosen Bangladeshi immigrants in Silver Spring area as my topic of discussion at micro level. Main points of my discussion would be occupation and education. Bangladeshi people come here as immigrants for better lives. After coming here, they face the challenge of finding a job as soon as possible. But finding a job right away is not that easy because they encounter language barrier and lack of US work experience. Even though they find one, they start at the bottom level. For example, an immigrant doctor may start his/her first job as dish washer. It may take several years at least before that person can move up occupationally. Supporting the family and getting relevant education required time and efforts. Whoever is ready to make sacrifices in short term to gain in the long term is eventually successful at the end. But this is not an easy step forward. For example, one may get a job in a restaurant as server and may make a good money including gratuities. This handsome and hard cash is good for living easy life and at the same time it is a trap for not moving forward educationally and professionally.

Regardless of path the immigrants take in their occupation, they understand the power of education. Therefore, they send their children to school for higher education, better career and better life. Children eventually get higher education and start their occupation in the higher level (e.g. doctor, lawyer and accountant etc.). Thus sacrifice of the parents is a very meaningful for the prosperity and success of their children. First generation work hard, and next generation reaps its benefits.

Mass media- (Team- 1)

Hello All,

I was on team two, anti-mess media.  my topic is how does mass media can impact social change or social movement does? Here I am going to share why I am not agreeing on this issue. First of all, I would say mass media has both side good and bad. If we look its good side, it gives us local and world news and lots of educational subject. But this is not enough to change anything in our social movement. My opinion is proper education; proper rule and regulation can impact on social movement. However, sometimes its make various gossips, that is not good for us such as one scientist told that the earth would be destroy in 2012. When we heard that, we were become so afraid.  Therefore, we understand that mass media not only good for us but also bad for us.

Social Institution

  Social institution is my topic. I chose this topic for many reasons. First, I will define what social institution is. Then I will reflect its role on my individual like as well as on the society as a whole. Social institutions are organized patterns of belief and behavior centered on basic social needs. The government, the mass media, the religion etc. are the entire example of social institution. Now I will going to discuss role of the Christian church. Church gives us moral values and guidelines, spiritual counseling, help solve families and social problem. It also influenced on my personal life. It also gives me moral values. It taught to distinguish between good and bad. I found moral support and consolation when I was in disappointed for any reason. Individually proper guidance when I did not know what to do. In society life, it also helps to make a good society. When I get proper guidance from church, it is also affect on my society people.  They also learn how they can make good social life. So, I understand that social institution important for me and social life.

Assignment #3

Human Right and HIV/AIDS

Montgomery College

 Sociology -101

Professor: Sahar Sattarzadeh

Florence Rozario

          

             AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system. When someone affected by this disease, it will damage his/her whole thing. The AIDS epidemic was first recognized in the united state of 1981. According to the centers for diseases control and prevention (CDC), 940,000 cases of AIDS reported in the United States from 1981 to 2004. Now this time, approximately there are 1.1 million people in the United State are infected with the human immune deficiency virus. HIV continues to spread throughout the world, shadowed by increasing challenges to human rights, at both national and global levels. The virus continues to be marked by difference against population groups; those who are live on the fringes of society.  Because they do not know about this virus. They have no awareness about this virus. They infected with HIV may suffer from violations of their rights when, for example, they face government-condoned marginalization and discrimination in relation to access to health, education, and social services. In this context, the realization of rights by people living with HIV would require nondiscriminatory access within a supportive social environment. Every government is publically accountable for their actions toward people in the context of HIV/AIDS. Given the reality of violations that continue to occur, it is useful to consider the specific human rights responsibilities of governments. First, we need to definite what’s call Cultural Relativism. Cultural Relativism is the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really “better” than any other. This is based on the idea that there is no ultimate standard of good or evil, so every judgment about right and wrong is a product of society. When a culture are affected by the HIV virus, another culture should aware their people. Therefore, they can protect their culture from this virus. So Cultural relativism teaches us how we can far away from this bad thing. Absolutely, HIV is human rights violation Issue. From my sociological imagination and cultural relativism perspectives, we should view it as positive to wakeup other from this virus.