There are some methods to do research, for example surveys, interviews, observations, and experiments. My favorite one is face-to-face interactions; I have also done some when I was in middle and high school. Surveys are good to collect data from a specific number of people, could be from a specific group like college students but I think people are not that honest because they think and answer according to what the society or the person studying the survey is going to think. They work better anonymous. Observations let the researcher see real life and real time behaviors of other. This is really interesting. I, myself, have a future project to go to a court and observe a trial/hearing. Interviews although can take a lot of time, they're very good to hear personal stories, and understand the persons behavior.

Henslin talks about rape. I think nowadays rape is a normal topic for today's generation. People mostly blame women, why they're going out so late, why are they wearing short clothes etc. But, in my opinion, what do they have to say about the 7-year-old girls getting raped? About the doctor that got raped in India who was just working in her work's uniform. Honestly, it's just the mentality of this society. Even if a girl is fully covered, including her face, if a man wants to, he will.

Carol Gilligan criticized Lawrence Kohlberg for being gender bias. That boys tend to focus on rules and justice while girls show care and focus on responsibility. To be honest, I don't really agree with this some boys are different, and some girls are different. I think it's just the way everyone grows up and develops themselves.

Culture, nature, family, friend circle, and school matter in getting socialized. Socialization teaches people how to act, behave, talk, eat and interact with other. No one is born with these skills. Without socializing, I think it would be really hard to fit in society. For example, kids that grew up doing home-school, or living in orphanages lack of social skills. They don't know how to interact or act in crowded social places. Socializing also makes us understand rules, values, and the expectations of the society. Social media or any other type of mass media also teaches us how society works.

However, socialization is kind of a never-ending thing. Even after high school, when we go to college or start work, we resocialize, and we learn new values and norms.

For example, money is just a piece of paper, and it has no value itself, but it is real for us because it represents worth and the hours, we worked to earn it. Likewise, a degree is just a paper, but, for us it shows the level of our education and achievements. A major example is colors. I never understand why we choose blue for boys and pink for girls. This is not written anywhere, just socially created.

We change roles. The time I'm in school, I'm a student but once I get off, I'm just myself, wearing what I want, listening to music etc. I behave according to where I am. Something else in a classroom or an office, and something else when I'm home or with my friends.

Also, isn't it weird that we only judge and stigmatize morticians and not doctors while both work with bodies? It's just how culture and the society has made its own mentality.

As for bureaucracies, I think Amazon is one. It has hierarchy of Authority, from the warehouse workers to supervisors etc. Workers are specialized in tasks like packaging, delivering, or customer service. It has specific rules and policies.

In my opinion, the most important thing is who is giving the order. If it was my mom telling me to go grocery shopping, I wouldn't. But if I was kidnapped, I would have done anything the kidnapper tells me to do to get out of there.

Preindustrial society is based on local resources and the environment. There's hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural, feudal, and horticultural.

Industrial Societies are based on producing goods. There is labor, people are moreover moving to urban areas from rural areas.

Postindustrial societies are about services, information, and knowledge. Technology is the center. Education is very important. There are also social classes that are divided based on who has what education and how much of technology does someone know.

In my opinion, preindustrial societies, environment limits people. It decides how people like for example, climate, weather, nature etc.

Technology is the game changer. It develops every area like how people think, how they think of other people, where they move, and different jobs.

In the functionalist perspective the economy is important for the society to be stable and work together to keep the society functioning. The conflict perspective is more into inequality and class divisions. It's the owner VS the workers. The symbolic interactionist perspective is related to daily interactions at work, how jobs are socialized, how someone has a specific identity. Big role in this plays job satisfaction. I used to work in a supermarket back home for summer break and my coworker would get so pissed if the manager told me to do a higher task or praised me instead of her. She used to be happier and more satisfied when she was the lead and had a higher position.

Globalization is the process of integrating economies, cultures, and societies with investments, migration, technology, and international trade. Multinational companies are the biggest resource.

On the one hand, it accesses to new markets, there's a difference in the producing costs, and generally sharing ideas with other has an outcome of growing economically.

Working in the United States can be a challenge. So many jobs are low paying and not paying the wage that should be paid in the first place.

Meritocracy is when someone gets a reward or a job based on their education, their ability, their talent and not who they are. But I believe that this is not reality. The fact is that in today's generation there is a lot of inequality, people judge you and give you jobs based on who you are, social status, race, wealth, gender etc. For example, yes someone who has college degree can get a higher income but how in the first place will someone get into college if they do not have the money to afford college.

Immigrants often work jobs that citizens don't; they face legal, economic, and social issues.

Plus, even if we are working and we are still getting low-paid, there's lack of respect, Higher coworkers or other in higher positions treat workers badly as if they have no value. Barbara also mentions the American dream myth that only hard work is enough to be economically stable in poverty level payments.

Yes, I believe all full-time jobs should pay a living wage enough to cover all the expenses. Food, rent, bills, transportation, AND education and healthcare. Don't forget how expensive these two are. Everyone working deserves a salary to be economically stable and not always looking for opportunities to rely on the government.