IHSS Blog 2020-2021

Nikolas Cantu Mr.Roddy IHSS 16 November 2020 Voting Survey (Level of Education and Healthcare) I decided to compare the baseline question, level of education, and the healthcare section. I picked these because healthcare is something that seems to need a more educated opinion rather than just a guess. I have calculated that 68.8% of the respondents have some type of degree or diploma. The first two healthcare questions both seem to be broken up into large sections rather than smaller individual sections such as the last question, this allows me to give a more accurate comparison. Looking at the first healthcare question we can clearly see that it is leaning towards an approving outcome with 77.6% either approving entirely with the ACA or approving but needs changes with the ACA. What this shows me is that the 77.6% most likely have had experience with this form of healthcare meaning that they were an adult, so 18+, starting in 2010 or so or a bit after sense that was when it started....

Everest Leo Mr. Roddy IHSS 14 November 2020 Voting Survey     A lot of surprises came when looking at the results of the voter survey. Firstly, there were a lot of things that I would've changed that could've kept the data cleaner, like getting rid of the short answer boxes for a lot of the questions such as age. This small mistake just made it so that the data could be misrepresented because some people would put in an answer into the box that's already an option. Another issue that we faced was means of dissemination. This is because a lot of people posted it on their story and most of their followers are around their age so if any of their followers did the survey it could've skewed a more accurate representation of voters. One last issue that I saw is that some of the questions could be clarified a little more and doing so could have changed the answers given. Something like giving an example of what the question is talking about or just more clarification would hav...

  Alex Gross Mr. Roddy IHSS 19 October 2020 Development of Sociology: Karl Marx vs. Max Weber Karl Marx was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, and someone with very profound political views. He is best known for believing in two basic societal classes that set apart the workers and the owners. These two social classes were the Proletariat (workers) and the Bourgeoisie (owners/capitalists). He believed that the workers would eventually overturn the bourgeoisie which would destroy capitalist society. He also believed in the principles of communism, although he technically had his own ideology with these beliefs as the main principles called “Marxism”. He thought that after the capitalists were overthrown that communism would take over. Max Weber was someone who shared some similar beliefs to him but varied in specific when it came to social classes. Max Weber focused most of his work on criticizing the work of Karl Marx. He believed that while property and money are very import...

            Emile Durkheim contributed to the study and understanding of sociology in many ways. He is known as the father of the French School of Sociology. Emile Durkheim was enrolled originally at a rabbinical school, but decided he wanted to switch and study sociology. He then went the École Normale Supérieure in 1879 to further study sociology. His first major work "The Division of Labor in Society" where he introduced anomie, the concept of breaking down the influence of social norms on individual people within a society, was published in 1893. He published another major work in 1897, "Suicide: a Study in Sociology" this explored differing suicide rates among Protestants and Catholics and argued that the stringer social control of Catholics resulted in lower suicide rates. Durkheim's life goal of getting an influential position in Paris was achieved in 1902 when he became the chair of education in Sorbonne. He later died of a stroke in 1917....

       When I was little the toys I was given and the toys that I picked would always be pink, purple, or teal. The toy aisle for girls was also full of dolls and play kitchen toys that were pink and purple. There we always a few toys that would were originally just in the boys' aisle but had been added to the girl aisle once the company had made a girl version in pink or purple. But then when I was at home with my brothers it wouldn't matter the color of the toy or if it came from the girl aisle or the boy aisle. We would play together with the red, blue, and green nerf guns and the legos that came in the blue boxes. We could have water gun fights in the backyard with our red water guns, sure, I would pick the pink basketball if we were playing basketball, but I had been taught that pink is for girls and blue is for boys by what colors were in what section of the stores. Maybe if all the toys were in the same aisle I wouldn't have always picked the pink toy. Maybe i...

I chose to focus on Karl Marks's conflict theory and Herbert Spencer's the theory of survival of the fittest, because they to me seem to be the exact same, worded in different ways but very similar. If you look at Social Darwinism its base ideals it pretty much states that if a person can't do well in an environment they are not well adapted to the environment and will die off. From a quick glance this looks just  like how people see nature if there is a species of animal it has to adapt or it will die off which in turn suggests that people haven't developed at all above the animal brain level, I however don't disagree but I don't agree I see how it is in effect today this is where Karl Marks and his conflict theory which in order for it to work there has to be some form of social hierarchy and for you to have a hierarchy you have to have some people who are not fit for the upper spots in the hierarchy so they have to adapt to the environment that they are in or...

Katie Vojvodic   Mr. Roddy   IHSS A   12 October 2020   Martineau, Functionalism, and Their Effects on Sociology           Harriet Martineau was born on 12 June 1802 in Norwich, England. She described her childhood to be "burdensome," what with her strict, "domestic tyrant" of a mother. Martineau found her escape in the 1820s after her family hit an economic decline, a result of her father's death. She decided that she would dedicate her life to writing. Her earlier works include Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838) , reports of things she discovered after spending two years in the United States. Though Martineau studied and wrote about many subjects throughout her lifetime, she is known best for translating Auguste Comte's Cours de Philosophie Positive ( Course on Positive Philosophy ) into English when she was around 50 years old. This book was a revolutionary introduction to positive ...