Welcome to my lecture about realizing today’s family system. This lecture is the first part of our discussion on major social institutions. Let us start by thinking about our families. Then, let us reflect on families in today’s contemporary times. Now, you might agree with me that there is no perfect or faultless family. However, … Continue reading The Major Social Institutions (Part1): Realizing Today’s Family
Hello! Welcome to Greg’s InsighTalk. Today’s discussion is about the role of the social structure in the persistence of social problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KpaHewIWZw Before proceeding to our topic today, let us review the previous introductory discussion about understanding our society. Last time, we learned that to understand the culture and our community, we must realize the … Continue reading Understanding Our Society (Part 2): The Social Structure and Social Problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpjW4VectnU To begin with, one of the problematic experiences of people is understanding the society where they belong. It results in a stressful life and failures, by which they do not know where to position themselves, creating more complex problems. Look at the picture. People have different perceptions of certain things, on what is happening … Continue reading Understanding Our Society (Part1): Sociology and the Social Facts
Hello everyone! I am Greg Jabal, and welcome to Greg's InsighTalk. This unique program will give you an insightful discussion about the happenings around us. Join me in all the arguments about social facts, which will give us a better understanding of social problems that usually give us stressful lives. Before anything else, let us … Continue reading What is Greg’s InsighTalk?
Introduction Globalization is a societal process of ongoing interconnected economic, cultural, social, and political changes. This globalization project mobilizes people of different backgrounds or demographics across national borders by transferring goods and services, technology and information, skills and knowledge, and the flow of investments. In addition, it allows cultural fusion from various regions of the … Continue reading Non-Recognition of Credentials: A Barrier to the Successful Economic Integration of Canadian Immigrants
The assimilation project of the European settlers left a most excruciating legacy among Indigenous peoples in Canada. The afflictions brought by the residential schools reverberate from generation to generation of Indigenous peoples, exacerbated by discoveries of unmarked graves of children participants in various regions of the country. Such an event ruined the fabric of the … Continue reading Exclusion in Healthcare, Education, and Governance: Racializing and Positioning Indigenous Peoples at the Margins of Canadian Society
This essay discusses geographies of survival and the rights to the city in the milieu of homelessness. It is worth noting that places only left for homeless people are public spaces establishing survival routines. However, their rights to the city are in question because of politicians' banishment initiatives through legislative embodiments. These ideas are central … Continue reading Understanding Homelessness in the Context of Social Services and Institutional Support
This argumentative essay deposes implementing the broken windows tactics and the criminal justice approach to deal with youth homelessness. I argue that said problem-solving techniques are inappropriate and unjust, requiring extensive study and careful thoughts to address this social phenomenon. In addition, homelessness among the youths is becoming more visible to the public, a social … Continue reading The Broken Windows Policing Approach to Homelessness
Introduction This research essay will explore the family, its function as the basic social unit, and its role in youth homelessness through the lens of socialization (immediate social environment), family conflict, and social interaction. Socialization is a process through which people are taught to be productive members of society. So, the family as the primary … Continue reading Youth Homelessness: A Case of Family Disconnection
Introduction Society’s progression processes continue to change along with risks in a gradual to swift manner over time. Discussions and debates about modernity primarily focus on the effects and changes in social structures, mainly the economy, government, and education, specifically science and technology. Such modernization changes people’s way of life, creating new cultures. To the … Continue reading The Risk Family: A Disturbing Cost of Post-Modernity
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