Deviance

This week is Sociology we talked about the word Deviance, meaning someone going against social norms. Like how someone walking to school today will be deviant because most people have cars or rides to school. We also looked at different articles from different time periods and saw how they differ from now. Going from that we got to watch another episode of Freak and Geeks. This episode focused on how easy it was and still is to get pressured into doing things. One of the main characters in the show was pressured into smoking for the first time. It didn't end well though, she became paranoid and didn't know what to do with herself. But, good thing she had a good friend to take care of her and help her baby sit that night.

Gender Roles

In the beginning of this week we talked about feminine and masculine ideas in society. The first half of the week we watched the movie "Killing Us Softly 4". The movie highlighted the dangerous influences the media has on women, and girls. They have to look a certain way to fit in with todays idea of beauty, when in reality the models on TV or magazines don't even look like that in real life. The scary thing is women see about 300 ads a day telling them how they should look! Later in the week we talked about how masculine boys and men should be. Men have a more narrowed of a rigid idea of how masculine they should be. Boys are taught if they're not tough, big, strong, and emotionless they are weak. But that's not the case at all and because it's been around for so long it's going to be a hard thing to change so quickly. The idea of how woman should be has changed drastically over the past 50 years and I think that it's possible for men to do the same. Possible, not definitely easy.

Nature vs Nurture

After reading and watching the documentary about children growing up without any regular interaction or affection made me think simply how can anyone do such a thing? Children left to live on their own, without guidance or any human interaction. They never received any parental love or compassion and left the children barely alive. As they got older, many of them were not capable of living on their own. For a child to develop into a healthy adult they need that love and affection, the nature of that is what will feed into their character and how they interact when they are older. This week was really interesting to me because I really didn't know a lot about how much of your personality is determined through what you received and have seen from ages 4-6.