Third a candle raspberry scent from Marshalls.

Fourth is white air forces from the mall.

Fifth is book from Barnes n Noble

Sixth is a iphone 15 from apple store.

Seventh is a painting from a neighbor who paints and was given to as a gift.

Eighth is Japanese chopsticks from Japan.

Ninth is a sushi eraser set from Japan.

Tenth is a face moisturizer from Ulta Beauty.

Based off all these ten items that I have listed it shows how nowadays there is much more advancement than before. There is also much more variety of choices such as shoes, types of different scent lotions, types of skin care such as moisturizer, books from many different stores, and multiple places/stores to get these items. The transportation needed to get some of these items such as the Bible over Amazon shows how there is much more technology to be able to do online shopping and a way to get these items delivered. Within a period there has been improvement with technology and a great increase in stores and production this may say that for the future there will continue to be an increase in organizations making a variety of products. Most of the things can be bought over online shopping this also suggest that it may be taking over regular shopping in person. For the future, a variety of items and chemicals may be created such as how there are varieties of skin care products. Lastly maybe robots will be the ones to transport items/packages since technology will also be improving since most of the shopping is online.

Facing reality, hard work is not the only thing that is required for a person to be successful. In the real world there are barriers that prevent people from reaching their goal or can make it harder for some individuals compared to others. If you get put into a perspective of a lower class kid, those parents may say work hard, go to school and do better than they did. But in the perspective of the kid's mind even from a young age, they know that their family is struggling with money and if they don't do good in school, then all that work would be pointless. Yet when they go to school they may struggle with the workload and need a tutor, need schools supplies, and once in a while go shopping for supplies for a project. Wealth is a barrier for many people and it was for me too growing up. Wealth is a factor that plays into many peoples lives and it can determine the quality of learning. People who tend to have more money are able to have access to better schools, tutors, and outside clubs or activities such as painting and music classes. For lower income backgrounds they may work just as hard as the higher classes but they will lack the same resources. The wealthy who are also able to put their kids into better schools are able to learn better than the lower incomers. In low income areas there are often larger class sizes with lower quality instruction than compared to wealthier schools and the lower income areas may be lacking resources.

Meritocracy is a way to success but this is unequal access which makes it harder for upward mobility for certain groups.

I would also like to point out that gender and race is another social factor that makes upward mobility more difficult for others. If merity plays a role in society, then it must be a small portion of it because discrimination and bias is an unjust factor that is still widely used today. A person that has the same qualifications as another person but is from a lower background will most likely be faced with discrimination or wide wage gaps. This is seen in movies too where a person gets discriminated against because of their color and then results in not being able to work in that position. There are many movies like this that reflect today's world full of unjust but striving for success. Another movie that I have seen called the help where a lady is lesser of a man and she gets hired but gets treated poorly. She runs around like a dog and even has restrictions on her own job. Her friend who got discriminated against doesn't get hired in the department she wants and its not until when there is no one left who knows how to work a machine in the department, is when they decide to hire her because she is the only person left who can do the job.

These types of social factors limit a persons success and in a world where there is unjust, not everyone has the same privilege to be able to have a clear path ahead of themselves to become successful. I think that meritocracy plays a small portion in society because while some individuals do achieve success by working hard and putting effort into it, not everyone is at the same level to be able to do so.

Examples of this are policies that resist raising the minimum wage payment or limit access to education which can both be seen as ways of the ruling class. If the lower class keeps receiving low wages, then they would rely more on their job and have less power to demand change because they are so dependent on their jobs. Just like education, if there is limited access to higher education, then it prevents social mobility and keeps those who are already wealthy in that position.

What I have noticed is that most low wage jobs are usually jobs that are essential but undervalued such as grocery workers. Someone has to be able to take on these jobs and by making these jobs applicable with low skill needed, it makes it easier for those who are in desperate need to take on the job. Most people who need a job at the start have little experience, by making jobs that are easy to apply it attracts low incomers to take on the job even with a low wage because it's what they can get accepted to in the moment. Thus the cycle repeats itself because of the structural necessity for those in power.

I'd like to be able to expand more on the area of education.

Most parents in the working class want their kids to get a good education because its the key for social mobility. Not everyone has the same quality that the schools provide to be able to receive a good education. Wealthier areas have better and more resources, teachers, and opportunities. This creates a disadvantage for working class students before they enter college.

Students of the working class also have to experience working a part time job while in school which can make it harder to focus on studies than compared to wealthier students who can dedicate their time to academics.

When students from working class are able to attend college there may be cultural barriers that occur because they may not fit in with their middle class peers who have different social expectations or experiences. Identity conflict can also occur for others because of the guilt of leaving behind families or struggling to be able to relate to their new peers.

The topic of moving up can also circle back to the question is hard work enough? Most would like to think that but in reality there are barriers or challenges that make upward mobility harder for those who are of working classes. It's not just about effort but also about access, connections, and societal expectations.

For example, top schools such as Ivy League UCs act as gatekeepers for opportunities. Most people who get into schools as these come from privileged backgrounds. Some factors of these can be strict entry tests that students take, meaning that only those who already have advantages are likely to be accepted. These schools play a significant role in a student's life because they help make important connections and form relationships that lead to job opportunities and benefits in life. This makes it harder for people of less wealthy backgrounds to break into these circles.

As said by most people that hard work and talent can help you succeed, exclusive schools tend to offer positions to those who already have wealthy and social support. When putting it this way, it seems that even talented and hardworking students don't have a chance when competing with the upper class. This is because if they somehow are given a chance to do better or get a higher position as the upper class, it is much more difficult for them to be able to join these elite groups. There will always be a disadvantage for the lower class even once they reach the same level as a higher class. As a result it keeps the upper class protected and social mobility is very limited.

So how can there be changes to break this cycle to create a fair system where everyone can have the same chance to succeed when not even schools are fair to those who are trying to move up.

I realized that the perception of wealth is very different from the actual data chart. Many people tend to believe that the wealth is fairly more equally distributed when comparing the lower class to the higher class. If I were to think about the reason why this conception is so far off to reality it would have to be due to certain factors. Social media is an example of a factor that is causing people to have this misconception about wealth. There is not enough awareness to be able to teach people about the wealth that poor people are receiving compared to the higher class.

A reason why there is the misinterpretation of living might be because there are various ways media and culture portray wealth and success. Such as the television channels or advertisements, their living styles are much more comfortable than they actually are. However this ensures the audience or reinforces their ideals that extreme wealth inequality is less obvious.

This shows how the media shapes our lives and influences the way we think.

My parents also did not have such high paying jobs at the time. My dad worked in the fields and my mom worked in the fields for part of my life and then switched to working in a factory working with peaches. With money being enough for my family to live off of, I wasn't able to enroll into any extracurricular activities. This affected my chances of being accepted into any positions in clubs during school and made things difficult. Many of those positions required experiences out of school and those who had more money were able to have those experiences outside of school. It also affected my socialization skills during middle school when everyone had an extracurricular activity outside of school that they would talk about or be able to show off with their hobbies while my parents weren't able to afford those type of classes outside of school.

Making time for my parents to be able to care for me was also difficult because they worked long hours. A daily basis would be me getting picked up from school and taken to my aunts house or my grandma's house. I lived near my family and so I would usually stay at one of my relatives house then get taken home to eat, sleep until morning and be driven off to my grandparents house to get ready there so that they could take me to school because my parents were then off to work. After my mom got a job as a CNA who worked the night shift, I usually slept over on the weekends at my aunts house and got picked up in the morning by my mom. Family is very important because we all support each other and help when we can.

Although I was raised in a low social class, I think that the experiences shaped who I am, to put effort and hard work. It also made me value family and it made me learn to be independent.

There are systems such as healthcare, education, housing, and criminal justice that are structured in ways that create racial inequalities. An example are Black and Hispanic communities who are more likely to attend underfunded schools. They are also more likely to live in neighborhoods with fewer resources and be targeted by police strategies that may lead to higher arrest rates. This is also seen in many movies that have become normalized in which colored groups are often the ones that tend to be highly suspicious of. It is not by the people in which these outcomes are caused by, but by the systems that have been shaped by a period of history of discrimination such as segregation.

There may be people who believe that they are treating everyone fairly and equally but if they support certain policies or practices that harm other racial groups, then they are helping and continuing the cycle of inequality. An example of this is school funding based on property taxes. Most public schools are funded through local property taxes but can be harmful because of housing segregation, schools in wealthier areas (usually whiter) have more resources, while schools in the poorer areas ( usually more racially diverse groups) remain underfunded.

This reading made me realize that to make things more fair it's not just about the people but also to look at the structures around us to make things equal.

Media is one of the ways that shape racial perceptions by reinforcing stereotypes. Just as the reading had mentioned that in society they have formed their own classifications such as Hispanics and Blacks are bad. Asians tried to be white while white kids are associated with "good." Well the media also classifies these characteristics such as Black characters are often portrayed as criminals or athletes and Hispanic individuals are usually depicted as immigrants or gang members. These portrayals are inaccurate and also limiting, they reduce complex individuals and cultures to a set of characteristics that are socially constructed. These stereotypical representations affect how these individuals are perceived in real life and influence their social interactions and more.

Colorism is another aspect that is shaped by media. People with lighter skin tones tend to be preferred over darker skin tones. This can be seen in the entertainment industry, where lighter skinned actors of color are usually cast in leading roles while those of darker-skinned actors may be put to secondary or stereotypical roles. This reflects a large issue where lighter skin is often associated with beauty and success.

This shows how colorism operates within racial communities and in the larger society, influencing individuals self esteem and their identity formation.

Fear and scapegoating play a large point in formation of racist idealogy. Ezekiel mentions how the people that he had interviewed had issues like job insecurity, economic inequality and or cultural change which then frustrates them, and they turn their frustrations towards the minority groups. Such as blaming people of color, Jews, and immigrants for their struggles that they are facing to avoid taking responsibility.

This pattern is able to show the concept of scapegoating where a group unfairly blames another group for their own problems. These type of "group members" hold their false beliefs and theories thinking that they must maintain their own dominance and often have fear in change because of losing that sense of power that they once had. And so scapegoating others can also be seen by them as "us vs them"

An example of this would be people blaming immigrants for stealing all the jobs or causing a decline in the economy. They blame the minority group rather than questioning the higher class and systems who are wealthier.

Another example was seen a few years ago during the COVID pandemic. Many Asian Americans were being unfairly blamed for the cause of the virus and a numerous amounts of name calling were said towards them. This led to higher hate crimes against Asian communities and instead of focusing on the public health responses, they're redirect their fear to a specific group which then harms that group and reinforces stereotypes.

By recognizing these patterns it can make people more aware of how prejudice works in society and persuays us to challenge unfair stories when seeing them.

Based on the replies, I've realized that many people tend to say based on where they're from or what they were taught from parents and or school. It shows how race is not something biological, it's something that people were taught and passed down through education, family, culture, and social messages. When people decide what race others are, most tend to say based on appearance and assumptions. This shows how its based off beliefs and stereotyped that society builds over time.

To say that race is socially constructed is to mean that it is determined by society and the way people understand and define race based on cultural norms and teachings.

There is no one specific answer because there are multiple answers that people give, yet they change over time on how race is understood. It shows that people learn about race through their social experiences and not based off facts.

For example, to all the baby showers that I have gone to, having a boy is defined by the color blue while pink is used for girls. In the U.S it is assumed that blue represents males while pink represents females. When receiving gifts for the incoming baby, often the most question asked is if it's a boy or girl so that the person knows what type of toys or colored clothing to get.

Gender roles are also taught from birth and often, children are treated differently based on their gender. For example, boys are often encouraged to play with trucks, cars, action figures, tool kits. They are expected to be assertive and "manly." Girls on the other hand are given dolls to play with, kitchen sets, nursing kits, and are taught to be quiet or praised when they're gentle. Parents constantly reinforce these traditional gender roles through language, chores, and expectations.

If you were to visit a random person's house and look at their children's rooms. Most of the time you would be able to tell whether that family has a boy or a girl. Based on the colors, toys, clothes, and belongings that the kid has. A person can assume a kid's gender because of the stereotypical expectations society has created. If the room has pink, purple, or pastel colors with symbols such as unicorns or fairies, most people would assume that the bedroom belongs to a girl. In another room there are green, red, blue, and darker colors with dinosaurs, cars and sports items. A good chance is that most people would say that it is a boy's bedroom. These are the expectations that society has created to be the norm.

Another example where gender roles are reinforced is media. Media is a powerful platform that shapes people's ideas about masculinity and femininity. Ads show who should be playing with certain types of toys such as girls playing with Barbies and boys playing with cars. Male characters are usually portrayed as strong and independent while female characters are shown as nurturing and concerned about their appearance. I can also see this applied to my younger sister who focuses on her appearance and has sets of play makeup. She has toys in colors of pink and purple.

Even pets are applied to this stereotypical expectation where a boy dog may be given blue or green toys and or clothing. While girl dogs are given pink and purple toys or clothes/accessories. When you walk into a pet store they have pink or blue bowls, the one with pink may have a caption saying, I am a pretty or good girl where the blue bowl may say the best boy. The captions reinforce the colors for specific genders.

Gender roles seem very interesting because they are applied to everyday life and can be seen everywhere.

Gender socialization starts early on in a child's life. As said in the book about how people may say to little boys " boys don't cry," it shows how they are discouraged from being able to show their emotions that involve crying or showing fear. This becomes unacceptable for boys and they learn to behave this way because it's what their parents teach them, their family, and society. Boys learn to hide their emotions in order to fit expectations because crying is not "masculine."

Even in school, there are certain behaviors that are expected from boys. Even children know the behavior expectations that are acceptable for boys. In elementary school I remember hearing some girls say "boys will be boys" or say "boys are dirty." It shows how many other kids have that expectations of others.

It has also made me realize that this expectation of males are so normalized that if any male goes out of the norms or expected standards that society sets, they are considered gay or not fitting into society.

Considering that there are expected behaviors from males to act a certain way it also makes me question whether how much of it is a choice for males to act a certain way and how much they are influenced by society.

A big influence on young girls is the use of gossip. Their discussion between each other impacts themselves the most such as conversations that are about who's in and who's out of the group. This creates fear between the girls of social rejection that encourages them to behave certain ways to be able to fit into the norms. This would include beauty standards. Girls often talk about beauty, how to take care of their appearance, what clothes are in trend, and how much makeup to wear. The girls who didn't follow these set of rules are deemed as not popular, weird, or outcasts. This pressures young girls to want to fit in by having to follow a certain set of rules. A similar experience that I recall based on the reading when it mentioned a girl being bullied for wearing too much makeup sounds similar to my experience. During middle school I also had an experience where this one girl showed up to school one time wearing makeup. She wore sparkly eye shadow with bright red lipstick. No one ever said anything towards her, yet I could hear all these rumors and talking behind her back saying she was wearing too much. This caused everyone to distance themselves from her because of her looks and "trying too hard."

Girls also tend to gossip about relationships. It often goes on who likes who, who's dating, and who is considered attractive or not. Girls who weren't interested much in boys often were seemed as boring or they were also gossiped about.

Behavior is also something that was judged by other girls. Girls who were too assertive, loud, or acted in certain ways that challenged that gender expectation such as being confident or smart were usually gossiped about. The social expectations for girls was to be quiet, soft spoken and anyone who didn't fit these standards were gossiped about.

This shows how peers are also a big influence on girls. The ones who are also getting to experience and learn about gender roles are often the ones who are also influencing others. Gossiping can play a major role in shaping how girls see themselves and it can affect their confidence and friendships.

I have been told that the clothes I wanted to wear were not for girls and considered boy clothes. I was told girls were to wear dresses which I preferred overalls and wearing pants over skirts.

My family was very strict about how a girl should be acting and the type of toys I should be playing with. Specifically my dad who also taught me that tomboys were "ugly" and "bad." With wanting to please my dad I did wear and use what I was given but I always did complain about the dresses and skirts I had to wear when going to formal places and church.

Growing up this seemed normal because other girls were the version that my dad had described. Focused on appearance, soft spoken, an talked about boys. Although I knew that girls were "supposed" to be this way, I never had much friends because of this aspect. I didn't mind because none of the other girls caught my interest and bored me, so I only ever really had one friend who was similar to me during elementary school. Although I was slightly different than the other girls It taught me that all girls were supposed to be like the version that my family and mainly my dad described about.

As the book went on to talk about how schools reinforce gender division, it seems really familiar to my experiences as a kid. Such as the monkey bars, the bars kids use to do flips, and a spot at the pavement where girls would do hopscotch, jump rope, or hula hoop. As for the boys I remember them playing at the basketball court or when there was, they'd be playing soccer or four square. These sort of areas were divided up between gender and it was like an unspoken rule where boys are supposed to be playing in certain areas than girls.

After recess was over I also recall the lines being divided up based on girls on one side and boys on the other. The same would be for P.E when girls would be separated on having a girls team for a game and a boys team for a separate game. I always remembered the girls hoping to be separated onto only girls team yet some days was a mix of both. However now looking back at it, it also makes me realized how girls had this way of thinking where they should be separated from the boys. It became normal to not want to play with the boys. As for the boys, I remember hearing comments from them sighing or making brief discussions with others saying how the game would be much harder or boring with girls when the coach would make teams with both girls and boys.

I don't think schools or teachers realized how much they also have affected or sent a message to kids that gender is important and boys and girls should both be treated differently. It can be as simple as diving girls and boys when lining up yet it reinforces the idea that gender is way of organizing people.

As a female, I never really noticed that mainly females leave pauses throughout conversations. Of course not all females are like this way and other men may be like this too, yet it never occurred to me that most women act this way. I thought that pausing during conversations was just a respectful thing to do and I never really acknowledged how men differ from this. I do realize when I am cut off or interrupted by men yet, I never thought about "oh he interrupted me how rude" because I find it normal for this to happen multiple times. The reading makes me be more aware of how my conversations and the differences between men and women which I now do see happen often.

Today was a very busy day and I talked to more people. In the morning I had been talking with a few guys and we were talking about an assignment. I then went to ask a question about a previous assignment and they too replied back. However as I was conversing with them, one of them changed the topic which then gets the rest of the guys to switch up the conversation as well and I ended up talking to myself. Normally I would put it off and just listen to the conversation but when two of my girl classmates had sat near me I conversed with them. They sit a bit further away from me, yet we all still include each other. What caught my attention the most during our conversation especially since I had just read the reading for today, was that my friends and I always seem to say "sorry you go first" or "oh I'm sorry what were you going to say." This then goes on with me responding with "no I'm sorry you go first then I'll go." This caught my attention the most because in the reading it had mentioned how many women often say sorry during conversations even when they are not at fault.

I really enjoyed this reading because it's something that I never really acknowledged yet it's a very obvious pattern that is seen throughout conversations. From this week, readings have been about gender and socialization. I think that this reading ties into gender dynamics and dominance. I can see this happen in my everyday life such as men interrupting conversations which would reflect a pattern than men assert their dominance in that sort of way through conversations and socializing while women wait turns because they are taught to which is a form of respect. This also makes women seem less aggressive and more friendly. I think that this is able to show how women in society tend to look less confident and weak because they have less things to say during conversations with men yet it's the style of speaking and the behaviors that society expects of them. I also believe that this also ties back into reinforcing gender inequalities such as interrupting another that reinforces that belief. Just like in public or professional spaces where to be heard is shown as power and dominance.

Beauty can change over time and is constructed by society. Since this is created by society, in order to be deemed beautiful you would have to follow the ideals of what is "pretty" at that time. Meaning that although there are physical features that one is born with and can't change, there are still clothing styles and hair styles in which a person can follow to be considered beautiful.

Media can also shape the beauty ideals. So considering that a person may be given more privilege than one other because of their beauty, the media can quickly change the version of beauty within one week to a month. Social media is widely used and also has many fast moving trends. This shows how beauty can also quickly be altered by the media. They may set unrealistic standards but they may also change ideals to accept ones natural self which can improve ones self love.

If beauty is such a big concept in which gives one person more privilege than the other, then why can't people and the media set beauty standards to show a persons natural self rather than setting unrealistic expectations of people. This would then lower peoples self esteem, insecurity, and reduce cosmetic surgery.

In one of the sections it mentioned how if women are given different physical fitness training than the men, then they shouldn't even be in the combat and belong back in the kitchen alongside with raising children. The phrase with "belonging back in the kitchen" is a stereotype of women that reinforces that mindset they are out of the "norms" and shouldn't be doing the same job as a man. As a woman enters this environment of physical strength, (which has been associated with masculinity in society,) the women seem to stand as outsiders.

Claims from women in this chapter have stated that they have to out-due themselves to demonstrate their abilities to be seen as equal. When they reach the same level performance as a man, they are often downplayed and it reflects how gender roles are embedded into jobs such as the military in which men are the default while women are seen as exceptions that have to prove themselves.

Based of this reading as a whole, it shows how not only does the military have to be open to all but also challenging their cultural ideas and beliefs on what it means to be a soldier and who is considered to be a person that fits that role. It demonstrates how gender is socially constructed and plays a big role not only in the military but in other institutions.

In the girls aisle, I am able to be sure that I am in girls section because pink is the main color that girls are associated with. The aisle had toys such as Legos of movies such as Encanto with the girl as the front cover, Legos of ponies and other girls with their pink helmets or beach sets.

They also have cooking toy sets, animal washing stations, large dolls, and Barbies. Based on the girl's aisles, it seems that girls are meant for taking care of people or animals, doing household work, and meant to look pretty.

In the boys aisle were superhero figures, nerf guns, dinosaur toys, rc cars, city Legos, dinasoaur Legos, Pokemons carsd, foam swords, sports toys, and toy superhero masks. The nerf guns were blue, green, with orange. The super hero action figures used red, green, blue, and black. These were more darker shades being used. They also had construction tools. Based on this aisle, it seems as if boys were more outgoing, meant to send tough, strong, and dangerous.

I think that this is sending the kids behavioral messages as to what a kid should be liking based on their gender. These type of aisles are reinforcing gender stereotypes. The labeled toys for specifically boys and girls send the message that certain interest, behaviors, and roles are meant for one gender. An example would be the toy construction tools in the boys section while the girls section had a cooking set. this can then leads to restrictions in skill types which children will miss out on. Just like stem related skills may be steered away from girls or construction toys preventing them from learning much more in this area. This can also affect one's career since children are influenced for long terms about interests and career choices based on gender.

The people modeling had flat stomachs, slim waist, long legs, and most tan people were modeling the bikinis while the pale people modeled any other clothes. There were also two photos of two different models with darker skin complexions.

While the models were pale slime and long legged, this can reflect the western beauty standards. It creates a beauty standard which is then reinforced by only show casting the same types of models on display. It makes society view this as the beauty standards and to be considered attractive and normal.

People have different body shapes and skin tones. When people constantly see that only a certain body shape and skin color is being used to model items, it can upset those who don't match that image. This is because it makes it seem like to be considered beautiful there is only one way you have to look. It can bring low self esteem, question ones worth, and pressure a person into changing themselves such as dieting or using products for skin lightening and cosmetic procedures.

These are big impacts on young girls and women who are given the message that to be deemed as beautiful you have to look a certain way.

Coming to think of it, there are many single parents know who are divorced raising their kid.

Based off the book, it hasn't been since 1968 when divorce started to be common. By the 1980s this rate slowly started to rise and by 2008 many single parents often the mom, would be stuck raising the child alone. These studies seem quite accurate to me because in school there were quite a few friends I had who had divorced parents. Around middle school many of my friends had parents who were divorced and they all lived with their mothers and would visit their dad. It seemed normal to me to have divorced parents and it even seemed better to have parents who were divorced because at that time, my friends had mentioned double the christmas gits, birthdays, and other gifts. This is showing how kids are also normalizing the idea of divorce.

It seems like divorce rates have been increasing as the time goes by. It's starting to become normal for people to leave their marriage because their happiness was not met by the other person. It shows how many people are willing to leave their relationship to fulfill one's happiness or needs. As said in the open stax reading, marriage was difficult because of stability especially with the first child. However this is able to show that it is no longer about stability, it's also about companionship, love and respect. Divorce is able to show how women are more likely to leave a marriage to increase independence which is swapping the gender roles. While gender roles are being challenged by women who are also seeking for independence, it is also reveling how family structures are evolving. The more children are raised, the more single parents there are and blended families.

This shows how in society there had been a social change creating new norms to be accepted just as divorce had become normalized.

Earlier eras would have women play important economic roles in a family. They'd help out on farms, small businesses, and they worked along men. As years passed women started taking jobs in factories. Women's labor became very important and necessary especially for those who were peasants. If you were to think about it, the feminist movement was around the 1960s and 1970s. However women's labor workforces became quite common around the 1800s. Women were already part of the workforce and had growing numbers in jobs because of expansions. Women were also chosen because they got payed less, quite polite, and patient. This made them easier to control which men looked for the most when hiring workers. They were also quite important when the men were off to war which increased the amount of women working in factories.

As a result, it is able to show how women have actually been in the workforce for quite a while now and it is not as recent as one may think it is. It has been a historical norm in which women have always been contributing to the economic inside and outside of their homes.

From this show, I think that it made me realize growing up that dads are supposed to be very carrying and overprotective of their daughters. I also realized that they had single parents which opened my mind to other family's only having a parent. The siblings argued with each other and they'd fight over sharing a room, what clothes to wear or wanting to hang out with friends. This show also made it normal to see siblings argue and fight with each other. The family wasn't perfect but they were happy. The family also had an uncle living over who was also very carrying over his nieces.

From this show I was able to get that a family doesn't need to have both parents, it can be a single dad who is loving over their kids and although the family does have some conflict erupt, they solve their problems through communication. It makes me realize that as long as I have loving parents and communicate then I'll be happy within my family. Lastly, the show made me feel better about having other family live over because it made it seem socially accepted to have an uncle stay over at a family's home.

For something to be considered deviant, it has to not be socially accepted. This can change over time. For example if you were to rewind the clock and go back a couple of years, tattoos would not be accepted. That action would be considered deviant because of the reactions of others. Having a tattoo now on today's time is considered normal, it is socially accepted and not many people would react shockingly. This would then considered that tattoos are accepted. While deviant is based on the reactions people give off. The reactions are also determined by the time period and whether or not that action is socially accepted.

It also ties into the cultural and historical context. Depending on what is appropriate within a culture this may vary between a person's reaction. Society has the power to shape the norm which explains why the labeling theory works so well, because society is what constructs a person's belief to determine what is right and what is wrong which leads them to decide what is considered deviant or what not.

But what I noticed was that even though what used to be abnormal became normal, I also realized that the survivors didn't act individually. They based off their decisions as a group. When they were deciding to eat the bodies, at first they were hesitant about the decisions. But as a group it showed how their moral reasoning were developed in a matter of desperate circumstances. They had also made a set of rules such as only eating those who had died. I'm noticing that although the survivors did eat humans which is considered odd to most people, they still tried to maintain the ethical frameworks. For example, in the chapter when deciding to eat other human beings, they discussed that it should only be the dead, no women, and they would try to avoid eating family members or friends of others first before any other beings. The survivors created a shared understanding that they should be taking this sort of action as something that is sacred and necessary for survival and not in a disrespectful or rude way.

It shows how people try to preserve some sort of moral order as best as they can. Rather than turning the actions into chaos, the people made system of orders an values in the situation they were in. And these survivors included consent, respect, and fairness. It shows how even if the social norms shift and the ethnics too, it is not completely lost when the tradition of society is gone. This is because it is built on top of that original platform (original tradition or norm) which was able to shape the new understanding of the new norms.

This Stanford Prison experiment was assigned to normal college students who would either be guards or prisoners. The students weren't given any training on how to do their roles and so that couldn't have been an influence on their behaviors. The college students also knew that this was only an experiment. Yet when the roles were given, those who were chosen as guards began to act cruel to the other members. They used their power to control, punish and humiliate other prisoners. This was not a rule or order given to the guards which said that they had to behave that way towards prisoners. They acted out that way on their own. They adopted behaviors that are typically associated with the real world guards.

This is able to show that the role itself can influence how people behave more than their actual own personalities. Just as shown through the example, guard vs prisoners, those who were ordinary people quickly changed their personality when assigned the role of a guard. The guards in the experiment didn't act mean because they were told to do so or because they're bad people. They acted that way because of the power that they were given and expectations that came with that role which influenced their own actions.

I think that this is able to prove how social roles and the environment that one is in can significantly influence behaviors, and people may act differently according to which ever position they are placed in, even if there are no rules to guide them in that direction.

Instead the staff members interpreted it as symptoms of mental illness. In the reading it mentions how those who would take notes would bee deemed by the staff members as obsessive behavior and those who were pacing the hallways were viewed as "nervousness." While these are normal actions that anyone may do, they were viewed as abnormal because of their label such as "schizophrenic" or "bipolar." The people are completely sane yet the hospital staff members tend to view every action they do as abnormal because they are in a psychiatric hospital. This shows how powerful psychiatric labels are. Once a person is labeled as mentally ill, others tend to interpret every action they do through a different point of view and it becomes difficult to prove otherwise.

Since I am talking about how strong labels are, this connects to the labeling theory. How when someone is given a label such as deviant or abnormal, then that label soon starts to define how society treats them or how they see themselves. Based on this reading, Rosehan's study is able to reveal how not only can labels describe a person's behavior but they can also shape behavior and treatment, which often leads to misjudgments and harm.

In this context, it would be the police officers behavior which may be viewed as violent or excessive to the public yet is necessary action or normal force to the officers. Within this chapter, certain types of aggression may not be seen as wrong and only to be considered as part of doing their job.

When using the police as an example, it connects to the idea that deviance is socially constructed. What is viewed as wrong in one context may be deemed as right in another, depending on the group of norms. This is similar to the police officers who's group have their own moral boundaries around the use of force boundaries which is shaped by their tough training, experience, and also the influence on other officers. When a police officer uses force to be able to maintain authority or even protect one selves, this action may be viewed as justified even tho if a civilian were to do the exact same thing they'd be considered assault.

This is important to noticing how power shapes the definition of deviance. The police often have the authority to be able to define their own actions as just or reasonable. This means that when some questionable use of force occurs, officers can be protected by internal norms and language which allows them to avoid public criticism or consequences. Showing that deviance depends on who you are with and what the social norms for that are are.

Usually people may hum to themselves but they don't sing aloud., This is why i found it unusual for a person who was not performing to be singing out loud in public. Another day there was a guy who blasted their speaker out loud in a cafeteria. I found this was unusual because most people don't play their music out loud for them to hear it.

The only time that this behavior would be exceptional is if it was a party with a guy blasting their speaker. In the case of the guy singing out loud in public, it would seem acceptable if he was performing to the public.

In the situation I was in, I thought that the person must have a disability or just be very unaware of their surroundings to not consider the fact that no one else around them does the same. Even though I found this weird, I did not interact with the person and just let them continue on with their business.

Looking at people who are wealthier than others, it was shown that people who come from wealthier families have better access to education. They often live in areas where their schools are better funded, better teachers, and also have a variety of clubs to be able to prepare students for certain topics. Their neighborhood is much safer living than those who are of lover income which sets them apart from others.

The people who are of low income are at a disadvantage because their living space may not be as safe as others, their schools may be underfunded and lacking in quality in comparison to others. This affects their education and may not be more open to as many resources than those who come from wealthier families. Not just considering there situation in schools but also considering the fact that when they are outside of school many low incomers have to work to support their family while also still having to study. This puts more pressure on them and affects their quality of being able to comprehend what they are being taught in school.

This shows how education is also affected by a person's gender. living area and their income.

An example that I have from the book is at the beginning of the chapter it mentioned how kids were sharing what they were interested in and bringing that item to school. The teacher then criticized a young boy for bringing a model of a gun. While this could also tie into conflict theory where the teacher has higher power over the kid, if you focus on functionalism theory it can also be perceived as a way where people focus on teaching kids the right from wrong and what is acceptable in school and what isn't. By doing so, it keeps in check the kids how one is supposed to behave and what they should and shouldn't like. It teaches the kids social norms and values.

The kids are also sorted out based on their behavior, performance and ability. A person's role in society is based off their skill,and so the teachers are sorting these kids out to put them into their positions.

By learning obedience, patience, and being able to complete tasks, the children are being socialized into expectations of the society. Because of this, it helps reduce chaos and it ensures for things to run smoothly. This way the children grow up into adults who can function within the structured institutions like school, workplaces, and governments.