Tough Guise and Sex in America

Tough Guise starts off by explaining how men are seen in society majority of the time, when men were being asked what a real man is they stated "strong, independent, powerful, physical, intimidating, incontrol, etc... The box was a form that if you uphold that you are outside that box but if your known as wimp, wuss, fag, and sissy you were inside of the box. The video manly states on how mean are seen as tough, and was causes them to be known like this. A couple of examples where men learn it from are their families,community, and mostly media. Media was being used as a powerful tool to show men how they are suppose to be seen as. Latinos, Black, Asian, have their stereotypes on how they are as summed to be seen as of the societies point of view. Men are seen at a higher criminal rate than woman, this would have to common sense for one to know this. Without chaos men wouldn't be so high ranked in the criminal justice system. A woman's point of view showed that when men re around woman they show their true colors but around other men they show a different side thir tough side.Woman also have a fault on why men are always trying o be so tough, because it something that is expected from thm tosh ow to a URL, and if that wasnt the case men woul be different. But to sum this video up That all of this content shows "manly" roles are being played out, in society. My reading didn't really relate towards my article "Sex In America", my article basically discussed how sex is seen in society. Studies shed that Americans that are not married tend to have more sexual patterns than when married. When married partners stay faithful to their partner. It showed that more young people having more sexual intercourse, but yet again all that stops when married(in some cases). But since it's not always that case, it's what led's to divorces, and former partners looking for new partners. In my opinion yeah society can be seen like this but not all of the cases are the same between men and woman.

The Hispanic Dropout Mystery

This was a very short article but it caught my attention. The article talkes about how Hispanic have a higher rate of dropouts than white or black Americans. It points out certain things on why Hispanics dropout, a few are: Hispanics that are born here in america have a higher dropout rate than immigrants do. I agreed with the proposal that Senator Jeff Bingaman was making, in order to help these kids out there has to be some type of program that will help them out from the continuous dropout rate from increasing. When th hpanicteens were asked why they lefft school, if wasn't too shadowing to me, because most teens either have a family to support or they have other household responsibilities to take car of. The article stated that " Hispanic parents don't demand as much of American schools as whites and blacks", wouldn't one think that probably that's the reason their is such a high dropout rate from Hispanics? Hispanics get critized alot but it isnt right, because one eouldnt like it i f it was happening to them. This article reminded me of my high school, because most of my schools dropouts were hispanic andbthe usuallydroped out,because they thought school was point less, or became teen mom's.In the end I believe everyone has the fault in cause of these drop outs, one can prevent these this fom happening one just has to really care for it.

Racial Stratification and Education

   In this article it showed the lack of education services aren't being equally treated between whites and blacks. Marx's identified two forms of class analysis: Correlation and Cultural Reproduction/Resistance Analysis. Correlation was an analysis that is believed to be dependent on one's family background with their attitudes in school performances. The Cultural Reproduction/Resistance was based on research/ theories of Marx, which meant that the theory showed that working class student rejected education. Working class students rejected this, because it was due to the lack of respectable treatment they were receiving. This does deal with social stratification, but does society realize that by classifying certain people and not helping students out it just manages to increase chaos and disorder.
    In another part of the article also talked about "School Performance Gap Transcends Time and Class Boundaries." It focused on the desegregation towards black and their performances in the school and how the lacked a certain educational standard. Blacks were basically being pointed out as the weaker link, because of their lack and care of education as society believed.  The article mentioned "the gap", i wasn't to sure on what it's main meaning was but i believe that if state's on the living conditions it would defined them on how they act towards everything else. If society see's them as such a weak link then why don't they just have the ability to help them instead of making them look bad and make them seem that all of them don't care for an educational degree. 
   In the last part of the article it talked about " How Racial Stratification Enters into Black Education." Three ways that were stated in which racial stratification enter into black education 1) societal educational policies, 2) the way black students are perceived and treated in specific schools they attend, and 3) People's own perception and responses to their schooling. All of these three ways just showed how stratification enters black education. This three way's reminded me of a quote " In order for you to get respect show respect to others." Overall this part covered how blacks weren't treated equally in terms of their education, which caused them to have less job opportunities and get a higher education. But even in the schools the treatment that they received wasn't as good either. In one statement it states " some black educators and others agree with this interpetation that the academic work is "white"". This to me shows that society again wants everyone to be the same not everyone can be the same, because if that was the case society would have to be like everyone else, which can cause others to disagree with that as weel as I do. 

People like Us

         In this video it shows how society likes to judge people on their social class. Society can judge on what someone dresses, looks, jobs they obtain, the types of home one lives in, etc..Towards the beginning of the video a woman in a school I believe was judging on everyone that past right by her, for example the words she used to describe some were dorky, dirty, and ghetto. The people that were talking and stating certain states on what they were describing how how some can describe lower,middle, or high class. What I also took from this was that when some women in the beginnign of the video saw the picture of an old man she automatically assumed he was lower class, but she said maybe he just dress like a lower class person but probably aren't. It seems that people are easily judging other with out knowing anything about them. This is what today in our society describe people today. It just comes to show that society can consider themselves in any type of class, because if one grew out of the a certain class they would push aside the ones they didn't fit in into the certain status that seemed fit.

         In last weeks class our professor asked us a question on what class we believed we were when we grew up. Mostly the whole class stated that they believed and thought they were middle class. It just comes to show that everything from how each individual grew up and the environment one was raised in can help one describe their class. In the end it showed ME how to describe class in a better way and that not everyone can be defined as lower, middle, or higher class

Postitve Functions of the Undeserving Poor: Uses of the Underclass in America

         According to Herbert J. Gans point of view on how poor people are stereotyped. Herbert pointed out certain postive views that poor people have. What stood out to me was that on page 4 Herbert states"survey after survey has shown that the poor, including many street criminals and drug sellers, want to hold respectable jobs like everyone else. It showed that even today for example in prisons some criminals don't want to be labeled that way anymore they want to labeled as everyone else that the can do something good with their life. But their can be others that think different and say of oh they have a criminal record they dont deserve to be working for such a high level paying job. Just in these example it examples on how criminals are stereotized.

Herbert also points out that even in today society it you are labeled as a "schoool dropout" you are known as not being able to hold a suitable job, may not even be able to get a job, and it can as well go back to how prisoners can be unemployed. By being labeled this way it can cause criminals to stay criminals.It just shows that Herbert's point that in society poor people aren't seen as a postive function they are seen more towards negative.

Deviance

Deviance is a breaking of a social rule,or refusing to follow one. I was a bit confused on how to start of, I wasn't sure if I really understood the meaning of it, but either way I am giving it shot. Teenagers today drinking under the age of 21, drive in a car with a fake drivers license, etc.. Some teenagers know that it's illegal to drink under the age of 21, some drink because it can be a stress reliever, other can drink because they think their cool enough to do so. By drinking at such a young as can cause some to have different reactions, others can become alcoholics. Fake drivers license one can claim that they needed it to get around their neighborhood, that their previous license was suspended and they needed there car, etc.. With a fake driver's license you can get caught by a police officer and one can be sent to jail, you can have a record with an expected court date. On one the day of your court date you would give a reasonable explanation on why you had a fake driver's license under the age of 21. In the end it's better to follow the social rule, because it can save you lots of problems.

Gender Socialization

      Killing us Softly, the message being sent is that advertisements play a huge role for women an men, but more for women. In the video it stated that "Women become a subject to object", when I heard that it caught my attention that women are something but since ad's can make one think differently so they would want to change themselves to satisfy others(men specifically). It showed as well that men don't deal with so much as women they dont deal with consequences and in result men can't be an objective. As well as according to these ad's it send a message to women that they would have to be skinny, they have to get bigger breasts , they will only be exceptable if they are young, thin, white, beautiful, carefully, groomed and polished. When hearing this it showed to me that they want all women to look certain way and to look the same. Messages as well being sent by these ad's show that women are expected to change more than men but in the end the messae being sent is by showing different types of ad's with a different message showing that everone is different and live the way that they naturaly are. 

A Call to Men, the message being sent Tony Porter states that men were known to be strong, leaders, dominant, courageous, no pain with any type of emotion, men were suppose to show anger and fearful. Tony Porter states that men are the biggest role to women they dominat the women. For when a boy is young fathers tend to teach their sons from early childhood to start the entty into becoming a man. Including that every man isn't suppose to show his emotions in fornt of a women it wouldve been considered being weak, and not manly. "The Man Box", its shows how much of a boy can be a man and at poinnts doing what they know is wrong and it shouldnt happen. By not having the man box it would give men freedom to do what is write. 

Killing us Softly and A cal to Men bithh express on how society wants us to see things. Socialization wants everyone to be a certain way so everyone can be the same, and be expressed on what they believe is right and well known amongest others. I believe our socialization are tyring to dominant men and women into believing that what one puts on ad's or anywhere in todays society its what one sees to be a true meaning to others.