. Likewise, a society’s formal and informal institutions socialize its population. Schools, workplaces, and the media communicate and reinforce cultural norms and values.
yes, this is true because, throughout different cultures society works in different ways and learn how to communicate and function differently.
Peer groups are important to adolescents in a new way, as they begin to develop an identity separate from their parents and exert independence.
the people you surround yourself with throughout your life play a huge roll in the way you develop your characteristics.
Family is the first agent of socialization. Mothers and fathers, siblings and grandparents, plus members of an extended family, all teach a child what he or she needs to know
yes I agree, family is the first component in how a person acts.
Sociology is most concerned with the way that society’s influence affects our behavior patterns, made clear by the way behavior varies across class and gender.
if society didn't control perception of different cultures and people, there would be no seperation.
For example, in 1968, twin girls born to a mentally ill mother were put up for adoption, separated from each other, and raised in different households. The adoptive parents, and certainly the babies, did not realize the girls were one of five pairs of twins who were made subjects of a scientific study (Flam 2007).
In psychology I learned something similar to this. Twins that are separated at birth still will have different physical characteristics due to how they grow up.
Whatever is distinctive about a culture must be transmitted to those who join it in order for a society to survive.
Yes I agree with the write because if there was no such thing as culture, every society would be the same. culture plays a huge role on how people act.
The ASA maintains ethical guidelines that sociologists must take into account as they conduct research. The guidelines address conducting studies, properly using existing sources, accepting funding, and publishing results.
I like the fact that they have guidelines they must go by. This truly helps to ensure that everyones safety is taken accounted for.
esearchers are required to protect the privacy of research participants whenever possible. Even if pressured by authorities, such as police or courts, researchers are not ethically allowed to release confidential information
I respect this. People will feel even more safe during the study if they know that everything will remain confidential.
The standard survey format allows individuals a level of anonymity in which they can express personal ideas.
People tend to find it easier to express their opinions and feelings on a certain topic when they are able to stay anonymous. It's easier to express yourself while hiding behind something so that you have no fear of being judged.
Hawthorne effect—where people change their behavior because they know they are being watched as part of a study.
I can totally relate to a situation like this. It's harder to "act natural" when your aware of the fact that somebody is watching over you.
Modern U.S. families may be very different in structure from what was historically typical.
I agree. The population has visibly changed so much as to what it was only a couple years ago.
Cultural patterns and social forces put pressure on people to select one choice over another
I completely agree with this statement. I truly believe that if the person was surrounded by a different culture or different people at the time of his decision making he would've had a different outcome.
r culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions.
The choices a person makes, i believe, is definitely influenced by the world around them. The people and community that surrounds them can play a big role on how they react to specific situations.
Why do we feel and act differently in different types of social situations?
I believe this is because people feel gravitated or more comfortable in one situation than another. Two people may be at a rock concert, but one person might be a bigger fan.
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result.
The person willing to commit suicide knows what he pr she in doing. They know that by doing what they do will have a certain outcome.
Is not the suicide's resolve usually explained by his tempera-ment, character, antecedents and private history?
Reasoning for ones suicide is a psychological issue. Having no fear in harming him or herself is a sickness. All this comes about due to other factors. Those include occurrences that happen in the persons life, how he or she feels about himself.
one current deba*te iswhether religiosity is growing in the United states or if it is declining due toincreasing secularization. I
I believe it is at a standstill, not increasing nor declining. Everyone will always have those super religious people in the group which will influence the less religious. The super religious balance everyone out. Yes, it may be a possibility that more people are falling out of religion and being secular, however i don't think its enough to classify as a statistic.
soci-ologists have Iong studied how religion affects the social structure and theperi.nal experience of individuals in society'
Religion most definitely affects your overall experience on life. Theres things that are allowed to be done as well as things that are forbidden. This plays a role on the structure of your day to day life.
Negro was incapable of government, or of becoming a constituent part of a civilized state. The fairest of these histories have not tried to conceal facts; in other cases, the black man has been largely ignored; while in still others, he has been traduced and ridiculed. If I had had time arid money and opportunity to go back to the original sources in all cases, there can
Why specifically negro not capable of government? its extremely racist for people to think and act this way. Many people are not given a chance because of the color of their skin and thats completely unfair.
The Negro is re-fused a hearing because he was poor and ignorant. It is therefore assumed that all Negroes in Reconstruction were ignorant and silly and that therefore a history of Reconstruction in any state can quite ignore him. The result is that most unfair caricatures of Negroes have been carefully preserved; but serious speeches, successful administra-tion and upright character are almost universally ignored and forgot-ten. Wherever a black head rises to
Judging a whole race based off of one person is extremely biased and unfair. The black man did not deserve that.
Ku Klux Klan, a secret organiza-tion which frightened the superstitious blacks.
The KKK was a group that targeted majorly blacks. They were extremely racist and wanted to wipe out blacks.
These men knew not only nothing about the government, but also cared for nothing except what they could gain for themselves."
Extremely selfish, acted impulsively without thinking about how other people would be affected.
Abolition of private property.
Communism says that all properties are public and available to everyone... no private properties.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Everything is based on the capital.
. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. 8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.
The basic rules of communism for the "basic society". Countries where majority is middle class.
he various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low leve
Making it harder for most people to-make money because machines and or robots will soon takeover, leaving majority of humans out of a job.
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.
Everyone is constantly looking for change and something new. majority is middle class.
It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
communist manifesto, switching out the old "social classes" for new ones, that will make change.
Domestic service ac-centuates the contradiction of race and class in feminism, with privilegedwomen of one class using the labor of another woman to escape aspects ofsexism.
Women of a certain class use the "power" that they have for being in said class to boss around the maids in "lower classes"
Manyprivate household workers are not included in the statistics collected by theDepartme.nt of Labor. The "job" involves an informal labor arrangementmade between twcl people, and in many cases payment is simply a cashtransaction that is ncver recorded with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Although this is wrong, if you think about it in the workers point of view this is positive for them. They come to the specific country looking for work, and they get a job without having to pay taxes. This is wrong in the eyes of the government however the undocumented worker comes out of the job with more pay.
nalysis immip;ration issues that increase the vulnerability of the women em-ployed as domestic
I like the way she is controlling her study. I think its a very substantial way to get the research done properly and get her point across. I like the way she is not getting into immigration issues because that is a completely separate topic in itself.
He interpreted my wasl-ring clishes with his maidas a symbolic act; that is, I was affiliated with /os de abajo.My behavior had been comfortably defined without addressing thespecific issue of maids.
The employer does not think he is doing anything wrong, he won't admit to it. He just gives definition to what other people are doing because it brings the attention off of him. I believe if he was confronted about his behavior he would feel uncomfortable. I believe thats why he's shifting attention off of him.
Juanita lookedat the toothpaste, shampoo, and soap with confusion; ih" -uy never haveseen generic products before, but she obviously knew that a diltinction hadbeen made
It sounds a bit like the employers are segregating or discriminating against the worker. The employer is making it visible to the entire family that this maid is subservient to the rest of the family. All this aside from constantly making her feel uncomfortable and making fun of her in a way.
she was extremety stry, and hertimidity was made even worse by constant flirting from her ".^ploy"r.
This seams to be extremely unfair towards the worker because as a worker, if she would like to keep her job, she may not be able to stick up for herself. Also, I feel as if its disrespectful to treat a young lady like that especially if she's working in your home.
It-is a quality of mind that seems most. dramatically to proE!_ise an unaerstanding of the intimate reali_;_ ties-of-ottrseivet"fu conne · ith lar er socTal realities.
agreed!
Inside a marriage a man and a woman may experience personal troubles,
when they have specific issues within the marriage its a problem. however when they get divorced and become part of the statistic of divorce rate, then they become part of the issue.
But when in a nation of 50 million employees, 15 million men are unemployed, that is an issue,
relatively the whole society is involved... this becomes categorized as an "issue"
Issues have to do with matters that transcend these local en-vironments of the individual and the range of his inner life. They have to do with the organization of many such milieux into the institutions of an historical society as a whole, with the w
speaking about society as a whole
Troubles occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others; they have to do with his self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly and personally aware.
mainly "troubles" occur with relationship[s with other people.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society
sociological imagination helps us to understand relation between history and biography. undertsnading this relationshop helps to undertand all the following.
Humanity itself now lies before us,
we need to take matters into our own hands. be responsible for ourselves
en when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer be-ginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis
always looking forward
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Any aspect of life can change at any moment.
if enough individuals change, then systems will change as well,
People to worry about themselves, not everyone else.
In other words, by making me aware that I am involved in something larger than myself, sociological practice gets me off the hook of personal guilt and blame for a world that I did not create and that is not my fault.
Acceptance.
Because white privilege is built into the system itself, I don't have to like it or believe in it or even do anything to receive it.
Its not up to you to receive the treatment of privilege . you just get in because of your social category.
we cannot explain that action simply by figuring out
this is why studying people helps you study sociology further. You cannot just go by statistics.
A suicide rate of 12 per 100,000 tells us nothing about you, me, or anyone else
It's just a statistic, it tells us no information about why people would think to do this.
12 suicides per 100,000 people.
That's very sad!
We might ask, for example, how this instance is related to living in a society organized in ways that privilege men over women, in part by not making men feel obliged to share equally in domestic work except when they choose to 'help out.'
Men dont feel as if thats their "job" because thats the way people made that system. If we lived in a community which shard jobs related to the children equally, there wouldn't be as much of a fight.
Neither people nor systems exist without the other, and yet neither can be reduced to the other.
the reason why we have systems is because people created them.
As a teacher, I'm supposed to treat my students the same, but as a father, I'm supposed to favor my children above other people's children
Must keep social systems separate.
n a similar sense, a society may be organized in ways that promote racist or sexist out-comes, but for these consequences to happen-or not-someone has to do or not do something in relation to someone else in the context of one social system or another within that society.
In order to have a specific outcome or consequence, someone has to do something right or wrong, which will lead them toward their positive or negative consequence.
I feel responsible to consider what to do about it
everyone should try to take matters into their own hands and eventually people will follow in their footsteps.
Colleges and universities have such positions as student, president, and pro-fessor, for example, but the position of 'mother' is not part of the academic system. People who work or study in colleges and universities can certainly be mothers, but that is not a position that connects them to those systems.
Examples of how social systems can differ.
We can think of the engine in a car as a system, for example, a collection of parts arranged in ways that make the car go
I like this analogy!
we are always participating in something larger than ourselves,
This is true, we cannot always see the bigger picture.
It is true that you cannot have a social relationship without people
In order to have a literal conversation or relationship there needs to be two or more people involved.
To reimagine ourselves, however, we first have to believe that we exist as distinct individuals apart from the groups, communities, and societies that make up our social environment.
Would have to imagine each person as their own individual. Not to classify anybody to any sort of group.
is to identify all the indi-viduals who might be inclined to carry out such act
Which really is impossible..
he same perspective argues that poverty exists because of the hab-its, attitudes, and skills of individual poor people
In my opinion, i think this is because they don't get certain opportunities because of their situation.
If there is racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, and other forms of privilege and oppression, it must be due to people who have a personal need to behave in racist, sexist, and other oppressive ways. If there is terror-ism in the world, it must be because of certain kinds of people-terrorists-who by their nature feel compelled to engage in terrorist behavior. And if the U.S. Congress can't get anything done, something must be wrong with the senators and representatives
Everyone always wants to blame someone else. Noone will every take the blame. When someone does something wrong and people call them out for it, the wrongdoer feels attacked and will never change or admit to his/her wrongdoing.
A major reason is that people tend to think only in terms of individuals, as if a society or a university were nothing more than a collection of people living in a particular time and place.
Many people just think that the world revolves around them, especially the easy privileged.
white people often withdraw into silence,
I feel this is because they aren't necessarily effected by it because of their race.
diverse groups are usu-ally better at dealing with problems that require creative solutions.
because everyone has different opinions
I believe that the choices we make as individuals matter beyond our lives more than we can imagine, that things don't have to be the way they are but that they will not get better all by themselves.
I agree!
I practice when I read the news or turn on the television or go to the movies. I practice when I walk down a street, shop in a market, or sit in a sidewalk restaurant and watch the world go by and wonder what life really is all about
From reading this i would assume that practicing sociology comes with just going through the motions of daily life, however, being aware of whats going on around you. Studying people and situations.