What It Takes To Support A Family

We pass by many housemaids in Doha in almost anywhere. We see them in malls, and everywhere in the public. Did we ever question ourselves, how their life is like outside their home county and family? They go through many difficulties to change their social mobility. While I was at home, I was wondering what it’s like to be far away from my family and my home county. I pictured the image of living in someone else’s house for years, and how it would...

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Cleethorpes, The Commoner's Beach

During last week's Sociology classes, that discussed social stratification, I remembered my holiday to the U.K that summer. It didn't just cross my mind nonchalantly, it came to mind as I thought of Cleethorpes beach in Grimsby, and how I can actually apply social stratification to my family excursion.I've been to that beach ever since I was little, always the same kind of people doing the same mundane things that people do on the beach. However,...

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Unfair

Are we born with a given social status? The answer to this question is yes. Each individual is born with a given status that is inherited. Classes tend to reproduce themselves over time. You are likely to be the same class as your parents. However, with time, you may experience a social mobility, going upward or downward in a social class system. To relate to this idea, I recently had a wedding to attend. Therefore, I had to call a beauty technician...

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The Conflict between the Silent Majority and the Spoken Majority (Qatar before and then)

The technological revolution in Qatar has led to the emergence of generations displaced from their values. That the Web has been able to transfer the cases of the Uncommunicative youth to the welcomed heard space. It turned “ the silent majority” to “the spoken majority“ and succeeded in putting itself on the top agenda of the world.Without any doubt, the generations impressed with the new life's tools, and interacted with them, producing the adult...

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Halloween

As we all know Halloween is happening tomorrow, I found it fun to speak about it and to catch an interesting relation between this event and sociology. Instead of explaining the history of this event, I would love to share with you this video that explains it very nicely:hereHalloween is mostly celebrated in the United States, but it landed somehow in this country: Doha, Qatar. Mostly thank to the globalization and with the large percentage of expatriates...

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Songs and Culture

Every culture has its own style in every thing, dresses, food, tradition, and songs. Today I am going to talk about the songs in the Gulf country. We could notice easily the different between the Gulf music and the Arabic music, by the rhythm of course, because they use different instrument like: Aoud it looks like a Guitar but there is different in sound and the number of string. Also there is a...

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Culturally Religious

For some reason, Islam is automatically linked to Arab identity. It’s like foreigners don’t realize that Arabs can actually be of a different religion. What’s funny about this is that Arabs might forget that too sometimes. Many of us Muslims grew up in a culture that is based on our religion’s pillars and rules. So, in Islam we follow a lot of the things that our Prophet, PBUH, did, such as saying “Bism Allah” (In God’s name) before starting a meal....

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Culture vs. society

In cultures where dating is not prevalent, arranged marriages perform a similar function. Marriage varies and differs from country to country and culture-to-culture, each has their own thoughts and ideas about it, varies from society to society. Sometimes ends up in a happy life and some not. Arranged Vs. love, arranged marriage usually ends up in divorce specially know a days where the women actually can live without a man, some people survive an arrange marriage and live with it and love after getting married, marriages based on love survive...

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Social Stratification

According to sociology, social inequality would be defined as a situation in which valued resources and desired outcomes are distributed in such ways that people have unequal amounts and/or access to them. And one of the main ways they would be affected, is because of social stratification, the systematic process of ranking people on a scale of social worth, leaving many either in a situation of absolute poverty or relative poverty.We can see every society in the world stratify itself people, any criterion could be used to distinguish them, the...

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The Luxury of Yoga

Many people can have access to hobbies like football, jogging or drawing painlessly. However, if you find yourself practicing the asana in a yoga studio, then you are very likely to be in a high social class. Yoga is an expensive practice. Most yoga classes take place in prestigious clubs and hotels and the fees for the class are pretty high. I have never been aware about the wealth factor in practicing yoga until I studied sociology and enrolled...

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Doha Tribeca Film Festival

The third Doha Tribeca Film Festival finally began this October after a long highly anticipated wait by people living in Doha. The festival usually goes on for about five days and showcases films and holds various events for each day. The whole purpose of bringing the Tribeca fIlm Festival to Qatar is to introduce people to the film culture by cultural diffusion. The festival brings together directors and actors from both the western and middle-eastern...

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Society’s Dissatisfaction with Aberrant Beauty!

Every individual is judged by his or her aberrance from the norm of beauty; that’s when sociological imagination appears to explain the nonconforming behavior. Humans act by their nature, and we all are actors who play our role in life. The question of to whom we offer respect is controlled by the social status. Individual achievement that we create and personal choice to present who we are, are the way to define our self, such as graduating, having...

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Arabic Coffee within a Culture

Arabic coffee is a traditional drink that Arabs in the gulf serve to their guests as a welcoming drink, it is considered to be part of the Arab culture. Serving and preparing coffee embeds a number of cultural elements such as values and symbols that link directly to sociology, as well as remaining a focal point during social gatherings of all kinds. It is mainly derived from the Bedouin hospitality, but with new generations it is starting to change....

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WOQOD Petrol Station in Doha: Examining Social Stratification

As I drove into a Woqood petrol station, I didn’t really think my sociological imagination was in gear. I wanted to fill up my car tank, grab some treats and candy after a very long day, re-fill on some comfort McDonalds meal just in front of the Sidra convenient store of Woqod – and go home. However, waiting for my gas meter to fill up, I look around and notice the countless sociological concepts that can be applied in every corner and feature of...

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