Global sociological imagination

Global sociological imagination

My parents are both originally from Palestine but they have lived most of their lives in Saudi Arabia. They got married there and started to have a family. My dad worked really hard to support us “his family” as well as he went to postsecondary school to get his bachelors in economies. In the meantime and my mom stayed focused on raising us “her kids”. As we were growing Saudi Arabia’s rules started to change. One of the rules they changed is that any non-Saudi resident in their country will not have the right to attend postsecondary school any longer. This rule have got my dad’s attention which made him think deeper about our future and what will happen to us “his kids” when we grow up without education. He took an action and started looking for a place where we can attend school and found out that the best thing to do is to immigrate to Canada. This rule Saudi Arabia had made changed my life today. Now that I am in Canada, and in post-secondary school, I realized that my life has been impacted by other people’s actions.

Canada had given me the chance not only to finish my education but to work as well. When I had my first job I felt very responsible about myself and surprisingly about all the poor kids all over the world who suffer from hunger, I felt really bad for them and now that I can actually do something such as to donate for them, I started doing it frequently. I was proud of myself as well as thankful to Canada who gave me the chance to do so. I hope I changed something in this world and hope my action gave those poor kids the chance to be alive.

Body Ritual Among The Nacirema

Body Ritual Among The Nacirema

Author:Horace Miner

Nacirema is a north  American  group of people who lived between the Canadian Creel the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico. Those nacirema people were and still hardly understand by others, they were very rich by nature but the poor once of them were not treated equally with the rich ones. Nacirema are well focused on eating fruits for the wealthy look or for what they call it the “human body” . They use their wealthy looks as power of ritual and ceremony. The richer the native was the more control he had over others, and the more shrines he would have.

In the shrines natives have built chest or box on the walls which has charms and magical potions and pure water which is the main thing in the hall temple. They believe that without it they could not be alive.

Nacirema believe that there is a supernatural influence in all social relationships and a strong relationship exists between oral and moral characteristics, but their strongest believe was the medicine man who writes down the ingredient of the medicine in a secret language that only he would understand it.

The medicine man has both the power and the magic from the devil to assist sick clients with all their needs and wishes  such as taking the fear away from children and changing woman’s shape  by making a fat woman thin and small breasts big and also avoid women’s pregnancy and many other powers of magic such as the  “holy-mouth-men” which is  power with the mouth, It is some kind of power and magical material put in to the clients mouth making the client believe that this men hold the teeth from breaking down and to draw friends as well, when it actually breaks the teeth down even more.

The actual reason is to make the client come back to the holy-mouth-men once or twice a year because for every treatment the medicine man has to get a valuable gift from the client and if the gift is not valuable enough the sick patient will not get treated even if the patient is poor.

The understanding of sociology

I am Rola Elhayek, I was born in Saudi Arabia in 1988. I am interested in sports, music and arts. The reason why I am in sociology 1125 is because my major area of study is criminology and sociology is one of the courses I need to take in order for me to graduate.

Sociology is the knowledge of society; it is the study of human social behaviour, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.

Sociology is the human interactions and social groups. It is what happens between individuals when they meet. We can’t see or feel society, this is why it is not phenomenon, but we have to believe in it because it exists.  Sociology is dialectic. We create society and it creates us, so we create what create us, which means it works the opposite way. People move on in this world but the social life will continue to go on and it never dies.

With society and making social groups we need rules for example: 1125 sociology class is a society but it needs a teacher to create rules and the students have to follow these rules, for successful, organized class. That’s how society works. We have agencies to act, if there are no rules and no agencies we wouldn’t be here. We live by values, and our actions are controlled by the society rules.

We depend and lean on others, People come together to interact, we can’t live without society. We are social animals, we need others to survive, it is our nature that we need to rely on people to survive.

We live in iron cage, which means we have to obey and follow rules just like a bird in a cage who has freedom but only inside the cage. We are born free but as we grow we begin to realize that we have to balance and compromise our needs with other people’s needs.

We have to surrender some of our freedom to create society and when we create norms we follow it, in other words we create society and society controls us, so it turns out to be a self-creating process.

Some elements of society are “Relationships” which are real but they have consequences’, because wrong behaviour can get you yelled at and sometimes dead. “Statuses” which is the location in the relationship, we play rules based on our statuses’ for example the husband play different rule then the wife does.

The purpose of sociology is to understand society realistically; we use reasons, logical to study, Like what is realistically happening, not hopping or wishing and assuming what will happen. It is to understand why certain people are the way they are, find the reason for their behaviour before judging them and jump to conclusions.

we are logical and social beans, we were born twice, first we are biological beans which is the nature of our behaviour,  second we are born by social beans which means our behaviour is controlled by the rules we need to follow which in the first place we made and created.