Sociology

It's a classroom but it's also competition, it's brutal, it's fun, it's serious - You never can tell in that class. The course, 'sociology' was never taken seriously by anyone, especially the the students that study it themselves. Timothy Take, a student of a non-prestigious Lokenbrim University in Texaz, sees it as his sworn duty to pass with a mindset of being valedictorian: little does he know what will actually awaits him on that course. Find out more of what happens as you read Sociology- University Level.

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." What a brilliant line, isn't it? James was a boy who had nothing to worry about. A happy family, a nice childhood. What's more to ask? But one day, everything changed. He lost everything in the blink of an eye. The only thing left for him were the memories and dreams of the past. Trying to cope up with the loss, he cut all ties with the outside world and became a shut-in, having no one left to call his own or to rely upon. There was nothing left for him in this world, but still he lived and soon found a purpose in his life, which lead him to create something that could change the world. And on the very day when his dream project was about to come to the light, he lost his life, trying to save a little girl from an unfortunate accident.  "Will I ever be remembered...? I wish... someone would." These were the last word James mumbled before his conscious faded into darkness. But his life didn't end there, as he is transmigrated into the body of an arrogant, worthless Duke's son in some unknown land with no memories about who is or any idea about where he is. In an era of political turmoil and civil strife, the Duke's son is forced to prove his worth for inheriting the title. Will he be able to accept the new reality and prove himself by leading this country into a prosperous future? Or will he cease to the pressure of his past and lose everything once more? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: This is not a power-fantasy or a 'feel-good' story. If you feel a protagonist should never lack agency (especially in early story) or make compromises because of difficult circumstances, then this fiction is probably not for you. It is a story that delves deep into real world sociological/psychological subjects and explores many topics of gray morality. I wrote it because I like stories that make me think more about the world around us, not to detach myself from reality. Some aspects you can expect based on the tags include: - [Kingdom Building]: political drama, geopolitical/geoeconomic strategy - [Army Building]: massive battles featuring in-depth planning, combined arms, and operational logistics - [Identity Crisis]: someone translated into a whole different world having to rebuild their identity and life aims ------------------------------------------------------------------ At least try 40 chapters before leaving. The story starts off slowly, more like a slice of life than action-adventure, but I guarantee you it will get there. For those who want to skip the slow part, start from Chapter - 35 (Beginning of The End) (The whole Disclaimer section is copied from Aorii as I am too busy writing the complete story.) And yes, just for General Knowledge, James will become OP throughout the story. He is not some legendary guy who will pull out Excalibur & conquer the entire world. Update Schedule - One chapter a day. Message me on discord if you have some marvellous idea about my novel - thedefector#3548 And again, I humbly thank you for reading it. I hope you stick throughout the journey.

Synopsis The Needle in this fiction embodies Martial Law. The skull mangled exemplifies the Filipino people specifically human rights victims from all persuasions – enforced Desaparecidos to combatants, students to academicians, civilians to soldiers, peasants to landlords, laymen to religious, ordinary taxpayers to oligarchs, voters to politicians, officials to professionals, – all victims of militarization offered as sacrificial lambs in the altar of Dictatorship. The crucifix and holy rosary, guns, and bullets symbolize the protagonists – heroes and villains - and the causes and institutions they represent. The red roses, a love affair that blooms and blossoms among the main characters. The timeline was September 21, 1972, covering fourteen long years of dictatorship when Martial Law was declared until February 24, 1986, during the restoration of democracy ushered in by People’s Power at Epifanio de Los Santos or EDSA. Post EDSA events from Fidel V. Ramos to Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III or PNoy to Duterte’s presidency and Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. are briefly treated in an Epilogue. The choice of fiction was deliberate because of its timelessness and very important lesson drawn from that historic event–the restoration of democracy no less by President Cory Aquino. Whether it succeeded or not thereafter doesn’t matter. Filipinos are that unpredictable. Their memory is way too short and the hardest to please. But what is important is we have thrown away the tyrant, award-winning Investigate Journalist Shiela Coronel emphasized restoring fourteen long-lost hostage democracy in 1986. Add to that is the consequent didactic message to all Filipinos especially the Post Martial Law babies: “Beware and never again Martial Law!” In format, the author uses four of Irving Wallace's criteria in writing fiction from his “The Writing of One Novel” with some innovation on grounding characters using flashbacks and other tools characterizing bestsellers like Dan Brown, Grisham highlighting the author’s premium on the relevance of the said historical event and its political ramifications surrounding the subject throughout the story. First, no loose ends in the plot. This one is a tough act to follow. The subplot should be tied together as much as possible to the end. Second, narrative excitement rings the bell for readers. Third, is the use of research to disabuse and mitigate elements of violence and sex. Treating this work as social commentary on different implacable social issues of the day was deliberately utilized by the writer given his Philosophy, Theology, and Sociology background. Note that pictorials used in the work unless indicated in the caption are meant to highlight the theme of each respective chapter. Lastly, the most unlikely ending squeezing creative juices of the imaginative mind. Breaking the rules of writing known to man is also a challenge here. Ergo, treating the subject as fiction against the social commentary backdrop to make the narrative captivating journey instead just plain Martial Law account which is surely dry and monotonous story. How these criteria are treated and addressed by the writer especially the first, third, and fourth is left to readers and critics. Copy editing of the first draft has been done by the author using Grammarly, relevant creative writing tips culled from the internet from the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Jeff Goins, Catherine Reid, Cynthia Jones-Shoeman, Joe Bunting of NaNoWriMo, Billy Wilder, and Pruelpo, an FB friend and OFW dabbling as free-lance writer and guru. The third is actual editing from Ricardo S. Maulion Jr., my son, doing the proofreading. I have yet to accept any copy editors to do the favor for me packaging this project into a cohesive whole work. Ricardo F. Maulion For book order: Email ad: ricardomauliond1205@gmail.com

Sociology & society Concept use in sociology Understanding social institutions Culture & socialisation Doing sociology: Research Methods

Communication is the source of world

This story is about friendship that sprung from teenage years. I have had this type of friendship for 26 years and counting. I want other women to realise it is possible. Four girls met at the University of Lagos. The four girls became friends. They were Funke, Nkem, Esther and Zainab. They were oddly thrown together. Funke studied Accounting, Nkem studied Economics, Esther Sociology and Zainab Political Science. They remained close friends during the four years they were there forming a close bond the first day they came for their registration in the Student Affairs Department.

The world was taken over by the supernatural for more than a thousand years and humans had to fight for years to gain equality destroying most of the developing technology. Now, in 3287, humans and supernaturals live together, and the education system has completely changed. The humans are sent to Stellan, the University of Peace and Harmony. Everyone is a part of this university at a certain age. Here, basics like math, science, sociology, English, and similar subjects are taught. It is more like a casual human school. The shifters are sent to the Evander, the university of warfare, strength, and wisdom. Here, they are trained to control and increase their power. They are also taught about mates and mating. The witches and wizards are sent to Casimir, the University of Witchcraft and Magic. Here they are taught how to handle magic. The vampires are sent to Ambrose, the University of Blood and Mind. Here, vampires are thought to control their thirst for blood and not kill anyone for it. This is where everyone is divided into six different BDSM groups based on a test, and they train in obedience. Humans, at the age of 16, get a chance to choose whether or not they want to take the test and get admitted to one of the other universities other than Stellan. Oliver Johson decides to do just that and continue in the Clarence Academy under the University of Stellan until his father asks him to work for a vampire. His life takes a complete 180-degree turn as he is now faced with many different challenges and a completely different lifestyle that he was totally unaware of. This is a gay romance between three people, so if you are not a fan of it, this is not for you.

Echo Antonina Carter is a highly successful criminal psychologist at the age of twenty-six. Even though it is an extremely fascinating job, it comes with it's dangers. Being on first name basis with a plethora of criminals, with the knowledge that if they ever escaped you would be one of the first people they would come after is not a settling thought. When one of her patients escapes from their cell, Echo is immediately placed under protection; having to relocate from Los Angeles to Manchester in England was a huge change. Different country, culture, accent, food, people and job. Now working at a school teaching A-level psychology and sociology, Echo is trying to adjust to the enormous shift. Furthermore, she now has more time to focus on her dating life- which previously was none-existent. Will Echo be able to find love and stay safe in this new city, or will her not-so-distant past catch up with her before she has her happy ending. Join Echo on her journey of adventure, mystery, romance and discovery. Remember everyone, this is a first draft- I am planning as I write and I'm still formulating ideas and more. I may pause every so often and edit it. Please give constructive criticism. Writing on Wattpad- am copying and pasting my own chapters from there. You can see on my story there. Same user name here as there.

An urban area, or built-up area, is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets; in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment. The creation of early predecessors of urban areas during the urban revolution led to the creation of human civilization with modern urban planning, which along with other human activities such as exploitation of natural resources led to a human impact on the environment. "Agglomeration effects" are in the list of the main consequences of increased rates of firm creation since. This is due to conditions created by a greater level of industrial activity in a given region. However, a favorable environment for human capital development would also be generated simultaneously.[1]

Elijah has a type. He likes older, sophisticated, mature men. Well-educated men. Men with life experience and passion for arts and social causes. Men who are established in their careers, who've sorted their lives out. His type was Mason Meyers, the doctor he'd met shortly after starting university, and who, last Elijah heard, was still on an extended humanitarian trip to Ghana. His type was Yunis Carter, the postgrad who'd organized open-mic poetry readings at the art gallery before he moved to London last summer. And his type was Nick Davidson, the sociology lecturer with his own weekly independent radio programme, who'd been Elijah's longest relationship right up until they broke up before the Easter holidays. Pieter knows this. And so Elijah can't understand why he's sat here opposite Christian Marshal. To be fair, Christian is older than him. But only by two years. And he certainly doesn't have his life figured out. He works in the record shop where Pieter sometimes gives guitar lessons in the basement. He was in a not-so-successful pop-punk band until they split up and now he posts not-so-popular YouTube song covers. When he's not too busy pranking his housemate, his hobbies include playing footie and playing video games. His speech is almost exaggeratedly from Doncaster. He's never been to uni. His travel experience is limited to clubbing in Amsterdam. Elijah stays to learn all this because he's polite. But he knew as soon as he'd met him outside the pub, leaning against the brick wall with a cigarette dangling between tattooed fingers, beat-up skateboard propped beside him, that this was never going to work.

Terms like thesis novel, propaganda novel, industrial novel, working-class novel and problem novel are also used to describe this type of novel;[3] a recent development in this genre is the young adult problem novel. It is also referred to as the sociological novel. The social protest novel is a form of social novel which places an emphasis on the idea of social change, while the proletarian novel is a political form of the social protest novel which may emphasize revolution.[4] While early examples are found in 18th century England, social novels have been written throughout Europe and the United States.

Science (from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge")[1] is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.[2][3][4] The Universe represented as multiple disk-shaped slices across time, which passes from left to right The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE.[5][6] Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes.[5][6] After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages,[7] but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age.[8] The recovery and assimilation of Greek works and Islamic inquiries into Western Europe from the 10th to 13th century revived "natural philosophy",[7][9] which was later transformed by the Scientific Revolution that began in the 16th century[10] as new ideas and discoveries departed from previous Greek conceptions and traditions.[11][12][13][14] The scientific method soon played a greater role in knowledge creation and it was not until the 19th century that many of the institutional and professional features of science began to take shape;[15][16][17] along with the changing of "natural philosophy" to "natural science."[18] Modern science is typically divided into three major branches[19] that consist of the natural sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, and physics), which study nature in the broadest sense; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies;[20][21] and the formal sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science), which deal with symbols governed by rules.[22][23] There is disagreement,[24][25][26] however, on whether the formal sciences actually constitute a science as they do not rely on empirical evidence.[27][25] Disciplines that use existing scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as engineering and medicine, are described as applied sciences.[28][29][30][31][32] New knowledge in science is advanced by research from scientists who are motivated by curiosity about the world and a desire to solve problems.[33][34] Contemporary scientific research is highly collaborative and is usually done by teams in academic and research institutions,[35] government agencies, and companies.[36][37] The practical impact of their work has led to the emergence of science policies that seek to influence the scientific enterprise by prioritizing the development of commercial products, armaments, health care, public infrastructure, and environmental protection.

The research aimed at finding out the Puritan hypocrisy depicted in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” and describes its impacts on the individuals. Hypocrisy is one of the social issues contained within the literary work. The final project by using library research the researcher observed a novel entitled The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and used some books, articles, and other writing to support the analysis. By using descriptive qualitative method, the researcher used The scarlet Letter as the descriptive data and to discover the information related to the subject matter. Under the use of sociological approach the researcher focused on analyzed the social contents of the novel by comprehend reading and deep understanding, and as a result of analysis, the data were interpreted through description on the subject matter. From the research, it is found that Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins and the very society, in which they lived, are the victims of Puritan hypocrisy. We begin to see just how these characters deeply immersed in hypocrisy from inside. Hypocrisy is evident within all the characters because they all say some things but do not hold true to their belief. There is puritan clergyman known as Arthur Dimmesdale who commits an act of fornicating with an attractive and charming woman, Hester Prynne. Arthur Dimmesdale’s hypocrisy described at Puritan settlement in Boston, as a reverend Church Minister. He takes his honored seat in society to present two different personalities to hide his sin. However, Dimmesdale as a hypocrite, teach the people attending his sermons to admit their crimes to society and then he himself denies from doing the same. He hides his sin of adultery with Hester and leaves her alone to face the hardships of the penalty. Roger Chillingworth is a man who, in spite of the fact that he was once a heartfelt, intellectual man, has been changed in the name of revenge into an evil, a malevolent kind of human being. Chillingworth’s vengeful and evil nature revealed in his harsh manipulation and torture of Dimmesdale. Chillingworth; is the cruelest character who plotted to destroy his wife’s heart and her secret lover. However, due to cruel hypocrisy of the society, Hester and her daughter suffer a lot. Hester Prynne the main character, a mother of an illegal child. However, Hester commits a sin of adultery, but she is not the worst character in the novel. Indeed her husband left her alone to a new land, she then committing sins out of true love. Therefore, Hester is penalized by wearing the letter “A” on her bosom throughout her life, a penalty meant to castaway and forever representing as an adulterer. Yet all of Hester’s deeds are done out of love, love for pearl and love for Arthur Dimmesdale that does not make her the biggest sinner. In this novel, Hawthorne heightens the hypocrisy of the Puritans in order to describe them as the real sinners. However, the society criticizes Hester Prynne for her sin, those who blame her are not without sins themselves.

Violence in sports usually refers to violent and often unnecessarily harmful intentional physical acts committed during, or motivated by, a sports game, often in relation to contact sports such as American football, ice hockey, rugby football, lacrosse, association football, boxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling, and water polo and, when referring to the players themselves, often involving excessively violent or potentially illegal physical contact beyond the normal levels of contact expected while playing the sport. These acts of violence can include intentional attempts to injure a player or coach by another player or coach, but can also include threats of physical harm or actual physical harm sustained by players or coaches by fans or those engaging in the spectating of sports, or threats and acts of violence performed by fans or spectators upon opposing fans or other spectators. Causes There are two major theories on the cause of violence in sports. One theory holds that humans have an instinct for violence, developed during a time when early human ancestors had to resort to violence and aggressiveness to survive and reproduce. Another theory deals with the sociological aspects of violence in sports, stating that sports are "mock battles" which can become actual battles due to their competitive nature. RITUAL VIOLENCE High school, college, and even professional sports teams often include initiation ceremonies (known as hazing in the USA) as a rite of passage. A 1999 study by Alfred University and the NCAA found that approximately four out of five college US athletes (250,000 per year) experienced hazing.[2] Half were required to take part in alcohol-related initiations, while two-thirds were subjected to humiliation rituals. Violence may also be related to nationalism or as an outlet for underlying social tensions. It is often alcohol-related. FAN VIOLENCE Violence by supporters of sports teams dates back to Roman times, when supporters of chariot racing teams were frequently involved in major riots.