what i learned in sociology class

First I would like to thank the professor, professor Applewhite for having me in his class I am very grateful.  I had a lot of good experience in the class and I also learned I a lot in the class. In this blog, I will be writing about the class and how it affects me has a student. I learned a lot in the class like socialization, norms "deviance, and also how to make a blog. My experience in the class was very exciting and I will be writing all about it from beginning to end, in this blog assignment.

          The first day of class, I actually thought it was going to be a boring class, I thought I wasn’t going to learn nothing because I wasn’t a big fan of sociology, but I thought wrong. Once professor Applewhite walked with an open welcoming smile I started to doubt my thoughts. He made us laugh by telling us few jokes and related to us as students. The first day of class we all had to watch a film titled “connected but not alone” in a TED conference by Sherry Turkle giving lecture about how we interact through technology. Then we had to write our first blog which was to introduce ourselves to the class. The idea of making a blog really annoyed me, I never wrote a blog before and I felt like making one wouldn’t do much for me. I thought wrong again making blogs was one of the best experience I had in the class because it thought me how to make a blog and how to connect with all my classmates and getting to know them through their blog post .

In the sociology class one of the lessons we learned in class that was really fascinating to me was power and inequality which lead to social status. Before this class I didn’t really know what role and status I was in a society. I actually owned a status in society like being a daughter, student, employee, African, and Nigerian makes me who I am in a society. Also behaviors expected associated with my status like as a student I am expected to go to school, learn, and do what I have to do to pass my class. I also learned about ascribed status which are status you were born with like being a female and my race and achieved status like being in college also being able to take the sociology class.

           I also learned about socialization. Before the class I knew we are who we are by the people we hang out with like friends , just because my mother use to always say that but I didn’t know it was actual fact about socialization she was getting across to me .  Socialization we get who we are by the people we socialize with everyday whether it’s our friends, classmates, or even our parents. If I hangouts with someone that smokes everyday there’s a possibility I will grow up to start smoking as well . If all my friends skateboards I will probably end up skate boarding as well . It’s funny because I never would’ve have thought that. I never use to wear makeup, take time to actually do my hair. But since started high school and socializing with females that wore make up I started to wear makeup.

 I also learned about deviance in my sociology class. The deviance chapter made me realizes that because I think something is wrong really mean it’s wrong it can just be deviance. Like in the United States bathing outside in public might be deviance but in my country Nigeria it’s normal. We are used to it, people bath in front of their property if they want. Every country has something they consider as “deviance” but what is deviance to one cultural is not deviance to another.

The sociology class was very interesting, I made new friends, I learned a lot about other cultural and how our world is shaped globally. This class makes me look at the world in a whole other perspective. I learned a lot in this class. A class I was never interested in, now ended up to be my favorite class this semester. How ironic right! But thanks to the professor for explain step by step until I was clear about what sociology truly is. 

BEYOND BLACK AND WHITES: Remaking Race in America

This article talk about how alot of kids in Amerca can't label thereselve as one race. Because now people are marrying out of thier race. A white man and and African American woman what race would that be ?  this article says that before 2000 intermarried couples had no choice but to put their kid as either black or white, which can be pretty annoying . But now its different now people with more than once race can put "OTHER" as a race . It states in the article that this matters because, how people report themselves provides information needed to implement and enforce important legislation like the voting rights act. The growth of muliracial population is a result of increasing marraiges betwwen non whites and whites. I think this very interesting because i didnt know how much it matters what race you're in and i didnt really care about the other category, now i see that the other category really does matter and it changed the life of the parents and kids with multiracial marraige .

WHAT IS DEVIANCE?

 

 

Deviance is the behavior that goes against the laws like stealing, violence and more which varies from time, place and setting. Deviance varies in time place and setting because in my country Nigeria a lot of things that we do, may be considered deviance in the United States. Like the way some of us take showers. In Nigeria some of the parents bath for their kids outside in public where everyone can see them, because not everyone have a private bathroom , it's either you sharing with the whole building or you bath outside in public. Which is now a collective conscience in Nigeria? If someone from Nigeria comes to the United States and bath in front of their property or even in front of a building it would be look at as deviance because it goes against the norms of the United States. In the reading "Race and class in the American Criminal Justices System” talks about the O. J. Simpson case and how whites have more share of wealth in our society.  O.j Simpson was able to buy himself and a good lawyer for defense because he was wealthy but if he was wealthy they came might have been different than what it was. If it was another black man with no money he might have lost the case and be prisoned. People that are poor and uneducated are automatically looked at as criminals. While people well educated and not really looked at with violence view.