Can Social Science Help Us to Better Understand Our Lives and the Lives of Others in Society?

This article discusses the role of social science in understanding our lives and the lives of others in society. It covers topics such as race and social media, including real-life examples and relevant theories. The article also mentions relevant laws and acts that protect against discrimination and promote equality.

Can social science help us to
better understand our lives and
the lives of others in society

Table of Contents
RACE...............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................4
SOCIAL CLASS..............................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

RACE
INTRODUCTION
Race refers to a human classification system which is socially constructed to distinguish
between various group of people. This can relates with individual characteristics. It includes
individual skin, nationality, colour, national origin, ethnic and many more. In this topic, there is
discussion about race in sociology aspect. There is also discussion about some debate which can
provide the information about various race and minority group related with their discrimination
and stereotype. There is also discussion about real life example which can provide strong
evidence about social logical imagination regarding race. This topic also covers conflict theory to
interact about the interfacing real life example. This also includes the Equality Act 2010 which
provide protect protection against racism within society and can provide effective lifestyle
(Fuller, 2017).
MAIN BODY
According to social science race refers to various characteristics of individual according
to their nationality, skin colour, national origin and ethnic which can include black people,
British people, minority, ethnic people and Asian who are most likely to experience racial
prejudice along with discrimination. There is a stereotype about the race which includes different
inclusion of inequality across health and development. Due to inequality, different race of people
face different discrimination and some potential issues which can enable them to distinguish with
and large population and face difficulties. In this, there are the minority group who face
difficulty due to racism that may create discrimination and influence individual behaviour and
attitude regarding this. There is a racial belief and attitude where white people perform some
stigmatize ethnic background which create a stereotyping and influence for investigation about
the perception which are regarding different is group. There is also some negative racial
stereotype of hostility along with danger created by according to age and have the stereotype of
kindness and frailty (Fitzgibbon and et. al., 2021).
To minimize the impact of race and reduce discrimination there are some act was made
which includes Equality act 2010 emphasizes that individual must not be discriminated against
due to their race. In this, they should not be discriminated due to their nationality, colour or their
citizenship. They should be same as the current nationality.

There is a real life example of Race riots in 1919, starting date of 1st January 1919, end
date 1st August 1919. Event location was Salford, South Shields, Glasgow, Baary, Newport,
London, Liverpool. This was the wake of first World War and demoralization where violence
was motivated in 1919. Through attacking on minority worker which result in five fatalities and
create the vandalization of their properties and homes. This was the real-life example of race that
created and influence individual behaviour (Sullivan and et. al., 2021).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that race should be accepted in worldwide
and should not create any difficulty within different race people. But, there are many incident
which can provide information that there is some discrimination and its negative impact still
exist within world. This should be demolished and create a better environment for every
individual. There is negative impact on the social world which can create discrimination and
negative impact. To resolve this, government has taken some initiative that are implemented
through making strict Act.
SOCIAL MEDIA
INTRODUCTION
Social media refers to a Computer Based technology which can facilitate sharing of idea,
information and thought through building of virtual network and communities. This includes
Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and many more. Social media is highly effective. It has
a high impact on the individual's life and can also associates with a various benefit like
promoting any product and creating awareness on the larger scale. There is a discussion about
high benefit of social media that can influence large population and achieve effective outcome
with some click. In this, there is discussion about social media along with sociology with
viewpoint. There is also debate about stereotypes and discrimination within use of social media.
There is a real life example of social media that can help in sociological aspect there is also a
theory related with social media.
MAIN BODY
Social media plays an important role in creating awareness to any product and allow to
nurture and reach to the target audience without knowing their location. This can influence any

business to improve with a large population and generate high-level awareness and revenue for
the organization (Vale, 2018).
There are various federal laws which are effective within the social media privacy
concerns. This includes Children Online Privacy Protection Act, Communication Decency Act .
These are some of the act which can be highly effective and allow to take care of the society for
ethical response. This also help to being genuine and used the social media in positive aspect.
There is a perception about the social media that this can impact individual behaviour and
psychology. This harm individual thinking and impact behaviour accordingly. People get highly
concentrated about their virtual world through using social media. Social media can negatively
impact self-perception along with mental health which can lead to create dissatisfaction between
individuals self-perception and their appearance. There is also a perception that social media can
influence individual to get distracted from the reality and make their own world where they can
perform well and should take care about their virtual life (Ciszek, 2018).
There is a theory related with social media that may include Social Media Engagement
Theory which can influence user engagement on social media. This is the one one-hour co-
creation in the service sector and can be adopted by the modal. This can help to create a
theoretical framework for explaining social media engagement. This is a factor model for the
interaction between organization and user. This have the focus on supporting social media
platform that is provided by an organization.
Facebook is a social media platform where large number of population have their profile account
and through which they can share their ideas, thought, information to the virtual world. This is an
effective platform where individual can share their information and they get communicate with
their loved ones and random people. This is the platform where people can get easily connect
whether they are on the two different corner of world (Kupfer, 2018).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that social media is highly effective and
can play an important role in delivery of interaction and able to create better awareness regarding
any product. This can create high impact on individual behaviour and society. There is also a
discussion about social media engagement theory which is highly effective and help to introduce
different interaction between business and users. There is also discussion about some law which

can include Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Communication Decency Act that are
effective for providing protection and ensure about the individual privacy.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ciszek, 2018. Challenging the dialogic promise: How Ben & Jerry’s support for Black Lives
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Fitzgibbon and et. al., 2021. Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and
psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF). British Journal
of Guidance & Counselling, pp.1-10.
Fuller, 2017. Women secondary head teachers in England: Where are they now?. Management in
Education, 31(2), pp.54-68.
Kupfer, 2018. The role of the partner brand's social media power in brand alliances. Journal of
Marketing, 82(3), pp.25-44.
Sullivan and et. al., 2021. Adults delay conversations about race because they underestimate
children’s processing of race. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(2),
p.395.
Vale, 2018. Social media and sports: driving fan engagement with football clubs on
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