Sociology Assignment: Nationality, Culture, and Individual Placement

This essay explores the significant role of nationality in shaping individual placement within a society. It begins by highlighting the importance of understanding cultural histories, ethnic backgrounds, values, and beliefs, as well as the individual's nationality itself, to effectively understand their position in society. The essay emphasizes the legal and psychological connections that nationality provides, influencing patriotism and self-sacrifice. It further discusses how nationality interacts with other societal factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, and social class. The essay provides examples of how nationality can influence job opportunities and overall societal standing. Finally, the essay touches upon relevant sociological theories such as conflict theory and symbolic interactionism, and underscores the importance of respecting an individual's national identity and rights.

Running head: CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY
Cultural Sociology

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Nationality and Individual Placement
Individual placement in a society is of utmost importance to every human being on this
earth. Their background, race, culture and human dynamics play a huge role in deciding how
they would be placed within any society. Nationality is one among the many factors that decide
this situation. Understanding the importance of nationality is thus very important (Mulkay 2014).
The first step in placing an individual in any society is to examine and understand their
cultural histories, ethnic heritages, values and beliefs, and finally their nationality. This is
applicable to all, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, nationality or gender. Beyond that, the
identification process must be extended to the cultural aspects of the nation from which the
individual belong. In other words, it is important to understand, embrace and warrantee for
reexamining and adjusting our worldviews for effectively practicing in a nationally competent
manner. Nationality provides a base for understanding in which country a person belongs to and
what are the possible national attachments and obligations that person might have. Nationality
implies the place of birth of a person, simply making it the national identity of any individual.
Nationality effectively provides people with a legal connection and personal allegiance to any
particular place. Nationality is psychological in nature and therefore acts as the source of
patriotism and self-sacrifice (Kelly and Baker 2013). The psychological connections of
nationality dictate the way a person conducts, which in turn plays a huge role in deciding how
that person would be placed in a society. Nationality plays a huge role in deciding how an
indivual would socialize. It decides people’s statuses in the society, involving race, religion,
ethnicity, economic status, occupation, or class. Families provide the initial form of social
placement. Such as, a person might be born into a white, Irish, Catholic family, where the mother
is a politician and the father is a lawyer. This would affect how the person is viewed by other

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people in the society. This social placement and deciding aspects would have an impact on every
facet of lives – beliefs, values, preferences and so on. Some very common theories connected to
social placement are conflict theory, where standardized testing promotes social inequality, and
symbolic interactionism, where interactions are explored and their impact is judged (Esteban,
Mayoral and Ray 2012; Rock 2016). In terms of societal example, education that defines the
types of jobs available for someone, can be a good one. Moreover, people from affluent nations
have a better chance of acquiring better jobs and making more in the job field than people from
poorer countries. The power of social class cannot be obscured by race or ethnicity. While all
nations provide different capabilities to their citizens, there is a common ground that connects
them all.
It is extremely important that no human being gets denied or deprived from his or her
nationality, as it is the right they are bestowed by birth. Nationality effectively provides people
with a legal connection and personal allegiance to any particular place, acting as the source of
patriotism and self-sacrifice.

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References
Esteban, J., Mayoral, L. and Ray, D., 2012. Ethnicity and conflict: Theory and
facts. science, 336(6083), pp.858-865.
Kelly, M. and Baker, C., 2013. Nationality, ethnicity and trust. In Interpreting the Peace (pp.
130-160). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Mulkay, M., 2014. Science and the Sociology of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory). Routledge.
Rock, P., 2016. Making of symbolic interactionism. Springer.