Digital Interactions: Social Capital in Virtual Communities
Introduction The Internet is a large scale communications network that can transfer information from one computer to any computer around the world in a split second. The Internet has evolved into a massive networks of inter-connected computers that has been build up as a public platform where anyone with an Internet connection can easily share knowledge, opinions and personal beliefs. As the Internet expands into almost every Americans house, it is making sign
The Gendered Workplace
Reading Response 4 – The Gendered Workplace In Barbara F. Reskin article, "Bringing the Men Back In: Sex Differentiation and the devaluation of Women's Work", she observes the significant gap in wages between different genders in the work place. In most cases, males out earned their counter females, by as much as 50% in 1986. Reskin believes that this income gap exists because there is a segregation of jobs, where males acquire the high paying jobs, and leave the lower status jobs
The Managed Heart
In the first chapter of "The Managed Heart Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild, Hoschschild explains that current trends of economic capitalist states are becoming more service based, requiring individuals to become an emotional "instrument of labor". As more jobs require emotional labor, there becomes a detachment from the inner feelings to present the emotional labor required for a job. This emotional labor is considered "The Managed Hear
Social Capital and Rationality
In the first chapter of Sociological Insight, Randall Collins explains that groups and societies are based on reasoning and rational agreements, but also lie upon a non-rational foundation. When faced with a decision, an individual is influenced by certain conditions that make them choose a non-rational path to come to a rational outcome. He also explains that rationality is limited and only appears under certain conditions. Two types of rationality described were functional rationality, con
The Nature of Deference and Demeanor
In Erving Goffman's, The Nature of Deference and Demeanor, Goffman explains the concepts of deference and demeanor and the active role they play in how individuals act and respond to specific situations. These actions are influenced by "rules of conduct" that form an individual's identity and help them act accordingly to the cultural norms or a certain group or role in society. Deference is a "component of activity which functions as a symbolic means by
