Putting it all together

Last week in sociology we watched the movie A Bronx Tale. This movie follows the life of coloduro or C, as he grows up in an Italian neighborhood controlled by a mob. Through out the film C is part of different social groups that all inpact him in different ways. C 3 main groups that he was apart of during the film, his friends, the mob, and his family. All of these groups impacted who C was as a person and also caused different social constructions of reality. Take for example each groups view on racism. His family and his friends were racist twords blacks because of how they grew up, especially for his friends. Early in the movie we saw them at a young age yelling at a black person on a bus chasing after them and calling him names. This same action carried in into their leter years becoming a social norm for them to hate blacks. This sort of action is pushed onto C as he is sort of shaped to hate blacks as well because of the social construction of his friends.

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Soc Week 3

This week in sociology we learns about socially constructed groups. Theese are the groups that we associate ourselves  with that make up who we are. We wrote down different groups in class that we associated ourselves with and our own personal roles in them. We also determined what me considered our own master group that we see ourselves.
After writing down all the groups thr I saw myself a part of I started to think more about how all these groups affected me and realized that they all affected me of very different ways. Things I would say/do when I'm at wrigley field then at school and vise versa for school. When even looking at wrigley alone I act different depending on who I'm with. These sort of things happen because the people around me in the group I'm in.  When I can be the smart guy in my radio group because I know how to run all the equipment I can also be the new guy who knows nothing when I first started at wrigley. It almost feels like your identity completely changes depending on the social situation/group that you are a part of.

This week in sociology we learned about the social construction of reality. This is how our views and actions are all shaped by the society that we live in. To me this term reminds of "social norms" the we talked briefly about at the beginning of the semester. An action such as the teacher staring a class by just being silent may just be considers normal in some other culture yet for us it was uncomfortable and awkward just so sit there in silence.
 I had this sort of experience a few years ago when I went to china. One of the few things I clearly remember is that they had a rating system for every bathroom.  It was just a simple 5 star system and there were signs posted outside of every door that showed the star rating of the bathroom. Ourtour guide   told the group I was in that most typical public restrooms were 2-3 stars. He also noted that if we ever saw I saw a 1 star bathroom that we should never go into it.  Seeing something like this was really weird to me. Rating a bathroom was something I had never seen before and it was weird for me to see a rating out side of every bathroom. Thinking about it it would also be weird for someone from china not to see a rating out side of a bathroom here since that is something they are so used to seeing. Our own social construction is reality is something we can't really just see without a change In our cultural setting. Places like foreign countries are the best since it is so different and gives us the best feedback for what our own social norms are.