Thursday, September 27, 2018

Sociology Week 5


Week Five Thursday 09/27/18
By: Maddie Gums
            Today in sociology we discussed multiple different topics including Socialization-Human Development, Super-ego, and Peer group. Socialization human development is a lifelong social experience by which individuals develop human potential and learn patterns of their culture. Socialization prepares people to participate in a social group by teaching them its norms and expectations. Socialization has three goals within it which include; The teaching of impulse control and developing a conscious, preparing individuals to perform specific social roles, and using shared sources of meaning and value. Superego is part of Sigmund Freuds psychoanalytic theory of psychology. The superego is the part of the mind that acts as the critical conscience, it reflects social standards learned through life. Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed by Sigmund Freud that is set to treat mental disorders by studying the interaction between conscious and unconscious elements in a person. This also works to bring repressed thoughts into mind, and uses techniques like interpretation of the dreams, and free association. Free association is when a client is sitting there talking to Freud and talking about every single little thing that comes to their mind. Freud tended to only study people who were sick, not healthy people. A peer group is a group of people whose members have interests, social position, and age in common.


One thing I can do to benefit myself and society is realizing that some people are not open to talking about how they are feeling, and honestly some people don’t even know when something is bothering them. So, if someone is having a bad day I and being rude I should take into consideration that they might have a lot going on. This will benefit me because it will cause me to get less worked up over people, and this will benefit society because I won’t be fighting anyone.

One thing I can do to negatively impact myself and society is by not taking into consideration that some people do not have a good home life or a good life in general. Some people may be living meal to meal and check to check so if I do not take these things into consideration this will make me feel bad because I am not donating to people who need it and im dealing with other crabby people. This will impact society because if no one Is willing to help the less fortunate then who will ever help them?

One thing society can to positively impact me is by providing me with more opportunities to help people in need. When I am helping people, it makes me feel really good and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

One thing society can do to negatively impact me is by not providing opportunities for the less fortunate to be helped by the community.

A solution  is to provide schools with more posters, send out emails and even put ads of websites for help cooking food, or even fundraising for the people in need.


Chapter 6 Questions
  1. In our culture would you consider personal space an important factor to keep in mind when interacting with others in the US?
  2. Is humor only used in the US to help with tension in uncomfortable situations or does this happen in other places?
  3. Thomas Theorem, what really is the point of this theory?



No comments:

Post a Comment

Sociology Week 7

Week 7 Tuesday 10/9/2018 By: Maddie Gums             Today during class, we began to discuss chapter 10 which focuses ...