By all accounts, the nation of Haiti has devolved to depths unseen since the Haitian Revolution of 1791. After the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, gangs took over the island nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince, leaving the country’s 11 million people in terror. Through the decades, Haitians have experienced various types of governments. Let’s take […]
Think of your favorite sitcom, what are the main settings of the show? Often it is a character’s home, their job, and then a third place where the main cast gathers. In Friends, for example, the group meets in Central Perk, a cozy cafe near their apartments, and spends a significant amount of their time
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Trigger Warning: This blog discusses sensitive and potentially distressing topics, including unethical, non-consensual, and inhumane health treatment. Reader discretion is advised. What if I told you that social constructs such as race have been used to determine medical care? Not a person’s health or pain levels, but race, a socially constructed category of people based
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Trigger Warning: This blog discusses sensitive and potentially distressing topics, including family abuse and unethical treatment. Reader discretion is advised. When the idea of family comes to people’s minds what is the first thing they think of? Is it the image of a nuclear family, a family consisting of one or more parents and children,
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Football season is in full swing across America. Professional, college, and high school athletes are assuming positions to hike, punt, tackle, and blitz. Fans are pouring into stadiums, gathering around big screen televisions, and setting up homes away from home in parking lots as they tailgate their teams to victory. Estimates are that 21 million
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The U.S. is considered, in terms of government form, a democracy, a system of government in which the power is vested in the people, and free elections are held. In a democratic system, one of the most seemingly direct forms of political participation, actions to support the government or politicians, is voting. Presidential elections are
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Note: This blog is intended to provide a sociology perspective of issues that arise during humanitarian crises due to race/ethnicity-based conflict. Trigger Warning: This blog discusses sensitive and potentially distressing topics, including unethical, non-consensual, and inhumane health treatment. Reader discretion is advised. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Race and ethnicity are categories that profoundly shape people’s lives and experiences.
This blog is intended to provide a research-based overview of the issues surrounding Planned Parenthood and the ongoing fight for bodily autonomy. The 21st century has seen significant advancements in the recognition and protection of women’s rights, yet the battle for bodily autonomy remains at the forefront of social and political discourse. Central to this
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The gender wage gap seems like a headline the media mentions regularly but does not fully cover. It is common knowledge that women generally earn less than men. In fact, on average, women earn 84 percent of what men earn. This blog analyzes some of the reasons women’s income, or money earned through the basis
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In the U.S., the first instance of capital punishment, a penalty for criminal behavior that results in the perpetrator’s death, authorized by colonial law, was carried out in 1623 as a penalty for the crime of theft of a cow. At the time, a crime, an offense in violation of public law, punishable by death
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