Throughout the past two weeks we have learned a lot in sociology. Such as social structure where you as an individual and your group identify who you are, categories which is generalizing in a logical assumption based on previous experiences instead of stereotyping which is a illogical assumption. In the story gang leader for a day a man who gets mixed up into a gang stereotypes that because people in gangs are uneducated that the members of the gang didn't go to college. In fact he turned out to be wrong, the leader of the gang had graduated from college. We also learned about macro sociology how people act in  large groups. And micro sociology how people react in small groups through a small boat activity where there were 16 kids and only 7 were able to stay on the boat. We watched how they decided to kick people off the ship and who took charge. Also we have been watching the movie A Bronx Tale and have been using everything we have learned this unit and have been applying it to the movie. Like the different stereotypes among races.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and one line from the movie that changed me forever was when Sunny said to C that Joe DiMaggio didn't care for him so why should C care for Joe DiMaggio. Ever since seeing that movie I have never cared about sports. I don't care to watch them but I do like to play them because of this my social structure has changed.

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Through the past week we have been learning about sociological mindfulness, imagination, and social construction of reality. We read a few short stories. The outliers was extremely interesting and is something I hope my community can eventually adapt. The short story was about how people who treat each other nicely and help one another out live longer than those who do not. I hope when I'm older and I move into a town, it'll be similar to the town Roseto. After learning about sociological mindfulness, I applied it to a situation in my life when my sister was acting out, not thinking about what she was doing, but rather what caused her to do this. It opened my eyes to seeing her perspective on the situation. As she was screaming, instead of telling her to be quiet, I asked her what happened that day, and realized that's what caused her to act out. She told me that her and one of her friends were fighting and I gave her some advice to help her. I'm excited to learn more about viewing the world in a different perspective.