https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z en-us 2019-11-20 04:38:20 UTC 2019-11-24 03:11:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5de.png sojeda112200 https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415733180 In the United States, authority is needed among people to keep things in order. There is a need to have people in charge, to maintain stability in society. Dolton Conley defines authority as "the justified right to exercise power" (2017). For instance, police have the power to arrest someone who is causing some sort of deviance. Although, how are citizens certain authority figures wouldn't abuse their powers? What would people do if an authority figure isn't maintaining stability in society, but challenging it?]]> 2019-11-23 23:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415733180 sojeda112200 https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415734151 The movie Experimenter is about the Milgrim experiment. The experiment is "devised in 1961 by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, to see how far ordinary people would go to obey a scientific authority figure" (Conely 2017). The trailer shows how the experiment was performed, Milgrim had participants teaching an unknown man. The participants ask the unknown man questions, and if the man answered them wrong the participants would electrically shock him. Hearing the man's pain the participants would want to stop, however, a researcher "wouldn't allow them" to. The research showed "65 percent of the research subjects went on shocking the learner to the highest voltage level, labeled 'lethal'"(Conely 2017). Although many psychologists thought "fewer than 10% would continue all the way up the voltage ladder" (Conely 2017). I believe the Milgrim Experiment, is a great example of the relationship between people and authority.

]]> 2019-11-24 00:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415734151 sojeda112200 https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415737075 When a person is told what to do by an authoritative figure, even if they don't wish to do the task, more likely than not the person will still do it to avoid any sort of consequence. In society, there are many authoritative figures whose actions don't meet with the people's beliefs. Defying someone in power can lead a person to trouble. In Denise Segura's research, Chicana women in white-collar jobs wouldn't report discrimination or sexual harassment, in fear that the bosses would think of them as trouble. An interviewee said: "bosses know each other and say, 'hey this woman-watch out for her'" (Segura 1992). Instead of reporting these vile acts, these women prefer to stay quiet. Their bosses' authority among their employees isn't a safe one. Their employers shouldn't have fear in approaching them with these types of problems, but be open and safe enough to do so.]]> 2019-11-24 00:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415737075 sojeda112200 https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415737658 Conley, D. (2017, 1 June). You may ask yourself: an introduction to thinking like a sociologist (5th). New York: W.W. Norton.
Patler, C. Golash-Boza T. M. (2017, 31 August) The fiscal and human cost of immigrant detention and deportation in the United States. 1-9.
Segura, D. A. (1992) Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs: "You Have to Prove Yourself More". Sociological Perspectives (Vol. 35, No. 1). 163-182.]]> 2019-11-24 00:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415737658 sojeda112200 https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415747100 In order to prevent having the wrong people in power, citizens can vote to have the right people. After all the United States is a democracy, people have political rights: "the rights guaranteeing a citizen's ability to participate in politics, including the right to vote and the right to hold an elected office" (Conley 2017). I believe if everyone exercises their political rights we will stop having the wrong people in power. We may not have all the power to decide who ends up being our bosses or who is a policeman. However, people do have the power to decide who is in charge of our country, state, and city. Power is a huge responsibility that not everyone should have. There will be no need to rebel against authority if the right person has it.

]]> 2019-11-24 02:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415747100 sojeda112200 https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415750476 In the United States, politicians have the power to decide the state of our country. Currently, "The United States now spends more money on immigration law enforcement than on all other federal criminal law enforcement agencies combine" (Patler & Golash-Boza 2017). Not many people believe in deportation, yet the elected officials spent most of their manpower in keeping the immigrant detention and deportation. Our country's authority figures have the power to have an immigrant be deported and spent more money in that type of enforcement than criminal law agencies.]]> 2019-11-24 02:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sojeda112200/71v3hxj0jy1z/wish/415750476