Subculture

Today in sociology we talked about subculture the different things that are involved with them.

Looking at my self i have my own subculture with my job at wrigley field. Instead of just writing out a paragraph im just going to list off the different features like we did in class.

Material Culture: Our uniform, Id badge, Carrying cases, Location.

Mores: Dont go into someone else's area, dont leave until after the 6th, dont go in the same ile as the person who's selling the same item as you.

Folkways: selling in the bleachers, "last call",

Unique language: "1s" "2s" "loads"

Unique symbols: the Unifirms, our carrying casses. Hot dog cart.

These were some if the features of my subculture at wrigley field. When looking at it we all have tons of different sub cultures that we are a part of and all the different mores folkways and language we have.

Last week in sociology we watched the film God grew tired of us, a film about the lost boys, refugees from sudan, who were sent to the United States.
During this film we were able to see the different terms we talked about the week before. the biggest ones I noticed was the level of culture shock the refugees experienced when they made the move to the US. Their previous culture was pretty much a complete 360 of what our is and when they made the move here it completely changed their lives. At first their culture shock was good, such as their amazement of the food and the technology they saw. But as the movie progressed some of the culture shock turned into ethnocentrism when they were talking about how the community is a lot more private then what they had experience and they were almost mad about it. They had quotes talking about how their culture was better and how they couldn't understand how ours could be so different. This movie also showed how culture is so important to us and how we can't survive without it. This is seen where one of the boys goes insane and ends up getting arrested and sent to a mental institution because he couldent handle the american culture.
  It's weird to think about how important culture to ourselves and to others and how a big change in it for some people can drastically change their lives

A little behind

So today I am finally getting around to getting my blogs done. A few weeks ago in sociology we began our new unit about culture. We learned about egocentrism or the feeling like your culture is dominant when faced against a different culture. We used the example in class of the Danish mother who left their child outside of a restaurant on how she felt it was the right thing and was upset that she got in trouble for it.
I have been egocentric when I had  gone to china a few years ago. When I was there the group I was in went to one of the local market places. This place can be compared to an american version of a mall but it was different in many ways. The different stores were all very clustered together and the merchants in the shops have very aggressive efforts of trying to get you to come to their shop. I remember that when I was walking through this i was thinking about how better and organized this was in america and how much better it was then this. I never took intro account that this was the normal way of life for the people down there. I feel like being egocentric is a good thing as long as we keep it to ourselves. If everyone went out and expressed their egocentrism there wold always be a never ending argument on who's culture is better than who's.