"The Milgram Experiment"

This experiment was very interesting to me. Its amazing to see how far someone would go when they are giving the authority over others. Tweleve students were given the role to be a teacher, and were told to shock the student if he had got the word pairing wrong. The shock was from 15 bolts to 450 bolts. Nine student went on with the experiment which couldve killed the person if the experiment was real. But the people who were playing the rol of the teacher did not know that it wasnt real and that it was an experiment. With that being said, those nine had absolutely no remorse for the person sitting in the other room. They felt that they were being pressured by the professor which was their authority to do this job. While the three people who found it difficult to continue, ending with one getting up and leaving didnt really care to much about the authority over them. This video just goes to show that here are people in this world who would not care about others feelings as long as they have power. I believe it selfish and that it is a very cold world. I cant believe that power can really lead people to oppress others. I couldnt do such a thing. People commit violence so easily without even knowing it and that is the worse part about the whole experiment. Especially the 19 year old who found absolute joy in what she was doing. I was so disturbed with her reaction and if you check closely she had a fun time while smirking all along through the experiment.

Chapter 5; Five Faces Of Oppression

Chapter five spoke about power and how to understand power. Also what is linked with power. From what I read, I see that power is linked to inequality. There are plenty of places that I've been where I have observed how people used power to their advantages. Its sad and disturbing. I feel like no one should feel like they are bigger or more important on this earth surface than the next person. We are all human and are all equal. Based on the reading power is the ability to bring about an intended outcome even when opposed by others. They are two kinds of power. The "Power To" and the "Power Over". I experienced a lot with those who have "Power Over". Empowerment (power to) is to bring about and intnended outcome. Empowerment was the focus of much feminist scholarships on power. It onvolves enhancement and self improvment. Empowrment can inolve orginizations, communities, and entire categories of people. With this I think a GED program, Breast Cancer Walk, and things like that are a form of empowerment. Domination (power to) is the ability to bring about an intended outcome. An example of this would be forcing children to be brides. There are some strategies to overcome opposition. To persuade, coerce, and reward.There are also different types of power. Reward, Coercive, Legitimate, Referent, Expert, and Informational power. People in power also use tactics. Those tactics are harsh and soft tactic, rational and non rational, and unliteral and bilateral. These strategies people use to influence others in everyday life. The "Five Faces Of Oppession" basically stated the five different types oppression. Those five are Violence, Marginalization, Cultural Imperialism, Powerlessness, and Exploitation. Oppression is when people make others feel less human. This happens every day in every way stated. People work in sweat shops are exploited because they are paid farely for their labors, a lot of African Americans or jobless especially those with criminal background but a white man would have more of a chance with finding a job with the same background, people who have no form of education or skill usually are poor and some may live in shelters where they are treated unfair and spoken to in a disrespectful manner, whatever the ruling class believe is right the lower class must follow in their footsteps and as far as violence, its committed everyday based of fear or idle hands.

Chapter 4: Social Structure; The Meaning of Social Control

 Chapter four explains to me about what is social structure and how it varies over time and from one culture to another. Recurring patterns of behavior makes up a social structure. Although structure constrains social behavior by putting limits on it, it also enables social behavior by providing the context in which people can interact. Social life is also made up of patterened routine behaviors. More or less predictable routines are what sociologist calls social instutions. Social instituions are major arenas of social life in which durable routines and patterns of behavior take place.What links people to one another and to patterns that constitutes social structure are status and roles. Statuses are a position in the social system that can be occupied by an individual, and roles are the sets of expected behaviors associated with particular statuses.
They are also two kinds os statuses. Ascribed statuses and achieved statuses. Social structure exists precisely because we construct and reconstruct dovisl order in our daily routines. Etnomethodology is an approach that examines the methods people use to make sense of their daily activities, emphasizes the ways in which we collectively create social structure in our everday activities.Organizational structure refers to the rules and routines, both formal and informal, that shape daily activity within organizations. Globalization has changed the structure of work life and communitied dramatically. Actiondd is the ability to operate independent of social constraints. Webere identifieed three basic types of human action. Traitional action, tha is motivated by custom, Affective action which is guided by emotions and feelings, and Rational action which is motivated by calculations of efficiency.
 "The Meaning of Social Control" stated that the ultimate oldest means of social control is physical violence. Al men live in social situations in which, if all other means of coercion fail, violence may be officially and legally used against them.Universities or churches use economic sanctions just as effectively in restraining their personnel from engaging in deviant behavior deemed by the respective authorities to go beyond the limits of the respective authoritities to go beypond the limits of the acceptable. It may not be actually illegal for a minister to seduce his organist, but the threat of beings barred forever from the exercise of his profession will be a much more effective control over this temptation than the possible threat of going to jail. Gossip, as hardly needs elaboration, is especially effective in small communities, where most people live their lives in a high degree of soial visibility and inspectability by their neighbors. In such communities gossip is one of the principal channels of communication, essential for the maintenance of social fabric. Both ridicule and gossip can be manipulated deliberately by any intelligent with access to their lines of transgression. Immortality is punished by loss of one's job, eccentricity by the loss of one's chances of finding a new one, bad manners by remaining uninvited and uninvitable in the groups that respect what they consider good manners. The sanctions of society are able at each moment of existence to isolate us among our fellow men, to subject us to ridicule, to deprive us of our sustenance and our liberty, and in the last resort to deprive us of life itself.