A bronx Tale social dynamics

In the movie a Bronx Tale it is obvious that C is brought up in a town with mostly Italians. That right there is one social dynamic, because out of all the places in NY that these Italians could have lived they chose to stick together, and it is like that for a lot of races and cultures.I guess it is more acceptable to live with your own, cause that is what facts show us. The Irish would live in Irish neighborhoods, same with blacks and latinos living in their own neighborhoods. The blacks in this movie are just very degraded. Macro-dynamics would tell us that most Italians that came fresh off the boat had a loooot of pride for their nationality and race, we can assume, that C and all his friends have been braught up with these racist thoughts. Micro-dynamics would be a little more effective to come up with a conclusion of why Italian families have decided to live in a basically strict italian neighborhood, if and why they hate blacks, and maybe something to do with sunnies mofia. It is obviouse sunny is a mob boss, and for a survey for sociological purpouses it would be interesting to see how the mafia effects the community, and who is involved in small or large ways. I dont know as socialogist in training that is how i would get my answers, but alot less blunt then vhen khatash if thats how you spell his name.

9/11 conspiracy??

There are so many conspiracy theories of 9/11. If there true or not I can not say. 9/11 is a very horrible and sad day, but a day to remember always. The lives we lost, the way it seemed every one just hopelessly staring at the towers while 2 air crafts crashed in to the buildings. the thoughts of this national security just changing as we watched the towers hit the ground. The question is: was 9/11 really caused by the government, there is enough proof in my opinion to not out rule anything in my book. Things I know for a fact is the bin laden was paid billions of dollars from the us government back in the day when he worked for the CIA. I personally believe that a good percent of that money funded alqaida. The reason that the government destroying two of their own buildings is a theorie just to get moral support for the war, is because we see it in history. Hitler burned down a building and blamed it on the jews to get propaganda and support from the people to go to war. The whole trajedy to me is a shame and its very shady it doesnt leave me with enough evidence to just say there was no us involvment. Leaves me very confused.

Norms in todays world

After a great in class example of how saliva is exchanged in socially acceptable ways, and the left handed shakes which was a huge mind bottler; I realized that we have a lot of norms in our society that have been used and passed one for generations. We also learned in certain situations we change and adapt to societies norms if we need to like learned in the cannibalism article. The way they ate each other had to become more socially acceptable because they were not blood hungry insane cannibals. they ate each other in a more adaptive social acceptable way???? what i mean is the event of cannabalism had organization. It wasn't complete chaos, it was what they had to do to survive, and they did it in more organized and adapted way which to them would seem more acceptable. We wont eat eat saliva on the wall but we will go suck it out of someones mouth. That is socialy acceptable for some reason. When the time comes for change in societys norms we will adapt and do things that we have to do to survive. I dont really know what im trying to say so basicallly im just gonna lay it out. Norms and normality when changed do not become not normal. they just adapt and change the meaning of normal.. yepp

stevensons freaks and geeks

WOOOOOW. Stevenson is a ton of kids with sooo many different backrounds that there is like 20 different sub-groups of what you may call "freeks and geeks". we got freeks we got geeks we have everything. Why I beleive we fall into these groups has a lot to do with backround. Mindully thinking at the stevenson caffeteria for 4 years really got me thinking why do these clicks form. I looked at factors as some one who is friendly to every click yet i have one of my own. or group of friends id preffer. i am going to be very judgmental cause its alot easier. The rich kids have probably the biggest click out of any one in my graduating year. i Know who most of them are and they seem to fall into the same huge groups of kids. Those kids probably have more power than some of the other clicks at our school. You also have minority groups. Alot of mexicans, Indians, Blacks, etc. have there own group with kids in the same ethnic backround. not all of the minoriteis do this but iv noticed alot do. than you got preps who fall in with each other, druggies, and losers, geeks, cool geeks. there is too many to name. I guess there are alot of people who have high school power over other groups. what ever high school power means. who gets more dates, whose going to prom as a junior all little stupid things who plays sports. yea I mean one thing i can come to a conclusion is that kids with similar backrounds usually click with other kids with similar backrounds...

Society has changed in the past ten years

There are many different factors that I personally feel have changed alot of ways we as a society have changed in the past ten years. For example in 1999 there was a lot of economic growth and i believe the societies and sub-societies felt a lot more comfortable with life and foreign affairs, keeping there jobs, etc all that good stuff. Ten years later as a whole: I see there is a lot of more fear in people, we are gowing through a tough economic time. death rates and suicide rates have gone up. We are fighting a war on terror but we dont really know who we are fighting. people are a lot more conservative then im they use to be ten years ago. One major factor I really beleive that can install all these different thoughts is the media. The media is censored and tells us what the government wants us to hear. a lot of which i beleiv is propaganda. So society has changed in a major way as I beleive in ten years from now it will also change dramatically due to alot of factors that we might not be aware of yet.

First day of sociology

The first day I had switched in to this sociology class, I was exited to see what this class was all about. I walked in the classroom and just tried to absorb what this class was going to be like. There was an article that the class had read that seemed to be very interesting. I had not received this article because I switched in to sociology just a few days after school started. After a day in sociology with out saying much in class, but just listening and absorbing the types of conversations and vibes of the class; I realized that this class is going to be a lot more interesting than I expected it to be. GOOD STUFF