We did a little experiment in our Sociology class regarding who would live and who would parish if there was a group of twenty people and you could only save nine. A majority of us decided to keep the youngest of the bunch or females. Our society values youth and anything appealing to a gender. In this case, since most of our class is made up of the male species, many good-looking women on the list of people were saved. I believe that if our class was more female dominated it would be the other way around.
Microsociology is looking at the small picture of sociology. It mainly focuses on human beings, the roles they play and how they interact. This includes how they interact with other people, conditions and the environment. Macrosociology, on the other hand, focuses on bigger things. This not only includes human interaction but war, poverty, and distress in other human fields are also looked at. Both of these branches of sociology help us understand more about how humans function as an individual or as a unit in our big world.
How does this stuff tie with the lifeboat. I guess it all comes down to being judgmental as a human race. There are so many stereotypes and cliques that we are all caught up into that everyone has a different opinion on who should leave and who should die. As humans, we only interact with the people they make feel comfortable and not to the people that we believe may pose as a threat to our stereotypical minds. In this case, if we are not aware of their background and personal life, we started judging the cover instead of reading the whole story. We judge the people, and we make our decisions based on what our censorious minds tell us to do.
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