Blog #3

What do you think about culture? Do you think it has change since the time you  were born or even when your parents or grantparents tell now? I think culture has changed a lot from back in the days because of how we live today. Before, in culture every family would carry out the tradition in their culture and follow it where ever they go, but nowadays things changed, some people dont even follow the tradition they had in their family before, since some family members stopped teaching or following the tradition, the new genaration has no clue about their great great grandparents and what tradition they use to follow. Chapter 3 in the textbook, talks about what is culture, how can it create conflict, how is it growing from before and now, and mostly how can you use sociological view to better understand its importance in our eveyday life? This chapter tells you in detail to detail how culture works and gives great examples to explain it better for us to understand. This chapter ties into the article "Teenage Wasteland" by Donna Gaines of how culture changed and how its changing our generation today. In this society teengers are more intense and that gives them more pressure of taking drugs, alcohol and violence. We need to try to give these teengers more time to do activites and actually listen to what their going through in life. But sometimes I still think about is it going to help even if we provided all these things? I agree with providing more but I always still question myself is it enough and is it going to help them, and make them stop thinking low about their selves, and not to do dangerous things or killing themsleves becuase they dont feel as if they belong in this society. Thinking back, so do you still believe in your culture still? and still hold on to your family tradition? Even though I grew up here, I still do my best to keep my tradition and follow as much as I can.

Blog # 2

                     Chapter 2 of the textbook in the beginning talks about how social sciences way of knowing and thinking, the pattern in social life, the roles of theory and intensive interviews. The article “Sense and Nonsense about surveys” by Howard Schuman explains and shows what surveys are about, how to understand surveys and how some people misunderstand what surveys are for. Surveys are for many things, but understanding surveys is very important to being an informed citizen, but some population often don’t understand the results of the surveys or don’t actually know what to do with the results.  Sometimes when you want to know what people thinks about a idea, you ask a group of people and then you take the results and see which one most people agrees on and what’s the similar opinions. The thought of surveys just didn’t start, this was before our time and this helps many people know what the population wants, but you should also know, not all the population takes the survey, so statistically the answers will not always be 100 percent correct. So in the article Howard shows how surveys can have advantages and disadvantages and he also shows examples of surveys and how it can get better during the years. The similarities between the article I read about surveys and the reading in the text is surveys are based on people and their answers, so is sociology based on research and theory, but not just theory but with facts to say it. Also in surveys when asking people question, they cant just think or assume what people are going to say, they need to put all the answers together and see what common answers they find first. The reading about surveys really connects to the textbook because research involves both the theory and the idea. And theory helps us get information’s and facts, which we do in surveys to get information’s. So this is how the article relates to the beginning of chapter 2.

#1

            When you look at me, what do you really think of me? I look like the innocent type, whose like daddy’s little princess right? Well guess what that’s all wrong, looks can be very deceiving. Before, I even get into any detail about me or mostly my personal life. I want to tell you my mother was my biggest influences in my life, because my mom never got to finish high school because of family problems, so I wanted to prove to everyone I will finish the highest level in education as I can. My goals and purposes are really simple. I want to be the first girl to graduate in my family and mostly I want a good career for myself, either nursing or something in the medical field or  accounting. I know trying to accomplish all this will take time and mostly hard work, but I know I will do everything I can to get what I want in life. Back to about me, I grew up with very stick parents and they never let me do anything, but I still did what I had to do whether they let me do anything but not because I didn’t want to obey their rules, but because I have a life too, but that’s another long story which I don’t want to get into. This relates to the class discussion we had in class about how society changed, how woman rights became more powerful as the days went by, this goes back to my biggest influence in life, my mother, she didn’t have much rights back in her days because her mother didn’t let her, and because girls are suppose to be home doing all house work while the guys do whatever they wanted. When you look at my life, it looks like its perfect and I have no dramas or nothing, but actually when you really get to know me and know my life story, you would ask how am I still living day by day. I actually can see my own biography being influenced by my personal history because how things changed a lot from before and now. From my past I became who I am now, a strong married woman. This is why I am the person I am today.