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I am currently taking this class because I will be attending Cal Poly SLO next year, and am majoring in sociology.

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After reading pages 8-19 I realized "Sociology is the study of society". At first I really had no idea what sociology was when I was first picking my major for Cal Poly. After reading the section of "What is sociology it gave me a way better understanding. I also realized that it is the study of human behavior. this can benefit me a huge amount in todays society. Here is a video above that actually helped me while picking my major.

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What Is Sociology?: Crash Course Sociology #1

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Chapter 1: Jeans/Discovering Sociology pg: 3-7 (pt1)

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Chapter 1: Jeans/Discovering Sociology pg: 3-7 (pt1)

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"Sociological imagination allows us to see the connection between private troubles and public issues".
For example I shop to much because I love new cloths and stuff or I am unemployed because I am simply too lazy. The connection between jeans and humans are pretty special. people wear jeans to fit in a crowd, look good, and make a person feel special or unique. This totally blew my mind because I really didn't realize how much jeans can simply impact the way you brain thinks. For baseball you want to look good so you play good. It all makes way more sense after reading this lecture.

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Chapter 1: Jeans/Discovering Sociology pg: 20-27 (pt2)

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Chapter 1: Jeans/Discovering Sociology pg: 20-27 (pt2)

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After reading I decided to do the discussion reflection. This reflection question is about mu first purchase. growing up with brother we always plays games with army men and legos. I actually saved up with my own money and bought a Star Wars lego. I also have a twin brother so everything we did was always a competition. We each saved up money and bought a hard Lego and made it a race. I thought this was a great purchase when I was a little kid because I simply loved legos and that was the thing to do when going over and spending time with your friends. Obviously I look back at it now and wish I saved my 50 dollars, but it was worth the entertainment and helped my fit into my friend group as a little kid.

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Contrasting Durkheimian and Marxist Perspective: While food may represent the culture about your life it actually does reflect mine. My Grandpa on my fathers side was born in Stockton California. While being raised in a very gang related family he decided to change his last name to Stevens, instead of keeping it Gonzales. When he was 18 years old he made this decision that would change his life. while having a very Hispanic family I love to eat Mexican food. this represents the culture and the hard work my grandpa did for my family and me. He always told me to get an education and if you believed in something you could do it. while thinking about my food I selected, it makes me relish how much my family means to me and what my grandfather has done for me.

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3/1 3,5 (JBC) Appendix (401-424) Advertising/Research methods. 

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3/1 3,5 (JBC) Appendix (401-424) Advertising/Research methods. 

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Advertising is huge in our society and I never really noticed how much it may impact our lives, and what we may purchase. We feel like we avoid most advertisements, but we simply can't. They are all around you at all times. Some Examples are super bowl adds, forcible adds before a video, movie delayed fifteen minutes in order to watch the movie, media, broadcasts, television, buses,  and park benches. although all of these give us choices on what we can spend our money on, we are exposed to new options in the new marketplace. I can truly say from experience that commercials and adds that pop up have made me either purchase something. or make me want to purchase that item. I never really noticed that adds take a huge role everyplace you go. While growing up in my generation, adds have became a huge thing, and can help new businesses become big. I know and have done the research that during the super bowl, companies pay millions of dollars to play there add for 30 seconds, just to get the exposer.

Now that we have talked about advertising something that stood out to me was Ethnographic research.This type of research involves observation of a social setting. This really only works well if if the researcher can be interacting. So therefore the researcher has to participate in anything that they are researching. Another word for this would be called participate observation. a great example of a participant that did an observation research on "advertising" is "Sharon Koppman's" study in 2014. She studied how creative professionals define creativity in there work. She later interned for the company to get a  better observation, calm things down, and get a more in-depth vision with her eyes on what she was studying. She found that workers determined some kinds of ideas to be creative while dismissing other ideas as illegitimate. They also would take other expertise ideas that where lacking and make it better.

After reading these pages in the book it made me realize how much advertising can impact our society. I also never really thought that people would take the time to make a funny commercial, or a commercial to simply make you buy there product. I now realize that there is simply no way around advertisement, it is everywhere you go, or even sit. I also never  thought that there was huge studies and research on it. knowing why professionals do advertisements, what they do during there job, and how they bring in the audience, is super interesting. On the top I added a Coca Cola video that was played in the super bowl. in the add it says we are better together. it also plays "America the beautiful". in multiple languages. this expresses the different cultures, and counties that participate in drinking Coca Cola. this is super powerful and is a great example on how it may bring the audience in to try there drink at least one time.

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The soft drink company's ad featured "America the Beautiful" in multiple languages.

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3/3  (H) 29-47 Henslin, Doing Sociological research. 

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Not knowing anything about sociology research I though it would just be a simple study of surveys, and looking things up. I never really though there was so many different types of research that sociologists use. While reading the book I found out that the first task of a sociology is to conduct empirical research. Empirical means "based on objective observations". I also found out that sociologists cannot draw conclusions that are based on guess work, hunches, custom, superstition, common sense, or how they would like the world to be. I thought this was super interesting because many people use superstitions throughout there life. For example my family has taught me to never leave a baseball cap on the bed, and also knock on wood so you don't have bad luck.

After reading I also found out sociologist "do theory". this helps find the meaning of things, and we all what to know why things happen too us. There are three different theories, these are symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory. these all help figure out the exact theory and why things happen the way they do. this is super interesting because I have always wanted to know why things happen to me the way they do.

While digging deeper into the section we learn how sociologist do research. After reading a story about Ranee, and she being raped it made me relish its not always 100 percent the guys fault. studies and research have shown that sometimes the clothing a female wears can cause this thing to happen. also keep in mind that the man can have a unusual sex drive. Some ways sociologist find this out is by using the eight basic steps of social research. The eight steps are selecting a topic, defining the problem, reviewing the literature, formulating a hypothesis, choosing a research method, collecting data, analyzing the result, and then sharing the result. this process work very often and helps them find out why it all happened and there theory. Sociologist also use surveys, secondary analysis, documents, experiments, unobtrusive measures, and participation measures. All of these help find out the theory on why these things happen. This is supper cool and I couldn't imagine the time and effort people put into finding things out.

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Sociology Research Methods: Crash Course Sociology #4

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  3/5 63 -72 Pager, Would you hire an Ex- Convict? 

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  3/5 63 -72 Pager, Would you hire an Ex- Convict? 

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As this is a reoccurring problem in society, the question is up in the air on wether or not you personally would hire an "ex- convict". While growing up with a father that is a president of a bank, I hear many stories of how he excepts applications at his job. The first thing he looks at is the application. He looks at how hard the person tried on the application and how much time they put into it.He then looks at the experience in that type of job, and his academic excellence. He then has to do a back round check and see the past history. While working in a very high category in the business field . My father would probably not hire an ex convict. Not because he doesn't want to, more because he simply can't. it sucks to see the struggle of young men that made one bad mistake impact there lives forever.

Now, depending on the job the ex convict has applied for, will give him a better opportunity to get the job. an example in the book that I found was " One owner told a white tester (ex- convict) in the criminal record condition that he liked hiring people who had just came out of prison because they tend to be more motivated and are more likely to be hard workers"(Henslin 68). This statement can be true if they are going in to a field they have already been in. An example like my dads, most of the people he hires have to have experience and not be away from the job too long. But for this example it seems like they have hired people because of there workhorse. Another interesting fact that I found while was reading was that 50% of applicants are unwilling considered based on there criminal record. this shows that it is extremely hard to get a job. your chances are nearly cut to 50 percent without even applying and battling against other applicant.

If I where an owner of a business and had an ex- convict apply for a job at my business I would have a deep conversation with them. I am the type of person to believe that if someone is applying for a job while being out of jail, I believe they are trying to get back on there feet, and provide for themselves and there family. I also believe that they will give me 100 percent effort and strive to be better. I am always looking for opportunities to better peoples lives and truly believe that people make a change. I don't like to see people struggle, and it super sad to see a young man go through that struggle after one mistake in his life.The video above that I found would help me believe that there is always hope in finding these ex convicts a way to get there lives in a strait path.

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3/5 Required entry JCB p. 105 Coffee Shop Ethnography.

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3/5 Required entry JCB p. 105 Coffee Shop Ethnography.

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I actually drove up the street to Starbucks and sat there observing the people who came in and out of the store.I noticed that during the week its mostly older couples that tend to sit down outside of Starbucks and drink coffee. Right now since covi- 19  is a thing everyone had to remain outside, and look at beautiful nature. I did notice some people would. talk to each other but then some would not. A lot of basic head nods and people holding the door for people on the way in and out.

After watching I did notice that some people had more outgoing personalities than other. Most of the time the people holding the door for someone would say high and maybe start a conversation. I also observed and saw that there was more older white couples at this coffee shop, and I believe that this social class was believed to be about middle class. I live in Elk Grove, next to the country club so we tend to get older people in the shopping center that are retired.

Most of the people where ordering coffee, and breakfast sandwiches. I went to the coffee shop early in the morning, therefore most of the people where consuming breakfast products. I couldn't really get a read on what kind of foods that Starbucks provides that is considered prestigious. Overall this was a great experience and I never really realized you can observe like this and no one will know at all. its pretty interesting and supper cool to see different kinds of character.

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3/15,17 (JCB) Chapter 10 Branding/ The Self and Social Interaction.

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3/15,17 (JCB) Chapter 10 Branding/ The Self and Social Interaction.

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While just reading the title I just pictured Branding as in clothing or branding cattle, and how it may identify you. But After reading, it all made sense. Something that stood out to me right off the back is " We often employ brand names to convey our sense of self to others.... think here of a Coach bag, a pair of Air Jorden sneakers or a pair of Lulu lemon."(277). After reading this sentence it made me understand that a brand you wear labels you. I tend to always wear baseball hats,  with Oakleys on my hat and baseball cloths. Therefore right away I label my self as a baseball player. Another example was (hipsters) can tend to wear a kind of eccentric dress code. This also is 100 percent true. Most hipsters wear colorful cloths and present them selves as a hippie.  For what ever your hobbies are, or culture you represent you label your self with a brand by what you wear.

Something that ties with this is Self and social interaction. I never realized how much this really happens in your every day to day life. After reading the chapter I learned about three major sociological thinkers, their names are Cooley, Mead, and Coffman. These Scholars were key thinkers within the sociological tradition known as symbolic interaction. This helped them figure out the emphasis on how our social world is created through our everyday relationships and interactions. Meads example stood out to me the most when he stated " Despite this food loving streak, you may restrict how much you eat on a first date"(280). This made since because when I am socially interacting with a girl or someone I don't want to be judged by, I use my manners, and don't eat like a pig, or eat a lot of food.But when I am comfy around my family I tend to do the opposite. I realized  after reading this that we represent our self on the particular stage we are on and also the kind of impression we seek. If someone is super fancy, I will obviously try and dress up and impress them.

Another thing that stood out to me was greek letters from the image on page (282). While only playing sports in college I have many friends that are in frats, and sororities. Something I noticed is all greek life members dress different in order to label them self in that category. Most of my friends from high school that are in these clubs dress in caches, and nicer clothing. While girls dress up in dresses, and try to represent themselves as higher class. There also is the bid week, and the rushing process. During this process, you are required to impress the head people of each greek house so you make it into there frat or sorority. I can't believe how much this happens in everyday life, and forever will. I also added a crash course above that explains it very well and also helped me understand the study.

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Social Interaction & Performance: Crash Course Sociology #15

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3/15,17 (H) 135- 146: Goffman , The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life. 

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3/15,17 (H) 135- 146: Goffman , The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life. 

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After reading on "The presentation of the Self in everyday life", Erving Goffman presents a simple idea that a person is like an actor on stage. Calling this his theory dramaturgy, Goffman believed that we use "impression management" to present ourselves to others as we hope to be perceived.
After reading this statement from the book, it made me realize how true this theory actually is, and how it happens in everyones life. After thinking about the way I act around my grandparents, versus the way I act around my baseball teammates, versus the way I act around my girlfriend. I tend to find myself in a different role play every time. Another example that stood out was having people over for a dinner, you are now playing the role as a host, while your friends are playing the role as guests.

While never knowing much about this I figured out that we are always playing a role, and always have many different sides, so that people identify ourselves in different manners. its like we are in a play, playing many different roles at many different scenes. After all now I will notice that many people have different sides to them that you don't even know they even had in the first place. I provided another video that helped show how we present ourself in a role in everyday life.

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3/15,17 (H) 249- 264: Thompson, Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead. 

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3/15,17 (H) 249- 264: Thompson, Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead. 

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In this section, Thompson examines how morticians and funeral directors handle the stigma associated with their job and work. He then talks about how Death was a familiar affair. The mothers, wives, and daughters used to wash, and  dress the body, while the men used to build the coffin. By doing this it saved the family a good amount of money and made the ceremony intimate.
While not having anyone pass away in my family yet, I haven't had the hard, and sad moment. I believe there is a huge hard role while hiring someone to be your death specialist because most of the time people see them as business men.Thompson said that " The stigma came from the misconception that these people where becoming rich off others peoples grief but the others believed it simply came from working with the dead"
I honestly don't see anything wrong with someone taking the role of running the funeral. Nothing is ever free, it's there job. They need to make a living off what they do just like other people make a living doing what they love. While losing a family member, most of the time people are really upset. therefore they don't want to plan out the funeral, so they simply hire someone to do it. I believe this is very good because people can take there time to there self to get over the horrible loss of, a friend or family member. I also don't believe the people who lost a loved one will have the energy to plan out the funeral, while the funeral director can focus and make sure everything is perfect for there loved ones passing.

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3/19,22 (JCB) Chapter 5: Shopping/ Social Order. 

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3/19,22 (JCB) Chapter 5: Shopping/ Social Order. 

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While reading this section I assumed it just talked about how shopping may bring you closer to society. But after reading this section it gives you two ways sociologist view shopping in the way different societies may practice it. At first I saw shopping as a way for people to get outside of there house, experience freedom, and or bond with some family member, and even maybe meet other people.

While reading the history section it says " how the version of shopping consumption we know developed into capitalism". I believe this statement shows where shopping might have turned bad. But I also believe that shopping helps me to relax and get outside the house. In the book it says " it seems like we buy items that would fit into our ideal life almost as if one item may arise a whole scenario. For example if I buy a baseball bat, I picture myself playing baseball, or If I buy sunscreen I picture myself by the beach. All these things will make me happy. I believe this is very true and makes people buy things, and or even experience happiness while shopping.

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In this chapter "If Hitler asked you to Electrocute a stranger would you?". Probably by Philip Meyer says " Suppose that Hitler did ask you to electrocute a stranger would you?" This is a very powerful statement and topic because this impacted so many lifes. My first response to this would obviously be    NO! This would be everyones first response to this because no one wants to hurt a stranger let alone electrocute them. I believe this is very true because I wouldn't want to hurt a stranger , nor live the rest of my life knowing I electrocuted a stranger for no reason. I also wouldn't want this done to me so why would I even want to do it to someone else for no reason.
But then you put it into perspective, and you think this is between life or death. I obviously would fight for my own life rather than giving it up. Therefore I would almost have no choice than to do it. I know everyone is scared of Death so I believe everyone would fight for there life in any scenario .  As I did the reading and seen the experiment that Meyers did, and seen how far the volunteers went with the experiment, I couldn't believe they could go that far. Even after trying it on themselves at first. It is crazy to see how easy someone with power can almost force you to do something. If this was me doing the experiment I would have to stop, and say no because I couldn't listen to them being hurt. Something I have realized after reading this chapter is people are told to do stuff and don't ask why. For example why do I have to get a vaccine if I am a healthy young boy. I believe you should always ask questions before just doing something.

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3/19, 22 required entry: JCB p. 140 Shopping for "we-ness" 

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3/19, 22 required entry: JCB p. 140 Shopping for "we-ness" 

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I can Think of a time that I have purchased something to fit into a group, this item is a fishing pole. I know it might sound dumb and people are like a fishing pole? Yes simply a fishing pole. All of my friends got into this fishing phase, all they did was fish over summer. This simply left me with nothing to do. If I wasn't fishing, I wasn't doing anything throughout my day. I never fished in my life, but knew if I got a fishing pole I could hang out with my friends and join them so I can fit in. This item simply helped my stay in touch with my friends, but also helped me fit in. without this fishing pole I simply wouldn't be hanging out with my group of friends let alone get outside the house to do anything.
This item actually did satisfy my belonging, and helped me get closer to my friends. I actually got into fishing and built a hobby for fishing after purchasing one. I think fishing helps me relax, have no worries, and have a good time with my friends. Not only did this one item help me get closer to my friends, but helped my do something other then homework, baseball, and watching tv. It is crazy to believe that one item can have such a influence on you for the rest of your life. I can now go fishing when ever, and go fishing later on in life with family, friends, and maybe even my children.

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3/24 (JBC) Chapter 3: Fast food/work and Economy. 

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3/24 (JBC) Chapter 3: Fast food/work and Economy. 

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While reading this chapter I learned many concepts with fast food industries, and helped me understand what industries really are. After reading about transitional corporations, it helped me understand how powerful these corporations actually are in everyones day to day life. Something that I found interesting was that TNC controls most of what we consume into our body in fast food restaurants. I believe that at least most Americans eat out one time a week, but we don't understand that these companies don't care what they put into our bodies. Most of them are in for it just because of the money. I worked at a chicken plant last year right when my college baseball was canceled due to Covid 19. While working at this chicken plant I realized how much people don't care about there product. While dumping sauce into a bucket and putting them into packets made me realize how much nasty stuff could fall into it.
Something else that I found interesting was the term " Mcdonaldization". I thought this was interesting because I never realized how much McDonalds impacts everyones day to day life. Ritzer came up with four key dimension these are efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control.McDonalds has dropped there quality of food so they can be more efficient while already knowing they can push there food out. Those four key concepts above have helped us understand how McDonalds is coming to dominate society, and the world. Simply after reading this, I am not sure if I will eat at McDonalds again.

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3/24 (H) 411-424: Ehrenreich, Nickeled and Dimed 

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3/24 (H) 411-424: Ehrenreich, Nickeled and Dimed 

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While reading this title I don't really know what to think. This section is about "Barbara", a middle class journalist, decided to go and find what the struggle is like to work a minimum wage job. She took on this challenge hard for and found a cheap trailer home, where her monthly rent would only be $500 a month. She does all this just to document her struggle of what it is like working a minimum wage job.
She takes on the job of being a waitress at a restaurant, where she is only making minimum wage. She finds out that it is a super hard job, first you're constantly on your feet running around, and you have to be skilled. She then gets to meet her co- workers and try to find out theres struggles and living situations at home.
After doing her talking she finds out that most of her workers do live in a trailer park, but also split rent with someone, and some don't even have homes at all. after doing this for a while she finds her self struggling. she is losing weight, can't afford rent, and finds her self looking for an second job. Keep in mind that she has no kids, or no family. While trying to do the second job, she finds out that she can't do it because of the stress it simply brings to her.
After reading this section, it made me realize how lucky I am to have the family that I have. I also realized that people who work there tail off working a minimum wage job should be more rewarded so that they can simply provide for there family. I couldn't image the struggle of working two jobs while trying to support a family. this is definitely a eye opener, and will help me be motivated to make a change.

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3/26 (H) 497-507: Leidner, over the counter McDonalds. 

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3/26 (H) 497-507: Leidner, over the counter McDonalds. 

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While reading this section you start to figure out the heart of McDonalds. You find out that the food is suppose to taste the same every time. No matter the location, the country, it should all taste the same. This promise is being made 20 million times a day, in 54 different countries. this is just crazy to me, that they actually can do this. in the section it says..... to provide its customers with a uniformly pleasant "McDonalds experience" the company also tries to mass the produce friendliness, deference, diligence, and good cheer through a variety of socialization and social control techniques. This statement is crazy  because McDonalds I actually successful everyday because of this.
After reading this, it made me realize how much McDonalds has impacted my life. While always growing up with a twin brother, I remember going to McDonalds all the time and purchasing a kids meal. While always eating the good food, the one thing that kept us begging our mom to take us was the toy that made us smile, and want more. if there was one food company that has expanded like crazy since my generation it has been McDonalds.

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3/26  (H) 535- 546: Wishard, Caught between ages.

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3/26  (H) 535- 546: Wishard, Caught between ages.

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In this chapter William Van Dusen Wishards talks about how our culture has changed over centuries. This includes the Cole war, the most common one in todays century is terrorism 9/11 . I was only one years old with this started happening. There is many changes going on in Globalization in my generation Z. Wishard does illustrate that globalization will be the next big change in my generation.
Another big change is the growth in technology in todays society. This has made a huge impact on my generation and will make an even bigger impact on the generations to come. He conveys ideas ideas about how the advancement in technology and the intelligence that comes with it. One thing that came to my mind right away was social media. I personally  don't even have social media because I think it is a waste of time. I believe that most people are getting caught up in social media rather than experiencing the environment and getting outside. Another examples are video games. I am also not a big fan of these either another waste of time.
The world is becoming more and more technologically advanced and I don't think its a good thing. pretty soon there will be a button to kill off this generation, or something crazy. I think its super cool that we have the brain power to do so, but I don't like how it is taking over our generation super quickly.

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3/29 Required entry: JBC p. 79 Corporation ideologies.

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3/29 Required entry: JBC p. 79 Corporation ideologies.

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A brand that I pick is apple electronics. while growing up in generation Z I have always had a apple I phone since I was 7 years old. This plays a huge role in everyones society around me because now we all know how to use technology to teach each other. While having a life threatening virus impact the country it also influenced more people to purchase electronics. this helped people learn for online school, talk to love ones, and keep there job. Apple pays its workers very well, they are all super skilled, and have High electronic backgrounds. they most likely won't hire someone unless they know how to use a iPhone in depth. none of these have been seen to be common since. the new electronics are sometimes super harder to use, especially is the older generations like my parents or grandparents.

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3/29 Required entry: JCB p. 79 Fight for $15.

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3/29 Required entry: JCB p. 79 Fight for $15.

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I believe that if people want there fast food chains to stay open, they have to raise it to 15 dollars. After reading all the McDonalds chapters it made me realize how much money these food chains make. It simply isn't right for a hard working person to make you millions of dollars while they make not even enough to support there family at all. I believe that 15 dollars should b e the minimum wage, especially in California where the price of living is significantly high.
Some factors that might encourage the unionization of fast food workers are money raise, health insurance, or maybe even free food for there families. I used to work at a chicken plant where they offered free food every Fridays for there families, and overtime so they could provide for there family. I also started at 15 dollars a hour, and good health insurance. All of these perks helped me stay motivated and helped me support my needs and not my wants.

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This chapter was very interesting to read about, because it takes about different social classes and how each one is different in many ways. The chapter starts out with Mellissa telling her story with her coffee experience. Every morning Melissa would drink her cup of coffee for ten minutes and sit by herself. Just one day she realized that she didn't even like the way coffee tasted. It also left a horrible after taste in her mouth, and possibly stained her want to be white teeth. After reading this I noticed I buy coffee in the morning before baseball games. I mostly do this because I need the energy. I also like to do this because It shows my coaches that I wake up early enough to get food in my system and is prepared to play the game. I also did this because many of my friends that play baseball with me at Delta purchase coffee in the morning as well. Its almost like I was buying the coffee just to fit in and copy them.
While reading the chapter, I realized it's more than trying to impress my coaches, I realized coffee correlates to class. When buying coffee you can make it, or purchase it from any place. people who usually drink coffee are pictures as high class people. It all makes sense, when purchasing Starbucks you don't realize your basically showing off your class. Instead of getting a knock off brand you want the highest known coffee around to show off the level. This can potentially draw different boundaries between you and others.
Another thing that I noticed is purchasing fake high class items that look real. I have purchases some fake Oakleys before for 20 bucks, they do the same exact thing that regular Oakleys do they are just knock off .Where Oakleys usually cost 300 dollars. in my head I'm thinking why don't people just buy the fake ones to save money. I realized I did this just so I can basically fit in with my friends on the baseball team, and show everyone that I have swagger, and how classy I actually am compared to the people that can't afford it. I never really noticed these things until after reading this chapter. it is all making way more sense now. Who would have knew that we do these things just to show society that we are higher class.

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4/2 (H)  376-382: Gans, The Uses of Poverty

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4/2 (H)  376-382: Gans, The Uses of Poverty

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while reading this chapter, Gans discusses, and explains the thirteen functions of poverty. while describing these functions of poverty he explains that everyone from our society mostly benefits from the people in poverty, and how the people struggling in poverty are heavily effected. After reading these thirteens functions of poverty from Gans, the one that stood out the most to me was the 3rd one. The third one states that " poverty creates jobs for a number of occupations and professions that serve or service the poor, or protect the rest of society from them"(Pg 378). After reading this in the readings it made me realize that if there was not poor people, or poverty that there would be many people out of there jobs. The first one that stands out to me is obviously police. After reading this it makes me realize how much poor people and people is poverty impact our lives in positive ways. After reading these different functions it made me understand the uses of poverty, and how it all is useful to society all together. I added a five minute video that helped me get a better understanding of the functions of poverty.

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While reading this section, it gives a good lecture on backgrounds of people that work super hard, and made something out of themselves. It also talks about how there parents socialization will usually pass down to there child at a super young age. this just naturally feels normal for the kids because they are used to how it feels to be in what ever social class they are in. Something that I found interesting was that when young people move up in social class they tend to go into "Culture Shock". This culture shock comes from vacations, and many activities that they are not used to doing.  While growing up in very well off family, I actually had a culture shock when going from a private school for eight years to a public school. I didn't realize how many people struggle financially, and how people can't even afford lunch at school. While making this transition it made me really fortunate for being able to have a very supportive family.
Another thing from this section that was super interesting was material deprivation in working- class families. Many kids that come from a super poor family can't afford other things that other people can afford. For example when I was at private school, all my friends had super nice shoes. Now since everyone had these super nice shoes, I would ask my parents why I don't have any of these. Many working class parents encourage there young children to push though school so they don't have to end up like they did. My mom Is a very hard worker at her job, so she has always motivated me to go to school and get my degree. With this motivation it actually has helped me to continue the grind and finish out what I have started.
Last but not least the American Dream. This is super powerful because it tries to tell Americans that it's all equal opportunity if you work hard. This philosophy is why many people from outside of the country try and come to America to live a life without stress. we notice that the American Dream is not exactly what It seems like. Many working class children do not have the same opportunity that the higher class children do. This was super interesting to read about because it very true. if you come from a very low social class family, your chance of being successful in life is very hard.

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While reading this section in the the book it takes about how people in the upper class got to be there and how they kept there spot in the special upper class slot. While reading this I noticed that people in the upper class only socialize, and work with other upper class people. For example I used to date this girl where the dad owned a law firm, and basically developed all of downtown Sacramento. While dating her I noticed that they always eat air super nice places, and rarely where around people not as wealthy as them. They also influenced there daughters to do debutant, which is basically supporting women in high class families going into society. while going to all this stuff I noticed it was way too much for me.
While growing up in a very middle class family my parents did anything for me to get a private school education. while reading Higely talks about elites also have a lot of institutions which where they belong such as private schools, upper class colleges, fraternities, private clubs, religion, and debutant balls. I thought this was very interesting because my parents where very poor while sending me to private school. But then while going to private school I met many people that where super wealthy who did all of these things. I also believe my parents did this to make sure I was with the right crowd, and this section actually talked about this.
I also have many friends in college that join frats, and sororities. Many of them do this because of the social aspect. while joining this you make many new friends, and have many connections for your future. while have friends in this in college I have noticed most of them are very wealthy. in order to join a frat you actually have to make down payments back to the chapter. these payments are not cheap at all. Many people who are in lower class would not be able to afford it. this totally separates society and help the upper class stay with the upper class.

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4/7 Required entry: Watch the Youtube video "Wealth Inequality in the United States"

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4/7 Required entry: Watch the Youtube video "Wealth Inequality in the United States"

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While watching this video my reaction was honestly shocking. while looking at the ideal, what Americans think, to what actually distribution of wealth in the u.s is was mind blowing.i never realized that if your in the 1% you have 40% of americas wealth. This is just crazy because im in the middle class which isn't much. But for the people who are in the lower class are struggling. I couldn't believe that our country is this un even with money. something else that I couldn't believe is that the bottom 80%, 8 out of every 10 people or 80 out of the hundred represented only have only 7% of the nations wealth between them.
It also takes about, and says its only got worse from the last 20-30 years. also the top 1% owned 50 percent of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. While listening to this I couldnt believe how bad the social classes where. too have 1% owning 50 percent of the stock market is absolutely crazy. I would have never pictured this in my life ever. "we need to realize that the reality of thus country is not at all what we think". this statement was super powerful because everyone wants to come to America for this dream, but what they don't realize is that the odds are very low for success. I really can't believe how awful our society actually is. overall this video was very informative, and Made me realize reality. I better have a good job to make it by the next 30 years.

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 required post" How has class effected your life and choices". 

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 required post" How has class effected your life and choices". 

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While growing up in a very catholic mid class family I found my self very fortunate. While growing up I went to a catholic private school from kinder-garden to eight grade and this was a very positive effect on me. As we know private schools in California a very pricey but honestly it what I really needed to follow my faith and get more 1on 1 work with the teacher. While growing up I met many friends that are very wealthy friends that I actually could possibly do business with in the future. I also had a girl friend for 4 years from 8th grade to senior year of high school. After experiencing there class of debutant, and many higher class event I realized that's not what I wanted to be apart of. Overall I can truly say that class has impacted my experience as a kid, and who my life long friends are. I luckily have got the experience to live out my dream in playing college baseball. without my parents being able to support me, I would most likely see myself getting a job and having to stop baseball. overall im very thankful for what my parents have given me, and can truly say that class does make a difference when growing up in society. I wish everyone was just equal at the end of the day.

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 4/9 (JCB)  Chapter 6:  Sports/Race (Omit Section 4, 164-169)

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 4/9 (JCB)  Chapter 6:  Sports/Race (Omit Section 4, 164-169)

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After reading this section, the three Johnston, Cairns, and Baumann talk about how sports have grown and what they mean now. While me being a huge sports fan, I found this section to be very interesting. They went on to talk about sports, and how it creates many different groups, and how important races has been part of sports in America. This is a super big topic to me because I play baseball. Jackie Robinson has impacted the game of baseball for ever. After seeing his experience as a African American has made me realize the sport is more than a game, I also couldn't believe how strong he was during the hard racial times. Believe it or not I'm actually righting this on Jackie Robinson day, it gives me chills. While playing baseball I have now have seen the courage and abuse he had to go through to shape American sports, and make sure that everyone was treated right.
during this section they also talk about how sports may create different groups that can separate us from others. This Is called "symbolic boundaries". This basically means who is an insider or outsider, too shows who was a member in society. For example when I used to play football when I was little, I was way behind the other kids who have played there whole life. I was easily an outsider because I wasn't as good as them. Another thing that was mentioned during reading is that men are not suppose to cry after sporting events, and can't show pain when they are hurt. I thought this was interesting because in baseball if I get hit by a baseball by the pitcher I actually try to act like it didn't hurt, even though it hurt supper bad. I believe I do thus because I don't want to be looked at as soft from the audience watching. overall this was a supper interesting section, I also liked how it talked about substances, and showboating (Bautistas bat flip).

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 4/9  (JCB)  Chapter 12: Music/Racism and Cultural Appropriation

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 4/9  (JCB)  Chapter 12: Music/Racism and Cultural Appropriation

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After reading this section I got to realize how much music may impact you. While reading I learned that the songs on our playlist can say a lot about who we are, and what our past has been through. While listening to these songs, it can help us be in a better mood, and can teach us some different cultures. Also believe it or not music can actually help us get through difficult times. I have noticed the most when I am having a super bad day, and put on some uplifting music and my mood completely changes.
Something that stood out to me was that music can be associated with class. This was pretty eye opening because I never though that music can basically describe who you are. While always growing up with my stay home mom, she grew up on a farm, therefore I basically grew up listening to country music. As I got older, I hung out with my friends that listen to more rap, and hip-hop so I actually got into that more. Then you have the super high class people that listen to fancy music, like at a super nice restaurant. Overall in this section I learned that music defines us, and actually helps us relate to others. Music in the past can give us ideas of what it was like in our parents days. This section overall was super interesting. I never knew that music can make a huge impact on our lives.

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While reading this section it was completely eye opening. We all wonder what it was like back when race was at its worse. In this section it talks about his experience growing up as a black kids in the 1950s. At this time "Whites", and "Blacks" had different busses, schools, drinking fountains, and many other things. He as a black man has a white friend that is to be known as "white privileged". While having this friend he was blind to segregation. A statement that was said by Pages parents that stood out to me was " Don't be Showin' yo' color" when out with your white friends. This quote I couldn't even believe was said. His parents basically knew and told him that whites are better then him. he believed that he wasn't black enough for his black friends and wasn't white enough for his white friends.
After reading this I am so happy that time have changed. I honestly couldn't imagine growing up in this horrible time. I also couldn't imagine the pain the black community had gone through. especially poor children trying to grow up and succeed in life. You basically had no shot to succeed, you where treated completely wrong. To me changes still need to be made. I honestly don't believe that us as a community don't put in enough effort to possibly make this change in our community. If changes where made we possibly would not live in a world that is being divided, and continues to divide among races. I hope there will be a change soon in this country, we are so close.

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While reading this section Ezekiel decided to interview racist members of the militant white racist movement. The reason of doing this was to get a better understanding of these racist people. He went to there place where they where organizing a rally, and got to talk to these members. later he joined them in their gathering where they lifted up Nazi Flags, and played loud music that said N*****. Later on Ezekiel came to the conclusion that these racist people felt as they got cheated and lonely.
After reading this I came to the conclusion that these people intact got lonely and tried to start a community like a gang. I see that most gangs just cause violence, and so do people that are in this white supremacy gang. I honestly can't believe someone would do this, especially promoting hitler, and race. Overall this was a huge eye opener because I never really noticed that these types of horrible gangs exist. As a white human myself, I believe that everyone is completely the same and no one should be put through this pain. Especially judged by what you believe in and what race you are. overall this was just disturbing to read, and can't believe people would do such a thing. I hope the world will become a better place and change will happen in a positive manner soon. overall this was a complete eye opener and made me realize what gangs are and how they can impact such innocent people.

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4/14 Required entry:Ask yourself the following questions and then ask at least five other people (not in this class) the same questions.  Record the answers.

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4/14 Required entry:Ask yourself the following questions and then ask at least five other people (not in this class) the same questions.  Record the answers.

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person 1: Nico
1.Race: Hispanic( Mexican)
2.how do you know?  My grandpa was born in Mexico, and came to California, also my skin color, and last name.
3.How did you learn what race you are? I learned from my families traditions. some messages I first got about my race in general are that it was based on your skin color or what you dressed like. " I learned this at a young age, I obviously knew I wasn't the same as everyone".
4. I look at there skin color, or what they wear. That is the best way to identify what race they are.
5. People decide my race on my skin color, and what I eat. Also when I go to family functions they have a type of gathering like no other.

person 2: Zach
1. My race is white.
2. I learned by looking at my skin color and other people skin color.
3. I learned my race very young while coloring in pictures, or drawing myself. I had too choose my color. I was white.
4. I decide off there skin color, or what they wear.
5. they look at my skin color, and also look at what I wear, baseball hats, and glasses.

person 3: Cole
1. I am Caucasian but Irish.
2. I know because I was born white and my parents are white.
3. I did ancestry.com, and looked at my birth certificate.
4. I know what race they are by what they look like. I can just tell by facial features.
5. They know by what they see when they look at me.

person 4: Chandler
1. I am white, and Pacific Islander.
2. I know because I go off my parents and what they are.
3. I would say going Samoa, and finding out my culture, and what race is inside me.
4. I would just go off looks to be honest, or the way they talk. this is how I would identify the other persons race.
5. Other people decide what race I am based of my tattoos, they way I speak, or simply just ask me.

person 5: Gavin
1. my race is white.
2. I learned because my last name, and where I was born.
3. I learned from acestory.com, this showed exactly what I am.
4. I decide by what they look like, or how they talk, or dress.
5. they look at me when I wear cowboy boots and know I'm country and most likely white.

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 race considering the additional following questions:  What is race?  What does it mean to say that race is socially constructed? 

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 race considering the additional following questions:  What is race?  What does it mean to say that race is socially constructed? 

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After Doing my interviews of some close friends, and actually people I have not talked to in a while gave me a good idea of what people look at race as. As we know we live in a world right now that a lot of social problems are going on. I truly believe that race is socially constructed. I believe that us as people have let this happen. instead of going back to who you are related to most people go to race. Race isn't just based off skin color, and I noticed that most of the people I interviewed said what you look like. when saying race is socially constructed it means that people use race in there day to day life instead of describing it as population or even the past ancestry. I learned so much throughout this chapter, and am very happy I got to learn about what the sociologist views have, and other people.

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4/16 mandatory lecture post: How I have been socialized in my gender.

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4/16 mandatory lecture post: How I have been socialized in my gender.

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Growing up knowing I was a male my parents taught how how to dress, what my hair had to be cut too, and how to act. I have noticed that I have been socialized in my gender. I also knew growing up that males are suppose to like females. I never knew anything else. While growing up in my family I also had to play sports.
One thing that stood out to me was when I would get hurt in a sport, someone would always say " Are you a female". This phrase taught me that people think you have to be supper strong and try to identify you as a man putting girls down as weak. After watching the lecture I realized that our society or anyone socializes you into your gender. I actually again didn't realize this until listening, and writing about it. its honestly crazy to believe this exists. Overall, I'm very happy I learn so much in this class.

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 4/16(JCB)  Chapter 7: Toys/Gender, Sex and Sexuality

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 4/16(JCB)  Chapter 7: Toys/Gender, Sex and Sexuality

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In Chapter 7 it talks about socialization and doing gender. A main topic that is explored on toys is Barbies and Monster trucks. it also talks about the ideas of what is suitable for boys and what is suitable for girls is actually socially constructed. After reading this section in the chapter I actually again have to agree with what they are saying. If a little girl is playing with army men, and master trucks many people may look at them weird. Where if the girls where playing with barbies and had a doll house, many people would look at it cute and "normal".
The author also talks about and says that behavior and social norms are appropriate for women and men in particular cultural and historical context. After reading this in this section I could totally relate. Like I said in my mandatory lecture post, I was socialized in my gender. Always growing up in baseball and being a catcher I would get hit by a ball. My parents, and people would tell me to toughen up, or to stop acting like a girl. After hearing this saying I was forced to act like I was strong because of my gender, even though it hurt extremely bad.
While reading the last thing I saw interesting was stereotypes present an extreme narrow range of options for being a girl or a boy. For example girls will play with dolls, babies, kitchen sets, makeup, and maybe a volleyball or girl sport items. While boys are taught to be into monster trucks, guns, footballs, baseballs, and army men. While being little I enjoyed these things and honestly would mess around with people doll sets. Growing up I was taught to hit a baseball and also shoot guns. I have learned many things from this section so far.

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4/16 (JCB) Chapter 11: Beauty/Ideology and Intersectionality

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4/16 (JCB) Chapter 11: Beauty/Ideology and Intersectionality

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While reading this section I learned about how beauty is socially contracted. While growing up I always thought "celebrities" where hot, based off there appearance. I also then would thing of people who are beautiful. While living in America, Hot beautiful people are usually skinny, long haired, white, and has nice makeup. But then you think we'll maybe this is just in America, because people is South America might think different, or in India, or Africa. This is basically how I noticed after reading that wow beauty is socially constructed.We also are told by our parents, to look good and attractive to people that are attractive.
This made me realize that visualization can change the way people think of you or talk about you. if I am a very good looking man that is in very good shape, more people are going to want to hang out with me and be my friends. Now if I never brush my teeth, never work out, and stink all the time, I will have the same exact personality but will still be made fun of and not have any friends. The last thing that stood out to me was the key areas of gender convergence. These things are fear of fat, bodily, objectification, and marketing of body products. Now for me obviously having abs, white teeth good hair and tall, is consider perfect and good looking. while girls want to be tone, skinny, and good looking. After reading this section I realized how much beauty could impact your life in many ways.

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While reading this chapter we first learn that masculinity or femininity are something that we are born with. Henslin says that we learn these things strictly from society, and goes into depth on how males are socialized into being masculine at a very early age. While being boys at a very early age, we are given toys that are more masculine.  We are also taught to be tough, rougher, ruder, and dirtier, while girls are taught to be neat, clean, and presentable. I thought this again was very interesting because at a very young age all these things I did. its crazy to believe that we are  taught these things strictly from society.
While reading Henslin also talks about how we later learn that female gender is inferior to us, thus we make fun of boys that posses feminine characteristic. Also as we grow older we start to hit puberty, while this happens we start to have our voice to get deeper, and out testosterone rises. This then significantly operates us from girls. Now after reading this its crazy to see how the difference all happens at such a young age. All of it is based of society, and what our parents tell us or our friends. While being a male you are almost born into these specific standards that you actually don't realize until you read this book. overall I really enjoy reading this section on how society reflects who you are in someway.

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Obviously the previous chapter was about becoming a male, this chapter talks about booming a female. While reading Elder did research on the social world of girls  in middle school. while reading it talks about how this stage in life for girls is vital because they are developing more sexually. As we know girls actually hit puberty before boys. I actually learned this because in middle school pretty much every girl I knew was actually bigger than me. while reading more Elder talks about an emphasis on how attractiveness, and appearance become apart of a women life. while reading this I noticed that standards are just growing and growing for women. I know this because growing up I knew people who tried super hard to look perfect, and eventually want fake body parts to stand out. Most of these people have lots of money to afford this. Fake products can make other females feel not as good looking as others.
After reading this I totally have to agree. I feel that girls are now learning that they need to be perfect, and the standards just keep getting higher and higher. This can be super depressing for girls, and can cause many problems. overall after reading this section it all makes since, and Eder does a great job explaining that.

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 4/19 (H)180-191: Thorne & Luria, Sexuality and Gender....

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 4/19 (H)180-191: Thorne & Luria, Sexuality and Gender....

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While reading this section Barrie Thorne and Zella Luria and Barrie Thorne talk about what children play to help them turn into there gender roles. They explain that Boys are more concerned in playing interactions that is involved with independence and sexuality. While girls are concerned about emotions and romance. He also explains and says that this is all starting to happen at a very early age. One thing that I thought was interesting was at a younger age they seem to separate each other by gender. For example at school at a cafeteria, there is a boys table and girls table. I thought this was super interesting while reading because growing up in middle school it was super rare to hang out with girls. I always found myself hanging out with the boys separated from the girls because I was super shy. This was just crazy to read because at a young age it really related to how I was.
Something else that I found interesting was while girls and boys are separated in there genders, girls tend to start teasing boys. This is a way of communicating at a young age, and shows the girl is actually interested. While reading this again I could totally relate, while growing up teasing the boys was a natural thing. usually the girl that was teasing you had a secrete crush, or was trying to talk with you, but really didn't want you to know. Again this chapter totally made me look back at my child hood and how I grew up

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While reading this chapter, Deborah Tannen compared and contrasted women and men in seven different ways. These seven different ways are apologies, criticize, saying thank you, fight praise, complain and joke. While looking at all these different ways that Tannen compared and contrasted the one that stood out to me was "saying thank you". Deborah says" many women use thanks as an automatic conversation starter and closer; there's nothing literally to thank you for. like many rituals typical of women conversation". I actually have noticed me doing this and I am a male. I catch myself saying thank you when I don't even need to say thank you. I say it almost just to say it, rather than saying it in correct situation. Honestly I might even use it to start a conversation with someone I'm not even that close too, but want to fire something up. this blew my mind because us as humans never really notice these things at all.
The second one that stood out to me was "apologies". Tannen explains and says that women are often told they apologize way too much. The reason they are told to stop, is because apologizing seems synonyms with putting oneself down. I thought this pretty interesting because I too apologize way to much. I honestly do it because I either am sorry, or I want the argument or problem to clearly end. This was also super eye opening while reading this section.

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 4/19 (H) 341-348: Katz, The importance of being Beautiful

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 4/19 (H) 341-348: Katz, The importance of being Beautiful

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while first reading the title I wondered what I could possibly be reading about. Just based off reading the title the importance of being beautiful in todays society can take you a long way based of people judgment. While reading Sydney Katz summery it says that people can move forward faster in life rather than there less appealing pears. right away I realized that our society actually judges strictly off looks, its crazy. if someone was a applying for a job that was better looking and had the exact same interview they would pick based of there looks. I actually truly believe this. Some people would see attractiveness in how people behave, act, personality, or simply because of how they get treated.In this article Katz also talks about how being physically attractive can help advance many people in career, jobs, and in this world. Again even Katz states this, its actually mind blowing. I honestly think this should not be the case but in reality it actually comes down to this. it also says in the reading that, If we think about it when woman are glamorous, they get higher pay and promotions, and even some promotions or ads will pay woman that are glamorous just to show their stuff. its crazy how far being beautiful can get you into todays world. This reading was truly an eye opener and made me realize what our world has become.

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 4/21 (H) 518-534: Miller, Women in the Military

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 4/21 (H) 518-534: Miller, Women in the Military

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This reading didn't really surprise me since women in the military have always been a huge problem. I could not imagine others things in society that might happen that we don't even know about. In this reading of Miller, I learned about all of the obstacles that women have simply faced while joining the military. It talks Gender harassment the most and not in the sexual way at all. While reading it says that many women who joined the military have said that gender harassment on the job is more prevalent than sexual harassment. One form of gender harassment Is is resistance of authority, for example a girl in the Army may tell a Male a position to take and he won't listen to her. This then makes the girls look bad when something goes wrong, and then several female leaders will have to " pull rank" more than the males.
I actually found this super interesting because I know women in society with citron jobs may be treated poorly or not even get the job. I couldn't imagine back in the day, how women where treated trying to go to war and fight for there country. I'm sure that many where raped, and sexually harassed, on top of that gender harassment. I couldn't imagine being a girl, the disrespect that people give them is not okay. I really do hope that one day everyone will just be completely equal, and nothing matters.

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4/21 Required entry: JCB p. 207 Toy Store Observation

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4/21 Required entry: JCB p. 207 Toy Store Observation

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Growing up as a kid I always would want to go to toys are us. I drove up to grab some food, and groceries for my parents from Target since Im staying at home right now. While I was there I decided to go to the toys section. While looking around I walked down the section and right away could tell a difference. Now this is Target not a huge toys store but has enough for kids to go there and look at toys and video games.The first thing that caught my eyes was the colors. Most of the girls stuff had pink, purple, and yellow. While guys Stuff was Blue, Red and Green. This stood out the most right away while simply looking at the section. The second thing that stood out to me was that mostly all the girls stuff was painting, makeup sets, and dolls. While all the boys stuff was nerf guns, legos, video games, dinosaurs, and hot wheels. another thing that stood out to me also was there actually was more boy items than girls. I know society doesn't always treat females the same and way get the short end of the stick, but I couldn't believe it.
While at the store the way I could see how it was separated was honestly by color of the items. like I said above most of the girls items where pink, and boys colors where more blue and red. This made is very clear where the girl section was, and where the boy section was. Some toys where also gender neutral. The ones that stood out to me where like building blocks, fake cell phones, and puzzles. There honestly wasn't much in the neutral section while looking in the toy section. it was truly eye opening because I have never just went to a store to study the way it is laid out and how it makes certain genders purchase certain items. it was very eye opening.

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4/21 Required entry: JCB p. 330 Counting Beauty

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4/21 Required entry: JCB p. 330 Counting Beauty

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While doing this Analysis I did it in a magazine my mom had down stairs on models. While counting I saw saw about 38 girls and only about 12 guys. I just simply counted the first 50 pictures I saw and did it off that. While observing I saw more white females than African American females, and more while males than black males. Also while reading I didn't see one women or man that had body fat. "Yes" this was a modeling magazine, but that shouldn't matter. I have never in my life thought about going through a magazine and doing my own survey. This was super eye opening because so many people are left out, and shows society how perfect you have to be. I also believe that if you have " beauty" you are significantly ranked higher then someone that is fat and not as good looking. its crazy too believe that people who are better looking will get better jobs, and get away with more things. My conclusion after doing my mini analysis on "Counting Beauty" was that many people are left out and not included in society. Believe it or not but I realized that if you are better looking, you have a better shot in making it farther than someone who simply isn't good looking. This was eye opening, and was truly happy that I got the opportunity to do this survey.

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 4/23 (JCB) Chapter 8: White Wedding/Marriage and the Family

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 4/23 (JCB) Chapter 8: White Wedding/Marriage and the Family

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In this chapter it talks about marriage and the formation of family.  while reading it says " when you think of the "family" what images come to mind? well while reading this the first thing that came to mind was finding a wife that is supporting and will happily raise a family. As the chapter goes on it talks about what weddings actually symbolize in our culture. The author uses white wedding to refer to a spectacle featuring a bride in a formal white wedding gown. This referee to many sociological concepts, this specific example of white wedding means " shared by people from multiple race and class backgrounds with different sexual orientations. I thought this statement from this chapter was super eye opening because no matter how much money you spend on flowers, dresses, and more does not have any say on how the relationship will go.
One more thing from this chapter that a ideologies talks about is " a familial unit comprised of a heterosexual couple and their dependent children". While reading this we know it is very new to society, but shows how maybe white weddings have became a way to show the foundation between the new wife and husband. After the wedding the man is expected to go to work and support the family, and the women to stay at home. This has happened because society made it this was for many years. This was very interesting because I would hope my wife supports me as much as I support her. I do understand that the women should stay at home and take care of the child, and the home but society has made this the way it is.

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 4/23 (H) 425-431: Coontz, The American Family

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 4/23 (H) 425-431: Coontz, The American Family

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In this chapter Coontz talks about the comparison of families in the 1900s to families in todays society. I really liked reading this because in the reading Coontz states that families where worse in the 1900s. This stood out to me because you hear many families in todays time talk about how families are always falling apart. Yes in todays society divorces are a lot higher then the 1900s, I believe this because many people have accepted divorce, and don't try to push through a horrible marriage. I honesty think that's how it should be. yes families should try there best to stick it out so the kids are very happy, but if its very unhealthy for everyone I belief you should do what is right.
The author also states that "marriages are like gloom and doom. frustration and anxiety. things are getting worse fast. husbands and wives are fighting, and as they tear at each other marriages are falling apart and kids are neglected". I thought this statement was very true. My friends parents have been through some hard times. The main problem I think in relationships are communication. if the relationship is hurting the kids and impacting people around you, I believe you should get a divorce. yes of course try to find a way to fix it. your kids should never be put through such a horrible time, while they are trying to succeed in school, and meet new friends.

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 4/26 Required entry: JCB p. 243 Wedding Dreams

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 4/26 Required entry: JCB p. 243 Wedding Dreams

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While doing this mandatory I have fantasized about my future marriage. I honestly can't wait until that day comes. This fantasy came when I was younger, seeing my parents in a very happy relationship. I was about 17 years old, and actually had a girlfriend at the time. My fantasy was to get married in Maui Hawaii in the Catholic Church on the beach. I looked forward to having a super fun and happy wedding, and growing old with kids that are supper stars in sports.
I honestly don't think the white wedding frame doesn't appeal me. honestly now I look at it as saving money first of all, and loving someone without a huge expensive setting. if I could I would keep it super small maybe even 35 people. At first I wanted a super nice wedding, but as I grow older I realize that's not what its all about. I think it comes down to love, and the relationship over spending money that doesn't need to be spent. Even being middle class I don't think I should have a high class wedding, because that's not who I am, Even if I was super rich I would not spend my money and give it to others. I would dress normal, and buy a normal house.

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While doing this section I was really interested in why we do wedding. While becoming closer and closer to the age where eventually I have to settle down I read this section in depth and decided to do other post on it. While growing up I have been to different weddings that are themed with different cultures. While going to my friends wedding the ritual was Mexican rituals. I actually didn't realize this until I was doing this extra post. in there ceremony when saying there vows, they took flowers and put them around there shoulders.They had a long beaded flower type draped around each of there necks. this represented to stay together forever. I guess in this type of ceremony this is how they wanted to be married. while I'm used to seeing the bride tossing her wedding garter at the end. this is worn underneath the brides dress, and is tossed in the crowd, the bachelor that catches it is believed to be married. its crazy to think how many different wedding rituals there can be. overall this section was super interesting and I enjoyed it.

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4/28 (H)  277-286: Henslin, Eating Your Friends is the Hardest

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4/28 (H)  277-286: Henslin, Eating Your Friends is the Hardest

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in this chapter Henslin looks at a plane crash that happened on the Andes mountains. While reading it says there was 40 passengers and there was only 26 that survived. While thinking they would be rescued very soon but it lasted 17 days until 16 remained as they where slowly dying from starvation, and how cold it was. Soon enough they where forced to eat dead bodies of their loved ones because there was no other way to survive. Thes people where then looked at as cannibals but also brave survivors. After all this society had accepted that they had to eat the human flesh of there loved ones in order to survive.
While reading this it was shocking to me that someone couldn't figure out another way. At the end of the day I would have had to eat my friends flesh in order to survive. While reading Henslin says that changed circumstances make people more open to accepting new definitions of reality. I believe this is true because each person was put into a life or death situation. if it was me, and I had to choose eat or die, I would have no choice but to eat the bodies. One other thing that Henslin said at the end of the section that stood out was " for all of us, reality is socially constructed, and the story of the andes survivors contained the essence of human society". After reading this statement I do agree with Henslin that our world is mostly made up of socially constructed situations, and many other things. I actually was really interested after reading this, so I attached a video of what I watched.

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4/28 (H) 315-321: Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment

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4/28 (H) 315-321: Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment

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In this section Philip Zimbardo explains the experiment he and three others made to show a prison setting, to see what a prisoner and prisoner guard may experience. While doing this they received many applications but only picked two dozen , smart, college student with no criminal record. while picking the prisoner or the guard was based off the flip of a coin. When they figured it all out each person was stripped, and changed into inmate cloths, with a number, and put into a cell. Prisoners made money, while guards where given freedom to make up any rules they wanted. The experiment was suppose to last 2 weeks but only lasted 6 days. While doing this experiment they saw some scary stuff. Three men where let out due to extreme depression, crying, and confusion of thinking. Most of the prisoners stayed because they just wanted the money.
After reading this, It was completely eye opening. We all think that people have it easy in jail, and that it isn't very bad. After reading this section, I realized how it can impact your life in a very negative way. One of my best friends has a brother that has been in and out of jail his whole life. Not too long ago I got the opportunity to sit down with him and eat dinner. While he was in jail he worked for 18  cents a hour. I honestly couldn't believe this. He said that it was the worst experience of his life. He felt like he was always in danger, and was in his cell 24/7 with nothing to do. He decided to work so that he can keep his mind off things because while in jail you tend to get very depressed.
After reading this it made me realize that he want wrong. I think maybe inmates should be able to go outside but are watched very carefully. I also think that prisoners should be educated. They should all go to school while they are in jail. This can maybe help them stay active, and stay out of trouble. Overall I hope there is a change.

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4/28 (H) 322-334: Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places

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4/28 (H) 322-334: Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places

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This reading was another experiment from David Rosenhan. This experiment helped evaluate psychiatric diagnosis. This experiment was a group of sane people who would admit themselves into psychiatric hospitals. The people participating in this did not actually have any mental illness, but where faking they heard voices and things in there head. When admitted into the hospital they where then told to act normal, while behaving normal they where trying to see if anyone would notice they where sane. They then had to convince the the staff they where sane and be discharged. David went to the mental institution and told them it was an experiment, and the people where normal. Then the staff kept saying some did suffer from mental illness such as anxiety.
After reading this section It made me realize that doctors may just try to label you with anything. If I went in there and said I had depression, they then could give me medication to feel better even though absolutely nothing is wrong with me. I came to the conclusion that we can't pick out the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. Now it makes me think about what is normal behavior. if those people where acting completely normal, but had " something wrong with them" can anyone have something wrong with them if they want to. This section was very eye opening. I liked the experiment that Rosenhan conducted.

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5/3  (H) 470-480: Hunt, Police Accounts of Normal Force                 

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5/3  (H) 470-480: Hunt, Police Accounts of Normal Force                 

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When reading the topic it made me want to reading in into depth, with what is going on with cops in our society today. This section is explained ed by Jennifer hunt. it first starts out talking about how rookie police act in the street rather than using what they are taught at the academy. After reading this right away, I realized this could be a huge problem. If you are put out to protect and serve as a rookie you better be careful and not make mistakes. Hunt also mentions how male cops are respected more than women cops. One of her reasons is that, females could be physically and mentally weaker than men, which then can effect their overall performance, such as freezing and losing the criminal. there was a experience the other day with a female cop freezing up and pulling out her gun instead of her taser. I believe that Cops should be highly trained, just like the Marines, and the army.
Later in the chapter Jennifer says that " it's not done on the street the way it's taught at the academy. This statement shows why cops are hurting people that shouldn't be hurt. it's almost like they are using force they don't need to be using. Yes, I understand if someone is killing someone and you need to stop it, but beating someone while hand cuffed, or shooting someone who is trying to run isn't what you should do. Let them run, catch them, and then arrest them when they listen to you. I know that cops are told not to hit people in the head or neck because it may cause lethal damage. One thing I think cops should work on is not being super physical, but being the best at taking someone down with less harm. This can help all situations in todays society. Overall very good topic, and very informative section.

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 5/3 Required entry: (Adapted from an assignment by Joyce Johnson)

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 5/3 Required entry: (Adapted from an assignment by Joyce Johnson)

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first example. So this last week I have been looking for this moment of when I feel someone is weird or crazy. so first I just want to describe the situation first. So basically I've had this friend for a while now. He lives like a two minute walk from my house. I texted him about 3 weeks ago to go golfing, and then to get my clubs back, he never answered. It was very strange and weird. So I just left him alone. I decided to text him about 3 days ago because we where all playing poker at my house. He didn't respond to my text but just showed up to play about 2 hours after we already started playing. I asked him if everything was okay and he said yes. I still don't understand why he doesn't respond. So some norms where violated. usually if someone emails you or texts you, you simply just respond to the text and say simply yes or no. This was very un normal of him just to show up without a warning he was coming after not replying back, or picking up phone calls for 3 weeks. He is 20 years of age, he's a male, and he's white. I can say his social class is very high class. He does think he doesn't belong with us low rollers. I think this situation was rational because he just decided to show up, showing he can do what ever he wants. He doesn't have to talk to me for 4 years and can just walk to my house and walk in. after this I realized he was very interesting and maybe something was up. After this happened I lost a little respect for him. usually you should forward someone before coming over. I kinda figured out there might be something actually wrong with him. overall this situation was eye opening.
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5/3 (H)  446-460: Gracey,  Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp

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5/3 (H)  446-460: Gracey,  Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp

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While reading this section it talks about young children and youth preparing them for formal education and eventually the work force. It also talks about how it will teach children to enjoy skill and motivate them to continue to participate in the system of education. They are also taught to be students and obey there teachers authority. They are taught to stand in a line, raise a hand, and understand the operation of a school setting. I found this really interesting while reading a pulling out these facts because at such a young age we are already being taught how to be educated. While reading sociologist Harry noticed those students who submitted discipline and identified with it were regarded as good students. Those who submitted but didn't identify with it where average and those who rejected it where considered bad students. I found this interesting because at such a young age, a teacher can tell based off your personality how your future may look in education.
After reading my opinion on a structure school setting is actually to me very good. growing up going to a private school, I had to wake up and throw on a uniform. I also would make my lunch with my mom, and get to school on time. Every-morning we had to line up, and be in number order. I think this just sets the tine early. I enjoyed uniforms because when you eventually have a job, you can just wear a pair of shorts and a shirt. your profession has a type of uniform. at private school our uniform was a nice collared shirt with some khakis. After reading this section it was very eye opening and made me realize what kinder-garden really is.