Blog Correction: Socialization; Killing Us Softly; A Call to Men

The two videos connects with the chapter of Socialization because its shows that agents of society has a major impact on ones life and in socializing individuals. It shows the power that the media has over viewers. According to these videos a man is suppose to be superior and a women isn't. A woman should be viewed as an object based on Killing Us Softly. These ads, these agents of society can really lock us into a world full of their own ideas and that doesnt give us a chance to be who we want be but who we think we should be.

The video by Tony Porter is extremely touching and I feel is important for every man to watch and to pay attention to what was said. Men are taught to be superior, tough, stong, dominating, show no emotion and feel no pain. How can one feel free? How can one go in their entire life playing this role? The touching part of this video was when he spoke about being in the room with the 16 yr old girl who was laying on the bed nude at his friends house. He didnt know what to do. He didnt know if he shouldve took the opportunity or walk away from it. Eventually he had made his mind up and decided to walk away from it but pretended as if he did have sex with the girl in order to not get looked at as less than a man from his friends. This links with what sociologist Charles Horton Cooley articulated, which was the concept of looking glass self. I give that man a lot of respect to not touch that young lady because he is one of the very few who wouldnt do anything with her and I mean few. I also think that young boys or even men use the "Man Box" to their advantage and view it as something totally different that what it is at times.
Killing Us Softly was basically about how advertising images of women can have a negative impact on on society. These ads can make a woman feel so less of herself because all it shows is THE PERFECT WOMAN. Women do not stop to think that these ads are for people to spend their money on whatever is trying to be sold. Like the women who are half naked in the Victoria Secret Ads. Its used for men to buy their girlfriend or wife these lingeries to satisfy their fantasy. Its also used for women to bu the clothing that is sold their for themselves. Looking at these females in these ads you can see that they are incredibly thin which makes women want to try every possible thing they can to get to that size to feel beautiful. Also ads focuses mosly on a woman butt or breast which sells sex. Its a messed up thing and society needs to work together to stop it. Why do women have to expose themselves just to make money? Why are we viewed as objects? Why cant we be superior and not inferior to men?
This chapter taught me a lot about understanding how people recognize or learn their sense of self. I found this chapter very interesting and made some very interesting points, especially at the end when it stated about the guy who isolated himself because he wanted nothing to do with society and when he left he yells "Finally, I am free". The texts states that he basically isnt as free as he thought because yelling those four words are concepts he learned from society. He took with him all that he learned through socialization. That part of this reading, which was at the end of the chapter really summed up the chapter very clearly. Socialization is the process through which people learn their culture's basic norms, values, beliefs, and appropriate behaviors. It is guided by many different agents of socialization, or people and groups who teach us about our culture. My family are the number one agents of socialization for me. As I get older being exposed to different people and groups, other socializing agents will take on roles. Family, school, workplace, media, peer groups, religions, and total institutions all play a role of agents of socialiaztion.
 Socialization is a never ending process and it occurs pretty much through out someones entire lifespan. From childhood, to adolescence, to adulthood, an finally to when someone is aging; around his/her time to reitre. Biology (genes) has a lot to do with social life as well. Genes represent the potential for particular traits, but how those traits are expressed in a particular person depends on the physical and social environment into which the person is born.
  Charles Horton Cooley articulated the point of the looking glass self. The looking glass self is the idea that our sense of self develops as a reflection of the way we think others see us. This means that people's sense of self is determined in relation to their interaction with others. George Herbert Mead argues that self is made up of "I" and the "me".  "I" is the part of the self that is spontaneous, impulsive, creative, and unpredictable, while the "me" is the sense of self that has been learned from interaction with others.

A Brief Summary on "Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System" by David Cole

This article speaks about the inequality in the criminal justice system. Poor and minority citizens are disproportionately victimized by crime. Poorer and less educated persons are the victims of violent crime at significantly hgher rates than wealthy and more educated. Because we live in segregated communities, most crime is intaracial; the more black crime there is, the more black victims there are. African Americans made up about 12% of the general population, but more than half of the prison population. They serve longer sentences, have higher arrest and conviction rates, face higher bail amounts, and are more often the victims of police use of deadly force than white citizens. Nationally, for every one black man who graduates from college, 100 are arrested. Basically a black person's face is stereotypically associated with crime. Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality, and also that there is two systems of criminal justice: one of the privileged, and another for the less privileged. Some of the distinctions are based on race, pthers on class, but in no true sense can it be said that all are equal before the criminal law.

What Does It Mean to Be Human?: Human Nature, Society, and Culture

This article by Joel M. Charon explains the key qualities that differentiate us from animals. Though we are animals, many believe that there are differences such as humans having a soul and a conscience, or that humans are instinctive, or that we are the only animal that makes war on its own kind. Human beings are mammals, which mean that we are warm blooded, we give birth to live young, the female nurses the younbg, and we have hair covering parts of our body. The unique qualities we maintain is that we are social and cultural.  Without those two qualities we wouldnt be who we are. Humans need others for survival and culture arises from social life. Through the use of symbols, selfhoos and mind we are able to figure out our world and develop ideas uniquely our own. So to summarize what a human is, it is a being who is social and cultural in nature. Being social, he/she survives by depending on others, learning how to survive from others, and develops individual and human quaities through socialization. Being cultural is basically one who interprets the world according to what they've learned in society.

Tony Porter: A call to men - Killing Us Softly Advertising's Image of Women

The video by Tony Porter is extremely touching and I feel is important for every man to watch and to pay attention to what was said. Men are taught to be superior, tough, stong, dominating, show no emotion and feel no pain. How can one feel free? How can one go in their entire life playing this role? The touching part of this video was when he spoke about being in the room with the 16 yr old girl who was laying on the bed nude at his friends house. He didnt know what to do. He didnt know if he shouldve took the opportunity or walk away from it. Eventually he had made his mind up and decided to walk away from it but pretended as if he did have sex with the girl in order to not get looked at as less than a man from his friends. This links with what sociologist Charles Horton Cooley articulated, which was the concept of looking glass self. I give that man a lot of respect to not touch that young lady because he is one of the very few who wouldnt do anything with her and I mean few. I also think that young boys or even men use the "Man Box" to their advantage and view it as something totally different that what it is at times.
Killing Us Softly was basically about how advertising images of women can have a negative impact on on society. These ads can make a woman feel so less of herself because all it shows is THE PERFECT WOMAN. Women do not stop to think that these ads are for people to spend their money on whatever is trying to be sold. Like the women who are half naked in the Victoria Secret Ads. Its used for men to buy their girlfriend or wife these lingeries to satisfy their fantasy. Its also used for women to bu the clothing that is sold their for themselves. Looking at these females in these ads you can see that they are incredibly thin which makes women want to try every possible thing they can to get to that size to feel beautiful. Also ads focuses mosly on a woman butt or breast which sells sex. Its a messed up thing and society needs to work together to stop it. Why do women have to expose themselves just to make money? Why are we viewed as objects? Why cant we be superior and not inferior to men?

Chapter 6 ; Socialization

 This chapter taught me a lot about understanding how people recognize or learn their sense of self. I found this chapter very interesting and made some very interesting points, especially at the end when it stated about the guy who isolated himself because he wanted nothing to do with society and when he left he yells "Finally, I am free". The texts states that he basically isnt as free as he thought because yelling those four words are concepts he learned from society. He took with him all that he learned through socialization. That part of this reading, which was at the end of the chapter really summed up the chapter very clearly. Socialization is the process through which people learn their culture's basic norms, values, beliefs, and appropriate behaviors. It is guided by many different agents of socialization, or people and groups who teach us about our culture. My family are the number one agents of socialization for me. As I get older being exposed to different people and groups, other socializing agents will take on roles. Family, school, workplace, media, peer groups, religions, and total institutions all play a role of agents of socialiaztion.
 Socialization is a never ending process and it occurs pretty much through out someones entire lifespan. From childhood, to adolescence, to adulthood, an finally to when someone is aging; around his/her time to reitre. Biology (genes) has a lot to do with social life as well. Genes represent the potential for particular traits, but how those traits are expressed in a particular person depends on the physical and social environment into which the person is born.
  Charles Horton Cooley articulated the point of the looking glass self. The looking glass self is the idea that our sense of self develops as a reflection of the way we think others see us. This means that people's sense of self is determined in relation to their interaction with others. George Herbert Mead argues that self is made up of "I" and the "me".  "I" is the part of the self that is spontaneous, impulsive, creative, and unpredictable, while the "me" is the sense of self that has been learned from interaction with others.