Inequality between genders

In our society, there has always been a physical difference between both sexes. Therefor it has been a common subject where there are some big inequalities between genders. Just the idea of creating two groups of gender: men and women show the origin of this inequality. Moreover, due to the idea of a physical difference between genders it has created in our society a form of sexism. Where it is believed that man is superior to women, but it’s only...

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Education: At School and at Home

In one of our recent Sociology classes we learned about Education. The lesson was very valuable because we all learned that there is more than one method of educating someone. I personally did not actually take into account how everyone learns something everyday, and it is not necessarily at school. The act of learning in a systematic and planned way is known as formal education. When students pay to be taught in an institution facilitated...

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Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder's Project impact On Qatar

From November 2011 through December 2011, I’ve been working with Chinese Contemporary Artist and Curator; Cai Guo-Qiang, hosted by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Cai initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppressive, controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Cai explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually...

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Women Rights

In our Sociology class we learned about feminism.Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women.Feminist theory, emerging from these feminist movements, aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women's social roles and lived experience, developing theories in a variety of disciplines in order to respond to issues...

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You Think You Know Ghetto?

After walking out of my Sociology class on Thursday, I questioned myself about the standardized intelligence tests we take throughout school and university. Thinking about it, the education we receive is mostly based on our wealth, culture and ethnic background. It is extremely difficult to come across a standardized test without having the exam be culturally and ethnically unbiased. Standardized exams tend to be culturally biased since the ones...

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Families in TV's Shows

To day I am going to talk about how families are perpetuate in the TV shows; how They present them, and what the idea of family they are trying to promote for it, also how family is thought to be. Family not always seen as real family; like there is the same sexual couple; it's tuff topic and in some country its not acceptable .For example, in conservative family won’t allowed any one of their members to have same sexual couple....

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Education, Culture and Society

Education is an important part of our lives and contributes to our socialization. When speaking of education, sociologists focus on the "formal and informal social interactions that train, discipline, or shape (or reshape) the mind and body in planned or unplanned ways" (Ferrante, 366). We all achieve some sort of education during our lifetime, whether it's spontaneous or intended. Much of our education begins at a very young age in schooling systems....

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Structuring a Family

Polygyny is permitted in Islam because it is more matriarchal; the male has the right to marry four different women. The reason for this is because of the percentage difference in the number of males and females in the world and also to spread Islam. There are a number of different ways in which a woman and man are destined. In Qatar the most popular ways to get married is either based on arranged or love marriages.Arranged marriage VS. Love marriage,...

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Social Change Meets Local Resistance

I was looking out the window today thinking about what social changeshave occurred in Qatar that I can talk about? I mean, compared to revolutions that are happening all over the Arab world, there seemed to be nothing going one, plain and simple. But as the cars passed by in front of my eyes, I thought, “wait a minute, if it wasn’t for that gas in those cars right now, this place would look different in everyway possible.” That is dramatic social...

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Prejudice & Racism

Racism is a certain kind of prejudice, based on faulty reasoning and inflexible generalizations toward a specific group. The word prejudice comes from the Latin noun praejudicium, which means a judgment based on previous decisions formed before the facts were known. If a person allows their prejudiced beliefs to block the progress of another, it is discrimination. Those who exclude all members of a race from certain types of employment, housing,...

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Social Movements: The Arab Spring

Revolutionary social movements against government have become very common now. It all started with Tunisia where the tipping point occurred to inspire many countries around the world to stand up and hold their own revolutionary social movements, asking for changes in the governments and the ruling system. If the voices of the people are heard and the government takes their interests seriously, then the social movement will end soon. However, if the...

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From across the globe

As I sit day after day in sociology class, I realize how everything around me is derived from knowledge and understanding. The topic we zoomed in to this week was education. The focus was on the European Union, and how it functions in the world today. Education is a big word, or should I say, a big world. We follow complex systems and curriculums each and every day. Schools are used as formal education. There is a set curriculum to be followed. My...

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