last blog

This is the last sociology blog of the year, and I feel what I have learned in this class will give me more insght in the long run.My family values are still the same but I feel i have expanded my normes and what truly goes into family values.How of all people of gender race,and social class are all just people like eveyone else and because I know that it my expands my desire of already treating people equaly and how I would want to be treated.I have learned dangers of media advertising  and the how it helps form American culture.I also learned how my behavior can effect the norms around me and lead to changes in culture. This class has changed and expresed new ideals of culture.

Week 17

This week in sociology we are watching the movie "Crash" to continue are unit about race.The Movie "Crash" decribes different storys and how there race or ethnic group is treated in different types of situations.Like in one situation one of the guys was working at his job at a TV station and this other guy and pulls him aside because he thought they should shoot another cut of the scene because one of the actors was not talking black enough and the main guy he pulled to talk about this is black too. People's view's of stereotypes can change the way people of race differently.People just asume that that the stereotypes are how people of different  race or ethnic group should act.

I believe it is not true.Look at me.I am part german.I am not a strootal eating,beer drinking leterhosen wearing type of person.Those are just stereotypes created by the media.they are just Words and images,not the truth.

week 15

This week in sociology we are talking about social aspect of race.In class today we did a experiment with different balls.There were basketballs, baseballs,soccer balls ,footballs, and other types of balls as well.Are task was to sort them by a category of are choosing.But the thing is that there is no true way to sort the balls just like there is no way to sort people by race.You have all different races and there is no one category to sort by.Look at skin color, and how people in different races have darker skin cold and not just the ones people depict as dark colored skin.You just can't sort people by race.

For example look at me.I am white and jewish with some German decent and people do't always see me as that. people have told me I look Russian but I feel I do not look that way at all and my decent from my family is German and Polish which was part of Russia at one point and close to it but i am not Russian.

week 14

This week in sociology we continued talking about social class.This week we are watching a movie called "People Like Us".It goes though the details of different social static.Like how it showed a party in the Hamptions and shows charteristics of what people think is class.The video also shows the life of people in poverty and how many struggles they must live with.So this movie decribes different factors that effect are social norms and how these details very differ from our norms as well.Poeple are born into these classes and don't undergo the problems that others of lower classes that shape those people.So for people on opposite sides of social class have different set of norms then what we think.

I was born into middle class so my norms were set differently when  I was little.I was not a child with a silver or plastic spoon in my mouth.The spoon I had was more stainless steel then other materiales.My family is very good at providing but it is not like I am having caviar every night or opossum.So norms are set a lot by the way you live.

week 13

This week in sociology we talked about social class and how that is made in society. There are a lot of thing that we learned effect your social class. Your income,if new or old money,job,family status,and even your education effects your social class.My teacher showed us a picture of a ladder with the different social classes labled on it and next to it where charetoristics on the side that explain  the different levals of social class and what type of people make up that leaval.It was just like the ladder because the higher you climb the higher in socail class you are in the chart.



You have similar idoleolgy in schools. In my experence you see different cliches that seem like different statues in school.And just like the latter the more you climb the higher amount of puopularitery you would have.So you cliches that define different people and rate them on charitoristics just like with social class.

week 12

This week in sociology we learned about Deviance and how they differ form what we know in are usual social norms.We looked at an article a group of students in the 70's called the Saints.They where a group of eight male white middle class students. Many people had said in the article  referring to the boys saying how great students they where and popular in the community.But They also violated some aspects of their school's society.Like how they would ditch classes and and go to the pool hall but the teachers did not notice it.But there was another group in the school the Roughnecks that were not the greatest students to be at the school but they did the same types of things the saints did but they usually got caught.So they both violated the norm but it mainly only effected one group .

Some times I perform  a deviance but mostly in a positive way.eating during class.Some people don't like that because the people seem distracted.But I share so people don't have to miss out .I only east in class if we are watching a movie so I don't get side track during note taking.So if done in a non disrupted and positive manner, you can do deviance that are not violent or rude.

Service blog

This week I perfumed 10 hours of community service for the Special Olympics bocce ball tournament.I was there from 7:30 in the mourning to 5:30 in the afternoon.I also went to a training oration given at my school.The supervisor that was with us was my Sociology teacher Mr.Salituro.I was assigned to court Q for the tournament.The first thing that the court's groups had to do was set up the court.It was changing at first but once everything was put out the pieces were all coming together. .I thought it was an extremely great experience to interact and have fun with the athletes.During the matches I was the score keeper and it was my job to keep track of the score and to announce the winner of the match.I did feel kind of sad because i had to give the team the news that they lost even though how hard they tried.The game was hard to understand at first but was the matches got going I began to really understand the rules clearly.The competitors were very great people.They really got into the game and they were always so nice to me at my court.I would cheer and complement every athlete we had on our court.The most exciting part of the day were the gold medal matches.To be apart of a such important matches was very exciting.Even one of the matches my court had went into overtime which was extremely exiting. To see the cheering and smiling faces of the athletes makes it worth it.They showed me that you can do anything you put your mind too as long as you believe you can and work hard.So one the bus going back I had realize the power volunteering and what a couple hours of someones day can make a great experience for other peoples lives.