Sociology Week 6

Week 6 Tuesday 10/2/18

By: Maddie Gums

 On Tuesday in class after reviewing everyone’s life maps we transitioned our way into discussing chapter 6. But before getting into chapter 6 we discussed Harry Harlow and his studies with the baby monkeys. After Harry graduated from college he opened a psychology primate lab. In Harrys studies he was very intrigued by the concept of love. Beginning in the year 1957 Harlow began working with a species of monkeys called rhesus monkeys when he became interested in dependency needs. Harlow took these babies away from their mothers and gave them two artificial mothers one being wire, and the other being made of cloth. The wire monkey had bottles to feed the baby, and he found that the babies would only stay with the mother as long as it took to get fed and in the mean time they would be with the comforting cloth mother that did not have food. When moving into chapter 6 we talked about social interaction and how people act and react in relations to others. Moving forward we discussed ascribed and achieved status. Learning that achieved status has to do with a social position that is taken on involuntarily later in life. While achieved status is something that is achieved by people. 

One thing I can do to benefit myself and society is by educating people that the portrayal of mental illnesses is not accurate all the time when it comes to movies, and the news. This will benefit me because I have some family members with various metal illnesses and educating people will make life easier and their interactions with people who judge them much easier.

One thing I can do to negatively impact myself and society is by only forming opinions on stuff from what I see in the news and in movies. This will negatively impact me because this will cause me to have a distorted view of life and in society this would make my views rub off on the people around me and would put more of a negative stereotype on mental illnesses.

One thing society can do to positively impact me is by providing me with many resources to learn about mental illnesses where I can get help, and where I can get help for people around me.

One thing society can do to negatively impact me is by not providing resources at low cost and continuing to allow the prices to keep rising.

A solution for this problem is by encouraging more people to get help, by providing people studying this and working in this field more compensation for what they do sense they have a very hard job.