Capitalism?

     Hey guys! Hope all of your week's went well. This week I shall discuss the pros and cons of, that's right, capitalism.
     Capitalism is defined as the organization of society in such a way that the wealth and means of production are privately owned by capitalists, commodities are produced for profit through a market mechanism, and workers are free to sell their labor to the highest bidder. There are many pros to this type of organization.
     The open competition that capitalism offers allows for a individuals to gain higher incomes depending on the progress their businesses make. It also pushes individuals to work harder. Their hard work is then rewarded with more profit, a larger business, or possibly more customers. The growing competition also opens doors to a multitude of job opportunities.
     Capitalism has many cons as well. Marxists see capitalism as unfair competition. Not every one benefits from capitalism. It is survival of the fittest and the weak are weeded out. Marxists see this as wrong and completely unfair to those who do not survive. Many individuals also believe that capitalism is harmful to the environment. The constant competition requires for their to be a constant depletion of environmental resources.
     In my opinion I believe that capitalism is good thing and we as humans need motivation to work hard. Capitalism pushes us to exceed to the best of our abilities and rewards us for our accomplishments.

Globalization. Yes! And no!

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great Easter. I really enjoyed spending time with God and thanking him for paying the price of death to give me the gift of salvation. My God's not dead he's surely alive. :) This week I am going to discuss the many pros and cons of the ever increasing phenomenon of globalization.
Globalization Is the idea that the development of social, cultural, and Economic relationships on a world scale has created a single social order or world system. There are many pros and cons to this theory that have been debated widely among sociologists. Some of the pros, I believe, include that globalization allows people from all over the world to feel connected in some way. Globalization also helps developing countries that are suffering. The diffusion of American companies to other countries helps provide jobs for the people in poverty. This then raises the country's economy, which further develops the country.
There are also many cons to globalization. One con is that globalization causes individual to lose their cultural identity. They adopt the customs trends that are made popular through globalization and gradually forget their individual customs that belong to their family and country.
In mu opinion I believe that globalization is a bad phenomenon. I don't like the idea of everyone becoming the same and doing the same things. I think that we all should have our own unique characteristics that add to the society as a whole.

Interactionists are the best stalkers

     Sociologists are pretty much educated stalkers in my book. They go around observing people from from far away as well as up close up. Some even are undercover while observing the people they are hanging out with. I don't know about you but to me this is just a little creepy. It puts me on the edge when I think about it. People who look and act like ordinary people could actually be sociologists watching your every move to see if you do something that interests them. They then record everything you do and add it to their pile of research. This may just be me but this makes me feel like i'm part of a museum display. My conclusion, as I said, is that sociologists are educated stalkers. 

     Sociologists can also take two different approaches to study the "museum exhibits" around them. There is the positivist and interactionist approaches. The approach that I believe gains a deeper knowledge of sociological issues would be the interactionist approach. This is because interactionists like to collect more qualitative data than quantitative data. Qualitative data deals directly with people's experiences, as well as their feelings about, and interpretations of, the situations they find themselves in. So sociologists who take the interactionist approach like to interview people more and interact with them. These are the real stalkers. They may work undercover or have one on one conversations with individuals. Interactionists like to get an understanding of how their clients feel about certain situations. In other words, interactionists want to know your thoughts and feelings in a deeper way than just by you filling out a multiple choice questionnaire.