Sociology On The Street Chapter 3 Summary

We make assumptions about a person based on their name before we meeting each other. From chapter 3 "Sociology on the Street," video showed a example of woman named Ricki, whom changed her name to Erica, because her name was typically associated with boy name. She explain how people be confused when she make public appearance, they are typically expected a man rather than a woman, also that she was put in boys gym classes, and after all she told the Author Dalton Conley that she hated her original birth name. Another example showed in video was a group of people with Dalton Conley. He asked everyone names in the room, and a woman name Lindsey came upon. He asked Lindsey have she encountered any gender ambiguity and she responded that indeed she …show more content…
She told Dalton that mail may come in, and it may be addressed to Mr.Lindsey instead of being addressed to a woman. He asked her did it bother to see the mistake that was made. Lindsey said it bother her a little bit. Assumptions are make based on personal feelings, sometimes names can be embarrassment or can hurt people feelings, aspects of culture from food to film to fashion. It reflects the social culture that the universe has. The Journal Evolution and Human Behavior published a study, that shows Americans make racist assumptions based names. For example, someone name Deshawn, it can be stated a character wit h a black- sounding name was assumed to be a physically larger and can be more aggression. During the civil rights movement, black people have typical names like Florence or Franklin. Blacks wanted their individuality and break ties from the society, and so they wanted to created unique names so they can be appear in birth records once for that year. The trends of names are close to pure, unmediated, reflective mirror of societal