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.      

    

    

  



                    




   














                                                                  

Tinesha Deleston
3/6/13
Soc100 148


Chapter three and the article Teenage Wasteland are similar because they both deal with the issue of culture. Teenage Wasteland is about how four teenage boys was found dead in a car, it turns out that they weren't murdered but that they all committed suicide together. Apparently when the news got out to the community, the community thought nothing less of the situation. They thought that the boys were lose less teenagers who had no goals or ambitions with their life. In other words they were all losers. The community thought this because of the type of music they listened too, the certain type of clothing they were wearing, and the different types of hairstyles they had. In that type of community they were known to be weird, low lives, and hard around the edges. This was the assumption all because of their music and appearance. Now chapter three focus on culture and the different elements that consist of culture. Culture are our values, beliefs, knowledge, and norms. The people in the community thought that the boys wasn't normal because they expressed themselves differently than others did and because they weren't the typical Harvard looking guys. The real question, is What is normal? Is wearing baggie jeans, with some Ugz boots, and a Doo-Rag on your head not normal. Or is wearing a uniform, with a vest that says THE UNIVERSITY OF PRINCETON COLLEGE, and a black pair of shoes normal. This society has their own beliefs on what's normal and what's not. When you look at the situations for what it is you begin to ask yourself, Are these theories true? For example, the boys listened to thrash metal, had shaggy haircuts, and wore lots of black and leather. This is called Symbolic Interactionist Theories, the reason for this is it symbolizes a bunch of kids that was dropouts and druggies. Just think, this doesn't necessarily mean that. It might just mean that this is all apart of their culture. Your culture is you, and they were just being themselves. Everyone is different because of what their culture make them out to be. Not everyone is your typical Spelman university person. Being a Spelman university college student doesn't make you normal. It just makes you different from the next party goer you may know. To be honest nothing in the world we do is normal or not normal. It's just different. What's regular to you may not be regular to me.