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Chapter 9 Global Stratification

now chapter nine here talks about stratification on a global level involving all societies and their inequallities and its all divided into three levels high,middle, and low income countries in which most countries are mid to low income and almost obviously high income countries take advantage of and for the most part worsen the problems in these countries just so that they wont have to do much of the work to enjoy thier leasurly life style

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Chapter 10 Gender Stratification

chapter ten covers an issue that i am deeply invested in which is where men and women stand in terms of equallity which i believe that we should all be equal because one place in which equallity can be shown is sports now dont get me wrong i dont mean boys are better or that girls are either at any given sport what i mean is that man or woman can excel in sports equally and that either can be superior its all up to their own skills. there a great many things that caught my interest in this chapter like how there are a great many movies and stories that continue to advance the separation of equallity for women like twilight in which the female protagonist is helpless and the male protagonists due all the work and have all the power. ultimately i dont think that any of this sexism is right and that a more equal world would be best for humanity

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chapter 6 Sexuality and Society

chapter six is very interesting in that what we conceive as sexually acceptable here in america is a taboo in another country. its crazy how sexuality and society are together in ways that i think most people dont even realize because simple things like the way a girl may dress or style her hair can be interprited as a form of sexuality. one of the things that really got me was that the United States is viewed as a very sexual country because of our views of beauty, style, and life in general when compared to other countries like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, and many other countries within that region because Saudi Arabia for example doesnt allow women to show their face, hair, or even any skin aside from their eyes to anyone except for their man and even then only within the confines of their house. its just funny how we view other nations as strange or weird because of their practices and forms of sexuality when they see us in the same way because there really is no norm for the world.

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chapter 7 Deviance

deviance can differ from one country to another and it can be anything as simple as not covering your face to as severe as murder and thats what chapter seven has shown me. the lesson i learned from this chapter is to greatly appreciate the civil freedoms that i get as an american and to fight hard to protect those freedoms from those who would take it away because there is no other place in the world where you can express yourself as well as you'd be able to here. there are many countries where if you so much as say something against the government your gone and there are others where you life is dictated by a government that wont allow any form of expression. what i also learned from chapter seven is that there are many forms of deviance and that something as simple as wearing a certain type of hat could be registered as an act of deviance which goes to show that its not just action but also intent.

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Chapter 8 Social Stratification

chapter 8 talks about Social stratification now at first i had no idea what social stratification was well at least by name at least. now social stratification is pretty much how we place each other on the social latter whether it be at the top middle or bottom and in every society the positions are the same but the way in which you are placed is different, for example some societies like america its all about the money in that it success is dictated by how much money you have where as in other societies like in most asian societies its about age and wisdom. the interesting thing is that not all of america is the same because there are some places that your position may be determined by the kind or malicious deeds of a person it all really depends on what social structure it is that your looking at how the rank.

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Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Things that I learned in Chapter 4 are that roles and statuses are different, but they work together. A status is a social position that a person has, like a police officer, or a janitor. A role is what to be expected of a person who holds that status (police office is expected to uphold the law, and a janitor is expected to keep a building clean and orderly). Just how they work together,  they can just as easily work against each other. For example, you can have conflict between roles that are connected to two or more statuses. Multiple roles that are connected to a single status can sometimes cause tension between each role. For example, the status of a mother has multiple roles. The nurturing role of a mother is to care and provide for their child; the disciplinary role is to teach right from wrong and punish when their child has misbehaved; the friendly role is to ensure their child is to confide in them and let them know when or if they need anything or if anything happens to them. When a child misbehaves, it can put a strain on these roles.

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Chapter 2: Culture

In Chapter 2, I learned that there are multiple ways to define culture and that there are far more cultures than I originally thought. Of the ways to define culture, there's non-material culture, material culture, subcultures, countercultures, and culture-shock. Non-material culture consists of music, dance, and other things that are not in a physical shape. Material culture consists of foods, art, and other physical items that represent a culture such as a flag. Subcultures are smaller cultures within a general culture. Countercultures is pretty similar to subcultures, and actually falls under subcultures; however countercultures are the groups that are against the majority and want to try and make their group the majority (i.e., ravers, potheads, anarchists, etc). Culture-shock is the mixing of cultures. An example of culture-shock is when you go to a country you've never been to before and you get an unsettling feeling of not fitting in so well. Another thing I learned is knowing that America is the melting pot of cultures, I already knew that there were quite a large number of cultures; but I had no idea that there were in fact 300 different languages spoken in America -- each with its own culture. In addition, there are 7,000 languages spoken globally, each with their cultures tied together.

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Chapter one: Sociology -- Perspective, Theory and Method.

So from what I get from this chapter is pretty much that is that there are different sociological perspectives. For instance there's the way cops (those pigs) view society, and how the average people view how we function in society are different from one another. Another important thing I learned in this chapter is how this world that we live in with the technology we have has given us a global perspective, allowing us to see the inner-workings of other societies and comparing them to our own. The methods to do this are from the three sociological methods/approaches: Structural-functional paradigm, social-conflict paradigm, and symbolic-interactive paradigm. Structural-functional, or system's approach, is pretty much viewing society as parts of a system and how they work with each other. Social-conflict deals with the conflicts in society through differences in gender, inequalities between men and women, conflicts with race, and inequalities between races and ethnicities. Symbolic-interactive is divided into two segments: macro-level orientation, which is the understanding of society as a whole through symbols and micro-level orientation, which is the understanding of society as an individual through symbols.