Final Blog

Its sad to say this is my last entry for this blog that has come so far, I've learned alot on the way so to say. Since the first day of sociology to now my way of thinking has changed. My eyes have been opened to seeing how everything around me effects who I am. I now know why culture and everything else around me effects how i think, im a changed man.

The one part of sociology that has changed how i think the most is Deviance and Social Class, I believe that effects my thinking from a day to day basis. Now when Im some where lets say the mall I really analyze people and try to see there life story. I try to use things we've talked about in class such as social class and think to my self, instead of thinking I wonder what it would like to be them or thank god im have alot of money I now think that there life is just were there comfortable in there social class and i would be uncomfortable in there shoes I would feel deviant. I should be happy the way my social class is now and embrace it instead of trying to be something im not like a higher class. To be honest if i were in a room full of WASPS i would think these people are tools and the would think what is this trashy person doing here.

Crash

In class we watched the movie Crash which is about racism and stereotypes. In one of the scenes in the movie a White couple are walking to there car and the wife sees two black guys down the side walk and holds her husband closer to her. She did this because she was scared of two black guys, which is racism. Because she felt threatened by seeing two black guys at night, she got closer to her husband because she was scared. She is assuming that when you see black people they are going to try to rob you or hurt you which is stereotyping black people. But was she right the two black guys then stole the white couples car at gunpoint. I too stereotype, for example if im at a mall or some where and I see a group of black kids i usually stay clear of them. Its because when i read the news usually when there is a shooting or something black people are usually involved. I stereotype just like the Woman in the movie.

Community Service/ Implicit Racism

For community service I coached the Jr. Patriots wrestling program, for four practices and a tournament. During my experience I felt what it means to have a role in society, which most deans don't experience yet. I felt the power of contributing to society by having control and help mentoring kids in wrestling. I would teach kids wrestling and critique them on there wrestling skills. Well during the tournament I helped coach a kid i was coaching pinned a kid and the other kid got up and whipped his head gear. The kid I was coaching came up to me and started talking about his match he then asked if the kid was so mean cause he was black. I was taken back by what i heard and then realized thats the way the kid was brought up to think, the people he grew up around some how effected how he thought. its then i realized that i too was kinda thinking that not realizing what i was thinking. Im racist sub-concisely, its crazy how you can be something and not even realize it.