Response: Sociology and Social Change

As I read through the essay, I felt a sense of deja vu. I had read something similar to this in my sociology and psychology classes while attending Kirkwood that some of this felt like knowledge I had once attained but forgotten. Through this reading It made me remember many of the things I had discussed in those classes such as social problems stemming from structural foundation. I had also noticed towards the middle of the essay that it directed itself towards me and my fellow college peers through use of clubs and social actions for the betterment of our environment. This method played on the Pathos, our emotions by trying to involve us in something to promote social change. I noticed also that a lot of the college level social problems and solutions reflected a lot of what I learned about through my advertising classes. I remember my advertising 301 class last semester had the class break off into teams and they had to try and create a product to sell to the rest of the class that would benefit the college. That semester has a theme that followed figuring out issues within the college and coming up with an idea to solve them. Rising prices in textbooks would be the issue, then we had to figure out a way to combat that issue. That part right there I was the most compelling part of the article seeing as I am a college student, and these things do affect me.