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10/11, 13, 16, 18         (JCB)  Chapter 4: Coffee/Class

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

(H)      383-394: Morris & Grimes, Moving Up....

(H)      395-406: Higley, The U.S. Upper Class

Required entry: Watch the Youtube video "Wealth Inequality in the United States" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

Provide your reaction to the video and explain it using what you have learned in this section of the course.

10/20               Class Exercise

10/23, 25, 27, 30         (JCB)  Chapter 6:  Sports/Race (Omit Section 4, 164-169)

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

(H)      360-368: Page, Showing My Color

(H)      369-375: Ezekiel, The Racist Mind

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.

What race are you?

How do you know? How do you make that decision?

How did you learn what race you are? Can you tell me about some of the early messages you first received about race in general or your race in particular?

How do you decide what race other people are? Examples?

How do other people decide what race you are? Examples?

Use your answers to develop a blog entry on race considering the additional following questions:  What is race?  What does it mean to say that race is socially constructed?

11/1, 3, 6, 8, 13           (JCB)  Chapter 7: Toys/Gender, Sex and Sexuality

(JCB)   Chapter 11: Beauty/Ideology and Intersectionality

(H)      161-172: Henslin, On Becoming Male

(H)      173-179: Eder, On Becoming Female

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

(H)      192-198: Tannen, But What Do You Mean?

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

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

Required entry: JCB p. 207 Toy Store Observation

Required entry: JCB p. 330 Counting Beauty

NOTE: 11/10 Holiday

11/15, 17, 20   (JCB) Chapter 8: White Wedding/Marriage and the Family

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

Required entry: JCB p. 243 Wedding Dreams

11/22, 27, 29, 12/1      Drugs/Deviance

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

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

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

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

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

For the next week take note of whenever you find yourself thinking or feeling someone else is “weird” or “crazy.”  Pick one or two examples and write a blog post that covers the following issues and questions:

Describe the behaviors and situations.

What norms were being violated by this person?  Did you know those norms were “there”?  Where is this “there?’

How were the norms specific to the person’s social status (age, gender, race, class, etc.)?

Are there situations in which these behaviors might appear rational?  Describe them.  What is the significance of this?

Can you imagine a situation where you might behave similarly and not think of yourself as “weird or “crazy?”

How did the label (“weird,”  “crazy,” etc.) affect how you perceived the situation and the person?  How did the label affect your interaction with or feelings about the person?

NOTE: 11/24 Holiday

12/4, 6, 8         School and Voting/Education and Politics

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

Third Set of Padlets DUE 12/6 11:59pm

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Taste does have something to do with class, I can tell you that middle class or poor can't tell the difference between high-end wine or cheap wine unless they're a wine expert. However, people who care about wine have a higher social class and can afford expensive aged wines. Moving onto coffee, I love coffee besides black coffee. I don't care where the coffee is from it can be from the gas station, McDonalds, Starbucks, or a local business I can't tell the difference between the coffee all that matters to me is if the coffee is sweet I don't care about the beans, roast, or blends. This reminds me of an episode from an anime, Ouran High School Host Club, to sum it up it's about a poor girl who attends a prestigious school full of rich. The club president asked the girl to buy coffee and she came back with instant coffee that was a couple of bucks. The club members were shocked about the instant coffee because they never heard of such a thing, they were used to ground beans. When they saw her make the instant coffee they were in awe by how simple it was. This shows how different rich and poor just from coffee and how they have their coffee.

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Growing up in Stockton where poverty rates are high and so are crime rates. Crimes tend to happen more in poorer areas, like Stockton. I lived on Kelly Drive for a couple of years of my life, the houses are right off of freeway I-5 and the houses are run down. From my 10ish years of living there, it was a scary experience, I still live kind of close to I-5 but in a much better area. Living in Stockton is scary every night I'd wake up to gunshots, the train, or people screaming. When I first moved into the house I currently live at I remember I was sleeping on the floor in the living room with my family and I heard my dad's car start up (his car is loud) and I woke him up asking if that was his car. Luckily his car didn't have a steering wheel so they struggled to pull it out of the driveway and left it in the street. Another experience that happened was a drive-by shooting, one of the scariest experiences of my life, I had to hide behind a wall and my parents yelling at us to get down. Growing up poor did have it's negatives, but it also made me closer to family since all my family lived less than 10 minutes away from me. I got to hang out and sleep over with my cousins a lot.

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Focusing on the section Encouragement and Expectations, there was a quote that stood out to me. "Working-class parents often see education as the route to a better job."(Henslin 387). Today I missed school because I was exhausted from work, I work in a warehouse, and my mom told me not to miss school anymore if I want to be stuck working in a warehouse. I feel like what she says correlates well with the quote because it is true that many people see education as a route to better jobs. Another thing I want to mention is from one of my Process Assistants at work and she's 51, she's been in and out of school, and was working her way up in the medical field. She told me that she has been making more in the warehouse than she has ever made working in health departments and being an apprentice. Henslin also mentioned that, "A good report card was equivalent to a satisfactory evaluation at work."(Henslin 387) I too agree with this statement not only did my parents view my report card as this, but I did too since they pushed me so hard to have a good report card.

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Upper class is something I'll never be able to categorize myself into. This section discussed the upper class, their education, lifestyle, and even which side they would vote for. Compared to the middle/lower class, the upper class is a different culture than the rest. This section mentioned the prestigious schools that upper-class people mainly attend which are usually well-known schools that people pay thousands of dollars just for the name of the school. Upper-class folks are in a different bubble compared to lower class. They see the world differently. One part that caught my eye was the Social Register, I find it bazaar how there is a whole book filled with names of people who are higher class. I find it interesting how Henslin also mentioned that people request that their names be taken off. I assume it's for safety, I wouldn't want people to know my social status and how much I'm worth. I wonder how people would react if there was a book listing the names of people in poverty. I feel like it would be a whole different reaction than the book of the rich.

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In the beginning, we start off strong talking about the distribution of wealth. People mainly agree that the distribution is messed up and they are aware that it's not fair. It's sad how we are aware of this but we can't do anything about it. This makes me want to bring up the discussion in class about how if there weren't poor people there wouldn't be as many jobs for certain careers. In order to be rich we need the poor to use as a step stool to help people gain wealth. When they showed the chart of the actual distribution of wealth it is shocking. How different poor, middle, and rich are money-wise. "encourage people to work and work hard to achieve that good ol American Dream and keep our country moving forward." The American dream is a phenomenon that we believe in to be settled in America without having to worry about payments. The ideal in America to live with a white picket fence, husband and with with their two kids and dog, stay at home mother and a stable job.

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How has your social class affected your life?

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How has your social class affected your life?

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Growing up my family was poor, right now I think we lie somewhere in the middle class. Having friends over was a struggle for me, I was afraid of being judged for where I lived and what my house looked like. Even in the house I currently live at I never had friends come over because of my house. I never had a room growing up till recently, but I share it with my younger sister. Having 6 people living in a 3-bedroom house was difficult. My sister and I used to sleep on the couch in the living room which I found embarrassing, but there was nothing I could do about it since my family wasn't able to afford a larger house. My family has never bought a new car off the lot, it was always second-hand. The car my dad bought me is 30+ years old and I love it. The struggle of purchasing preowned cars is the maintenance. You don't know how well the owner took care of it and it's underlying problems.

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"Social norms are the "unwritten rules' of daily life", which is much like the informal rules of a game. This section talked about how people view sports and the players of sports when they do something that is "socially unacceptable" during a game. We're expected to follow these "rules' that are made by fans and the players to please the people. For example, during softball we played a team from Canada, in the U.S. it is common for the person on deck to stan in the circle by their team dugout. But when one of the girls from Canada was on deck she went into our on-deck circle on our side. Maybe that's a thing in Canada, but in the US it's an unwritten rule to stand in the on-deck circle by your team dugout. When reading Jose Bautista's bat flip situation, most of the hate came from fans and not the players. It is very common for one to celebrate a home run with a bat flip or some type of celebration whether it was jogging around the bases a certain way or a celebration when the player touches home plate. I never realized how controversial things are in sports to the fans, many fans take things very seriously.

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To some music can be a culture, hobby, interest, etc. To me, I feel like the music I listen to reflects my personality and is mainly an interest to me. Reading this section music is very important in the study of sociology, but I think it's the most important as the "protest song." Songs have many meanings to them whether it's about love or if it's about the world. Songs convey emotions and tell stories about how people feel and bring light onto certain topics. A song that talks a lot about America is, This is America by Donald Glover. His song conveys a deep message about society and how it affects people, especially people who are African/Black American. This is America's message is about the gun violence towards Black people in America. Not only is the song powerful but so is the music video, the music video itself conveys a deep message. Another song that conveys a heavy message, which is one of my favorites, Zombies by the Cranberries. Based on what I searched Zombies is an anti-terrorism/anti-war song. In the music video there are kids featured in it which ties into the 2 kids that were killed in Warrington. Music is a way people tell stories and bring light to certain subject, to those music may just be enjoyment but in reality some songs are much deeper.

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Clarence Pages talks about his experiences throughout the years with dealing with segregation, racism, Jim Crow Laws, and much more. At the end of his story, he mentions the Melting Pot, a metaphor used to describe America and the people of America. Page doesn't like the Melting Pot metaphor and instead uses the mulligan stew, made with things they had in hand and access to within reach. The way he described the stew is a great example of America, "...Flavor, always unique, always changing, is the beauty of America to me, even when the pot occasionally boils over...' This metaphor greatly describes what he has experienced and how society is constantly changing with the way they view African American people. Another point that stuck out to me was, "Behind our questions of race lurk larger questions of identity, our sense of who we are, where we belong, and where we are going." Depending on who you hang with and how you see yourself can define your future and how it will come out to play.

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To me, I find that certain states of America seem to be more racist than others, specifically the red states. When Ezekiel mentioned the Confederate Flag I immediately knew that he was somewhere in the south. In the beginning, the book mentions, "Racism, though diminished, has not completely disappeared..." I 100% agree with this statement, racism can be small like stereotypical comments, or big like having racial slurs said to you. I find that racism comes from people who grew up around other racist people, you learn to be racist based on how you perceive people and stereotypes. Many people like to say they aren't racist, but I can assure you they have done racist things or have made racist comments. Racism can be hidden to those who aren't oppressed, mainly the white people of America aren't oppressed. We tend to call our country "The Land of the Free" which is a flat out lie, people aren't allowed to express their culture and skin without someone making racist comments.

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Race is something most of us is taught, when I asked the people, “What is race?” They said they learned it from parents and peers. One of my cousins said, “Growing up, I am always told I was Asian whether it was from my family or people of different ethnic backgrounds.” We use race to distinguish ourselves from other groups of people. Because of this, race is socially constructed. Think about it imagine if everything was in grey scale, we could barely be able to tell a difference between skin tones. The only thing that would be different is the shade of gray, but we’d all be some shade of gray. Assuming others race is very stereotypical, we put these stereotypes of what we think about other peoples race into categories, for example people assume one’s Asian by their eyes whether or not they’re upturned or not. Race is socially constructed by what we think or think we know about ones race and who they are.

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“Our ideas about what is suitable for boys or for girls is socially constructed.” (JHS) Children are separated by what we teach them growing up like how girls “should” be playing with Barbies and boys “should” playing with cars. They don’t know the difference till we teach them. Like what we discussed in class, children are slowly separated into categories by gender. Girls are expected to play with baby dolls, makeup, wear dresses, and be calm. These are what we expect girls to be as they grow up into women people who take care of themselves and others and present themselves nice. On the other hand we treat boys more aggressively like having them play with action figures, swords, wear dark colors, and have them have loud voices. We expect the boys to turn into fierce men who are tough. Growing up I was never put into a gender box, since I had an older brother I would always get his hand-me-downs. I’d go to school and wear his jeans and tee-shirts, when I played with him it was his video games. That was till my younger sister and girl cousins came into the picture, we were dressed up by our auntie and given Hello Kitty blankets and plushies.

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A lot of people and myself are constantly thinking about our appearance and how we look. Beauty is socially constructed and changes ever year, what we found beautiful 50 years ago is not the standard in 2023. Being beautiful is something everyone wants to be, but beauty is different for everyone. In the west, being beautiful is having big boobs and a big butt with a small waist and being tan. But in Korea the beauty standard is way different, being fair skin having a thigh gap and having a double eyelid is popular. This proves beauty is socially constructed. It’s hard to define what beauty is when we don’t even know ourselves. What I find beautiful about myself, someone may find horrific. We like to put people into boxes and check off what we find beautiful about them. Like the popular girl in middle school, she was the blondie with a nice body and all the boys would drool over her. But she wasn’t beautiful to everyone else.

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Have you been socialized into your gender?

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I some what feel as if I’ve been socialized into my gender. When I was younger my parents didn’t dress me up girly. At the. age of 6 I was playing softball, a sport that people assumed I was lesbian for playing. Growing up I was a tomboy I used to wear snap backs, my brothers hand me downs, rode a skate board, and tried to fit in with the boys. As I grew older experienced 6 grade and middle school that’s where I felt as if I was forced into my gender. I was bullied for having body hair because girls should not have hair on their body. Ever since I’ve shaved my arms every week because that’s what I was made fun off. I feel I was mostly socialized info my gender by society and not my parents. Cartoons and movies also socialized me greatly, I was influenced by Disney princess and Barbies. Barbie taught girls that “You can be anything” career wise, but Barbie was also the standard for looks. Growing up Barbie was tall, skinny, and blonde now Barbie comes in many shapes and sizes. Being socialized into my gender by society was hard because I had to act a certain way and present myself a certain way. Now I really don’t care what society think about me. Though sometimes I do still feel as if I’m socialized by my gender.

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As mentioned in class, boys are usually supposed to play with cars, wear darker clothing, be loud, and other things that we think young boys should be or do. Males have standards way different than females, it's okay for a female to cross the line and act masculine, but it's not okay for a male to act feminine. Without much thought, when Professor Mersman asked us, what happens to men/boys who acted feminine or crossed over the line it was that they were called gay as an insult. In society sees men being feminine as a bad thing and something that men/boys shouldn't be. Men are supposed to be seen as tough, loud, independent, and much more than defines a man. Not only that but we see men as the people who run things or who are in control. Even some men are in control of their partner's being and body, for example when a woman wants to get her tubes tied, her partner has to cosign for her and consent that he agrees. When a man wants to get a vasectomy he doesn't need anyone to cosign for him and do it without another person.

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Women are put into a box where they have to be presentable, good-looking, act properly and much more. I feel like women are held at a much higher standard than men visual-wise. Women are constantly focused on their looks and start focusing on them at a young age. Girls are given fake makeup and vanity sets, they play with Barbie dolls and Bratz dolls and dress them up. Manners is also a big thing when it comes to females, women are expected to put a smile on their face and be nice to everyone, if they're not they're considered "bitchy", "snobby", etc. "Girls were encouraged to cover up feelings that might accompany their efforts, such as pain and concentration." I believe this section focused on a great timeline for teenage girls, many girls tried their best to fit in and impress others. I can speak on that myself, middle school is where I began exploring who I wanted to be. I dressed to impress others, I tried to change my personality and the way I act for others, and I never did things for myself.

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Girls and boys were separated by gender at a young age. Whether it was sports teams, lunch groups or who gets to play on the play ground. I remember in elementary there was a saying “girls rule and boys drool” pretty much saying girls are better than boys. When we did field days at school there would be two different categories for boys and girls to make it equal. I find that reading this girls are mostly working on relationships and are the ones who take control. Girls often tease the boys by playing games to chase them or teasing them. I never realized how sexual oriented children's games were. One game that wasn’t mentioned or that I grew up around was Oreo, a game where you had to ask someone out as a joke. This game was usually played by boys who asked girls out to mess with their feelings.

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Coming from a woman's perspective I can assure you that these are true. I feel like im apologetic, I tend to soften up what I say and be less harsh, my mannerism is over the top, etc. I feel like this comes from people thinking women are emotional. Also being in a relationship with a male the way we communicate and react are so different. He's constantly joking around and I take things seriously. These things can vary from person to person though and their personalities. One topic that stuck out and I feel like I relate to the most is Apologies. "Women are often told they apologize too much."(193) I get told this a lot and so does my cousin, even when I'm not in the wrong I apologize for the person's actions. This comes from me being a people pleasure and making sure everyone is happy and in agreement.

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Being beautiful is something that was always taken seriously throughout generations. Women have to be beautiful inside and out with proper manners, good personality, smart, perfect body, hair is always done and much more. “It’s amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” (348)  Often in shows women that are created to be ugly are the mean ones like the step sisters in cinderella. They were portrayed as rude and snobby. The beautiful Cinderella was nurturing and soft spoken. I’d also like to mention when babies are born we often tell the parents that their kid is going to grow up looking beautiful which is not a bad thing, but is something we shouldn’t say to those who are young. As we get older looks don’t matter, well to some people they don’t matter. Some older people want to stay looking young forever and even take it a step further by getting surgery to make them look younger.

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“Military men described themselves as unjustly constrained or controlled by military women. Furthermore, these men tend to believe that women’s power is usually gained illegitimately and that women tale advantage of their gender to promote their own careers…”(519). This describes how military men feel as if they are being belittled and they’re afraid of the women in the military. Mentioned in the book many men feel as if they don’t have to listen to the women’s orders. I think some men have this mindset that women are less than them and they don’t have to listen to them or if a women gives commands its not taken seriously. Women “often feel they have to work harder than their coworkers just to be accepted as equal members of the unit”(521). This is practiced a lot when women are outnumbered by men, I too do this. This chapter really shows how much women have to push themselves and how different they are from men and how they are treated. Also the way men and women communicate to eachother is different which I feel would make it difficult when working together.

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Going to the Target toy aisle, when you walk to the aisles dedicated and advertising for girl toys the aisles are pink and bright, they pop out. The boxes of the toys only have girls playing with the toys and enjoying them. The majority of the toys are American Girl Dolls, Barbies, cooking sets, Baby Alive, and some miscellanies items like plushies, and slime. The majority of the toys are Targeted for the children to take care of something or clean/cook. These toys are stereotypical of what the girls should be doing when they are older. Moving over the other aisles the boy's section is very dark and not as bright with muted colors. The toys in the aisles consist of Hot Wheels, Action Figures, video game toys, Lego Sets, and Nerf guns. These toys have nothing to do with what boys should be doing when they are older. A lot of these toys are ideal to what boys should like, like cars and guns. These toys aren't gender neutral, you can tell by how separated they are by color and aisle, I saw a black packaged toy in the Barbie aisle or a pink packaged toy in the hot wheel aisle.

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Bevza Fall/Winter 2022 Runway Show watching this Runways show none of the models were male all were women. I feel like men need to be showcased more as models, I know that there are specific designers that design for men but even some clothing that the women were wearing, men could have easily worn as well. Race wise there was diverse race having models of black backgrounds, asian, white and others I couldn’t define. Sadly every single model was very skinny, and there was no visible body fat which is sad because they had a good representation of race diversity but not of body diversity. This mini-content analysis shows what we show to the media and show the standard of beauty. Many people base the beauty standards off of women like Kendal Jenner and model who looked like she could have fit in the runways based off of her appearance. We need to have more diversity when it comes to runways like height, weight, disabilities and much more. There are so many people who don’t feel represented when they see runways.

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Weddings are something than many people dream about, we want the perfect wedding with the perfect dress. Marriage was usually a male and a female getting married, now a days we have same-sex marriage and poly marriages, to each their own. The concept of a wedding we had growing up was pretty much all the same of a husband and wife in a church with beautiful white gown. But marriages can differ culturally, in many Asian countries we have arranged marriages. I personally know someone who had an arranged married in Cambodia. These marriages usually occur because a family wants something out of the other family like money, farming, and resources. As we grow older arranged marriages are getting rebelled and something many people don’t want to do.

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I watch a lot of Say Yes To the Dress on TLC, where people who are getting married find their dream dress and describe their wedding. I’ve been dreaming about my wedding ever since I can remember, ever since then I’ve always wondered who will I marry and where will I get married at? I also want to bring up “white wedding” usually a concept of a couple getting married in a church and the bride wearing a white wedding dress to symbolize purity and saving her self for after marriage. Many people take this concept seriously like older folks but for me, I wouldn’t consider having a traditional “white wedding.” I want get married somewhere dreamy almost unreal. Where the groom is the love of my life and my bridesmaids are wearing dresses that have Asian inspired detailing on them. The parking lot would be filled with exotic cars and the guest would be the ones the groom and I cherish.

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In the 1800s children had little opportunity to live due to diseases, women had no rights , and workers usually works 6-10s. Many families had many children due to there not being  birth contraceptives and if there were some, they weren’t that good. These children had access to drugs and alcohol. In the 1920s the fathers were the bread makers and the mothers were stay at home wives. When women were able to start working it opened opportunities and dual earners were a norm in families. Because women started working they had control of what they could do with their money. Now because of women working, couples are able to split house hold chores, but women are still seen working two jobs, their income. job and their house job. From what I see a lot now a days Mothers do do more than Fathers when it comes to completing tasks at home. Usually it’s the mom that’s preparing food, getting the kids ready, cleaning the house, and making doctors appointments for the kids.

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Reading the story, people wanted to eat the bodies because it was their last hope of survival, but because it was seen as something inhumane they didn’t till someone spoke up about the situation. The person that spoke up about the situation mentioned god and how god would have wanted them to do so and it would’ve been a sin if they didn’t. What was said convinced the other survivors that it was okay to eat the dead bodies. “Through a social process that we determine meaning.”(283) This story is an example of that social process. Without someone stepping up and making a proposal about how they needed to eat the people, no one would’ve done it. They also created rules about the bodies and what they could and couldn’t do. “Reality is socially constructed” what the Andes survivors did was try to survive and they created their own society and rules to help keep them alive even if to other it was inhumane.

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Being in prison is something many people fear and is the last place I want to be. There was a study held where people were put in prison as an experiment to see what goes on in prison. What they saw was horrifying, they slept, urinated, and lived. Many of the prisoners were traumatized and couldn’t hold up due to the conditions and treatment they we’re getting. This makes me wonder are all the prisoners treated equally? If someone was in there for like and someone was in there for a couple of days, were they treated equally? Also some people are in prison for things that they aren’t even guilty of, which is terrifying when you have to deal with consequences of something you didn’t even do. “Treated me as if I were a dog.”(316) Prison as described in the book seems so inhumane and as if they’re zoo animals. In class we also talked about how many of us are criminals, but we aren’t labeled as criminals because we never served time. For me, I know if I were caught with what I have done I would have done time and would have experienced those horrific things.

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As we mentioned in class, we don’t know what’s sane without making an assumption what insane is. The experiment which eight sane people were taken to a mental institution in which the doctors were convinced they were insane. They tried to prove to the doctors that they were sane, but they just believed that the patients we’re trying to dismiss their thoughts. Regardless if the patients were sane or insane they were to stay in the psychiatric hospital. Labels, when it comes to someone behaving out of the ordinary labels are big and what people use to describe them. When we see a homeless person that seems to be talking to themselves we assume they’re a “crack head” or “crazy” and we tend to avoid them. Even myself I tend to give labels to people who I don’t know or I don’t know their full story. It’s a bad thing to label people, like what the book said, “It is depressing to consider how that information will be used.”

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Reading this section shows how justified police actions are. Though there are situations that violence is needed, majority of the time violence isn’t the first thing you should do. “Society mandates to the police the right to use force but provides little direction as to its proper use in specific, “real life” situation… The police, as officers of the law, must be prepared to use force under circumstances in which its rationale is often morally, legally and practically ambiguous.”(479) As also mentioned in the book they say it is questionable of some aspects of their training and socialization. Police are taught violence, like pit maneuvering, tasing, shooting, and pushing people to the floor. I saw a social media video of a cop dash camera where a cop pit maneuvered a car and he happened to pit maneuver the wrong car and his excuse was “I’m not in a good mood”, which was the cops was of justifying his actions. He wouldn’t let the guy in the car speak due to his embarrassment.

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At work we have a higher up who seems to be Autistic, I’m not 100% sure but to me that’s what I see. The higher up is super organized even when eating. When he eats, he organizes his food by categories and eats it one by one. Like gummy bears, he will organize them by color and eat them one by one. He would often stare at people and stare at nothing for a couple of minutes. I don’t find him odd, I find him pretty interesting. The “norms” that were being violated by him was that he doesn’t look “normal” I hate using that word but I don’t know how else to describe it, he’s just different than the rest of the workers. He has a really good work ethic and is always on top of it. The norms specific to his social status was different than anyone elses. He is an older gentleman, who wears funky colors every day to work. A lot of the time I do think I act out if line and out of the norm. Everyone’s definition of norm is different though, what I find normal someone may find it completely odd. Labeling makes me think of the person as someone I feel sympathy for. Labels are something that usually aren’t good and when they find out about those labels it could affect them negatively.

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Today in class we talked about The Pledge of Allegiance, something that connects to kindergarten being an academic boot camp. Though this it not mentioned in the book, in k-12 if student’s refused to recite The Pledge we would be disciplined and forced to do so. We were forced to promise something that we didn’t know represented. Mentioned in Training Learning and for Life, “children have learned to go through routines and to follow orders with unquestioning obedience, even when these make no sense to them.” Which is what The Pledge meant to me, I had no understanding of The Pledge till today. Many of us obey the rules of the Professor/ Teacher. If we were to disobey those rules it would lead to consequences and we’d be seen as rebellious.  “Kindergarten has been conceived of here as the year in which children are prepared for their schooling by learning the role of the student.” Which is true, in Kindergarten we are taught how to behave when higher-ups are talking, how speak in front of a class, and how to obey. But something I was told a lot in elementary and middle school was, “That’s not going to slide in Highschool or College.” But to my surprise a lot of the bad behavior and disobedience did slide in high school.