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.