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The relations of  “good” taste hasn’t really been around me growing up with my father. He came from a middle class family with my great-grandfather taking him in as a child and as much as others judge him, he worked for a lot of what her has in his current adult life. I vividly remember spending a summer with my cousins and how my father only had an extra 100 dollars to send me with, well my aunt and uncle were much better off than he was. That’s when that status of Starbucks coffees came into my life. I was 12 I didn’t know what to order or what coffee even tasted like. On the hand my cousins knew what they were ordering and how much money to bring. Then when I said I don’t know how to order, they laughed and mocked me saying that “I was poor.”

Even from a younger age the idea of branding and what brand is above others was a common everyday thing. My social mobility has moved around a lot through my short 16 years. Ever since though bags, people complement my mother more, walk around us when we go out, and even envy from afar through social media. My mother isn’t bragging cause she doesn’t have to, the bags are kinda like a walking billboard saying “I have good taste and I can afford to”.

It’s interesting that even now as an adult I experience the “I have good taste in coffee”. I’m used to the 4.45 cold brew from Starbucks, but I met friends who asked me “how can you drink that!? You don’t support local business?”. So my two year long rendezvous started with Empresso, where I was paying almost double for the same drink. Then the local Dutch Bros opened and my friend group started spending less time at Empresso cause “the coffee isn’t even that good” now that Dutch Bros. was the new hang out spot.

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As I conduct my reading on, The Uses of Poverty:The Poor Pay All by Gans on Pages 376-382, I found myself nodding my head yes!. Functions of poverty are an existence to today’s society, and poverty is our government’s observed phenomenon. On page 33 Gans mentions “The poor are always present in society” Gans pg. 376. and in view I believe our system is constructed for aristocracies to benefit from the impoverished, and by poverty being an existence, there is always going to be positive and negative outcomes from these functions.

There was a function of poverty by Merton that I have found to be of interest, and out of the twelve functions, I have found myself to profoundly relate too. The second function of poverty describes how the poor are required to work at low wages, and by working low wage jobs others refuse to take, has required for the poor to lack budgetary actions that benefit those who continue to prosper.in fact “The poor support innovations in medical practice as patients in teaching and research hospitals and as guinea pigs in medical experiments”-Merton pg. 378, and this reality has been constructed to be accurate. I believe that minorities aren’t just being use for research in medical fields but also being observed out in the real world. The poor are continually under observation for results on their perfomance of social functions.I understand that they’re positive and negative functions from the poor but I feel that poverty shouldn’t exist at all. According to Gans, poverty has many more dysfunctions than functions. A positive function was that the rich are able to collect artifacts from extinct folk cultures of poor people. it’s a little ironic that the poor “have no meaning to life” but yet the rich like to buy those things.I feel that America would be better without poverty. Without poverty, our prisons wouldn’t be impacted, crime rates would decrease, and the government wouldn’t have to worry about food stamps. Gans also stated that society’s dirty work could be done without poverty. I feel that if things could be done without poverty than why not help the poor a lot more.

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This chapter focuses on the socialization of people that come from a working-class backgrounds that “made something” of themselves. Parents play a huge role into the socialization of their child; they will pass on some of their characteristics, values, and beliefs that are associated with their social class onto their child. At an early age the child learns what “feels right” which will be accustomed to be his norms. Later in life when this child achieves upward mobility from the working-class he/she can experience “culture shock” as they uncover unknowns. This can be attributed to the individual not being exposed to “high” culture activities as a child. Most children that come from a working-class background do not experience “high” culture activities such as visiting museums, going on vacations, having books in their household, etc. Thus when they move up in classes they might experience “culture shock” because they lack knowledge of such things.

Children growing up in a working-class family also may encounter material deprivation due to economic capital. For example, when I was a kid I remember kids at school having Heely’s and being asked “how come I don’t have any?” This is when I first came across material deprivation, because money was tight my parents wouldn't buy a pair of $70 dollar shoes. Working-class parents usually encourage their children to pursue an education so that they can land a good paying job. The only issue with this is that working-class parents usually lack education themselves leading them to not be able to help their kids with school work.

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

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

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Social inequalities manifest themselves in all societies, some more, some less. This is the way that things have been and most likely always will be. America is no exception. There are still marked divisions of wealth and power Higley exemplifies the conditions of the rich and the social barriers in which they place themselves in order to virtually “keep” class solidarity.

Most of the upper class shares what is called a group awareness or a “common fate,” this is the belief that they consider one another equals, whether that be voting behavior in favor of the Republican Party, charitable efforts, or other pursuits in common interests, they all strive for a common goal. Higley describes a system called a “social register” in which the main purpose of the social register is to restrict social mingling for other members by determining who can be a part of their register and who cannot be. This kind of reminds me of a “secret club” that preteens have during recess; only the “cool” kids get in and all the “other kids” can’t join, regardless of intent. This group circle strives to complete the circle of socialization limited only to the upper class and literally separates itself from other classes of the systems from birth until death.

“The upper-class families who are listed in the social register are direct direct descendants of the men who made great fortunes during the Guided Age” (1870-1910). Therefore it is fundamentally important for the upper-class to try and “preserve” their ways of life. The preservation of such customs ensure their wealth and power holds true for generations. As to be expected the majority of the upper-class is comprised of white, Anglo-Saxon, and protestants. Most WASP’s deprive from English nobility, and Anglophilia making up most of the upper class.

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(JCB) Chapter 11: Beauty/Ideology and Intersectionality

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(JCB) Chapter 11: Beauty/Ideology and Intersectionality

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One of the biggest questions people tend to ask themselves is “Am I attractive?” or possibly “How can I become attractive?” The chapter talks about how our personal physical appearance is loaded with tons of sociological meaning. When we think of hot people, we tend to think of famous celebrities with an amazing appearance. However, everyone knows that we can not all look like celebrities. When we think of beauty, we tend to think of someone who is thin, white, has long nice hair, and tends to wear very nice makeup. This is how we tend to view beauty in America. However, if you ask someone from South America or India or Africa, they will all have very different versions of who they think is hot. This shows that beauty is socially constructed. Not only is it socially constructed, we tend to have our own individual tastes. We are always receiving advice on what we could do to improve our appearance. We tend to start to feel insecure about how we look and that we need to always look good to people that look good themselves.

So why do we care about the way we look to other people? This got me very intrigued and I started to think of what people would think of me if I looked like a model and what if I looked like a bum. I would have the exact same personality and the exact same way of thinking, but just my appearance would change. I can guarantee everyone would be praising me and wanting to be around me if I looked like a model. I can also guarantee that I would probably be a laughing stock and gossiped about it I were to look like a bum. The way we look tends to be judged before anything else and it makes a lasting impression on people. Why do you think that ugly nerds in the movies get bullied and when they become hot models everyone wants to date them even though they still have the same personality as before.

Another thing that stood out to me was that their are key areas of gender convergence. Those things are a fear of fat, bodily, objectification, and the marketing of body products. While these are seen as trends throughout both men and women fitness magazines, the sexual objectification and body pressures operate quite differently. For a man, a body with huge ripped muscles and dominant sexual power are seen as masculine while the feminine bodies are supposed to be small but toned. They are to show less athletic ability compared to men. Women like Serena Williams who is one of the greatest athletes of this generation has been criticized for her physique throughout her entire career. I do not really follow tennis but I do love sports and I just can’t help but laugh. I can just see these lazy people watching the TV and thinking they know everything criticizing somehow who has put in so much hard work and became an all time great. If someone like her is going to be criticized for her physical appearance, how can we expect to become any better when it comes to our bodies?

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

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

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When the word gender comes to my mind, I feel that the words culture and socially constructed can be described towards gender. Sex is the biology of what reproductive parts you were born with. Sexuality is a person’s sexual orientation or preference. Children are born into a world which has already been organized in gendered and heterosexual ways. I remember being at home and my family members would tell the boys don’t play with dolls because their for girls, and trucks are for boys to play with. I often find myself doing this with my younger siblings, because that’s how some people are raised in today’s society. I believe Toys are a way  of showing gender and sexuality messages to children. I think toys have an important role  in terms of the formation of children’s gender and sexuality perceptions and their gender and sexual identity construction. Toy’s are important part of children lives, and their socialization from the very beginning of their life. They spend huge amounts of time playing with toys and they are provided with many kind of toys, generally based on their genders. Some of toys provided to children are highly gender and hyper-sexaulised, while some are gender neutral. What I got out of this chapter is toys are important parts of the socialization of children into gender and sexuality rules and roles.

When a mother gives birth to a boy, families would automatically think of the color blue. They would eventually buy toys that represents what a boy is such as car toys, and boy action figures. Same thing goes towards a mother that is expecting a baby girl. Families and friends would automatically think of the color pink. They would eventually buy pink clothing, barbies, and dolls to represent the gender of the girl. I mean it wouldn’t be right to buy a boy a barbie or buy a girl a car toy. They’re all very specific meanings towards the sex of the gender. Things would be different when a child grows. Even now as a grown adult, I only want things that are meant for girls such as makeup and girl clothes. I wouldn’t ever think about wanting boy objects, but it is different from everyone. I have experienced myself to be prepared of how the reality of socialization really is.

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Ezekiel, a Jewish professor at University of Michigan, decided to conduct a set of interviews with racists members of the militant white racist movement. The purpose of this study was to get into the psyche of these racists fellows. Ezekiel went to their hangout spot where they were organizing a rally, this is where he got to talk to some of the white racists members.

Most of the members came from blue-collar families and the two leaders were only twenty-years old. Later on that day Ezekiel joined them in their gathering where they raised Nazi flags and played loud music which repeatedly had the lyric “nigger.” Ezekiel being Jewish was told by a man “I have no use for a Jew. Keep Hitler’s dream alive: kill a Jew,” he later encountered more racism. Ezekiel was stripped of his identify in this scenario and was given another identify (“Jewboy”) which made him feel extremely alienated.

Ezekiel came with the conclusion that these racists felt as if they got cheated and lonely. I agree with these conclusions because I feel like these people feel lonely in some sort of manner in which they feel they need to join a certain group of people. Similar to how a lot of gang members join gang is because most of the time they feel lonely and they just want to be a part of something, so that they can fill in that empty spot. I see these white supremacists just as I see gang members, they have no actual purpose other than a meaningless anger for those who look different than them. If we were all white, these same people that join racists organizations would then simply come up with a different way of categorizing themselves from others because they simply have hatred that needs to be let out.

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Page discussed his experience growing up as a black kid in the 1950’s. Segregation at this time was very common, where “whites” and “colored” people had separate parks, drinking fountains, schools, etc. Page describes having a white friend who had a completely different life where he had what has come to be known as white privilege. His white friend was completely blind to segregation, this is when Page realized they live in parallel realities. Page states that his parents would tell him, “Don’t be showin’ yo’ color” when out with white friends. This to me is very appalling because as a kid Page was given the idea that whites were better than him even by his parents. He goes on to write about the troubles he faced concerning his identify. At a certain point his confusions let him to think of himself as a transracial man. He believed he wasn’t black enough for his black friends and not white enough for his white friends.

Now, Page is a fully grown man who has found his identify and has children of his own. He discusses the effects of the color-blind ideology and incorporates how pop culture has changed the landscape of certain stereotypes. Times have changed a lot since the 1950’s where segregation is non-existent, well at least not too the scale of the 50’s. Stereotypes are very common as Page points out and they’re a sort of residue left over from decades before.

Being Latino and growing up in the 2000’s I did not share similar experiences growing up. Yeah, I was discriminated, but never to the extended of blatant racism a person like Page experienced. Reading chapters like this make me understand the effects of racism a lot better. The main reason because it was written by a black man that actually experienced this and gives an insight of his psychology and the torments he faced simply for being black; rather than a white guy who makes speculations on the effects of racism on African-Americans.

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

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

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Music is all around us. There are songs we love because we can identify with the lyrics of the song. We can feel the connection with the song and we identify with what is happening in the song. The songs on our playlist can say a lot of who we are and what we have experienced. Music is a form of cultural symbolism, it can teach us many things about taste, subcultures, and subcultural capital. Our perception of music can determine many things about the self.

Many people enjoy listening to music. It helps them in difficult times. Choosing whether certain kinds of music is good or bad can say a lot about who we are. For example, country lovers may love country, but dislike hip-hop. On the other side, a hip-hop lover may dislike country music and so on. Whatever kind of music we like can determine our affiliation with it by doing things like posting videos, sharing a music video, liking a photo of our favorite band, or following our favorite band. Our taste for music can also be associated with our class.
In “Chapter 12: Music/ Racism and Cultural Appropriation” published by Josee Johnston. Kate Cairns and Shyon Baumann it says "Subcultures unite around their own sets of norms, values, and symbols, which are often defined in opposition to those of mainstream society, Indeed, sociological research has shown how subcultures can point out the inconsistencies in the larger culture, the gaps between a society’s values and its reality."

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

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

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Johnston, Cairns and Baumann offer an insightful analysis of what exactly sports has come to mean in America. Their discussion is very thought-provoking because it analyzes a lot of the ideologies surrounding sports. They talk about how sports creates different groups and different group memberships, and how important of a role sports has come to play on race. They explain that sports often gives us a sense of belonging to certain groups that separates us from others, creating “symbolic boundaries [which] demarcate who belongs to what group- who is an insider and an outsider… a way to affirm or signify membership in society.” (p. 147) This reminds me of when I had a crush at about ten years old on a boy who was obsessed with soccer. He and his friends all had afternoon soccer matches in an open field near his house. We were neighbors and I desperately wanted to be around him as much as possible, so I began making attempts to join their games. I felt that the more I played soccer and the more he saw my interest and ability, he would begin to accept me into his group. However, my lack of understanding of the sport was to my detriment since he and his friends did not let me join their matches. This exemplifies the authors’ observation that “group boundaries are not only about inclusion, but also exclusion ; boundaries reinforce a sense of difference from those who are not ‘one of us.'” (p. 147) In my case, this was clearly displayed. After attempting to join into their soccer matches, I had been marked as an outsider who did not belong. In addition to my lack of knowledge, another reason I was excluded was because I was a girl trying to play in a group of all boys. They had not let me join simply because they believed I would be less talented at the sport because of my sex.

I recognize that the discrimination I experienced because of gender is not the same as racial discrimination, which the authors describe “involves differential treatment on the basis of race, such as deciding whether or not to employ someone as a baseball player.” (p. 159-160) However, I do think that preconceptions against another person based on outward appearance alone does have parallels with race. Johnston, Cairns, and Baumann explain that “the very idea of race is socially constructed…this seemingly natural category has actually been created by society.” (p. 155) Mersmann explained that race is the biological characteristics that are deemed socially significant. (Lecture, 10/25) I think that comparing the discrimination I experienced on the soccer field for being a girl to racial discrimination in sports is relevant. The boys assumed I would be less talented than them because of my outward appearance, something genetically that I could not change. While not quite the same as race, it does bear similar repercussions. In the realm of soccer, women can play quite similarly to men. There are some sports where performance might differ slightly, but I would argue that soccer is not one of them. The same is true for people of different races playing sports: they should not be discriminated against because of something society agreed is relevant. Group membership and exclusion is a multi-faceted issue, and the authors use the area of sports to exemplify this with multiple examples. The very real way I experienced group exclusion and discrimination will always stick with me, just as it stays with the many athletes who have been discriminated against and excluded from groups because of socially constructed categories.

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In chapter 14, James M. Henslin talks about childhood and early socialization on becoming a male. Henslin analyzes some of the socialization experiences that place boys in a distinctive social world and how it prepares them for dominance, such as being into politics, religion, the military, sports, …etc. Henslin also says that “although our biological or genetic inheritance gives each of us the sex organs of male or female, how our “maleness” or “femaleness” is expressed depends on what we learn socially.

In the beginning, Henslin talks about how colors, clothing and toys are important to society. He says that even though boys tend to have more freedom about getting dirtier, playing rougher and wandering farther from home, than girls. Blue is the only color assigned to masculinity limiting their options to other colors. Henslin explains that there is a need for parents to dress their kids appropriately to their gender, so they’re not mistaken as a girl. If parents don’t, they would be “socially punished” and be known for having poor parenting habits. The other reason why boys should be dressed to their sex, is that whenever they’re out in public the child could be made fun of or even bullied at school.

As they start puberty, boys notice that they don’t feel the same about girls. They become gentleman, by being cleaner, watching their language and showing consideration. He explains how these shifts are not easy master , but that as they get older they learn from experience. The most important things men should learn is that, “in order to continue receiving the rewards offered by females, on occasions they must leave their secure world of manliness momentarily to penetrate the conjoin world occupied by their feminine counterparts."

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This chapter focuses on how attractiveness becomes important for girls at an early age. It is no secret that we judge people based on looks, but women seem to be judged on beauty a lot more than men. It is found that attractiveness starts playing a role in our lives in middle school. This is when puberty happens and girls start to develop physical feminine traits. These girls are then constantly getting judged base on looks as explained the cheerleader tryouts. The judges picking the girls who will make it on to the cheerleading squad are given a criteria in which these girls are given points based on “sparkle,” which means looks. Essentially saying that if you’re ugly your chances of joining the team are slim.

Boys also start judging girls based on their attractiveness. I can co-sign this because I remember being in middle school and starting to notice girls becoming attractive as they developed breast and hips. I also remember taking to friends about which girl is the hottest in school.

What I find interesting about this reading is how girls at this age also judge one another based on their attractiveness. Also to the extent that they go to by bullying other girls because they aren’t “cute” or because they’re overweight. Girls at this age are barely starting to build self esteem and by constantly being judged on their attractiveness explains why many adult women still have issues with the way they look, even if they’re pretty.

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

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

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Thorne and Luria conducted a study in which they would like to understand the relations of gender and sexuality through the eyes of middle school children. Their research shows that segregation between girls and boys is extremely prevalent at an early age. Boys and girls tend to behave different from one another and it becomes clear that they become socialized differently as well.

Interactions among boys contains aggressive playing and intensity; as it is found that they take more risks. Interactions among girls is less team oriented and they are more likely to divide in small groups or in pairs such as two best friends. Girls are a lot more intimate than boys with one another; they partake in things such as hugging, as a form of saying “hi.” This is an absent behavior amongst boys.

With gender separation, girls and boys learn different patterns of behaviors when engaging with others. It is common for girls and boys at this middle school age to develop heterosexual teasing mechanisms; the most heard one is “liking” someone. These teases elevate to sexual driven rituals such as chasing a girl on recess, playing tag, or simply taking one of their belongings and teasing them. This is a form of “flirting” for kids at this age.
In conclusion, the study shows that girls and boys posses different behavior patterns when interacting with one another or even when interacting with the same gender. We find certain traits possessed amongst boys such as intensity, as for girls it might be something such as intimacy. Both genders share different capacities and needs.

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

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

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Tannen points out seven traits women have when they speak. Women seem to apologize extensively. Even if there’s nothing to apologize for just simply say “I’m sorry” or “I apologize” when I’m a conversation. Also they are more likely to say “thank you” even if there’s no particular reason to say “thank you.” This actually happens to me all the time. Being a sub custodian for a large school district I am often working at different schools. Today when I came into work the principal (woman) told me “thank you so much for being here” I simply replied “it’s no problem, I get paid for it.” We both laughed and went our separate ways, but every time I get that “thank you for being here” I am puzzled because it’s mandatory for me to be there plus I’m getting paid.

There are several other particular things women do different than men. Women seem to be a lot more light hearted when giving criticism and need feedback in order to reassure themselves they’re doing a good job at whatever it is they’re doing. For example, Lauren might be working on a design along with her coworker and she might need her coworker to compliment her work so that she knows she’s doing a good job. The way women and men joke around is completely different. Men seem to be more aggressive and joke around with other males in a harsher teasing manner. Women on the other hand might see this as a little over the top and rude.

That is because they have a different sense of humor where they will mock each other as a form of joking around. Women are also more likely to fold when under pressure as to where men might shine through it. Last but not least, women use complaining as a form of venting. They might not 100% mean what they are complaining about, but they do it as an open invitation for others to join along and riff with them. Men will take this complaining serious, as to where women are light hearted about it.

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

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

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“We were surprised to find that beauty had such powerful effects,” confessed Kren Dion, a University of Toronto social psychologyist who does person perception research. “Our findings also go against the cultural grain. People like to think that success depends on talent, intelligence, and hard work.” But the scientific evidence is undeniable.

Beautiful is really important when come to find a job to getting a discounted on something because when a man see a beautiful woman they get all mack daddy every man all like that when we see a beautiful woman. I get like that too to be honest I don’t know why but it true I think it there Beauty that get us feelings some type of way toward them. So that why be beautiful is important.

In large part, the beautiful person can attribute his or her idyllic life to a puzzling phenomenon that social scientists have dubbed the “halo effects.” It defies human reason, but If you resemble Jane Fonda or Paul Newman in their prime it’s assumed that you’re more generous, trustworthy, sociable, modest, sensitive, interesting, and sexually responsive than the rest of us. Conversely, if you’re somewhat physically unattractive, because of the “horn effect” you’re stigmatized as being mean, sneaky, dishonest, antisocial, and a poor sport to boot.

The existence of the halo/horns effect has been established by serveral studies. One, by Dion, looked at perceptions of misbehavior in children.

The human qualities that they really value; intelligence, friendliness, sincerely, “soul,” and warmth. Yet when these same people were interviewed after going out on blind date that was arranged by a computer, it became apparent that they were blind to everything but the physical appearance of their partners. The more beautiful the partner, the more he or she was liked.

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

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

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iller, women in the military

This reading didn’t really surprise me because women in the military have always been a huge problem and there are so many things that happen in the military to women there society knows about and I can only imagine what else happens this society doesn’t know about. There is so much gender harassment they happens to women who join the military. Their sexual harassment there’s race her ass man there is discrimination and prejudice towards women in the military and Marine and pretty much every possible or base.I don’t really care a lot about sexual harassment. I normally hear a lot about gender harassment. The difference between sexual-harassment and gender harassment is sexual-harassment is when a officer or somebody in the military is sexually assaulting you harassing you trying to persuade you to do things you don’t want to do. Gender harassment basically is harassment for not following gender roles or tradition it’s not sexual at all.

Most of the people who are giving gender harassment or older man towards the younger female because they have a certain idealistic aspect of hot women are supposed to do I’m joining the Army is not traditional and is very insulting to them. They can pretty much caught a lot of distress to women in the military they can make them do harsh exercises getting them to the man hours of sleep do a lot of mine stressing activities and physical stressing straining the body does a lot of things that could happen. It could be from men’s perceptions of women’s privilege I feel that the women are privileged enough to join the military and I can find a very insulting.

As a guy, I would mind joining the military. But many of my female peers say that they would not like to join it. On their knowledge, there’s so many things that could happen they are very common towards women there it’s ridiculous in my opinion. If a woman gets pregnant during her military service she can get in unhonorably discharged because she’s not supposed to be sexually orientated with people over there. Another thing is they tend to push the females twice as hard as they would push a male because they want to make sure that the females are you able to take care of themselves on the field during anything that might happen but it can be really harsh towards them. I greatly appreciate the military when it does for country but I think that there should be tests and evaluations for hiring older generation officers and people who are in charge to make sure that you know sexuality harassment and gender harassment aren’t happening that are soldiers are being trained to the best of their ability without causing them post-traumatic stress.

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After observing a toy store I noted that girls and boys aisles are segregated into each aisle having to play their gender role. For example in the girls aisle there is pink everywhere, the toys are Barbie dolls, anything princess related, and baby dolls, while in the boys aisle there are race cars, the color blue everywhere and nerf guns.

I can tell a toy is targeted towards a boy or girl buy the packaging because most of girls toys have anther little girl on the cover of the packaging and a boy on the cover of the packaging for boys toys. There was very few gender-neutral toys, for example building blocks, these toys however where meant for toddlers.

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Required entry: (JCB) p. 330 Counting Beauty

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Required entry: (JCB) p. 330 Counting Beauty

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For this entry, we are supposed to do an analysis of beauty. I chose to look up my source of images on Google images. What I decided to look up first was the health part of this analysis. I went on Google and on the search bar I typed in “healthy people.”

When I looked up healthy people, I there were many men and women were shown. I tried seeing if there was any correlation between what race they were or if they were slim or fat. I saw that there were predominantly white people, with some black people and some Latinos. But there were absolutely no fat people.

After finishing my analysis, I did learn something. In terms of beauty and health, there were many more white people than the other races listed above. There was hardly anybody that showed very visible body fat. I seen men that were thin and fit and women who were mainly thin. While I was scrolling through these images, there were a lot of of light skinned people. The people who were black looked as if they were mixed races. A couple dark black people were shown but not a whole lot. The same for Latinos. Almost all the races listed above were of pretty light skin, but any other person would be able to tell them apart. People know that when someone mentions the word healthy, they imagine a person who’s very well fit and most often goes to the gym. People who imagine beauty and fashion see thin and mostly light skinned people. In the fashion sense, both women and men tend to mix. You see men trying out fashion, but it’s never more than the women in the fashion industry. Women are more expected to be in this sort of area of dressing up and trying on make up while also staying healthy. Men in the fashion industry usually tend to wear darker colors, while women wear both dark and bright.

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How have I been socialized into my gender

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How have I been socialized into my gender

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

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

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Marriage and the formation of a family is something that many people aspire to have at one point in their lives or another. A wedding is something that most women want. They look forward to marrying the man of their lives. The perfect wedding is different for everybody. Some dream of a huge wedding with many guests, a very expensive wedding with a huge cake, the perfect honeymoon and with people they love. Others dream of a wedding that more intimate with a couple of friends and family members. The day of the wedding is a perfect day that feels like it will last a lifetime. That day it feels like it will last a lifetime, but the truth is that most marriages don’t make it and end up going through a divorce.

In ” Chapter 8: Dreaming of a White Wedding: Marriage, Family, and Heteronormativity” published by Josee Johnston, Kate Cairns, and Shyon Baumann, it says “When you think of the “family”, what images come to mind? For many, the word family evokes the picture of a mother, father, and their children, and maybe a pet dog or cat. Perhaps you envision the ideal family pictured on TV sitcoms, featuring a hard-working father, a sexy stay at home mother, and two or three rascally kids. Our ideas about what counts as a family can have powerful social implications, and not only for social policies and access to state entitlements. Many of you –like us- have lived in families that don’t fit this image. You may have familial relationships that differ from the hegemonic ideal (e.g. a gay parent, a single mother, a childhood spent in foster care) and you may have experienced social stigma.  The reality of contemporary life is complex; today more than ever, the social meaning of “marriage” and “family” are up for debate” (JCB 212-213).

Romantic love is a factor for most of the modern marriages. The dream of marriage is very consistent. Many people want to get married and form families. Today we see more and more acceptance of diverse families, although they haven’t been fully accepted, the acceptance has improved over the years. The term “white wedding” is used to refer to a marriage celebration featuring some combination of the following elements: a bride in an elaborate white gown, numerous attendants, and witnesses wearing formal outfits, a special ceremony (religious or secular), bouquets of flowers, a sumptuous meal and or party and a honeymoon…” (JCB 228).

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

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

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This whole chapter was a comparison of families in the 1900’s to families of today’s day. I enjoyed reading this chapter because I like how Coontz points out that families were in fact at a worse state in the 1900’s. The reason I like that is because you hear most people today complain about today’s families and how they’re falling apart, but they never look back at all the flaws that families had back in the day.

Yes, divorce rates are higher than ever in today’s day, but maybe that’s because divorce has become more socially acceptable. Just because people weren’t getting divorced as much in the 1900’s doesn’t mean that spouses had a happy marriage. Maybe they never got divorces because it wasn’t acceptable or just simply because they couldn’t.

In conclusion, I don’t believe that marriage and family are going to hell. I believe that as time goes by we will see changes in family behavior in the U.S. and people will automatically think it’s bad because they are afraid of change. We will always adapt to changes and find a way to comfortably live though them.

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Required entry: JCB p. 243 Wedding Dreams

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Required entry: JCB p. 243 Wedding Dreams

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For this required entry I was asked if ever fantasized about my future wedding or If I was already married if I fantasized it in the past? & last but no least if I didn’t why I thought the “white wedding” dream didn’t appeal to me. For starters I would pick why the I think the “white wedding” dream doesn’t appeal to me and the answer is very simple.

The whole “white wedding” dream doesn’t appeal to me because that's not the number one objective on my mind, I have lots of things I want to accomplish before I even think of that. I want to graduate college with my certificate for Environmental Engineering, transfer to be a four-year university get my B.A. in Environmental science and my minor in business. After I have all that I plan on having various businesses and charities to give back to my community. If I have time after all that then I will consider marriage as long as in that processes I meet a women worth marrying because if I'm being honest I've yet to find one worth my time. If marriage comes my way good, but if it doesn’t that's life. And not mentioning I can always have an arranged marriage from my parents and family setting it up.

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

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

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In this chapter, we look at Cannibalism and how it is deemed Deviant in almost all cultures. There are some exceptions like warriors eating the heart of their enemy but other than that there isn’t a culture in the world that accepts eating human flesh regularly. Henslin looks at a plane crash that happened in 1972 on the Andes Mountains. There were originally 26 of 40 passengers that survived. They were waiting on being rescued and lived off chocolate, wines, and cigarettes they found in the plane wreck. Seventy days later though only 16 remained as they were slowly dying from the cold and hunger. They were going to die from starvation if they kept waiting for a rescue which wasn’t going to come anytime soon because the Air Force canceled the search. Eventually, they were forced to eat the dead bodies of their loved ones because there was no other means of survival. They realized that they had to do this repulsive act because they needed to survive. Many were too disgusted to do so but eventually, the group of survivors realized that to seek out a rescue themselves the strongest people had to go look for it. So, most of them agreed to eat human flesh and lived to tell the story. They became “famous." as Henslin put it, afterward and were not looked at as cannibals but brave survivors. Society had accepted that for them to survive, they had to eat the flesh of their dead relatives or friends.

So, where does deviance come in to play? Well, in society there are a set of “rules, ideals or meanings” that we go by that are “socially acceptable”. Henslin says these ideas are arbitrary and only have meaning because humans gave it a meaning. To answer the question as to why this regards to deviance, in this chapter it says, “Anyone who suggests such changes is likely to be seen as a threatening deviant” (Henslin 283). This is true because considering many of the survivors were not willing to eat the human flesh even after Canessa, a medical student, suggested it was required to survive. They found the idea disgusting and repulsive.

Henslin also says that “Changed circumstances make people more open to accepting new definitions of reality”. (Henslin 283) The situation the passengers were put in was a life or death situation. The survivors had no other option than to eat the bodies or else they would die of starvation considering the rescue was called off. I believe circumstances changing is the reason why the survivors came to accept the fact they had to eat it. They validated the deviant act by accepting the fact that it was the only way they could live.

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

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

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Philip Zimbardo received a horrifying letter from an inmate describing the brutal ways he was treated.  This made Philip interested in finding out why prisoners were treated so inhumane.  He decided to conduct an experiment in where he would create his own prison.  After 70 people volunteered the experiment began to furnishing.  The volunteers were assigned roles of either guards or inmates and were set to live in the prison for two weeks.

After only six days the experiment had to come to an end due to shocking results Philip found.  The volunteers began to lose their touch with reality, they could no longer clearly distinguish their role playing with reality.  The guards found themselves treating the inmates like animals as to where the inmate had become brainwashed robots who could only think of escaping.

The relationship between the letter and the results of the experiment had a lot of similarities. Similar to that of the Stanford prison experiment, The guards fell in love with their power to control the inmates.  Philip came to the conclusions that, “We thus underestimate the power and persuasiveness of situational controls over behavior because (a) they are often non obvious and subtle, (b) we can often avoid entering situations where we might be so controlled, (c) we label as “weak” or “deviant” people in those situations who do behave differently from how we believed we would (Philip Zimbardo, 318)”.  This all led to the prisoners and guards to be cruel, lower self-esteem and be less humane.  Thus prisoners cause pathologic behavior.  The only way to change this according to Philip Zimbardo is by the people with power to start caring for others because even inmates want to cared for.

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

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

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David Rosenhan, who is a Stanford University professor, decided to conduct an experiment in a group of sane people would admit themselves into psychiatric hospitals. The group of people participating did not have any actual mental illness,’ but were just faking that they heard voices in there heads to gain admission into the hospitals. Once they were admitted into the psychiatric hospitals they were to act “normal” as they regularly do. In behaving normal they wanted to see if anyone detected that they were sane. They then had to convince the staff that they were sane to be discharged.

Amongst entering the hospital the pseudo-patients behaved normal, as they usually do. Although they acted normal they were initially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. They came to find out that nobody detected that they were sane, but in fact when they were discharged they were diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in remission. The whole “in remission” diagnoses didn’t mean that the patients were sane, but they were still labeled as paranoid schizophrenia. While in the hospitals the pseudo-patients found that the staff didn’t pay much attention to them and they were simply looked at as insane by the fact that they were labeled. All of their behaviors while in the hospitals were attributed to their “schizophrenia” even though they were behaving completely sane. The affects of labeling Rosenhan found in this experiment are also found in other scenarios.

People who do time in prison also suffer consequences of labeling after they are released. For example; ex-offenders have a less likely chance to get a job. The reason for this is because even after they leave prison they’re looked as “ex-offenders.” The label “offenders” is still there with them even though they put an “ex” before it; this is the same as “in remission” in the case of Rosenhan’s findings.

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

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

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In the article Police Accounts of Normal Force by Jennifer Hunt, explains how police classify themselves and evaluate their acts of force being either normal, legal or excessive. It starts of by describing how rookie police act in the street rather than using what they were taught at the academy.

Later In the chapter, Jennifer talks the police phrased, “its not done on the street the way that it’s taught at the academy” which refers to the formal world of the academy and the informal world out in the streets. Which explain why cops don’t always do what they are taught at the academy, and rather use excessive force. It is said that while being in the academy, they teach cops what is acceptable and what is not. For example, cops are told to avoid hitting a person in the head or neck because it could cause lethal damage. When cops feel that their life is being threatened, they will use excessive force and would not follow what is right. If i were in their situation I would try to avoid excessive force, but then since everything just occurs so quick my first instant would make me act aggressive, in order to save my life, others life and stop the criminal.

The one thing I found really upsetting was to hear how between co-workers, cops are applauded for aggressive behavior. The more the aggressive they act the stronger, tougher or “better” the cop is. Instead of cops competing for who uses the most excessive force they should focus on making our streets safer.

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

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

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Late at night for the past couple of weeks, there were starting to get more and more cars driving past my house late at night. They have loud-sounding vehicles and loud music to match it. I feel like these people are violating the norm after a specific time, you should be quiet outside because they are in a neighborhood where everyone is already asleep. I did know that these were the norms here. I’ve always considered that to be the norm.

After a specific time of day that, when in neighborhoods, you should still be quieter since the day is coming to an end. “Their” in this example is where ever I am at that time of day, so if I’m in a neighborhood I’ll tend to be quieter, and if I were on a highway or interstate or someplace not around houses then Id have my music louder, and If I had a flashy car, I would have to be worried about it waking people up. I’m not sure how these norms would apply to this person since I do not know who is doing it. I don’t want to make assumptions. There are situations where loud cars and loud music is acceptable; a good example of that would say a car show or a car racing strip.

I could see myself playing loud music and driving around all loud like during the daytime but not during night time. I thought the person was crazy for doing that, especially now because, after a specific time, you are not supposed to be out and about because of the whole pandemic happening. The label of crazy made me not like him because one he was being loud and keeping me awake and tow, if he got pulled over it, would have been a big scene in front of or near my house, which would have woken everybody up in my household.

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

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

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Required Entry: "Wealth Inequality in the United States" How has your class affected your life and choices?

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Required Entry: "Wealth Inequality in the United States" How has your class affected your life and choices?