The Sociological Approach To Self And Sociological Theory

The means of defining yourself as a person come to us from different experiences and different attitudes on life that we’ve got. Our actions towards others and towards different situations help us define the world we live in. By creating certain groups and/or organizations that we belong to based on our beliefs we divide the world and the people among themselves into meaningful subgroups within larger organizations. At the same time, the world has a great impact on our decision making, and action taking, and most of all on our thought process that is directed at everything we encounter on the daily basis throughout our lives. Such correlation between the self and the world in sociology is defined and the “sociological approach to self and

Wright Mills in 1959 in a classic book (Mills 2000; orig. 1959) focuses on how an average person understands his or her life. According to Mills, each of us lives in a very small orbit, and our worldview is limited by the social situations that we encounter on a daily basis” (Giddens, Anthony, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, and Deborah Carr. Introduction to sociology. 7th ed. 4. Print.). Being born and raised thousands of miles away from the United States of America left a big impact on my life and I want to believe expanded my “small orbit“. Through the eyes of an immigrant the world does not seem to be a very comfortable place. When you have seen how it is on the other side of the world and lived through what is only a statistic in the US and an actual reality over seas, you realize that what you got is more that just an opportunity once you stepped on the US soil, you‘ve finally got a chance at life. It is hard to be your true self in the land where everything os foreign and you need to accommodate but not loose yourself in the process. After seeing what poverty is and experiencing the true stratification based on income, the life that i face now is not focused on the reality of the statistics of the power and wealth distribution and is only a statistics that stays in the back of my mind. Through micro sociological level, sociology explores the individual on the lowest level which could be argued the most important

Such concept is defined as Social stratification. “Social Stratification can be described as socially-patterned inequality of access to things that a culture defines as desirable” (. N.p.. Web. 7 Dec 2013. http://sociology.uchicago.edu/people/stratification.shtml ). The attitudes towards immigrants which ultimately form or join already existing minority groups in the US differ as it is known even to small children of the American and other ethnic descend. “Ethnic minorities include indigenous, linguistic, and religious minorities; stateless people; and peoples of foreign origin.” (Constant, A., M. Kahanec, and K. Zimmerman. n. page. http://ftp.iza.org/dp3650.pdf.). Some face a hostile environment other not so much. It all depends on how much the ethnic or racial differences stand out among average Americans. And although the society is prone to an accelerated change, where ideally, the racial and ethnic discrimination should be eliminated within seconds on the 24-hour scale due to different factors such as: technology, institutions, ideas and values, it will not be because such discrimination is useful in our daily lives. The politicians target differences among people, the organizations look for certain types, certain jobs look for certain sex it is all a part of our society.