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In week 3 we discussed the term Values in relation to cultures as being what activities, events, achievements, and anything else people believe to be either good or bad.

This is a picture of my best friends, who I consider my family at the beach in Sonoma together. This picture represents my values, family first and spending intentional time with my friends.

This image connects to the concept of values because it represents my own values and what I consider to be a good thing. I believe in spending time with friends and family and being intentional with one another, and this picture was taken on a day we all got the news we would be leaving for covid and we wanted to spend our last day together and rejoice in what we have experienced at Sonoma State together.

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In week 2 we discussed symbolic interactionism, and the basis of meaning, which is the way humans interact with something based upon the individual meaning they have placed on it.

This image is a picture of my friends and I worshiping God, and the meaning this picture has to each outsider looking at it may be different, but the meaning this picture holds for me is very special as it was my friends wedding and we were all sharing an aspect of our faith together.

I chose this image as an answer to the concept "meaning" because meanings for each picture shared will be interpreted different by each viewer, but once they interact with myself or someone else about this picture, they will in most cases alter the meaning they placed on this picture.

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In week 3 we discussed symbols and how they are anything people attach meaning too and use to communicate a message.

This is an image of the American flag. This flag represents Americans and the freedoms we fought for long ago.

I chose this image because a flag is a symbol and many flags are used to send a message while being widely recognized by different groups of people. The American flag is seen by many other countries and it represents freedom.

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In week 3 we discussed material culture the idea that any material object can be used to distinguish a group of people.

This image I took while driving through Ensenada Mexico, it is a statue of Jesus Christ.

I chose this image to represent material culture because it is a statue that immediately is connected to catholics or christians. This also represents material culture because it reflects the cultural beliefs of this specific area of Mexico.

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The concept I chose was culture shock, we discussed culture shock in week 3 as being a shock or almost discombobulated feeling when you are immersed in a culture that that has a different way of living than your own.

This photograph was taken of a community church on the balcony of my family friends house they built themselves in Ensenada Mexico.

The reason I chose this picture was because this place and experience opened my eyes to just how different our cultures are, for example we are always rushing to do everything on a set schedule, but out there they arrive when they arrive and its just a slow stress free way of living. The culture shock I felt also came from just the role I play as a woman in America, and even just around the corner from California I felt that my role had a significant shift into what I considered an old ideology, of making food and serving the men the minute I got there.

This is an example of culture shock because I was so used to my normal way of living and understanding of the world where I live, that when I arrived I had to learn how to interpret not just their language but their customs.

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Quest #17 A Pointlessly Gendered Product

In week 4 we discussed gender socialization where kids learn societies expectations of them based upon the gender they were born as. I felt this image answered the prompt because I had this exact red jeep as a young girl but I was always asked where is your pink barbie jeep by other moms who felt the red jeep with flames was for boys, just going to show that there are these standards for males and females that we need to stick to our gender roles even in activities like peer play.

1. Who made/created this?
Society a long time ago was centered on the male figure, which in turn created gender roles to serve the purposes of women having to depend on a man.

8. What is missing from this that is important to note?
In society as discussed in class there is this marketing that targets women and men using different branding and different messages for things that are neutral items used by anyone and everyone regardless of their gender orientation, things like the product pens for her, a single identical razor sold in pink and black for men and women, things like this separate and continue gender role socialization.

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https://youtu.be/SR0H-TvW9O0

In week 7 of this semester we discussed racism and this clip relates to institutionalized racism, which is the set way society operates to keep minorities in a place of no power. It relates because in the clip the waitress gives us insight to how Americans think in a way that is privileged, the idea that this is America and if your in this country you will bend to the norms and basically suppress your culture or identity to fit into this unspoken identity box.

8. What is missing from this that is important to note
I think this show focuses so much on the people who speak ups feelings, versus how the racism and reactions of the people around them impact the institutionalized racism.

10. How do people interact with this?
The people watching the actors portraying the victim and predator who don't know its a set up will hopefully be appalled and outraged enough to speak up, because that is what you do when you see something wrong, this reaction would hopefully educate and open other peoples eyes to the racism that still exists today.

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https://youtu.be/gdcmhvLaNUs

In week 9 we discuss in the lecture video the concept of gender specifically social regulation of sexuality, the idea that different forms of sexual orientation/ attraction are either accepted or frowned upon by society. In this video the character uses different wine types to explain to the lady he slept with the night before that he isn't interested in the identity label of someone but the person themselves and that he has had relations with all different types of people.

Deep questions

6. What does this/it mean?
The video is sending the message that everyone has different sexual preferences and that the norm that was developed in society where you only have relations of someone with the opposite gender is old and that its not about the gender identity but the character of the person themselves regardless of their identity.

2. Who or what is it for? Why was it created?
The clip from the tv show was created to normalize the tearing down of old school views on gender identification, and to accept people for who they are not label things.

Works Cited:
Week 9 Deep Dive https://www.health.com/mind-body/gender-fluid

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https://ktla.com/news/norcal-dad-assaults-teacher-over-masks-on-1st-day-of-school-superintendent-says/
The actions discussed in this article ties into the concept privilege, as discussed in week 7 of our lectures, is the idea of just based upon concepts of racism certain individuals based upon the color of their skin will never have to face the same consequences for their actions as others might. This privilege and mindset of entitlement to "medical freedom" led this parent to believe that attacking a teacher would get them the result they wanted with no thought of the consequences.

Deep Questions
7. How does the meaning of this change depending on who is using or observing it?
Due to the fact covid was politicized someone who believes in medical freedom no matter who it affects, will read this and most likely agree with the parents attitude, a person who believes in the science and understands the consequences of not wearing your mask beyond just themselves will be appalled at the parents reaction.

5. Who doesn't benefit from this?
The privilege this parent felt they had will impact the entire community, in how many people will begin to feel why is my kid wearing a mask and it will begin to collectively enrage a group of people, and this attack and the idea that the student shouldn't have to wear the mask, specifically if they were allowed to remove it could have infected individuals that were immunocompromised, or the students could pass covid along to another community member.

Work cited:
https://time.com/6103134/parents-fight-school-mask-mandates/
Week 7 Deep Dive Lecture

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1. “One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own” ~ James A. Baldwin

This quote would connect to the concept (racism) individual, because the quote is talking about how you can not deny someones basic rights from a place hate without diminishing your own humanity. In the lecture on racism we discussed that racism is a system of advantage designed to uplift Caucasians and suppress anybody of a different race, the quote is saying by being racist and discriminatory you are only diminishing your own humanity and character.

6. What does this/it mean?

This quote from James A. Baldwin is saying that if you hate and disregard someone based upon their race, ethnicity, or gender you cannot truly love or respect your own self.

2. Who or what is it for? Why was it created?

This quote was stated for individuals who are racist, sexist of just hateful in general, with the intention to show them that you can't truly respect yourself if you have unrightous hate in your own heart.

work cited:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fquotesgram.com%2Fjames-baldwin-quotes%2F&psig=AOvVaw0AlW7j7SO-NAT9cuVNLfoc&ust=1648096309740000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCLj_qKyz2_YCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAf