Reflective Essay

Sociology to me was just a person that you could talk to that helps you with your problems. After taking this class, Soci 1125 it really showed me what it really is. Through the videos, social events, class discussions and lectures. I now understand the concept of sociology. Sociology is the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society or the study of social problems. Not only did I learn what sociology is I also learned a lot of things like what is society, what is ignorance, what is bracketing, what is critique, what is debunking  and what is obvious. For this essay we were told to pick one of the key concepts and recurring themes, I picked ignorance. In the beginning of the semester when I would think about ignorance, I would just think people that are stupid or dumb ignore whatever it is good or bad. Even though the answer that I thought was not wrong, there was more to the story, than just my answer. What is ignorance?  It is lack of knowledge or information. In our lecture, we also talked about it. It also can mean not paying attention to something, not aware of something, simply not knowing, not being made aware of by others and lack of desire to know about pretend not there or not real thinking it is not there. What I unearned was sometimes it is better to ignorance than listen. For example what is someone it talking about you to someone about your secret birthday party and you listen, it is not fair that they put so much work into planning it when you choose to listen than ignore because it would have been fun and you ruined the surprised. Another thing that I feel very powerful about is race and racism. I know that ignorance is a very powerful concept in both race and racism. In race. What is race? Now I got most of my definitions on Google and Wikipedia but race was hard to find without racism because race would be who is the fastest as in running. The best definition for race is on the internet is race regarding the common categorizations of people into different races. However, I think it is what your mother tough is because in dna blood etc. we are all the same. Anyways ignorance has a big role in race for example if you hear someone talking about black people are faster runners than white people instead of listening or telling other people,  staring a rumor in a way you could ignore. The other part to this question is racism. What is racism? Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race. In my words making fun of someone with a different race or background. You could ignore this one as well but I know that racism is not going to stop just by ignorance it has a deeper meaning to it. People that do it I think that their just jealous and not happy about their own race and have to make fun of others people lifestyle, culture ,food , tradition  and even the way they dress do their hair. This class had helps me in so many ways I would love to take it an again maybe even the next class to this one it showed me the meaning of society and how we as a society shaped this world to what it is today.

Participation – lecture #3 dialectic reading THE PHANTOM OF THE MYTH OF THE RACE AND THE REALITY OF RACISM

 

What question did the text/chapter raise?	How did the text answer this question?	How does the answer match our own ideas and experiences?
What is race and racism?	-          Are paradoxically different things -          Race does not exist at least in the scientific since. -          It is a chimera a phantom -          Racism however is a powerful reality an invention that is absurd illogical irrational and nonsensical -          Race is a figment of the collect imagination -          Racism manifests itself in a destructively powerful way -          Yet together the two are interdependent feeding upon each other -          Race and racism combine to make a powerful concoction poisoning human relation, maiming, killing and destroying people everywhere in both hidden and open ways -          Human invented concept -          How can that be your wonder Your eyes deceive you.	Dose not matter what colour you  are its WRONG.   Sometimes people appear to understand both the absurdity and the power of the twin notions as expressed in the things that they did.

Participation – lecture #2 dialectic reading WHO WILL BE LIBERIA?

What question did the text/chapter raise?	How did the text answer this question?	How does the answer match our own ideas and experiences?
What is insanity?	-          The us offered $50 million for the heads of sadden Hussein and his sons and accepts a cost of $4 billion a month to win the war of piece in Iraq.-          -almost $200 billion is the amount experts say the bush admonition will spend on Iraq in a world where 1.5 billion people live on the equivalent of less than $1 a day. -          You say that’s insanity I say it makes perfect sense in our Orwellian world and global jungle a world where immorality means morality where its right and where mostasdored phrase is each for himself and the devil for the hindmost.	I think that its fine the way it should be done.
What’s the global jungle?	-          Where might is right and compassion is doled out at the whims and caprices of the most powerful it makes perfect sense for billions of the dollars to be thrown at the axis of evil.	-Its scary to think about what money can do-where millions of children perish everyday around the world for lack of food and medicine.

Participation – lecture #1 dialectic reading NEGOTIATION, NOT RETRIBUTION

What question did the text/chapter raise?	How did the text answer this question?		How does the answer match our own ideas and experiences?
Who were labeled terrorists?	-Nelson Mandela -African national congress-In the war terrorism bush clams he is seeking justice. -as united stated launched its open ended attack on global terrorism the west should not be oblivious to the ever widening shams between the rich and poor nations between the haves and have not’s in their own backyards.		I think the U.S only did that because they had their own reasons. And for safety for everyone and their contrary now in the United States yet today he is described as an “international icon”.
What’s the history teaches?	To paraphrase the German philosopher Georg Hegel.		No one is their when it happens it’s all what everyone’s says
What does forgive and forget mean?	-And bush has temerity to look president Mugabe in the eye.-they want us to forgive the African holocaust-the European slave trade -the colonization -the balkanization -the pillage of the continents human and natural resources.	Things that happened long time ago cannot be done with a sorry to who when that person is not even here.

articipation – Illustration #5: “Coolest”/ Most Interesting Theme

 

Today in class we talked about symbolic internationalism ritzier seven principles humans have the capacity for thought human thinking is shaped by social interaction. people learn meaning and symbols in social setting meanings and symbols enable people to carry on uniquely human actions and interactions. People are able to change meaning and symbols human have the unique ability to interact with self-culmination of interaction and pattern of action make up society.  Than we talked about feminist theories different theories, stands of feminism have developed such as liberal Marxist radical and socialist feminism. Than we talked about a saying a slice of society at a time. It was double consciousness. There are two forms of political control domination physical and violent coercion hegemony ideological control and manipulation. Dominant ideas reflect interests of the ruling class and ask asocial inequality. Women and men should be social and political. Feminism in general Women experience differ from men in the same situation women experience less privilege than men

Participation – Illustration #4: “Coolest”/ Most Interesting Theme

 

The most coolest thing we talk about this week was critiquing symbolic interactionism fail to understand how difficult it is to change social arrangements does not address the importance of social institutions in defining the world we live and our opportunities. We talked about that for a while than we moved on to a video and in this video it was about how people just do what other people do just to fit in. it was crazy people where talking only on one colour and holding up signs that had nothing on them. I guess it was a very old movie it was in black and white the video was not really clear I mean to now a days. Than we talked about western Marxism Gramsci accepted marks analysis of class struggle but he diverged in his analysis of how the ruling class ruled. Than we talked about how people try so hard to fit into society. And even if they don’t know that person they will still care what the persons things of them and why.

Participation – Oral Submission sexism in research #5

 

Today in class, we talked about sexism in research. Margret either (1991) androcentric elicit when you think someone cares men are everything and women are not. For example, men are in the driver seat. Overgeneralization gender insensitivity double standard to be unfair to women sex appropriateness when someone down not care about both sex female and male. Families women are more carling for example house, kids and cooking. Their places is in the kitchen. Sexual dichotomist men can only do men things and women can only do women thing for example job wise.  Ethical research obtrusive versus unobtrusive methods policies are in place to protect participantsbtri council on ethics involving human subject. Ethical principles are essentially. Statements about right and wrong. Hawthorne effect working like you should. Informed consent risks for other protection of rights voluntary participation unobtrusive method and debriefing. The power of situation de invitation the power obedience conformity.