Foundations of Sociology

  SOCILOGICAL STUDY: The Marriage Paradox The Authors:   W. Bradford Wilcox ,  Alan J. Hawkins Weblink to the article:   https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22637 Theory: The Marriage Paradox is a theory that is based on the increasing rate of divorces in the last six decades. The reason they found this is for a varying plethora of reasons, but the main one was the fact that the values and virtues that once upheld a long and loving marriage, one of these values being monogamy. The study then goes on to say that for men, women, and children that are in a marriage are said to be happier, healthier and financially more secure. However in more recent years the cultural demographic for marriage has been downplayed even though they have been proven to be true through study (for what we are to believe from the outside). Thus came the "Marriage Paradox", where marriage is viable, however it isn't exactly given credit where it is due. The Research Methodology: The study's Research s...

Erving Goffman   Background: Goffman is a Canadian-American sociologist who had been born on June 11th, 1922, in Mannville, Canada. He later moved to America to pursue his education at the University of Chicago in 1953. He became the 73rd president of the American Sociology Association (ASA) . Assumptions of Sociology: His main assumption was that people actively manage the impressions they present to others in their social interactions, in a sense being an actor to preserve their wanted visage to be kept. So the main thought process of this assumption is that people wear masks in a sense, making themselves seem more desirable or liked depending on the setting or people. This also then ties into the concept that our personalities aren't fixed but are instead influenced by others around them.  Erving Goffman was also considered one of the leading proponents to " symbolic interactionism ," which is the the view of social behavior that emphasizes linguistic or gestural com...