Crash

Ludicacris's character (during the beginning of the movie) was talking with his friend about how white people automatically think him a thief just by the way he looks, and the color of his skin.

The young caucasian couple (the woman mainly) was walking down the sidewalk with her husband, and coincidentally locked her arm or her hand within her husbands as soon as both her and Ludicaris made eye contact. The young man (played by Ludicaris) showed that to his friend as fear stemmed from racisim. He told his friend that she thought he was a theif/gansta and held on to her husband out of fear, not love. Ironically, the young man and his friend stole the car from that couple only a few minutes later

Last Social class blog

The privileges that wealth carries are seemingly immense, and they certainly give you great head start. It's a get out of jail card, a "hall pass", and also a nearly impenetrable safety bubble. When you have the money to back you up in a court case, depending on how clean the stem is, you can pay the judge or a member of the jury for your innocence, and if you do wind up in jail, you or your family can literally pay your way out of jail. Also, unlike the rest of the flock, you don't always have to justify your cause, like in school, a student "hall monitor" wont question a faculty member, they know that faculty are superior..but another student on the other hand, they'll ask to see their pass, because they're smaller. Nothing can really hurt you when you're rich, you have access to great hospital care, you won't necessarily be alarmed by a slowing down of a business, something breaks, it's fixed. Being wealthy is almost like being handed immortality.

Sociological factors behind different marriage rates

A person's family structure growing up, their environment, differing maturity rates, women who don't want to lose their freedom, men who just simply want to play around for a bit and not yet ready for the responsibilities of commitment. Also the decline of blue collar jobs, the increase of STD's, and one's economic efficiency; cause if you cant bring anything to the table and provide, then it's just not going to work. All of these can be why the marriage rates differ so drastically in the U.S

Shaw quote interpretation

What Shaw means is that some characteristics that somebody has can make them highly respected in one group or "class" of people, while that same quality could be seen as a negative or peculiar in another. For example, an agressive real estate developer with an aggressive sanitation worker, both have the same qualities, but both are judged differently. That's because real estate developers are expected to be aggressive, and society requires that attribute for that particular job, but not for sanitation workers, they're not seen as people who are supposed to be aggresive, their field of work does not require that quality, and society does not demand that trait from them or their job.

Deviance

Punishable deviance has usually, almost always been a social construct. Negative deviance will always have "punishment" types of outcomes. Punishable deviance has always been apart of human society, not only because it locks up potentially dangerous people, but it separates the "lower classes" from the "higher classes." In the U.S, regulation of this type of deviance is very bleak, besides officials arresting people and locking them up in "correctional facilities." As sociologists, the penitentiary system is basically saying "we don't care, we get the money to store your "trash" and that's fine with us". Because how many jails or correctional facilities actually try to HELP the inmates that reside within them? How many try to help them conquer whatever problems that they might have? Because sitting and rotting in cell is definitely the only thing that's going to help.

Final blog for the second six weeks

1. Both nature and nurture had an impact on my life choices and how I make my decisions. I want to be a writer when I grow up, my mom keeps telling me that she knew I would be a writer. She told me that when I was little, I would write these poems that were very advanced for my age, and that I would make up really creative stories (I was three years old by the way), and she would buy me alot of cute little notebooks for me to write my stories in. I remember that when I was in elementary school, my teacher would read alot of short story books, and she had us do, both for projects and in class work, to write our own short stories. Alot of people I knew wrote and read lots of books, which were people who were a bit older than me. And I was always being told that I was really creative, and had really good ideas, and I would also see stories in everything.

2. Social status power is important to almost all adolescents because it's the only power we have that makes us closer to obtaining adult status, and the only thing that we have actually receive power in.

3. The socialization process is more difficult for children today than in previous generations because of the fact that there is a huge gap among children and adults, and that they have no real place in society, making it harder for them to mature socially. Also, socialization in this generation may be harder due to the large advancements in technology. With all these social networks online and reality T.V, kids don't tend to realize most of the things they see on T.V don't really happen, and that talking through a computer isn't really the same as actually talking to somebody, unfortunately, these factors can "bleak en"their social lives, which slows the socialization process.

4. One of the major gender differences in socialization is the way we are taught to behave, or how our society expects us to. Boys are taught to be 'manly' and not to show emotion (crying), whereas girls are taught that showing emotion is ok, it is socially acceptable. i remember that when I was younger (like maybe 9 or so) a boy got frustrated and started to cry, and the teacher didn't do anything but say "oh try to go back to work". But when I started to cry because I messed something up on my little project, BAM! The teacher comes over and talks very calmy and soothingly to me, (and i think the teacher might've given me a hug also) and helped me on my project, but of course, the boy was left alone, being expected to toughen up.

Video game violence; Happy or Tragic?

Oh the sweet world of video games! (which may be, unfortunately, not so sweet.) Video games are considered by most to be a separate universe. You can put yourself in a completely different world, where you could get away with almost anything-from mass killings to murder, to blowing up buildings, and even torture; taking people hostage. Sounds great, right? Not to mention the fact that you are immortal, you die for one second and bleed to death, wait a few minutes and what do you know? you get right back up again! Now, if only things can really get that simple..

Now, at certain, younger ages, children tend to be more absorbent than their preteen/ adolescent counterparts. What I mean by this is that the brains of young children are still going through the early stages of development. If you were to see and compare a scan of a young child's brian to maybe lets say a 16 year old, for example, you can easily pick out the differences in the size and in the amount of squiggly creases. Younger children's brains (children 3- five), don't have as much of those squiggly creases; making the brain more "spongy" and more absorbent to new information.

Little kids don't know any better, because they're still so young and developing, and that's what makes video games both happy and tragic violence. It's happy because, lets admit it, video games are enjoyable, they're fun. But however, as teens and adults, we know for a fact that the type of "world" that's portrayed through video games isn't like our world at all. Little kids will assume that the fictional, three dimensional world they're seeing on the T.V screen is really what happens in their real, not so three dimensional world. Which can actually make some kids act out what they see. And depending on the video game, that can be and/or become very dangerous. That's where the tragic violence comes in, because the impact video games can have on kids is/or can be aviodable.