Emerging Issues in Sociology

We've covered a lot of issues this semester in our sociology class. A lot of the topics that we discussed are issues that are very prevalent in today's society. There are two topics that I think will become continue to be debated and shown all over the news for several years to come. The first is same-sex marriage and the second is our economy and what it makes people do.

Over the past decade the issue of same-sex marriage has become a major topic not only in politics but in sociology as well.  I mentioned in one of my previous blog entries about how it is becoming more accepted as my generation starts to take control of the world and let their beliefs known. I have no doubt that it will become more accepted in the world as the years go on. Studies are already being done about how it effects a family and also how it effects a child raised in that environment. It will continue to remain prevalent in today's society and I feel like at some point it will become a social norm. The people who participate in same-sex marriages will no longer be considered "deviants".

The other issue emerging just in the past few years is our economy. The dramatic roller coaster that is the global economy has sent people through twists and turns. It has left too many people jobless, possibly homeless, and sometimes with no way to provide for their families. I think that if the economy continues to take a turn for the worse it will start to effect our crime rates. People will do anything to provide for the ones they love, even if it means killing their neighbor; it's just human nature. It will be interesting how the economy effects the people of the world. Hopefully it will turn around before anything too crazy happens.

Overall I feel like same-sex marriage and the economy are the two biggest emerging issues in sociology. I feel like out of all the things that we covered in class over the semester these two will remain the most prevalent in years to come. They affect so much on a broad scale and yet as a general topic are still a big deal in the world. They will remain in politics and on the mind of sociologists everywhere for many more years to come.