Social Science

Myths are collections of fictitious stories, beliefs, or concepts. Race is a mythical concept that was “legitimized” by deviance and corruption in the scientific, religious, social, government, and business sectors in order to allow moral facilitation of enslavement, genocide, and…
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Race did not become a widely accepted social term until after the earliest scientists, regardless of physical disparity, who worked with each other discovered that all humans, no matter how physically they differed, had the same human and intellectual potential….
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Social engineering is a term that is used differently in two fields. In Sociology, social engineering is defined as the act or art of causing planned changes in the key elements or factors of a society. In the security and…
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How is racism related to self-esteem? Interesting question, and I am assuming this has nothing to do with those who feel the effects of racism. Clearly, if someone was using slurs towards you, or discriminating against you and your family…
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Cultural values, at the simplest level, are commonly shared concepts about what is right, wrong, possible or impossible, true or false and so on. From there, it gets complicated. The arena of cultural values can be as small as each…
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Marx was not completely honest when he said that “religion is the opium of the masses”. He left out the fact that ideology is an equally addictive and sedative social drug. As he pushed ideology, which is being followed to…
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When identifying the difference between prejudice and discrimination, it is useful to view prejudice as an internal entity: a product of experience, emotions, intellect, belief structures, and social mores. Discrimination can be viewed as an external representation of prejudice, along…
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In the classic literature, there are several forms of symbolism. Religious symbolism dominated the field until the post modern era, when secular use of symbolism in art, literature, political and other social matters became the dominant use of symbols. Referential…
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People fail in life because they program themselves to fail. Of course they don’t do this consciously, but they do it non-the-less. Ways in which this happen varies: They decide on careers that they are not mentally and physically capable…
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Order and Chaos Look at any system from a certain angle and it appears to be nothing more than chaos; look at it from another angle and it appears to be order. If we stand back far enough, everything appears…
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