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.