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In this time of social movement I feel like it is important to talk about things that are moving this country forward and breaking the glass ceiling for women and not just at places of work but for women as a whole (Conley 2017, p.312). This article is how one woman explains to her daughter what the #metoo movement is and what the actually consider a #metoo situation. She explains how at thanksgiving there was a generational gap on what girls and women think is something that can be defined as #metoo. She also states that the movement is so new that its far from perfect but it’s better that it is here than not so we have to keep talking about it and making it a norm that is these types of things are going to happen than we a women need to let it be know who is doing it and what they are doing and it is not ok. Sociologist would predict that an emergent norm theory would take place where new values and norms come about form this movement (Conley 2017, p.701). I also believe that since this movement is unseating a lot of top men in the film and television industry like Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein, it can be categorized as a revolutionary social movement. That is when there is a reorganization of society. Meaning that the top players in the country could be thrown out and possibly placing women on top of some of these top spots in Hollywood or business.

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Hartocollis, Anemona. 2018, Febuary 9th. The #MeToo Moment: When Mothers and Daughters Talk #MeToo. www.nytime.com

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Globalization. This was probably my favorite chapter to go over. I really like learning about how the cycle of things in this world are used and recycled (maybe). That is how this article explains how the hottest and newest iPhones are designed to only last so long that you need to purchase the new one. It first explains why Americans create things that are made with a short life span and even the savviest of recyclers still contribute to this countries waste problem. The government pushes people to buy and spend money on things because it helps the economy, keeps people in their jobs making thing and even in their jobs when we throw them away and they need to recycle or throw in the trash. Apple defends itself that the reason why people buy new phones is because they want to and not because their old phone is useless because the new software cannot be used on an old phone rendering it useless.  Another product this article talks about is printers and ink cartridges. For a long time it was cheaper to buy a whole new printer than it was to buy ink and that is how these companies made their money, though cartridges. Now the cartridges are pretty inexpensive but are very small and can no longer be refilled due to the software the printer comes with so the cartridges end up in a landfill instead of being reused. Sociologist would see this as an ongoing problem that connects us all through production, purchasing, using, and throwing away.

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Economy Team. 2017, November 1st. Your iPhone is literally designed to break… and it’s not just your iPhone.www.ecnmy.org 

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In the cartoon pictured above, it shows how black America is being portrayed and treated and this is not in a good way. It is basically showing one of the most common sights we see the black community and on the news every week in this country. It shows a black man on the ground being beaten and handcuffed by white cops and each one of these cops is defined by something. Sub-prime lending, meaning the African American community doesn’t get the financial benefits like a white American would. Segregation, showing that they aren’t being treated fairly and being cut off from other parts of different communities. Deindustrialization, showing that the job loss in their communities is most common among the black and the poor. And finally it shows institutional racism. This means that companies only stick to qualities they know and are making huge disadvantages for minority groups (Conley 2017, p.363). A sociologist would see this picture as a whole and think that is defines what is going on in and around black communities all over the united states. We had abolished slavery and segregation years ago but today there is a whole new set of racial disadvantages. Just like in one of my previous blogs about Flint Michigan and the water problem that is not being fixed because they are a poor black community. Even though most people say they are not prejudice, that simply is not the case and they may not even know it. Prejudice is the thoughts and feelings about a particular race or ethnic group. (Conley 2017, p.359)

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Gender in sociology is a huge topic as there are many ways to identify what gender you are. In the photo I had chosen above is an ad that was created by Van Heusen for ties. The original is on the left and depicts a man in bed with the tie on being served breakfast by a woman who is on the floor like she is beneath him. In today’s world these old ads don’t really seem to fly with society, especially women. This ad was remade into the exact same format as the old but the gender roles were reversed. Even down to the wording at the top, show her it’s a man’s world and show him it’s a woman’s world. The woman almost looks to be more satisfied with the situation and the man serving her does not look particularly happy. The Original shows hegemonic masculinity, where the man is more dominant and privileged (Conley 2017 p.289). It is also very clear that this photo demonstrates gender roles in the 50’s or 60’s and then gender roles in the 21stcentury. A sociologist would see the movement from long ago to what we see as gender appropriate now. They would see that the photo says on it that it’s a “womans world” and with feminism making a huge impact on society that couldn’t be more true. I also think they would look at what other companies are trying to revamp their ads to show the woman in charge and what sells more.

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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This blog post is about social class and communities in this country that don’t have clean drinking water in this day and age. With all the advancements it’s hard to believe that in 2019 different classes of people (specifically on the lower end) do not have clean drinking water. 3,000 communities including flint Michigan have high levels of lead in their drinking water. It has been five years since it was discovered that lead levels in Flint’s water were too high. It is because of bad politics and neglect from many forms that this has gotten to such a rotten point. Also a bad class system or groups that have loose social mobility (Conley 2017, p.251) Most of the government help with favor more wealthy parts of the country as flint is in need of 2 trillion dollar’s worth of updates. This city is full of mostly African American (half) and they are considered a poor community. This kind of class status has come with its own set of problems. Our country likes to use these poor cities as dumping grounds for trash or waste. One point this article has made that stayed with me was “America still hasn’t decided that clean water and a safe environment is not a privilege, but a right.” Social equality comes to mind when reading this. Social equality is where there is no difference in wealth or power. This simply is not the case though as these people and their children will likely die of high lead levels in their bloodstream due to this contaminated water.

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Haider, Areeba. Fredrerick, Rejane. 2019, April 25. Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Water. It’s Not Alone. www.talkpoverty.org

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This video TED talk by Margaret Heffernan is amazing at explaining conflict and healthy conflict. Conflict theory is the idea that conflict between different interests is a force of social change. It helps us grow as a society (Conley 2017 p.32). In the video “Dare to disagree” Margaret explains a researcher who is trying to figure out why babies in the womb are dying after being x-rayed. So she found a statition who was the complete opposite of her and what she was about in every sense. This man was out to create conflict on purpose to try to find every which way he could prove her and her theory’s on this topic wrong. He was inadvertently giving her the confidence she needed to prove herself right and this is a healthy conflict. Margaret states that to create constructive conflict we should actively search for people who are very different from ourselves and it is very had because we are wired to find people who are more like us on many different levels. This is very had because it requires a lot of energy and patience. A sociologist would see this as a constructive conflict. Conflict to a sociologist creates change and that is though revolution and war not evolution and baby steps (Conley 2017, p.32). Conflict helps solves problems and make changes to help in the processes that people are in. This video is definitely worth a watch to show how conflict theory is vital and important for all human beings.

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Heffernan, Margaret. 2012, June. Dare to disagree. www.Ted.com  

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This article in particular is about school shootings. “School homicides have become more common and more deadly, CDC data show” on phys.org, is about how much school shootings have risen from 1994 to 2018, and how it effects students around the United States. One staggering fact is that in the 24 years they studied, 121 deaths of students occurred and 29 were just in the last year of the study. A sociologist would look at this at the maco level and show research from all schools that had this happen in the United states. It shows the numbers of the rise in shootings and deaths that occur and show that people are becoming numb to these acts of violence because they happen so much its becoming a weekly topic. The also stated that these incidents happened in urban and suburban schools. Also one quarter of these students that died were between the ages of 5 and 9 years old. As I would have thought, of the known motives, the gunman was reacting of retaliation and bullying. The article shows the relationships between urban gangs and racially motivated killings as well as they percentages of firearms used and stabbings. One fact show is that between ‘04 and ’16, 423 lives were lost to all types of school killings. Sociologist use different forms of research methods. They are used to investigate  answers to the questions they have. (Conley 2017, p.47) I would suggest that the article is geared towards quantitative studies. Quantitative is when a numeric form of the information is gathered. (Conley 2017, p.47)

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Healy, Melissa. 2019, January 28th. School homicides have become more common and more deadly, CDC data show.www.phys.org

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Advice for future student:

For all considering to take this class I would highly recommend it. As an online class it is amazing to be able to have the support and structure as in a face to face class. But then have the flexibility of the online option. What worked well for me is staying on top of the content and then fitting in the discussion when I can. I admit that I could have done much better with my time and posting sooner. I feel like being able to watch the video content more than one time helped me understand concepts and terms much better. So use your time wisely and utilize the videos provided. I also make it a point to check all of the posts that were commented on. It gives a really good insight to different points of view and even helps get to know a lot of the other classmates better as well.

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As I reflect on this class I want to say that it has really opened up my eyes on a lot of the topics I try to steer away from. I took a beginner sociology class in high school and failed it terribly. I am from a small town and the class was focused on the Amish community and it didn’t interest me like this one has. I feel that thinking on a macro level helps researchers understand a better way to help the groups of people we have studied about. It will create better organizations to see the whole picture and not just individual situations. The chapter that really got me feeling the most emotional was the last chapter about social movement. I teared up watching the video that was provided about the Children’s march in Alabama. We have come a long way since then but really not far enough as a country.

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Hi all,

My name is Stacey and I am an LPN student. I currently only have two more classes to finish to transfer to the LPN career center in Lewisburg PA. I have been married for 5 years now and have two beautiful daughters. I don't normally share pictures of my kids on social media or the internet but for college I will. My husband and I are currently building our forever home in upstate PA and were taking a lot of it on on our own. It has hands down been the most stressful and excruciatingly painful process I have ever gone through. It makes childbirth seem easy! I am 29 years old and have been trudging along through these classes to gain a career in healthcare. I aspire to work in a hospital or a small family practice. We currently live just on the outskirts of Harrisburg so were not too far from the main campus. We also have a 13 year old chihuahua (Leo) and a Persian kitten about to turn one in August (Jewels). 

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So hoarding is when people will collect things in their homes or spaces that becomes too much and overwhelms the space and the person. Most will think this is a psychological problem with the person that is hoarding but some think it is social deviance as the person may believe that their having all of these things is making them better than others. They think they’re going against the grain. In society we are pushed to want things and advertisement show us the things that we “need” and it takes advantage of the people with these problems. As a sociologist I would say they would look at the communities as a whole and what compels them to spend. They would look at what hoarders actually collect and why they collect those things. There are now shows on TV that show these people’s homes, how they act and how the producers bring in professionals to help clean the messes and help with the mental disorders that these people have. It becomes a problem when families and neighbors see the hording and it is having an effect on them, either emotionally or physically having an impact on their property. The social cohesion, which is the way people form bonds, is broken and needs to be repaired (Conley 2017, p.193). When someone in their community is a hoarder the neighbors want social control and believe it is a deviance of the hoarder usually more so than a disorder. Social control is a set of rules that create a normal compliance with society.

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Administrator. 2010, 6thApril. Hoarding and other disorders – are they rooted in the mind or the market? And what does this tell us about mental illness? https://www.sociologylens.net

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This chapter sort of struck a nerve with me. As a kid I was socially awkward and still went to public school. The photo I had chosen to use was that of homeschooling and a mother who seemed to causally forget to socialize her children. It’s a meme and just blasé. Socialization for humans is vital for staying alive, it’s how we grow up to be who we are and it’s a huge part of how we learn. Homeschooled kids are always thought to be a little off or act differently (socially awkward) around other kids since they didn’t attend public schools. I believe this is a stigma given to these kids from years past as kids that are homeschooled today are in so many different activities and functions. Sometimes more than what public school kids attend. I believe that since these home schooled kids are getting one on one attention they are getting a better quality education. In different families of different class levels there are different values that are taught to these children which was really neat to learn. Middle class parents teach independence and working class parents teach obedience (Conley 2017, p.125). The working class give their kids room to grow and the things they need to do it on their own. Sociologist would be most interested in what homeschooled children do outside of the home and who they interact with. They would want to know how these kids act in a populated place around lots of other people to see if they are being socially accepted by others and not acting “weird” or odd around others.

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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I had chosen a photo of Kim Kardashian squatting next to trash cans in a staged photoshoot for ODDA. When I chose this photo I wanted to show that Kim comes from a very different culture than say we do from central Pennsylvania. It almost seems as though that we are on two different planets. Her culture is that of material culture (Conley 2017, p.78). That is how she makes her money in a huge way. She promotes things. Material Culture is everything that is physically there. In our culture I don’t believe I would be posing next to my trash cans for any sort of reason. But hers are painted with a Louis Vuitton logo which makes them very attractive to people, even though their trash cans. Our ideology of her is that she is wasteful and really stuck up and wouldn’t give a common person like me the time of day. A sociologist would see her culture as a whole to be that of the famous and rich that live in Los Angeles. They seem as though they only stick amongst themselves and since we see them as public figures we only follow them and what they do. We don’t typically befriend the famous or wealthy. I believe it is hard to move from one culture to another in terms of who we are as people or in the way of having money or fame. Most stay true to how they were raised and where they were born. We have our own set of values and that doesn’t change often.

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Conley, D. (2017). You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Core 5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.