Midterm Essay - McMinden Social Cultrue Issues

McMinden is a fictional town with a lot of social cultrue issues, but in today's society those issues are real. With Sociological concepts acknowledged by these theorist: Durkheim, Marx, Weber, and W. E. DuBois, (a theorist who use social-conflict to study racial segregation, and discrimination among blacks and whites in United States in early 1800s and 1900s) . Durkheim, 1858-1917, coined the term anomie, (disorder or a lack of social regulation) as it relates to the people in McMinden, they were not socially ingtegrated or tied to their communities. When I grew up in South Carolina, as a child, I can remember my parents, and neighbors having to leave their homes going to different states and cities because agrarian was becoming the thing of past.

The first sociology concept that I dentified in the town of McMinden is urbanization, Sam Votapka who have seen McMinden populated, depopulated, and businesses leave I would suggest cultural lag; has warned his daughter and young people to get out because nothing is left in McMinden, especially if she wants to become a doctor. As a parent, I can relate to Sam who wants the best for his daughter and the young in McMinden; When my son began kindergarden in 1995, I put him in public school, and didn't realized that public schools were not the same when I attended school in the fifties and sixties; so I enrolled my in private school because I felt that private schools had more to offer than the public school system; there were mostly Africian Americans attending public schools were I lived in New York; and the education system was not accommodating the less fortune schools in the city.

The second sociology concept I have identified is Gender Socialization; Suzanne Diedrich's has the need to raised strong muscular boys to play sports and probably would raise her girls to girly, if she had any, according to her daddy beliefs men should be strong. Suzanne's thinking falls in line with Carol Gilligan's Theory of Gender and Moral Development, her approach is the diversiity of race, class, and gender box, she campared both girls and boys, and concluded that the two uses different