Culture

Tomorrow i leave for vail, colorado and i'm so excited but something i'm looking forward to is to look different gestures people use out there. every year when i go there seems to be a lot of people from europe and i'm interested to see how many different types of people and cultures are there this year and watch and observe unlike times before i didn't pay as much attention. today in class when we talked about a lot of the hand gesture i thought it was crazy how different things are in different places but i know not to use the "your mothers a whore" gesture in front of any hispanics just in case!

A Bronx Tale

The movie a bronx tale opened my eyes to the ways things use to be back when. I feel things are some what similar i saw the groups sonny was apart and felt his role wasn't more important than mine. He played a role of a son to his father, a friend to his friends, and a son-like figure to sonny. I wouldn't say collogero was in Sonny's crew but Sonny and Collogero acted as a group just the two of them, i realized that in the scene where the bar fight breaks lose and we see collogero duck for cover not acting as a active crew member. His overall Master Status i thought at first what the relationship he has with Sonny which to C has a lot of importance but when they are at the wrestling match and C stays with his dad it shows his true master status is his role as a son to his family, to his father.

Gang Leader for a Day

Gang leader for a day was the most interesting reading we have had yet in sociology! It made me really think! i thought it was very cool of J.T. to let Sudhir know that he didn't need a survey to understand his people and the projects it was observing and hanging out with them. There are two different ways to get information in soc but i think hanging out with people and observing them gets a lot more accomplished then a survey. when you take a survey you don't always answer honestly! but when your hanging out with some who is a friend you might get all the answers needed in a better way. I'm very happy for Sudhir and his accomplishments i thought it was a wonderful story.

Sociological Mindfulness

I felt today was exhausting in sociology! the article we all read had to do with this idea of sociological mindfulness and all though its great that everyone got to voice their opinions about it i felt we were in some kind of debate class instead of a soc class! i know there was a lot of people in our class who thought wow there is no way the whole world can become like this but that to me is not what the article is asking us to do! today our class was being the opposite of sociological mindful, we were trying to prove or disprove this idea! i never thought about how the social world was created by people or how social life consists of patterns wintin patterns and this article was something that got me thinking, made me want to be more of an aware person of the people around me! i hope other people feel the same!