Sunday, February 23, 2014

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.

2 comments:

  1. Thats awesome that you have seen the movie already and its affected you positively!

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  2. It's cool to know that this movie has already changed our perspectives when you were younger, just like how it changed C's view in the movie. Although it is a little sad to think that the movie made you lose your appreciation for watching sports, but no matter now. It definitely shows how much of an influence even things on TV can be, especially to people at a younger age.

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