Tinesha Deleston
Soc100 148
5/28/13


The article Sex In America: How Many Partners Do We Have? Written by Robert Michael, John H.Gagnon, Edward O.Laumann, and Gina Rolata, is about how human sexual behavior with numerous of different people have increased over time in America today. It seems to be the only way of getting this problem to subside is turning to the old traditional roots of marriage. Since more people have been getting married, less people have been having sex with a whole bunch of different partners. Having sex with a certain amount of people depending upon your age isn't necessarily bad. Being ashamed to admit how many partners you've sexually engaged with is a problem.
     Chapter 11 focus all on the issue of gender and sexuality. Specifically with in this chapter I read a section called Sexual Harassment. This section talks about the various forms of sexual harassment and what goes on in these different harassment cases. Sexual harassment has become a big problem in our society. This situation will keep increasing if we as people don't put a stop to it.
      Sex is the biological distinction between females and males. In contrast, gender refers to the socially constructed cultural expectations associated with women and men. What this means is telling the difference between a female and man and distinguishing the difference between each role that belong to whatever sex. Gender and sex is included in everything you say and do. These two things are what make us and life. Without sex and gender there wouldn’t be any people or world.                  
     

Tinesha Deleston
Soc100 148
5/27/13


The article The Hispanic Dropout Mystery: A Staggering 30 Percent Leave School, For More Than Blacks Or Whites. Why? written by Susan Headden, is about the large dropout rate among Hispanic teenagers in the U.S. and Mexico. The article states the different reasons why this is such as poverty, language difficulty, ill-educated or illiterate parents, and so on. This issue with the Hispanic Dropout has been a problem for quite sometime now. We went on so many years trying to ignore this horrible situation. The more we ignore, the more likely it will become harder and harder for the problem to diminish.

The video The Differences Between Us made by Prairie Wind, discusses the differences and similarities between different races. The video also talks bout the different thing that's done among these different sets of people. Race is a word that is used to distinguish one group of people from another. Race is what makes us the people that we are now. These are all the different things that's mentioned in this video.

Chapter 10 focuses all on different races and ethnicity's, and the different things that happened and went on with these different races of their ethnic backgrounds. In one of the parts in the chapter called The Civil Rights Revolution, talks about the struggles African Americans had to endure in order to receive the proper social justice they deserve. As a end result of that this is the reason why we have all these different advantages now that we didn't have 60 years ago. As you can see race makes the world go around in different places you would've never guessed it could go. Always remember race doesn't define who you are, but most of the times it can determine where you can go in life.                                      

Tinesha Deleston
Sco100 148
5/21/13


The article Cause Of Death: Inequality written by Alejandro Reuss, is about how the poor ( Which Are Manly Black People) in the United States have to go through social inequality because they have lack of education, not enough money, and not the best class status. Whereas the rich ( Which Are Mainly White People) have the upper hand with everything in our society because of their good wealth, class status, and education. He also mentioned how the poor are more likely to engage in crime and end up dead more than the rich because of how they were brought up, plus the environment that they live in. We as the citizens living in America are forced to believe this system that's set upon us as being true. The question is Is This System Really True, looking at it from a sociologist point of view? Honestly speaking this is a system that's meant to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer.
     Chapter 9 focus on the issues of class inequality, income, wealth, the U.S. class system, and the power that people hold in order to become apart of these different issues. One specific part that is mentioned in the chapter which is called Mapping The Major Classes, briefly talks about the different categories of classes that we ( The Citizens) are all under. Their is also a model of this U.S. class system that's giving in the chapter as well. These different classes makes up who we are now and 9 times out of 10 who we are going to be for the rest of our life. Although most of the time we tend to move up or down in these classes due to certain situations that may occur in our life.
     The video Opening Tease ( From People Like Us), Social Class In America made by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker, focus on issues of social class in America. You will see different people of whatever class they belong to judge others by their social status based on their appearances. Their wasn't any in between with the classes, it was either you're underclass, working class, middle class, or upper class. We live in a world based on assumptions upon people's class system that they belong to. This video is the perfect example of the stereotypical world that we live in today.               


                 

Tinesha Deleston
5/9/13
Soc100-148


                                                                              Deviance

We as human beings commit deviant acts everyday, no matter how small or big the acts are. If it goes against the basic cultural norms and expectations, then it's considered deviant. Deviance is based upon time, place, and setting, which is also man made as well. This means what ever bad acts that you commit has to be based on the time you do it, the place you do it at, and the surroundings you're in when you do this act. This also means that anything that you do, will be determined by you and whether or not you think the act is good or bad. The reason for this is because everybody see deviance in different ways. What maybe good to you may not necessarily be good to someone else. The things that we do are constantly being put to a test by us and others, and what can be deviant or not is always being judged.

1. The men that don't have any jobs to go to, no life, and stand on the street corners all day, are mostly the drug dealers. This is a deviant act because this specific act goes against the everyday norms in our community. In other words this specific kind of act would be called collective conscience.

2. Being LGBT is considered unacceptable in the world we're living in, because the norm is suppose to be people living a heterosexual lifestyle.

3. If you're a black man who committed a crime, you're going to be looked upon others as the typical black man who's always getting into trouble with the law. Not only would people think this of you, but you yourself will begin to have the same mind frame. The reason for that is because you know what the different stereotypes are being a black man in the United States, which is also the same as labeling theory.

4. Suppose a 50 year old man is dating a 15 year old girl and soon later have sex with her, but the man doesn't know the girl is 15 because she lied to him about her age and said she was 23 years old. The man eventually gets caught by the police and now he's in jail. Plus, he has to go register as a sex offender. This man is in jail for something he wasn't aware of and he know feels ashamed of himself because, he has to be called and looked at a title that he didn't intend to bring on himself. He know feels stigma in a act that wasn't tensional at all.

5. Interracial marriages are looked at as deviant towards others and the norms. The expectations from our society (Specifically Racist People) are, the same races should stick with only their race.

6. People that are on welfare are suppose to be deviant because, the norm is you waking up in the morning to go to a regular 9 to 5 job. Where you can make your own money and support yourself. Instead of looking for other people to give you handouts from the government and tax payers.

The article Positive Functions of the Understanding Poor: Uses of the Underclass in America written by Herbert J. Gans, is about how the poor is looked at as undeserving because they fail to meet society norms. The five functions that are listed in the article which are microsocial, economic, normative-cultural, political, and macrosocial are the five functions that the poor are categorize under. They say all these negative things about the poor, like what the poor need to do, and what the poor need should stop doing, but never looked at the fact that the poor people are the ones that's helping our world get better. To be honest we wouldn't have a world if it weren't for the poor. Politicians doesn't see it that way because their so focused on the negatives instead of the positives. This is the point that the article is trying to make on this situation about the so-called undeserving poor.

   
    
   
             

Tinesha Deleston
Soc100-148
4/22/13

                                                                         Socialization

In the article Parents Socialization Of Children written by D.Terri Heath talks about how parents in different countries raise their children. Also, how the parenting styles are different but also similar in parenting socialization of children across cultures. This article mentions that depending on the parent academic achievement and the way parents teach their kids, will depend on the child's outcome on success. Not only success, but just the values that the child has on life and their selves period. These are the different things that parents looked at and modeled, which ended upon their kids capabilities on life.

A Call To Men video made by Tony Porter, is about the many different ways men are socialized in our society today. Socialization has and always was a big problem of our world. Tony Porter brings this situation to light in his presentation and the effects of socialization. Society says that men have to be and do things a certain way in order to live up to the rules and expectations that are placed upon men to follow. If they do not follow these rules and expectations then they do not fit into our society. I'm going to give two examples from the video that he gives to us, as examples on this so called rule of socialization.

One of the things he talked about in the video was when his daughter would cry to him. Normally when she does this he wouldn't make a big deal about it. He would just comfort her and tell her to stop crying. On the other hand when his son would do the same thing he would have a totally different approach on the situation. He would get mad and tell him to toughing up and that men don't cry. Another example he gave us is when he was talking to a 12 year old boy who's a football player, and asked him how would he feel if the coach said he was playing like a girl in front of the team. The boy said he would feel destroyed in side. These two examples show that theirs socialization towards men. It also shows how women are treated different than men through socialization.

Killing Us Softly video made by Jean Kilbourne, talks about the depiction of women in the media. Women of today and even 30 years ago are constantly being socialized through ads and commercials. The women who are in these ads and commercials don't even know their being socialized because they feel their just doing their jobs for the company they need to do their ads or commercials on. Little do they know these acts that they are engaging in is a form of socialization. Jean Kilbourne shows different ads and commercials in which ways women are experiencing socialization.

In the presentation she discussed how women are seen as objects instead of human beings because the way they portray themselves in these different pictures. It's all in their poses, their facial expressions, what their wearing, and even the captions that's placed on these different ads. Women are seen more like sex symbols than they are seen as actual women. She also show a commercial on the alcohol beverage called Miller. In this commercial you specifically see a girl who is slender build, tall, white, wearing a short sleeve belly shirt, long spaghetti strap heels, a mini skirt, and she has the bear bottle in her hand, and she was walking in a large car parking space with a whole bunch of cars around her. The girl in this commercial suppose to represent how women are suppose to look in order to fit in what we think is socialization in our world.

Both Killing Us Softly and A call To Men videos relate to chapter six because it deals with the idea in which ways that we as men and women are being socialized. Chapter six shows us different ways that we are expose and influenced to socialization. One of the examples that this chapter gives us is socialization through media. This idea relates both to the videos that I previously just mentioned. This small part in the chapter  called Media, talks about how we internalize what the media projects to us and what we do with the information we possess. Media can be a reminder of how much a person or even our selves have power, the ability to have oppression towards others, and the enforcement of socialization.

The Retro Wife article written by Lisa Miller, is mainly about a feminist women named Kelly Makino, who choose to be an old traditional housewife, over being the average working women of today. Women of today's society are working, and have the best jobs that you can possibly name. Their are a lot of women who have better jobs than men, and are making more money than men are. Kelly Makino started as a working mother who graduated college with big dreams. Soon enough everything went out the window when she decided to become a housewife to her family. About almost 60 years ago being a housewife was part of socialization. This was women jobs at this time, women enjoyed and embraced this kind of work. These beliefs, values, and norms that was opposed on women of being a housewife had became quickly diminished over time. A women who was like Kelly in 1950, were fitted into the world of socialization. Women indeed was being socialized. Kelly thinks nothing of being a housewife. She actually prefer and like being a housewife. I'm quite sure theirs a lot of women who would do or did the same thing that Kelly did, and who would feel the same way she would. Although this might of been socialization in the 1950's and probably still is today, theirs a flood of different perspectives on this idea of socialization. Kelly Makino shows and states her ideas on it through being a housewife.

They say women have to look like this, in order to have the perfect body!

                 


They say men can't be like this, in order to prove to himself and others that he's a man!

                                  
             


         

Tinesha Deleston
4/1/13
Soc100 148


                                                                              Power
Power is the ability to bring about an intend outcome, even when opposed by others. Oppression means the exercise of tyranny by a ruling group. Both of these words have something to do with domination over someone or something. In the article FIVE FACTS OF OPPRESSION written by Iris Young, talks about the five different types of oppression which are violence, exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, and cultural imperialism. All five of these different "faces" deals with the issue of power and oppression, and the ending results of this topic is inferiority, non acceptance, abandonment, alienation, xenophobia, and isolation upon the people of our world today. All of these five elements are a big problem in our society today and is slowly being examined by people as time go on. In the video called The Milgram Experiment tested by Stanley Milgram, Shows how a group of individuals was put to a test on Obedience to Authority. Some of the people from the group portrayed themselves as teachers, and the others as the learners. The learners was hooked up to this machine that gave out electric shocks. The teachers had to ask the learners questions, how ever many times the learner answered the questions wrong they will get zapped each time with a higher amount of volts by the electric shock machine. The teachers didn't want to go through with the experiment because they felt guilty that they had to cause the learners pain. One of the teachers from the group dropped out from the experiment because he felt he was really  hurting the person he had to zap. The teachers was mandated to follow the rules and regulations that was giving to them without any questions or personal thoughts they had on the situation. This situation brings me to the teaching of oppression and power, which chapter 5 is all on. One of the problems that is discussed from this chapter is The Intersection Of  Race, Class and gender. This briefly talks about how race, class, and gender are unequal to society and the chapter gets a little more in depth in to the dimensions of inequality. As you can see the article, video, and chapter all have something to do with power and how people with power can be oppressive towards others. I'm in away is going through the same thing because I live under my grandparents roof, and they have the authority to tell me what and what not to do. They could even tell me to leave their apartment at any giving time because of the fact that this is their property and I'm over 18 years old. I would have to respect and listen to anything they say or ask me to do, even if I don't recommend or agree with it.                                                      

                                                              My Culture                  
  1. Folkways- This is the type of food that my culture eat on certain holidays like New Years, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. Most of the times we would eat this just on a regular night for dinner.

2. Culture Lag- Tweeter has become a new creation to our world. This wasn't intended for anything or had no purpose on being part of the Internet by anyone. Tweeter was created by someone who thought it would be easier to follow up on people and their thoughts.

3. Mores- Long Island Ice Tea is one of my favorite alcohol beverages. When I have those long days or I might be a little stressed out about something I turn to this for comfort. That is the positive side to this. The negative side is if someone or I get caught on the street drinking this, you can get into trouble by the police. Or even if you try to purchase this in a liquor store and you're under 21 years old you, the cashier, and the store owner can get into serious trouble.

  4. Culture Shock- I do this with my family before we eat dinner at the kitchen table. If someone were to right away dig in they food, without waiting for someone to say a prayer so we can all prey together, me and my family would look at you like you're crazy.

  5. Beliefs- I'm a Jehovah's Witnesses, and theirs certain rules and regulations that we have to follow. Life for example, we have to wait to have sex before we get married.

6. Society- Normally in the summertime, my cousins and I would sit in the park in our neighborhood and enjoy the beautiful weather outside. Sometimes in the neighborhood park we would through cookouts. We would have a lot of food and there be music playing so loud that everybody in the different buildings could hear it. We always have fun.

7. Norms- When my brother or I got got disrespectful towards my parents, they would yell and sometimes hit us so hard that we would know never to disrespect them again.

8. Behaviors- My family and I have the tendency to yell when we're drinking, trying to make a point, or is very upset about something or somebody.

9. Knowledge- The Civil Rights Movement is the reason why I get to sit in a classroom with different people from different racial backgrounds.

10.Value- About almost 60 years ago women had to be housewives for their families. Now women are partners of Law Firms or own different types of companies.