Final Blog

Who am I? I am a man who is now sociologically mindful, and more open to new ideas. I  learned a lot from my sociology class like about culture, media, social class and race. I have stopped myself from listening to stereotypes of people. Also not to judge people by what they wear, eat, or do because it might seem weird to me but in their culture it could be perfectly normal. I am now more willing to spend some of my hours helping people less fortunate them me because my service hours taught me how my little help can help a lot of people. I finally realize who the biggest influences in my life are, and those are my parents because they have shaped who I am today. They are the ones who taught me everything I know and they constructed my beliefs and my culture. I have learned a lot from this class and was my favorite class of the year. So if you ask me who I am now, I will answer saying, I am a man with an open mind, will not judge, and someone who looks at the world with a sociological mind.

Crash

The past couple of days in class we have been watching a movie called Crash and it looks at explicit and implicit racism. One example of explicit racism is when the police officer assumes the black kid is reaching for a weapon when he was just ice skating. Another topic the movie shows is stereotypes, one stereotype in the movie is how they pulled over the navigator because they thought it would be a rich white person but it ended up to be a black man. Another stereotype that carries even to other movies is how black people are usually the main people doing the crime and we see it in a lot of movies. I myself have been stereotyped because people think I am good at soccer just because I'm Mexican, another one is that people think I eat tacos at home everyday. They start to  get annoying and start to offend me after a while. So that is why I try to not have stereotypes against other people. 

Deviance

This week in class we have been talking about deviance. I learned that deviance depends on when you are some place or where you are, you might be considered deviant or might not. On story that stuck out to be during class was wen a girl raised her hand and told her story. She said that in her culture the guys kiss each other on the cheek in order to greet one another. In her country they see a lot of guys kissing on the cheek but they are just saying hello but if we saw two guys kissing each other on the cheeks in America, we would think they are weird and different. So why does our society set norms for every culture?