Category: School
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Internship: Demographic meta-analysis of the Sierra College student body and disparately impacted success of its populations.
Executive Summary During the fall 2019 semester, I completed a sociology internship at Sierra College. At some point in the last year, I had asked several professors which populations are the most impacted at Sierra College (Which group has the lowest success). I was surprised to learn that no one knew the answer. Further research…
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The Fight For $15
“The Fight For 15” is a flawed attempt to solve the problem of the decoupling of inflation from wages. Minimum wage is always stagnant, with occasional jumps, typically closer to a living wage. A living wage is a wage that is high enough for people to meet their basic needs and survive. This is not…
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“Criminal Justice System”
The modern American “criminal justice system” has for centuries been an institution of deliberate systemic oppression. This purpose was greatly expanded in recent decades through the drug wars and through the ignorant actions of armchair broken windows theorists like Joe Biden. This system is designed based on profit incentives. These incentives lead to no consideration…
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Socialization and Culture
I feel like I regularly come upon men offering free hugs, especially at queer events such as pride. Often these men identify themselves with clothing and signs offering further qualification such as “Free hugs from an accepting father,” etc. I approach these situations from a queer liberation perspective. I choose not to seek to use…
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Theory Vs Field Research
I marched with Black Lives Matter at Burning Man this year. Burning Man is supposed to be an experiment in building a city the right way. Together, we arrive at the literal blank slate of a dry Pleistocene lakebed in the Black Rock Desert. We build a city called Black Rock City completely from scratch…
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Comparing and contrasting Queer Theory and Critical Feminist Theory
Prompt: Compare and contrast the basic premises of any two sociological theories. How do these theories view the construction of gender? According to each of these theories, why does gender inequality exist and why is it maintained? I am comparing and contrasting Queer Theory and Critical Feminist Theory. I will start with the fundamental ideas…
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Fascinating Case Study: Pay-What-You-Want Cafes
Pay-what-you-want cafes are a super fascinating case study at the intersection of many issues related to modern urbanism. Implementing this mission started with food security and grew to touch many other issues from racial sensitivity to consumer behaviors and our deep ethical dissonance around living differently than we believe we should. This story includes themes…
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Social Problems: Policy Analysis
CJ Trowbridge Professor Jeffrey Sacha SOC 301: Social Problems 2018-12-11 Social Problems: Policy Analysis Midterm Imagine a child being forced to have sex up to twenty times a night by a trusted friend or significant other. This is a very typical situation for thousands of children being sex trafficked on a daily basis throughout California.…
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Social Justice: Final Paper
CJ Trowbridge 2018-12-04 SOC 110: Social Justice Social Justice: Final Paper I have talked to many people who feel that their vote doesn’t count. In the words of Rules For Radicals author Saul Alinsky, these people are “copping out” and refusing to participate. A self-fulfilling prophecy of nihilism is their response to troubling social conditions.…
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Topic Paper: Social Justice Pedagogy
CJ Trowbridge 2018-11-06 SOC 110: Social Justice Topic Paper: Social Justice Pedagogy The concept of liberation is interesting and counter-intuitive to me, based on the name. I expected to hear about the liberation of self, but interestingly, as the author puts it, if black people could liberate themselves from racism then they would have. It…