In this week’s Strayer Story, you learned about the importance of BBQ culture for Leslie Roark Scott and her family. For Leslie Roark, BBQ is an important cultural artifact. Cultural artifacts are the things that make up a society’s material culture. Some examples of cultural artifacts are tools, food, clothing, and books. Think about your own culture and some of the artifacts (material objects) that […]

Introduction Economic sociology is an attempt by sociologists to redefine in sociological terms questions traditionally addressed by economists. It is thus also an answer to attempts by economists to bring economic approaches – in particular utility mastication and game theory – to the analysis of social situations that are not obviously related to production or trade. Economic sociology The specific term “economic sociology” was first […]

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang is a phenomenal graphic novel addressing self-acceptance, racial stereotyping, and identity. Not to mention, Gene Luen Yang blew my socks off with a brilliant intertwining of three seemingly unconnectable storylines. Yang tackles the negative stereotypes of a Chinese- American head-on, illustrating Chin-Kee to possesses the physical stereotypical qualities of a Chinese person. These traits include small eyes, two […]

American Born Chinese, written by Gene Luen Yang, is a fictional graphic novel. It is a mix of realistic fiction and fantasy, where some parts of the story are more realistic and others more imaginative and fictional. I first read the book for my Language and Literature class at my previous school last year, and afterward went back to the book because of its creative […]

American Born Chinese is a graphic novel written by Gene Yang that focuses on the characters Jin Wang, the Monkey King, and Chin-Kee. Throughout the story, the focus switches between these characters after each chapter. Jin has low self-esteem and cares excessively about what others think of him. His insecurities later spiral out of control, causing him to idealize appearing more typically “American” in hopes […]

Today everyone seems to be placed in a stereotype between race or gender. If you were to ask someone about a typical black person, would their response be that they like watermelon and chicken and arguing? A typical Asian would eat Chinese or Korean with rice. And they are generally very smart. Your typical white women, especially if a blonde has the typical ditsy blonde […]

“True friends walk in when the rest of the world walks out” Walter Winchell . Best friends are those who show that they will there as proven in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Throughout the book Chbosky demonstrates that bonds can quickly break, families aren’t always supportive and that new, understanding friends are better than old friends that do not. The […]

“Two Kinds” is a short story, which is a part of the book “The Joy Luck Club” written by Amy Tan. “The Joy Luck Club” was published in 1989. The mother-daughter relationship displayed in the short story, has received criticism for perpetuating racist stereotypes about Asian Americans. In this analysis, I would like to interpret the distinctions existing between an Asian immigrant and an Asian-American […]

Around the world today, there are hundreds of people desperately wanting to leave their homelands and travel to the United States for a variety of reasons such as, to escape war, poverty and famine, believing that they could find relief on American soil. In Two Kinds by Amy Tan, she uses noncompliant Jing Mei and her native mother’s expectation of obedience to depict the clash […]

Very often children argue and demand about what they want to be when they grow up; while parents require them to be what they want them to be. The short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan shows the life of a Chinese girl who is at her adolescence and the influence of her cultural mom on her growing up. After losing her family, kids and […]