Imagine living every day without enough money for basic needs like food. Then add studying for exams, three to four-hour labs, and four to five 1 hour long lectures to the top of that… This is what some university students go through every day. After paying tuition, students barely have enough money to buy food for the rest of the term. A sociological study was done to see if students actually experience food insecurity like the university stereotype proposes. She found some great results that bring up the idea that food insecurity is a cultural phenomenon that has both physical and emotional effects but could have been improved with an anthropological approach. An Acadia University sociologist professor named Lesley Frank recently conducted …show more content…
In other words, everyone is a part of a culture and has some role in that culture. This is the case for the culture of university students. Obviously, university students are in their own culture but so are the people who are using hegemonic ideas to manipulate the university students. This proposes the idea that food insecurity is a cultural phenomenon that has physical and emotional effects. This can be observed with the hegemony and ideology theories combined with Geertz’s theory about culture. Geertz’s theory about culture describes how everyone is a part of a culture and has some role to play in that specific culture. When combining this with the hegemony and ideology theories, both the students and the people using the hegemonic culture of the students are part of the same culture. This proposition also agrees in Lesley Frank’s sociological study. Her study showed us that the food insecurity can have both physical and emotional effects on university students. Her findings showed that for some students it is difficult to stay focused in class and even harder to study for upcoming exams while they were hungry. Her study also showed that some students experienced shame and in some cases isolation because they could not go out with their friends for a coffee due to the fact that they had no money to spend on food. Bringing these two parts together this proposition is formed. This could be further proved if an anthropological approach was taken for this
The essay “How Not to Get Into College” and the poem “Somnambulist” portray a similar message that people become unhappy and lose sight of their own values when the institutional world creates a stigma that forces them to over-work themselves. Alfie Kohn in “How Not to Get Into College” believes that students are already overworking themselves at such an early stage in their lives, and the result of this, is feeling unfulfilled. He believes that “what few realized was that the process wouldn’t end once they finally got into college. The straining toward future, this poisonous assumption that the value of everything is solely a function of its contribution to something that may come later – it would start all over again in September of their first year away from home” (Kohn 1). He proves
Culture often means an appreciation of the finer things in life; however, culture brings members of a society together. We have a sense of belonging because we share similar beliefs, values, and attitudes about what’s right and wrong. As a result, culture changes as people adapt to their surroundings. According to Bishop Donald, “let it begin with me and my children and grandchildren” (211). Among other things, culture influences what you eat; how you were raised and will raise your own children? If, when, and whom you will marry; how you make and spend money. Truth is culture is adaptive and always changing over time because
Today in American society, one feels pressured and obligated to seek higher levels of education. In the article “College prepare people for life” written by Freeman Hrabowski, he expresses his views on the many aspects in which college prepares one for their life; especially, financially. Having a college degree increases ones ability to get a job in comparison to somebody who has solely a high school diploma. However, many are faced with the irony of having to go into to debt, in order to work towards financial independence and security. In terms of socio economics, those who are stuck by poverty often cannot afford going into debt to exit their current ranking in the qazi caste system of poverty. Many argues that college prepares people for life, however one can disagree due to
The argument about if college is worth it or not has been one of the biggest arguments throughout the media for decades. Students suffer a lot from the debts that they get from college and also the amount of studying that they do in college and when they graduate they ask themselves “is graduation from college really worth all the money that we paid and all the work that we have done?”
These unofficial requirements for university become a one reason of increasing stress of the applicants. Students needs to concentrate on going to college during their high school years. Unfortunately, not only students get stress while applying to college, but they also get stress after they enroll into college. Due to expensive tuition bill, some of the students need to take student loan. Cook concludes by arguing that high schools should support their students not only enrolling into college, but also basic skills which can be used after college, and college admission processes are needed to be change.
According to Charon, culture is one of the social patterns in society. It arises in social interaction. It is taught in social interaction. Culture is made up of three smaller sets of patterns: (1) rules, (2) beliefs, and (3) values (Charon p. 56). For these two peer croups, the contrast in their lifestyles and culture can be attributed to the influence, involvement, and expectations of their parents. The parents of the Brothers expect that their children will do well in school, they expect them to stay out trouble, and to refrain from the use of drugs and alcohol. Thus, from their families, the Brothers take away a contradictory outlook. On the one hand, they see that hard work on the part of their parents has not gotten them very far, an implicit indictment of the openness of the opportunity structure. On the other hand, they are encouraged by these same people to have high hopes for the future (Macleod p. 167). In contrast, the Hallway Hangers’ families do not hold high aspirations, they do not expect that their children do well in school, stay out of trouble, or refrain from the use of drugs. In fact they have very little influence in their children’s lives. It is not that the parents don’t want the best for their children, they are just afraid to set them up for failure. The Hallway Hangers have seen their older siblings and other friends fail in school. As a result, they hold a firm belief that children from higher econo...
Counihan’s argument is multifaceted: she explores a school of thought that college students follow certain rules about food that have been int...
In this research I will discuss the anthropological theorists of Clifford Geertz and of Julian Steward in regards to their ideas of culture, the environment and specifics related to each theorist ideas such as meaning and behavior. A brief overview of their respective backgrounds will be given to frame the discussion and add context to Geertz and Stewards perspectives .Furthermore, this paper will connect the ways other theorists have influenced Geertz and Steward in shaping their own understanding of culture and theories related to culture. And ultimately compare and contrast the two perspectives to each other.
The sleep deprivation, stress, and lack of exercise all resort back to the issue of food options that are accessible to students. It is evident that students are affected by stress and lack of sleep using food as a coping mechanism. This goes back to the unhealthy foods that are provided on campus that students have easy access to during these periods of time. All of these unhealthy and unlimited food choices offered add to the difficulty that student have making time for working out because of daily burnouts. These unhealthy foods students are eating only hinder students more, reducing the energy levels in students even more.
In the year 2015, around 40 million U.S. citizens were food insecure (Randall para. 3). Food insecurity can be defined in paragraph 3 by “[having] difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources. This 12.7% of American citizens also contains another group - children. Aged 10-17, 6.8 million adolescents struggle with a food insecurity. There have been several years of cuts to the social programs designed to help these people, along with the Great Recession continuing to leave an impact on the U.S. economy (para. 6). Under the Obama administration, $8.6 billion was cut from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps. From 1993-2001 under the Clinton administration, former President Bill Clinton’s administration “gutted the welfare system” (para. 15). Because of these budget cuts, the families who rely on food assistance from the government have been allotted less throughout the years. From a sociological perspective, the concepts of sociological imagination, class stratification, and social location are in effect when it comes to child hunger in the United States. Being hungry is an issue larger than any one individual can control.
Clifford Greetz has written “Believing with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning”. Greetz is trying to say that people make these webs themselves. Those webs are the culture and we all are born into it. Culture might not be a true base of science where we are trying to discover or enforce laws, but it is a science in which we can interpret human behavior. Anthropology is a science which is very flexible and may vary in different cultures. I agree with Greetz opinion when he cites Max Weber as his point of departure to develop
Culture has a big impact on how we all fit in as individuals in today’s society, and since this assignment is about that I decided to include some of my own experiences to illustrate my point of view and compare it with those of my classmates and some of the readings.
Thus, conflict theory is referred to as neo-marxism because the values and power of the economic structure determine the nature of the social order, and therefore the inequalities(). Moreover, similar to critical theory, education becomes a means of cultural selection. For example, children who do not possess the cultural traits of the elites are often offered a less demanding curriculum; hence, the struggle between status culture groups and the way status culture is learned in school is grounded in conflict theory. Moreover, similar to critical analysis, conflict theory argues that higher status groups transform their cultural capital into academic capital, thus reinforcing the production of the dominant culture through which educational and social inequalities are perpetuated (). However, if governments paid full tuition, the relations between different social classes and quality of education would not be looked at time terms of power. Rather than charging students or parents high tuition fees, governments should seek to provide all students with equal opportunities. That said, many students are missing in school because of financial matter. Thus, high-achieving low-income students are at a disadvantage because although they have potential, money issues hold them back.
People eat food every day without thinking twice about it, because it is a necessity for us to live. How often do you think about what is in the foods that you eat? How many calories does it have? Are there any vitamins and minerals in it? Is it high in fat? For most of us and especially college students who live a busy life on the go, the answer to that question is probably no. Since becoming a recent graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania Academy of Culinary Arts, I have been more interested in food and what people are eating. Also since more young Americans are becoming obese I want to find out what they are eating and where. Going to college and seeing how students have poor eating habits I want to find out why they are eating this way. Is it because they are away from home for the first time? Or is it because that is the only food that is available for them? I also want to find out if students would eat healthier if it was provided for them? My hypothesis is that students eat unhealthy because it is more convenient for them. There is usually no time to cook a homemade meal and most college students are always in a hurry so it is easier to pick up takeout. Also most college students don’t know how to cook. I also believe that most college students don’t care if the food is unhealthy for them, as long as it tastes good. Hopefully, in the following pages I will uncover the wide world of college eating.
Food insecurity and poor nutrition is an alarmingly large problem for low income families, especially in developing countries. Many strategies exist to fight this problem, although not many of these address all the factors contributing to it along with all the possible solutions to solve it. In many cases, multiple strategies must correlate and work together so that all the determinants of this issue are addressed and can fight food insecurity from different angles. This essay will discuss the significance of the problem, a range of possible strategies to solve the problem, and go into detail on a select few that will correlate and work together to solve different factors of food insecurity and poor nutrition.