1SOCIOLOGY Part 1c- Summary to the class: To start work on the project, my first objective was to find a social issue which is very prevalent and has serious impact on the life victims. The focus was to take a issue that explains gendered experience related to a phenomenon. With this perspective, sexual abuse has been taken as the background issue and I started with identifying all hashhtag campaigns that focussed on the issue of sexual abuse. The setbacks I faced was that therewre numerous types of hashtag campaigns against sexual abuse and choosing the one with a strong impact was a challenging task. The three hashtag campaigns critiques the issue of sexual abuse and rape culture in the societies. All the three campaigns have used social media tool to establish connection with public and get idea about variety of incidence of sexual abuse in the world. For example, #MeToo and #NotOkayfocusedoncollectingaccountsofwomenregardingsexualharassmentand #HowIWillChange targeted males as it challenged traditional gender norms and encourage men to give suggestion to end the rape culture. Such campaigns are effective in creating a common platform for people who are experiencing same social issue and empower them (O'Neil et al., 2018). The issue that has been taken up in each of these three campaigns are relevant to the overall course of race and cultural identify as it reveals the truth of rape culture and how large number of women are vulnerable in current society. The power of these campaigns is also understood from the fact they have a wider reach as they are trying to directly connect with the victim and find out the types of support required by them (Mathews & Collin-Vézina, 2016).
2SOCIOLOGY References: Mathews, B., & Collin-Vézina, D. (2016). Child sexual abuse: Raising awareness and empathy is essential to promote new public health responses.Journal of public health policy,37(3), 304-314. O'Neil, A., Sojo, V., Fileborn, B., Scovelle, A. J., & Milner, A. (2018). The# MeToo movement: an opportunity in public health?.The Lancet,391(10140), 2587-2589.