Hi, Folks. The following is an example of what a journal entrylooks like.

An Example of a SociologicalJournal Entry

Six one-page journal entries arerequired for this assignment. Each journal entry consists of the followingthree parts.

1) Introduce and define a socialfact or concept.

2) Show how the concept operatesin society.

3) Show how the concept helps youto understand what occurs in your own life.

(please make sure that eachjournal entry consists of the following three parts)

If I were a student in thisclass, here is how I would describe and explain a key sociological concept ofAnomie in a journal entry I will later submit to the instructor. You can usethis example as a model for the journal entries you will be submitting to me atthe end of this course.

Today in class we discussed thesocial fact of Anomie, a state of uncertainty that comes from being cut offfrom ethical foundations within the groups of which we are a member. In thelate 1800s in France, Emile Durkheim hypothesized that the mental instabilitythat led to crime and suicide during the Industrial Revolution occurred becausepeople, used to agrarian life in small villages, now had to conform to newmechanized urban norms that they were not sure of. An example of such Anomieoccurred when people had to change from living in large families and working inindividual homesteads on farms in communities whose neighbors they knew well,to living in smaller families and working with strangers in factories that wereseparately located from their apartments in often squalid tenement houseslocated adjacent to other families—also strangers.

The instructor said that Durkheimand other early sociologists of his day took a structural-functional approachto Anomie, noting that the changes in the economic, political, and family institutionsduring industrialization caused social problems, sometimes referred to aseither deviance or dysfunctions, both within the individuals (such as anomieand alienation) and within society (suicide and other crimes, for example).Furthermore, these dysfunctions became less pronounced as people adapted to anew urban milieu with its own type of homeostasis or equilibrium.

The concept of Anomie has alsohelped me to understand how people in small groups and in social situations canalso be uncertain when anyone violates a norm. In an experiment, I noticed thatafter the norm is violated, people are often caught off balance and try todetermine from one another what the appropriate normative response should be.During this time, people seem to be experiencing Anomie, and the feeling ofuncertainty only goes away when the dysfunction is neutralized, and the socialorder returns to homeostasis. Indeed, this occurred in my ownethnomethodological experiment in my family when I violated a norm and the familymembers were unsure as to how to respond. Later, my explanation as to why Ideviated from the norm helped to reduce Anomie and re-establish homeostasiswithin my family.

This is a link for the book weuse in class. Just so you know the chapters and have an idea of what wediscussed in class.

https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-so…

Each jurnal entry should be around 300 words more or less.