When It Goes Off

This articles talks about an event between two rival soccer teams. One of the teams Manchester United is about to have a fight in the bar.  One of the friends describes the event and how frightful it is. As all the fans get riled up about the opposing team they take the event outside to the streets. When they reached the underground train station did the the two opposing fans battle. As the fan's of the two teams started to brawl on the escalator, an innocent person slipped and cracked one of the vertebrae on his back. He was consequently rushed to the hospital but the riot or better known as a stampede to the stadium continued. Sam one of the characters explains how he was pressured into a argument with a dog handler. At various points in this article the crowd is so wild that they are even afraid they might even die at any point. Also at all times their is a line between the opposing team if one were to cross the line and were part of the opposing team they run the risk of being killed.

Smelser, a sociologist, defined 6 factors that need to be present in order for a group of people to think and act as a group of people. The first is structural conducivness basically this means that people of the group need to be able to identify the problem. In this example the soccer fans were able to determine the opposing team was bad. the second is structural strain  this is when society was not able to meet the needs of these people. The fans were not adequately supplied with drinks in the bar and were not given room to celebrate. the third is a spread of a generalized belief. In this scenario all the fans were either loyal the Manchester United or the other team which brought them together.The fourth factor is a precipitating factor which means a dramatic event or something of the sort that must occur in order to reinforce the generalized belief. This is seen when the stampede to the game and the game itself is held. The fifth factor is Mobilization for action which essentially means that group takes action and some sort of a leader emerges. In this example when Sammy and his group of friends made it to the front and were leading the riot defines this factor. The sixth and final factor is social control factor which is factors that are beyond their control for example in this story would be the police and other various groups.

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All of a sudden i saw sociology when.................. we took a class field trip to the count courthouse and prison.  On this field trip we observed many court cases and watched some people in jail. The court cases were at varying severity from felony's to small claims court. We also toured the jail complex observing where the prisoners are held and what restrictions are placed on them throughout their stay.

I observed sociology when the we went to the court i thought of control theory because everyone is being controlled by someone else.  The prisoners are being accounted for the actions and decisions they have made. They must report back to the judge at the end of their sentence to ensure they have been rehabilitated. In this process the judge has most of the power which has been given to them by the government. This in turn would exemplify control theory because the prisoners are controlled by the judge.

Clothes encounter provides poigant life lesson for son

The child in this article was attracted to dump trucks and construction site and tools but he had another craving which was to be a princess with pink and purple clothes.At firsts he thought it was OK because his mother and father did not plowman the traditional roles in the family so it confused him slightly. He had a stay at home dad and his mother "brought home the bacon' in the family. Eventually he became socialized through his three year old friends when he thought to himself that all the other guys thought he was a girl if he wore the pink dress on Halloween. This article demonstrates how the boy knew is sex but was unsure about his gender. Anatomically he was a male but he acted as though he liked female stuff until he realized what was going on.

All of a sudden I thought of sociology when I was at the wedding. At the wedding their were many people invited; I would say close to 500 people. This wedding was a traditional Hindu wedding. At traditional wedding the groom is brought to the wedding in a procession. In the procession their is usually a horse or some other animal that is nicely groomed, strong, and decorated with nice garments to celebrate his wedding day. In this wedding the groom was brought to the wedding in 90,000 dollar Mercedes s550 that was brand new right of the lot decorated with flowers.

This is an example of culture clash because in rural India to celebrate a wedding the groom would usually be seated on a horse or elephant decorated with various garments. In America the bride and groom usually drive off in a car after the wedding. The culture mixes together when the groom is brought to the wedding in a very expensive car that is decorated with flowers.



Television



the television is one of the most important of american culture because a child spends most of their time on the television so the child would get most of their knowledge of symbols from the tv.

 

Another symbol of america that has recently developed is fast food in general. Americans lead such busy lives that they do not have the time to cook a good healthy dinner for themselves and have to resort to some kind of fast food.

Sports teams in general is another major part of American society. Their are sports teams that represent each state,and even each counties within the state.

Though this symbol is automatically understood it carries one of the most important meanings in our culture.

Even the most simplest colors carries a meaning in American culture. Most of the time the color represents some sort of danger. Their was study done by a university to see if police officers were more likely to pullover cars just because they were red.

Society

All of a sudden I found myself thinking sociology when my parents were telling me stories of when they first came to United States of America.  When they first came they did not understand any English at all and during high school were placed in English as a second language classes. They found the culture to be odd because everyone operated differently than they did. Some aspects of American culture they found weird was that both boys and girls went to the same school. In India boys and girls went to different schools all the way until college, in their time at least.

My mother told me that the way she learned English and some parts of American culture was watching cartoons in her free time. I can not believe that from such a young age we are taught societies rule with even knowing that it is happening. This makes me wonder if children of a given society would know that society's rule with out even interacting with the society? For the most part it worked in our simulation with the heelots and hokies so it should work any way.

Bemused in America

1.Lost In Translation
The topic Stefan examined was the use of idioms and how the English language has over 250,000 different idioms.

2. Stefan finds it strange that a group of words put together can have a different meaning than they are individually. He wonders why Americans can not say what they mean and not use short phrases. He believes that due to the mix of Russian and American culture hybrid terms are made that are neither American or Russian  such as Handies which means a cell phone in Russia.

3. In Russian culture it is customary to say everything just as the mean so when the new Russian immigrants come to the United States of America they often get confused when someone says that so and so passed away.  They take it literally as some one has gone out and will return later only to find out it means that they have died.

4. Some American Values that I can relate to in this article is when I was young and my parents had just emigrated from India. Overall they could speak English fine but i had to teach them some pronunciations and other idioms. They would always mix up the order of verbs and nouns in a sentence.

sociology in the real world

All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I sitting in commons today. In commons there are many places to sit and that lead us make a table of our own. Today was the also the last day to buy your parking passes. Since their are a lot of people sitting at our table we had combined two tables to make one big table. then half of us left to get our parking passes. The rest of the people at our table moved the tables apart and kept the single table.


This represents the need for society to be influenced by one another. If half of the kids did not get up to get our parking passes the rest of the people would not have moved the table. This theory of everybody depends on everyone else is directly related to Emile Durkheim. He said that society would depends on everyone else around them through a theory known as Organic Solidarity. That is why my friends moved the tables at the end when half of us left to get our parking permits.

Who am I?

I am currently a senior in high school. I Play one sport, tennis, and one I am in one club, scholastic bowl. Out of school I am heavily involved in volunteer activities. I also like to hang out with my friends. We usually play  games of Ultimate Frisbee and Soccer. As for my personality I am shy person and I am also a friendly person.

I am motivated by my parents, they are one of the reasons why i do well in school. the other major influence in my life are my grandparents. They immigrated here from India about 25 years ago. I aspire to become physician or a physician's assistant. One of my goals in life is to make sure that now one else in my family has to face the hardships my grandparents have faced. My goals in my life is to help people who have no where else to go that is why I want to become a physician