Modernization

In class this week we watched the documentary about teaching women of lower/3rd world countries how put together a solar panel and make light through solar energy in their villages. Also so they would be able to teach other women to construct a solar panel and so on. This reminded me about Feminism a lot and how they are westernizing these countries with having women go to work and be the income for the families instead of the fathers. Which in the Western regions is has become very popular for women to be the main income in families.


I feel as this picture shows that women work and show more power and strengths no matter how much money they bring in they still will be more powerful and show up the man.

Fear-- Pit Bulls

I wanted to talk a little bit about the fear topic we have touched on. I picked the fear of pit bulls. It is a good topic for me to talk about because I myself have one. This is really similar to things and issues we as people in society have in people. Just like poverty is looked at by media sources as we have talked about before, pit bulls are looked bad with media sources as well. The breed pit bulls have been a big fear upon the U.S for a couple years now, due to reports of attacks or dog fighting. But little do people remember the good of this breed and how they were know as the family dog back in the day, as shown in the movie The little rascals. Also every breed has their own defects just as all people have bad things about them.

I found this article about the fear upon a pit bull attack the media used

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/anne-murray-pit-bull-attack_n_4266737.html

Also I just want to share this picture from the movie The Little Rascals

Symbolic Interaction

In class we talked about the news report we watched on obesity. Which really opened my eyes once again to what society does to people, and how we judge people on this type of interaction with them. Society shapes so much in our lives. Just as we were watching the news report they decided to only show the healthy fit peoples whole body, while they would only show the obese or overweight peoples body from neck down. This is wrong in many ways, because why if one person is different should they not be shown fully, are we trying to make them feel bad about who they are? Yes I agree obesity is caused by peoples habits and such... but what about those people who are born with thyroid issues or other medical issues that they can not help their weight. Also when they pin pointed and picked the states that were the most obese and then the ones that were the most fit to compare to each other to compare, which yes you need something to compare, but the issue just how we turn each one of these comparatives into a interaction between the things socially, and it sticks with it for a long time. We are now just going to socially accept that because of this news report people of Colorado are all fit and people of Mississippi are all obese and overweight. This is shaping peoples perception of how people of the south are, which is symbolic interaction.




Here is example for vegetarian people, and how we have symbolic interaction about one vegetarian they must all be the same. So what i get from this is that if you eat no meat you will be skinny like all the other vegetarians, which is just a symbolic interaction theory because most vegetarians are not skinny because they do not eat meat.

Sociopoly

When we played Sociopoly in class and I was in group one which was the Minority groups and I had the lowest rate of poverty which were the African Americans. This really opened my eyes how society today is so unfair for people who are already in poverty. In the game it was so hard for me to get around the board without getting finned or paying rent or going to jail. Life was getting ruff and I tried so hard but felt like I was never getting a break. Even when I would get a chance card it would be a bad thing on the card like owe money to another team or go to jail. It felt like the world was against me. This reminded me about part of the reading 29 where they were talking about the African Americans going to jail and having higher rates of jail time, and one thing that they made a conclusion on was that they are committing more crimes, and they are prone to more crimes because of the environments they are in and the communities that they live in are making it easier to commit a crime and even if it is a smaller crime they will get blamed and punished more then any other individual.

Gender within the Classrooms

As I was reading the readings assigned to us for class, Reading 22 really caught my eye, specifically because I myself work in a preschool and see the day to day interaction between the teachers and students, either boy or girl. I didn't have a chance after reading this to actually look and observe the preschool I work at and see if it can relate to this reading, but I definitely will be next time I am there. This reading really caught me off guard because I never thought of this being actually a thing in a classroom, but it does make sense. As is said in the reading one teacher treated a girl student differently because she can be fragile and doesn't want her to cry or feel sad about doing wrong or something not right. I was just blown away because the way I think of it is, they are a student and need to be disciplined and told what is wrong if it is wrong no matter there age or gender. Yes i agree the way you approach to tell the kids they did wrong is different for every kid, but never the gender, I don't see how a preschool age kid should be treated differently because of gender.

This picture is a great image to show how each Gender is and how it reflects the class room.

Reverse Racism

I thought it would be only right to write this weeks blog about Reverse Racism, due to the lack of understanding most people have about it. What I have learned is that Reverse Racism is not even a thing, it is not possible to have Reverse Racism in the USA right now in this time. What Racism means is when a group or race type gets brought down and discriminated against in a huge group setting as general and treated not equally as everyone else. For example the easiest group to talk about is the African Americans and how they were traded badly and suffered from racism in the United States and other countries, they as a group were treated for years badly and had to fight racism for many many years. This is considered a group that suffered from racial discrimination as a whole and has still impacted them to this day. Now when white people or Caucasian people complain about Reverse Racism it really is not racism at all. It is only the white people not getting what they already have access to. they never had to as a group be neglected to certain things and so on.

This website I found gave me a lot more insight about Reverse Racism and how it is not a real thing and explains it really well, and makes it very understandable. I found it to help me a lot to grasp this concept.

http://feminspire.com/why-reverse-racism-isnt-real/

Matrix Of Domination

I really like the meaning of the NEW and modified model to this theory. The old meaning was so detailed and non realistic many people could not even identify with it, because of the specifics it had within it. While the new model of this theory is more broad and open ended so many more people can relate to it. For example as we talked in class that the new model is easier for people nation wide to identify in, even with different social structures or environments they can still place themselves within the model. This is so important for a person to be able to identify where they are placed in society and not only that but to identify as someone and find their selves with in the society, making them more meaning full and important in the world today.


This picture I found shows many examples of the theory and who all plays a role in it and how they can be categorized. It is much more broad than the old models definition and it really plays a huge role in many peoples lives. They can more easily identify with groups rather than not belonging to one at all.

Social Identity Theory

The Social Identity Theory is very important to a persons life, and shapes one to be who they are. A great example of this theory is the video we watch of the Baptists church. The wife of the family had 11 kids. Each kid is getting brought up to just like their mother. a "fag" hater and so on. They know of everything else as being bad, and a sin, even if it isn't they are told pretty much that anything the family doesn't do is bad, and your not allowed to do anything that you want if it is against what they believe in. These kids have only one social example to live by and to shape their identity. Unfortunately they can't even choose which social groups they want to identify with, only their families and church.

Social Identify Theory is a very important role for a person to adapt to. Most people will adapt to a group that they can identify with and they will pick up the traits and beliefs as the group shows, and follows. Like I have stated this is very important to shape a persons life.

Here is a video showing how kids use Social Identity theory to identify themselves. I think this is a way for them to choose a group they want to identify with and then start doing what the group norm is to do. This is a great example. Also it shows all the different types of groups and how they identify each group as different because they do not have the same norms.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga4Zr7P25o0

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

In class we did an activity about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality and discussed in groups what we would define each as and answered a few more questions on top of the subject. This got me thinking a lot because the word Sexuality my group had was very confusing to my group and I because the book would go back to it being a big part of gender. So as we are answering the questions and getting into further conversation about the word and meaning sexuality we found multiple means from multiple views and perspectives of what angle your coming form. To further understand the meaning Sexuality more and really deiced if it is only romantic or not I went on YouTube and found this video that better helps me understand the meaning of Sexuality and also Sex and Gender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAoG8vAyzI

This video pretty much explained to a T for me. Which I now understand that All three of those words are really all based off of Gender Roles in the long run. We would like to say sometimes gender roles have no meaning in a topic of what sex you are but, really we use gender roles to identify the sex of a person. We also use gender roles to form someones gender in society, and also ones sexuality is often based off of gender roles and where one person grew up and learned to be the person one is. It is all generally one meaning that we as people but into categories.

Inequality in Gender

After touching on the topic about gender roles and inequality within gender, it really made me think a lot about it. Especially the conversation about Google and the search box. We talked about how when we would type in women should... or women shouldn't and men should or men shouldn't and what would come up. I was a little shocked when I saw such gender inequalities pop up under the search suggestions. I maybe shouldn't have been shocked, but I was. These search suggestions consisted of men being in control and being able to do pretty much anything they wanted to do, and women were basically talked about not being able to do anything in this society,but care for the household and children. This topic reminded me of a riddle one of my friends had told me about inequality between gender. So I looked it up on Google and found the exact riddle.
http://www.bethehero.com.au/index.php?id=29

I myself read the riddle again, and still immediately thought the surgeon is another dad that the boy had thinking maybe step dad, I even thought that he could have gay parents who were both men. Never did I really think again that it was his mom. It is so odd how we have been shaped sometimes to think that gender roles are real and only for that one gender.