Summary of the book; “You May Ask Yourself “
Chapter 15
The society of neediness speculation contends that downtrodden individuals embrace certain practices, which vary from those of working class or "standard" publicly accepted norms, keeping in mind the end goal to acclimate and make due in troublesome investment factors and that frequently they press on to depend on the aforementioned practices even after they are no longer suitable and are conceivably impeding. The societies need for hypothesis was part of a backfire against the strategies actualized by President Johnson, and it was utilized to reinforce the contentions of welfare faultfinders.
Humanist William Julius Wilson turned the center from welfare to components for example deindustrialization, globalization, suburbanization, and segregation as explanations for urban neediness.
Poverty amid Plenty
Absolute destitution is the focus at which a family unit's salary falls beneath the vital level to buy sustenance to physically manage its parts. The official destitution line in the United States is computed utilizing an equation improved within the 1960s by Mollie Orshansky that gauges sustenance sets back the finances for a mixed bag of family sorts dependent upon U.S. Division of Agriculture suggestions for least nourishment prerequisites and after that applies a multiplier. This definition has not modified since it was presented, yet it has been intensely reprimanded for not developing to reflect wide updates in individuals' factors in the course of recent years.
There are three fundamental speculations about how destitution adversely influences youngsters. One concentrates on the material needs created by a family's flat socioeconomic status; one keeps tabs on awful child rearing practices that are identified with a family's level socioeconomic status; and the third concentrates on distinctions between downtrodden folks and higher-salary folks, yet without much confidence that anything could be finished to influence the aforementioned contrasts.
The most interesting concept of this chapter is that there is a lot of disparity in US population, there are those who are extremely and also those who are extremely poor on the other hand. This has helped in understanding the plight of poor people in U.S in that one may be living in this most developed country but still live under poverty.
Chapter 17
This chapter entails several aspects of life in relation to the society. It gives an outline of the factors which affect and shapes the nature of the society. This chapter has been broken down into the following areas:
a) Science and society
The sociologists of science have gone studies the influence of science to the general society and looks at how science shapes the behavior and norms of the society in general. This chapter outlines that the scientists operate in different frameworks and branches of science. Thomas Kuhn states that normative exist is conducted in the existing frameworks or paradigm. He theorized the paradigm shifts and the revolution shifts in the society. He termed normative science as a branch of science not influenced by the beliefs or values of individuals in the society.
b) Agriculture and Environment
This chapter gives a description of the aspects that relates to global warming and the impact of the issue both to the environment in relation to agriculture as well as the natural disasters like floods which are caused by global warming. It emphasizes the impact of global warming on the society as a whole. This chapter is also about the security of food with respect to the genetically modified organisms (GMO’S) in food production. MO’s have an impact on the lives of the people in the society therefore it is an issue of concern which needs to be addressed as soon as possible in order to prevent the harmful effects it may cause to the society.
c) Impact of computers technology in the society
The knowledge of technological advancement is has played a very important role in shaping the society. This is therefore an area of concern in the study of the society because it has shaped how the people and institutions operation due to adoption of technology in many operations. This has reduced personal contact greatly due to reduction of the gap between people.
