This paper will discuss Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and how it started. The sorority was founded by nine educated black college women. By the names of Ethel Hedgeman-Lyle, Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Elizabeth Burke, Lillie, Burke, Marjorie Hill, Margaret Flagg (Holmes), Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe and Marie Woolfolk (Taylor). Shortly thereafter they invited seven sophomores to join them in becoming founders and they are Norma Boyd, Ethel J. Mawbray, Alice P. Murray, Sarah M. Nutter, Joanna Berry (Shields), Carrie E. Snowden, and Harriet J. Terry. Together they decided that with Ethel’s vision and their combined educational backgrounds, they would create an organization of like minded women to go out in the world and be of…
Within communities there are various principles and responsibilities that each member holds: many are specific to the individual but, many are shared. In this, organizations are formed to carry out these various principles and responsibilities on a large scale to have a more prevalent impact upon their communities. In the process of advancing the black community in the United States of America, the nation that has oppressed them for generations, to one of relevance, black fraternities and sororities dedicated to service were formed on college campuses during the turn of the 20th century. Each of these organizations has a set of cardinal principles or pillars from which they are guided in operation. On November 17, 1911 on the campus of Howard…
The long nights of folding colored paper into meticulous shapes over and over again until your fingers are raw and bleeding. The even longer nights of unfolding the paper, fluffing it up and sticking it into chicken wire. This is called pomping, or also known as placing squares of colored tissue paper to boards. It is also a way to decorate plywood boards that are just a small part of a larger float. Chicken wire, lots of colored plastic sheets and power saws litter the basements and backyards of sorority and fraternity houses all over campus throughout the months leading up to Homecoming week. Pomping is a thorough task which every new sorority member is required to participate in before homecoming. Starting three months in advance we go to the fraternity house which we are paired up with and pomp. Each week is something different. The first night is a “get to know them” party where we bake them goodies and meet our “pomping partner”. A pomping partner is someone you are paired with based on your likes and dislikes. This is the person you are paired with each night of pomping. Now let me tell you, you get really close with this person especially when we pomp twenty hours a week. Each week of pomping is different. The first couple of weeks you fold tissue paper into a six section fan shape. Each tissue paper is different colors. There is brown, red, white, yellow and black. Colors depend on the theme of each sororities float. The next few weeks you then unfold all the tissue paper you have folded previously and connect it to chicken wire. The chicken wire is layed out on a flat table with tape outlining where we are supposed to place the tissue. This process alone is very rigorous. We spend hours upon hours putting pomp into this chicken wire to form a huge float in the end. We also are given pomp on weekends that need to be completed and turned in by Monday. Several weeks later after all the long hours…
FSU ( FRIENDS STAND UNITED) Subculture is a segment of society that shares distinctive patterns of mores, folkways, and values that differs from the larger society. An organization named FSU is a good example of subculture because although they have their own rules and laws bu still considers it their responsibility to keep the society safe from the unfair. FSU stands for Friends Stand United. It is an organization in which a member has to think about other members before himself.…
Symbolic Interactionism suggests that in this society, the individuals are expected to behave and perform strictly accordingly to their label, which also grants them and denies them certain things. Without these labels, this society would not be able to…
Toast for a change has to do with this young girl who joins a sorority and soon finds out it isn’t what she imagined. Getting into a sorority doesn’t seem worth the degrading process, but once it’s all over popularity takes its course. At first hearing it was all totally worth it if she had friends and got into parties for free, but as time goes on she continues to ask herself, is it really worth it? There comes a time when things either need to change or simply be removed. Whether or not she is brave enough to make the decision depends on her. Several individuals don’t have what it takes to shape for something that's right, when facing the so-called “popular people. She will have to do this on her own, like I did.…
he symbolic interactionism in sociology is basically a theory that analyze how a person act and now they view themselves in society. Symbolic interaction also communicates through meanings and objects. Without curtain labels, relations nor crimes would not exist. The other theories are conflict theory and functional analysis. Conflict theory is a theory that everyone is competing with one another in effort to be better than others. This theory focuses to use power in society persuade other to follow. In addition, Functional analysis deals with society altogether. It can be assumed that people are shaped to conform to this world instead of forced. As humans, we tend to follow the latest trend in the media. This theory also helps to distribute consequences of people actions. These perspectives name different ways to analyze a subject of event on a macro and micro level.…
I am only now beginning to enter my sophomore year at college but there has always one part of it that has been especially exciting, the parties. Yes, those glorious nights where you can escape from the nagging of your parents, procrastinate on some of that homework, or maybe even meet someone special. Any average college student could tell you that the craziest parties always happen on Thirsty Thursdays. Once that day of the week comes around students start to forget the stresses of their week and go out to try and have some fun, sometimes too much fun. Many great memories are made at parties, some are good others seem to be the worst times of your life. But what drives a college student to party so hard? Is it s lack of confidence, a desire to fit in, just to let loose, or one of the other many possibilities? In this essay I reflect upon a few of the many parties I attended this past semester and studied the party goers so i could perhaps understand the drive to get so out of hand. During the course of composing my field notes, which I have blended into my essay, I gathered experiences as both an insider and an outsider to the environment to search for the answer to some of my questions.…
interactionists have an approach which involves looking at small-scale relationships between individuals in groups and/or institutions. They start with the view that the 'truth' of a situation is best understood by trying to undestand how the people involved make sense of it (the 'protagonists' evaluation of the situation is key...they are 'social actors' and the meanings they attach to the actions of themselves and others are what interactionists then use to base their conclusions on). Their theories/explanations are generated by the data they collect. For example, irving goffan said people are social actors depending on the situation people act in a certain way. Depending on the context they create, develop, modify and change within the the process of the social theory interaction.…
One role with symbolic interactionism in education is creating labels that can stain a student’s educational career. This is especially true in the United States; each student must succeed in standardized testing or face being labelled an inadequate student. As we all know, everyone is different and the standardized labels used here do nothing to promote independent or critical thinking.…
he symbolic interaction perspective, also called symbolic interactionism, is a major framework of sociological theory. This perspective relies on the symbolic meaning that people develop and rely upon in the process of social interaction. Although symbolic interactionism traces its origins to Max Weber's assertion that individuals act according to their interpretation of the meaning of their world, the American philosopher George Herbert Mead introduced this perspective to American sociology in the 1920s.…
Symbolic interactionism is defined by Henslin (2013) as “symbols-things to which we attach meaning-are the key to understanding how we view the world and communicate with one another”(p. 16). A key point of this framework is that our social life is based on how we define our relationships and ourselves (Henslin, 2013). To understand this theory, you really need to get an in-depth view on what defines a symbol and realize that without them nothing would exist except humans breeding like animals. For example, the word “slut” is used in our society to symbolize women who are sexually promiscuous. Compared to the word “nun”, which symbolizes a woman who is holier-than-thou and pure. Even though the two comparisons are both female, society treats both of them entirely different as “each symbol requires rather different behavior”(Henslin, 2013, p. 16). One of the prime founders of social interactionism is George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), whose students accumulated his lectures into the book, Mind, Self, and Society (Henslin, 2013).…
Symbols are very important in Symbolic Interactionism Theory. In the theory, the use of symbols helps us assign meanings to things, events and people and later on help us give interpretations with those symbols. The use of the theory means seeing things and understanding what they mean and later on determine their effects. The theory proposes that we live in a symbolic world and we as individuals have different meanings for symbols. For us to be able to understand human behavior, we have to be able to know the meaning of a certain behavior for a person. It also suggests that it is through interactions with others that we are able to learn about ourselves through others. With these interactions, we developed personal feelings towards others and see how other people react to our behaviors. Lastly, based on the theory, individuals have a mind that is able to acquire process and reflect information. It is a perspective that sees individuals as active agents in making meaning and using their interpretations in creating social order. In general, symbolic interactionism as a theory helps us understand that symbols and interactions in social processes affect the individual and vice…
One advantage of using the symbolic interactionist theory is that it highlights small-scale interactions in terms of how the meaning (or symbolism) given to towards certain objects can lead to people associating certain behaviors or lifestyles to a group.…
Symbolic interactionism is a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another (Henslin, 2012, pg. G-6). There are many ways in which “A Class Divided” illustrates symbolic interactionism.…