When we think of crime, we often picture street crime, or offenses committed by ordinary people against other people or organizations, usually in public spaces. An often overlooked category is corporate crime, or crime committed by white-collar workers in a business environment.
Corporate crimes are often just as bad in comparison to street crimes.
Sociologist William Sumner (1840–1910) developed the concepts of in-group and out-group to explain this phenomenon (Sumner 1906).
It's weird to think about going through life just not fully understanding this, I definitely have experienced this a lot throughout high school especially.
Social interaction provides the means via which we gradually become able to see ourselves through the eyes of others, and how we learn who we are and how we fit into the world around us.
This is important because we get to learn from each other by interacting with one another. That is a big part of how we develop as humans and how we function in society today.
Before the Industrial Revolution, work was largely person- or animal-based, and relied on human workers or horses to power mills and drive pumps.
I wish work was still this way sometimes just because we have always found a way to make everything easier and faster. This has greatly contributed to climate change which is ruining earth and our society will suffer if don't start figuring out new ways to help the earth and not destroy it.
We may be restricted by the confines of our own culture, but as humans we have the ability to question values and make conscious decisions. No better evidence of this freedom exists than the amount of cultural diversity around the world. The more we study another culture, the better we become at understanding our own.
I annotated this because I like this saying and I feel like it is important. This is what makes us human and getting to know one another and study and research each other's cultural differences. I have always found it interesting where people have come from and what the stand for and believe in.
code of ethics
Rules that the ASA has put in place to formulate ethical research in sociology