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.