Marrige

What sociological factors, except race, might be causing differences in different marriage rates between black and whites?

i think that how a person was raised deals with marriage. if a person was brought up in a good middle to upper class family, with two parents and maybe siblings they are more likely to want to have a family and get married when they are older. but, some people are brought up with either a mom or a dad and usually no siblings. i think when people don't grow up in a good household they don't think they will have one that will succeed either.

Social Class

I consider my family in the middle to upper class. i live in buffalo grove and both my parents have jobs. my dad is a VP of marketing in his job and my mom runs a daycare out of our house. people that have alot of money and a huge house aren't always the happiest people. sometimes money can bring some happiness. but when people start putting themselves and things they buy before there family then what happens when they don't have money anymore and there family isn't there. i understand that although money is nice to have, getting a job and making money and having my own money to have rather than asking for it from my mom and dad all the time is alot better. knowing the value of a dollar rather then spending large amounts of money on nothing is something everyone needs to learn.

Deviance and the World

I think sometimes punishable deviance is a social construct. some people need to be put in confines to realize that what they did was wrong and that they can fix their lives. there can only be so much done to help a person who needs it with punishable deviance. the punishable deviance needs to fit the crime. when people are in jail they are usually treated poorly by shoving more than the amount in a jail cell. the food is awful and their is alot of time to do nothing. i think they need to be helping out in the world but severly supervised.

Adolescence in our Society

I wore sweats to school today. Being comfortable is a big part of a lot of what i do. i like to be able to express who i am through clothes. although doing that is fun i like to just throw on some sweat pants, a sweat shirt and gym shoes. when i am older i want to become a math teacher! my sister is a math teacher and so i guess you can say alot of what i am doing is because of her. i love being around kids and helping people accomplish things. my nature and nurture balance each other out. i look up to my siblings alot since they are alot older than me.

Social power is important to adolescents because thats all we have right now. we are given many responsibilties then we are also not being able to do anything. social status is the only thing we really have control over right now. we can change our clothes to fit in or stand out. we can listen to every song and memorize all the lyrics to fit in with others. we are raised to be the best at everything we do, so this may influence to be the best in our group of friends.

Children now are raised with lots of technology, and most are given what ever they want. kids just watch tv, text on there cell phones and play video games. most of these things can be done with many people but they are just saying at a cube or there cell phone, they aren't actaully interacting with other people. this concerns many people that our world will be too non personable in the years to come. since there is less face to face meeting and most things are now down over the phone or through internet there isn't a need for people to actually comunicate. i think these concerns are very valid considering that they are already happening in my generation.

i grew up with two brothers and a sister. they have a major impact on my life. I shared a room with my two brothers growing up so i was around cars, blocks, sports and more alot as a kid. my sister was a gymnast so she was not home alot and that also impacted having a sister but her not really being there. my brothers got me to play soccer, basketball, baseball and football with them. as i grew older my sister wanted to be a bigger impact in my life so she and i did gymnastics together. i did it for a little but after a while it was too girly for me. i would rather play soccer on a muddy field getting dirty. i was a very agressive soccer player because growing up with older siblings i had to fight for attention.

What Status do we Have

Our society puts a lot of pressure on us. They want us to "act your age" but at the same time act older then we are or "mature". I still don't understand who makes the decision of what we are supposed to act like. We are allowed to be behind the wheel of a death machine, but not allowed to say what goes into our own bodies. Cars are very dangerous. having the responsibility of driving one that can harm ourselves and others on the streets is a very big responsibility. we can drive when were 15/16 years old, but we can't put certain things into our own body until were 21. just like we are able to leave our families at 18, but we can't be off of our parents insurance until were 25. this infantilizes teenagers/20-25 year-olds. this makes non-teenagers feel like they are until they turn 25 and are really on there own. we are pressured throughout high school to be on top. your rank, your friends anything that can different you, or make you the same as other people. people try so hard to look and act like everyone else so that they can stand out that in the end they just get lost in the crowd because they look like everyone. we realize that who your friends are, what you wore, what classes you took in high school don't matter in the outside world after high school and college.

adults????

My life very much relates to this subject. i am the youngest in my family by 9 years. my brothers are 28 and my sister is 27 and i am 18. when i act a certain way my siblings usually tell me i am acting like a high school student which i am, but when i try to act a little older my parents tell me i can't do some things because i am to young. with them there is no happy medium. i am either to old to act one way and should be acting older than i am, but when i do i am to young to act that way.

Family and ME

I am a lot like my family. We all look alike, but some of us are more like each other than others. My sister and i may look almost identical and be 9 years apart but our personalities could not be more different. she is very one minded. when she gets a first impression you cannot change how she feels about you. If you have a bad first impression that is all she will know. I give people chances to change and change my views of people all the time. My one brother is ten years older than me and we are very much alike. we like to be right, and when we get told were wrong we defend ourselves very forcefully. my other brother that is ten years older than me is very school oriented and likes to lecture people. we get along very well even though we are not very much alike either. my daddy and i are very much like my one brother. you can see a lot of each other in each other. my mama is very quiet and likes to just listen to people. they could tell i was a lot like my dads side of the family when i started talking with my southern accent and a little louder than every one else.

stevenson vs the world

Stevenson tells us when we can drive to school, where we can eat, how it will take us to walk to class, what we can say, what we can do and that completely infantilizes us. If our parents give us restrictions on those things, Stevenson shouldn't be able to make them stricter. i know they want to make it a safe and friendly environment but, if people are listening to a type of music or using swears and someone doesn't want to be around that then they can move. Stevenson is a very big school and there are many different people and groups for people to be involved in that they don't have to be around things or people if they don't want to.

School and our Neighborhood-- rachel t. and leah

Our families help us with our attitudes and our family values. We attend school to help us use those things we learned at home to further our careers and knowledge in the outside world. School teachers, students and neighbors keep us grounded and show us the way our lives should be lead. we decide what we are going to do after being told what is "right" or "wrong".

Religion- in my american life

Growing up with religion basically already given to me wasn't hard. I went to church with the rest of my family and grew up in sunday and monday night school, learing more and more about my culture. I loved being Greek. Most of my friends were Jewish or Christian and all I knew was I was Greek Orthodox which was a part of Christianity. Being Greek has change the way I do things in my life. Like going to parties, who I hang out with and how I view myself and other individuals. There are many different religions in America. I have learned growing up in church how to accept other people no matter what they believe. I embrace all different types of languages. As a teenager I went to many bar/bat mitzah's*. I learned a little about each culture and took everything.

Stereotyping

many children or young adults have learned how to stereotype from there parents or siblings. Some of these could or could not be "true" but as children and young adults they need to learn how to think on there own and believe what they want and not what there parents want. Many people also do this around the presidential election time. I hear a lot of people walk around school talking about this person or that person and how there weird or mean or something not nice. i also know that some of the people they talk about they don't really know, which is wrong. some people think it is okay to stereotype if the person doesn't know. well chances are whatever they are saying is or has been going around the school and the person will find out if they haven't already. why do you think people talk about others in a negative connotation? is it because they feel saying someone else is bad will make them feel good?

Annotating!

In class on Thursday Mr. Smith talked about how different people annotate and why some annotate the way the day. I thought this was interesting, because i have never thought about it like that. I just go through the paragraphs and whatever i think should stick out in my mind is what i underline. also if i think i really need to remember it like a quote, name, place or just a detail i write it along the side. most of us only annotate because our teachers tell us to and we only want the points. but a lot of the times when i am reading something for school or not for school i will quickly write down a thought or something just to make sure i remember it. anyone else!?

I'm on a Boat!

In class on friday we demonstrated how when people are in trouble, stuck on a boat, they try to save themselves. i was one of the people who survived. We through people off the boat who wouldn't help during the hardships of the boat, i was a med student so i would be able to help people who are sick. Surviving feels good but at the same time i feel bad for making people get off the boat.

Milgram's Experiment

Sophomore year English and Senior Sociology have both talked about Milgram's Experiment. Milgrams Experiment is the idea that people when told to do so, by a higher up person, will inflict harm on another person. One way this was shown was at a prestige college a couple professors asked people to come to the college and engage in a test. One person was in charge of asking the questions to another person. If the person answering the question got a question wrong the asking the questions would give them an electric shock. The person giving the shock could stop any time they wanted and knew what they were doing. I believe that if this was me I would not take any part in this. What they were doing was completely wrong. When the experiment was over Milgram found that over %60 of people went through with it.

First day of Sociology!

I was very excited to be taking Sociology my senior year, because I wanted to know why people and I did the things we did. Also, why certain things influenced people in the ways they do. One question that I have heard several times within the last couple days is, "are people naturally good or evil"? This question puzzles me a lot. One response I have to the question is that whether people are naturally good or evil they are naturally selfish. I believe this is true until one may reach motherhood. I believe people will do things for themselves so that they will reach there end goal, what ever that it, and then worry about the "little people".