Final Blog

First semester is ending, so no more sociology with Sal. :/  This class has made me look at the world in a different perspective. After learning about culture, deviance, race, social class, etc., I look at things differently. We talked about nature (our genes) & nurture (our social environment) and how these two things make up who we are. We have our appearances and the people that surround us every day.  We also talked about how race is a social construction and not a biological fact.  For a long time, and still today, people judge others based on their looks, thinking they are a certain race when really they could be a different race. Not only that, but some people judge others based on what others are doing that are deviant to them, like what color their skin is, what color eyes they have, the way a person may dress, the way people talk to one another, and many more examples. Junior year I dated a guy that was half black and half white. When friends and people from school saw pictures of what he looked like, right off the bat I got different responses like, "He's Hispanic isn't he?", or "You're dating a black guy...why?"  People started judging before they knew who he really was. I've learned that all these things we talked about fit together to make up what sociology is all about.
  When I decided to take this class, I had no idea that we had to do community service instead of taking a final exam. In the beginning I thought it was awesome because we just had to get a certain amount of hours in and that was it.  Through this experience it wasn't like that at all.  I learned that we could find ourselves by going out and taking our time to help others.  This class is in our everyday lives, and I like how I know how to look at the world differently knowing more than I did before.

Crash

 The movie, Crash, I believe is an interesting movie. It shows how society judges people before knowing who they really are. For example, Sandra Bullock's character, a white high class wife who wanted her locks changed at home, because she just got home from having a gun pointed to her face approached by two black men that stole her & her husband's car. The guy that fixed her locks was Hispanic. She started yelling at her husband because she wanted her locks changed a second time just because the guy fixing them was Hispanic.She told him that he is a "gang banger" and that him & his "homies" will break into their house and take over. Even though she had a gun pointed at her by two black men, doesn't mean she has the right to accuse a man changing her locks based on his race. Later in the movie, we all find out that he was not what Sandra's character believed he was. He was not involved in a gang, & had a wife and daughter that he loved very much & worked hard to support his family. From this movie & from sociology class, I learned that we should all stop saying things about people before we know anything about them.