The reading for this week correlated well to each other, in the sense that they all play a critical role in demonstrating how culture, perception, and generations have on our daily interactions. These articles demonstrate how language is interpreted differently and has an impact on an individual differently. In the book is it stated that “words, in addition to being symbolic, are also arbitrary. They derive their meaning from the people who use them”. A great example to this statement is the usage of the N word.…
Rifkin says that philosophers and animal behaviorists have argued about the capability of self –awareness in other animals. While some argue that animals do not have self-awareness because “they lack a sense of individualism”, others beg to differ. A counter statement that Rifkin utilizes is the remarkable actions elephants do when they are faced with a dead kin. Elephants will “often stand next to their dead kin for days,” and occasionally touch “their bodies with their trunks. After contributing to anticipate the common objection, many people would realize that animals are not much different than us.…
Mindy (Mytien) Nguyen Professor Montagne Anthropology 185 03 November 2015 Innate or Learned? Aggression refers to an array of behaviors that may have consequences in both physical and psychological harm to oneself, others, or objects in the environment. It can take a variety of forms that include physical, verbal, mental, and emotional. As aggression progresses in human behavior from adolescent to adult, we often wonder if these qualities are innate in humans or if it is a learned behavior.…
Many news sources explained the Slender man stabbing, The headline of this news story might strike curiosity as to what happened. A few years ago these two girls Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times in the woods killing the girl on May 31st. Their intention was to meet “slender man”, a fictional character that hunts down children. They hatched a scheme where they planned to murder their friend at a slumber party to get a chance to show loyalty to this fictional character and the fact that “he” threatened the families if they did not take a life first. Kids have an imaginative mind, and they do things that other people tell them to do.…
Jagger Potter Jessica Dinneen English 101 2-22-2018 Norman Cousins, (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, wrote the article "How to Make People Smaller Than They Are.” It he Saturday review in 1978.This is an argumentative article against the falling role of the humanities in our education. In his article Cousins gives the reasons for the decrease and suggests some of the attitudes and results of it. He gives a plan to correct the problem, and then goes on to explain the importance of a liberal education in today's society. Cousins gives a 2-part reason for the decrease in interest in liberal education.…
On a typical Wednesday night in Bloomington, a couple of my old friends from high school, Kasandra Rieckers, Brycelyn Ruddick, and Kourtney Branaman, and I went to the IU volleyball game against Purdue. After the game, we went back to Kasandra and Brycelyn’s dorm room to talk about our Halloween costumes. The conversations of people that have known each other for a long time and see each other often will vary a lot from the conversations of people that do not see each other as often. These field notes will highlight the particular tendencies and patterns in conversation that are typical between my friends, from high school that came to IU, and I.…
Unfortunately, this includes a large amount of profanity some which include offensive racial slurs used against crooks. John Steinbeck’s influence on his novel “Of Mice and Men” on the truth of racism. In high schools in Suwanee, Florida; Jacksboro, Tennessee; Buckingham, Virginia; and Branford, Florida, students read a book about the truth of the United States of America. Many people were upset with the fact that their children were learning about the racism going around the country and did not want it…
Controversies on body image have been a prevalent issue throughout the world dating for centuries that predominantly target women. This contention branches out into the matters regarding body dysmorphic disorders which became the foundation for eating disorders. The motives for eating disorders are attributed to individualistic influences, as well as sociocultural and political-economic influences. Individualistic influences “reflect the differences in women’s psychosexual development” (Hesse-Biber, 1991, p.173). Sociocultural and political-economic influences highlight the opposed view, while focusing on causations for eating disorders that are not credited to the individual, but rather concentrated in society (Hesse-Biber, 1991, p.174).…
“The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man” is a chapter in “Between Past and Future”. The book is written by Hannah Arendt. In this chapter, she is mainly talking about the relationship between space and the stature of man, and how they affect each other. At the beginning of the chapter, Arendt asks a question to the readers which is directly related to the topic: “ Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature? ”…
It is sadly apparent to those who travel this great country when they see short people on TV, in our schools, or in the baby gap where they take our children’s clothes for themselves when they should’ve grown out of those clothes 10 years ago. Being short is a growing threat to society due to the inability to reach the gas pedal or the top shelf. Our cars are being made to accommodate toddler sized adults, making it more difficult for tall people to find a vehicle. It is also easier for tiny people to be criminals because they’re less likely to be spotted from when robbing a kids payless. Short people have become cancerous to our society, and there is only one way to heal this epidemic, the addition of stilts to all people below the height…
Using words to express our wants, needs, and feelings gives people the chance to make language bias or inherently racist. Ossie Davis argues the same point in “The English Language is my Enemy” that language is a necessary function that can be used to marginalize groups and carry negative connotations. Race-identifying terms like negro, colored, black, and nigger all have a large impact on self-identity for African Americans today. For the example, the racial slur “nigger” is one of the most notorious words in American culture. This word has traveled from 1800’s all the way up to the 21st century.…
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber’s “The Spread of the Cult of Thinness” is a chapter from her book The Cult of Thinness that was published in 2007. She is a professor of sociology at Boston College and directed its Women’s Studies program. She is also the director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. The author is trying to figure out why eating disorders are common among women. Her purpose for writing this is to explain connections that she sees between ritualized behaviors and the obsession with the impossible ideal both in cults and in eating disorders.…
Nature vs. Nurture: Aggression For decades, scientists have been debating about the issue of nature versus nurture. Are a person’s personality traits a result of nature or of his or her environment? Is aggression something we are born with or is it something we learn from our environment? According to the American Psychological Association, the word ‘aggression’ is defined as “behaviors that cause psychological or physical harm to another individual”.…
George Mead was a sociologist of the mid nineteen centuries, who developed on the theory of social self. He believed the self and society were inevitable and inseparable; as a result, he shared, “there can be no self apart from society;” the fact is, ‘the self’ is richly engrossed in societal proceedings or interactions and that the society cannot be functional without the attributing -factors that imbues meaning into it, which I share here as ‘the self’. The self permits the ongoing process of communicative social actions between persons or other individuals who are mutually oriented toward each other. Thus, it permit us to firmly say that society lays it basis on the interaction of personalities which allows it processes to flow efficiently…
How do we act as a human being in the society? Everyone plays differents roles and act differently to promote or we can say protect ourselves. We can tell that the whole society is a stage and everyone's an actor plays differently in the front stage. George Herbert Mead, a sociologist from the late 1800s, is well known for his theory of the social self, which includes the concepts of 'self,' 'me,' and 'I.' No matter what kind of environment, people always bring a "mask" for themselves to realize their wishes and become part of a group. According to Erving Goffman's play theory, the active and knowledgeable person can guide and control how others see themselves.…