Chapter one was mainly
about how society affects people and how we interact with each other because of
it. How I see this one is babies, and what I mean by this is babies model or
try to model people in charge or around them the most. For example a baby
learns how to talk by watching the adult move their mouth, so the baby try to
move their mouth in the same pattern as the adult. Connect chapter two to
people saying light skin and skinny people are better than dark skin or fat
people. Society puts in the media light skin skinny people to show beauty and
now people, mainly African American people believe that’s what beauty is.
Society shaped the way people think by media and by controlling peoples’
thinking you control what they do. It’s more likely that dark skin people will
date light skin people, or want a skinny person because in society that is
beauty. Marriage is another good connection. A human we believe marriage is
love. Marriage is supposed to be about loving each other, but society has
taught us that you need a spouse with money, or something to offer other than
love in order for both of you to make it in society. Also society is in our
everyday life weather it’s good or bad. For example society and suicide, Emile
Durheins believes that people with strong social ties have lower suicide rates.
When I think about this I think about bullying. Many kid who are bullied have
low social ties because they are out casted by their bully and find life too
hard. These as well as social conflict and race- conflict approach make up
chapter one. Chapter two is sociological investigation. This chapter was very
interesting to me because it shows how much humans depend on society. For
example technology, does that mean countries with technology are better than
the ones without it? No but I bet they ones without technology have different
important than the ones with. Chapter two had many different parts but I felt
that this was the most important because it rounded everything up from
beginning to end. Chapter three is culture. Without culture there is no society
and vice versa. Every society has a different culture. What all this means is
that culture is our personal opinion as a whole society. In the real holidays
is a big one like some cultures do not believe in God but the society does. For
example in American we have many different cultures that do not believe in God
but our society as a nation does, just look at our money it says in God we
trust. Chapter three talks about two things that are made to understand
culture. Nonmaterial culture and material culture. Nonmaterial is ideas made up
by members of society, for example religious or spiritual rituals. Material is
physical things made by members of society, for example cell phones. Both of
these cultures worship the ideas or physical things.
Chapter four is about
society and the rise of humans. Mainly the sociocultural evolution, tradition,
social institutions, and anomie. Gerhard Lenski thinks technology shapes any
society and without technology no society will grow. I agree with this because
some society in Africa or Asia do not have technology or very little technology
and most still live in huts as well or shacks. Those society are not as developed
like America for instants. Also the control of people in society. Chapter five
is rounded off to you can control your own self. While also being influenced by
other things. I think of this chapter as peer pressure. Chapter six is how you
play or are placed in society. For example what is your status as a human? Are you
a mother/father, daughter/son, royalty, poor, and so on? These are just status
a person can be, it’s what you have no choice over. My status is daughter for
the most part, I had no choice in my birth or gender. Now your role is volunteer.
For example college student, what position at work you have, transgender, and
so on. The roles I play in society is college student. I choose to go to
college. Chapter seven is groups and organizations. These are groups that society
or people fall into. The organization are ones that society put people into. Like
social group are two or more people who identify with and interact with one
another. So this would be like AA meeting, the people in it all have the same
thing in common and are interacting because of it. For organizations, oligarchy
is the rule of the many by the few. This is like laws, littering or pet tags. These
laws are for everyone in America but made up by a few people.
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