How Media, Advertisement, and Entertainment can control you!!!!

During this week of class I have seen the light, of sociology that is. After one week of videos, class discussions and some hard thinking about how media, advertisement, and entertainment effects who you are.

 Well first is advertisement effects woman in more ways you could think of. If you take a close look at ads involving women you see that it portrays women to have to be a certain way if they want to be considered a women. It makes women have to be extremely skinny to the point were some have died. If your not then your not considered "attractive". In some advertisement such as the dove, it shows a picture of a very sexy women, but she doesn't actually exist. When you see models on billboards and you say to your self i wish i had a girl like her well you better keep hoping cause she most likely doesn't exist with photo shop now a days people can make other people look like someone there not. With this constant changing of how people look women become more and more self conscious about them self. It makes women want to be some one who doesn't exist and this is leading society down the wrong road.

It not only effects women but men to. Well about 40 years ago being a man had whole different definition then toady's man. Back then to be a man meant to have a job, walk to school instead of having your mom drive you, and if some one messed with you, you beat them up. You didn't take a gun to school and kill 20 people. You didn't act like a wannabee gangster and carry a gun around. If you compare movies from the 80's to present day movies you see that being a man you now have to be huge muscular wise and carry big guns, and just be jacked. Now you see more school shootings because boys are trying to be manly.

As you can see Media, Advertisement, and Entertainment is teaching people to be someone there not and leading society down the wrong road.

Why Marketers Are Evil

It has recently come to my attention that society is taking a turn for the worst. Since about the 1980's marketers have been finding new and more deeply ways of marketing too kids. They have created shows just to market toys to kids. They are so deep into kids brains they are actually shaping how kids think. We need to limit the marketing to kids to allow them to properly develop there brian. Also in the marketing world, there have been new ads they create offense to both genders. They make people self conscious about them self and make people feel insecure. Marketers need to watch there boundaries and learn they everything isn't just about money.

The things that influence us

This week in class we read two articles, one about human nurture and two about agents of socialization. The first article talked about how humans need nurture to properly develop. The article talked about feral and isolated children. It said how if children are left isolated from people by themselves, isolated children, they do not properly develop. These children don't know language and without language they cant form ideas, thoughts, and etc. While feral children are children who are for some reason separated from there parents and are raised by animals such as dogs. These children will take on the characteristics of the animals they are raised by. The articles point was that if babies/ children don't get proper human nurture there brain will not properly develop and they won't know how to function as a regular human. The second article we read was about agents of socialization and this was about the how the people and things around us influence our self-concept, emotions, attitudes and behavior. People and things such as family, neighborhood, religion, daycare, school, peers, sports, and etc influence who we are.

Lessons of Life

In class we recently watched a movie called "Tuesdays with Morrie". Well, from this movie I learned alot things about how I should live my life.The first thing I learned is that we feel weird, awkward, and scared in certain situations such as death. We fell this way in these situations because that is how me are trained to feel its the culture norm. In American culture we hate talking about death, because are culture doesn't like to talk about death. While in other cultures they see death as a good thing, they feel that you are moving on to a new world or some aren't aloud to mention the deceased name.Although, the most important lesson I learned from the movie is "Once you learn to die, you learn to live" Morrie. Well, right then and there i realized that people there whole life are scared to die, but if they were at peace with that they would be able to open there mind to enjoying life more. So I made a promise to myself that the older i get the less i should worry about death and then i will live my life more peaceful and more enjoyable.Also, i will look at aging not as a bad thing (American culture norm) but as a good thing because the older you get the more knowledge you gain.