Ted Talks Educations Extra Credit

            “ All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”

                                                                        Benjamin Franklin

        Ted talks Educations; explores the ideas of transforming the US education.

 The first speaker was Rita F. Person. She goes on to state that the thing we forget and rarely talk about is the value and importance’s of human connections “relationship” Person asserts that if teachers encourage students to be better and have “I am” somebody mentally they could achieves amazing things. Person acknowledges that it isn’t easy, but it’s something that needs to be done.

        

        Remember when you were a little kid and everything I mean everything that you touched, seen, saw and spoke came with the question why? Ramsey Musallam states the importance of building curiosity in students and if your able to do that the possibility is infinite. He spoke about his daughter’s, and how he was afraid when she got older and went to school that her teacher’s wouldn’t support her curiosity Musallam argues that there is a difference between knowledge and understanding and if teacher instilled some foam of understanding it’s more likely to stick.

Grits is what set apart each individual’s from one another. Angela Duckworth believes that all human being has the capacity to learn; it just depends on the passion one might have. Duckworth’s argues that this should be promoted in children’s and young adults and it should be nurtured in school  Bill Gates and Dr. Geoffry Canada both spoke about change and how the old ways is no longer working because no one is benefiting from them. Gates stats there are a few things we can do to measure the effectives of teaching and see if it’s really working just like Dr. Canada he stated the graudation rate of is school being 100% and college Admission being at 93% he stated the old ways wasn’t working. Students are changing and we must adapt to it.  Sir Ken Robinson spoke he explore the idea that what we are teaching is no longer effective and how America has great educations but it exist in alternative educations he explain that this shouldn’t be. The norms of the dominant cultures needs to be dominated to accepted the values of what the new norms can be..

This video urged teachers and America to change we are no longer living in a era where the academic standers for education was effusion .

I must admit teachers have one of the hardest jobs in the United States but we must also acknowledge that resources is not distribute evenly.

Classification of classes #8

"Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life."

      Growing up i never thought of class as anything but a word; never fully seeing the bigger picture; that is imbedded in our society. I guess to some degree i had the mindset of being middle-class do i even dare to say upperclass; never questioning the social  stratification but definality knowing it existed especially when i went to school. from the friends i had to the clothes we whore on a daily basis.

             In the documentary "People Like Us" looks at the way Americans constantly evaluate and categorize other "social Status" this un-question ideology deeply-held of egalitarianism and fairness, where citizens are in fact subject to sharp class distinctions and inequalities of opportunity.

  "  I found it funny how we could define a person class simply by looking at photographs".

      The film touch on various of class and the rolls such as the fallen gentry, social climber working stiff and social critic people who are defining "class" exploring the many variables that contribute to the determination of a person class; such as, ancestry, education, and money. According to the film, individual defined class as having money, how you were raised, and your state of mind. Evidently we use status symbols in order to show others were we should be within the social hierarchy.

American has a secret that cannot be described in a traditional sense.  It is more of “The emperor wears no clothes” kind of secret. Everyone knows class stratification exist but people do not talk about it openly, like it’s something that should be avoided bring discomfort for the inhabitants of the “Land of Free”, and the inheritor of “equal opportunity”

        I guess it would be wishful thinking if Americans citizens would actually acknowledge wealth as the deciding social class identifier and try and change the mindset of generations to come.

But then again just like in the reading “Media Magic” by Gregory Mantsios, he states four beliefs that are widely held bout class in America. The media is distinction that the middle-class is comprised of the upper class and white-collared workers, and the under-class solely defined as the poor and colored. The implication disclosed in the media is that “we” are burdened by “their” inability to support themselves “really” As mantsios point out, “for the media” ‘we’ the affluent not only stand apart from the ‘other’ the poor, the working class, the minorities and their problems.

Furthermore, America is built on this illusion that everything is equal and fair, there are to many deciding factors that define class most, which is man, made. Can I go deeper and say this is foam of social control letting each person know indirectly know where they stand and what is expected of them.. I must say this has been one of my favorite blog because the material has enlightening me to a point that my mind is coastally running. 

Six Sign of Deviance

        Are you deviant? what is a deviant? deviance can include so many different behaviors. Behaviors in one culture may be seen as a norm but in another culture as taboo, this makes it hard to establish who is and isn't a deviant world wide. Culture by culture it's easier to see deviant behavior.

Many years ago when i first moved to New york i had the pleasure to witness deviances in action i had to pick my cousin up from school early one day, because she wasn't feeling well when i got to her class room i was shock to see one of her classmate screaming cuss words and trying to fight the teacher. As the teacher try to calm down the student; he started smacking his books off the table. finally another teacher found her way into the class and started saying this is not how a child act in school or any where else because this type of behavior wasn't acceptable. Made me think back to my younger days when my mother use to tell me a child should be seen and not heard.  

This pass weekend i was being deviant without thinking twice about it. I went to the movies to see Iron Man 3 and i recieved a call in the begining of the film I pick up the call and on the other line was my credit card company calling to make sure that the tranactions that's has been coming in was my use as the call progress i kept answering questions trying to talk in a low voice the lady sitting by me got fed up and turn and yell can i get off the phone because she's trying to watch the movie and i was being very rude i was so embrass that i click the end button without even saying bye.

In out society we know the norm for being skinny is broadcast through television, magazines cover, radio stations and social media pages, (Facebook,twitter,pinter,Instagram etc...) when someone who is over weight and go against the idea of the collective thought they are seen as deviant and bash for being different; but also to some extent it's acceptable for a man to be fat but not skinny.



One of the most deviant act that has happen was back in 2008 when Barack Obama ran for president and won through out history every president we have had has been white when President Obama decide that change needed to come for America he was looked as a hether and some what of a terrioist because he went against the norm of not being white with power .

Even though getting tattoos and piercing are acceptable having to many is not kosher in our society a while back when i was in the village i came across a guy who had pierced his whole face and had tattoos through his body as people walked by him they glock and pointed; because he looked different from what was socially acceptable.














In school we learn  how to navigate our way through life and in order to do that we most continue to go to school graduate get a job. if the job we are at isn't to our liking we can go back to school to getting a better education to achieve the job we want being homeless is never a options growing up my mother would tell me stay in school make sure you get an education so you don't end up like a bum in the streets begging for money. being homeless comes with the stigma of not being a part of society and if your not apart of it you consider deviant and must be dealt with in some foam and most common is to pretend like they don't even exist.






Relating to the article "Positive Function of the Undeserving poor" Herbert J. Gan's. Gans illustrates the positives functions in which the poor populations can benefit the "better-off" Gan indicates that the poor population- often accused of being last, dangerous, and the cause of their own failures- are commonly classified as the undeserving poor. positives aspects that the "better-off" would rather ignore to acknowledge. Gan speaks about the 13 interesting functions in which the poor can be beneficial but one the thing that stuck out to me was economic banishment that poor people are faced elaborating on my last post about deviances.

Socialization #6

I found myself uncomfortably sitting in church this weekend listening to a pastor preaching about “society and the do’s and don’ts of it” as service went on; he spoke about the covenant that each and every person adhere to; I found myself trailing off to other thoughts on how theses social institutions detects our lives. One of the preaching that stuck out to me most was the idea how woman should summit to there husband and do his bidding and how husband be the rock that she needs and lead her down the path to salvation’s. I felt this would be the foundation to my blog post about socializations and how each reading and video correlated with each other.

In the Documentary “ Killing us softly 4” Jean Kilbourne started collecting ads in the late 1960s, inspired, in part, by her involvement with the women’s movement, her interest in media, and her experiences as a model. Kilbourne started to see a pattern in the ads – a kind of statement about what it meant to be a woman in American culture. Over the past 40 years, despite the gains of the women’s movement, Kilbourne believes advertising’s image of women has only gotten worse. Instilling values, images, and concepts of love, sexuality, success, and normalcy. They tell us who we are and who we should be. For example we’re told that the only way a women can be acceptable if they’re young, thin, white maybe light-skinned a perfectly groomed and defined, plucked and shaved and any deviation from this ideal is met with a lot of contempt and hostility.

I think the irony of is all is that advertising tells women what is most important is how they look, (There Self Worth) and ads bombard us with the ideal of what female beauty is. But this flawlessness cannot be achieved. Furthermore, men doesn’t live in a world in which there bodies are forever scrutinized, criticized and judged. Where as being “hot” has become the most important measure. This definition of sexiness makes most women feel insecure, vulnerable, and much less sexy but, lets go beyond advertising, and the effects that it has girls are constantly given the mixed messages by popular culture that they should be sexy but also ignorant, depressed, eating disorders, and low self-esteem.

“Call To Men” Tony Porter shares the idea of manhood and the roles of men (as a collective) by giving powerful stores from his own life, he shows how this mentality, is drummed into so many men and boys, can lead disregarding and mistreating and abusing women and each other he presents the “Man Box” and how we need to break free. He goes into detailing how socialization has shaped his life to first time he was pressure into having sex ( but really raping a girl) faking that he did to so he wasn’t an outcast also how he sooth his daughter when she cries but, sends his son to his room because he’s doesn’t know how to deal with him. Porter explains this way of thinking is based on what he has been taught. (Socialization)

Men usually exceed women in their efforts to assert dominance or control and tend to use touch to reinforce their status of power. (Man Box) This type of nonverbal communication is usually used as a means of defininf the status of each individual within the relationship, in which case the man would be showing the women that he is in power. Even though they we may not realize it, in most cases when watching a show or movies that portrays violent acts againt other individuals, especially women, men will contribute violence as a manly act. This is due to social learning theory of boys who grew up with the encouragement of acting within the their genderednorms. Similarly to what they are taught in thr “Act-Like_A-ManBox”, men grow up surrounded by other male figures in their life constanly reinforcements thoughout a cchild’s life “Not Cry” and “Don’t Be Such A Girl”, enforce masculine behavior and gives the impression that in order to be the man he should be he must be TOUGH.

We hear fathers tell their children to “be the bigger man” and when they see this violence through these media outlets, whether it be a TV show, movie or an advertisement that is what they contribute it to: being the bigger man. I can remember my uncle who loves telling me you got to be a man never let them see you sweat, don’t cry, go to work, build things on and on and on his favorite line that’s what a man suppose to do drumming theses ideas into my head. And I must agree with Porter that we need to redefined “The Man Box” in order to liberate both sexes

In "Parents Socialization of children and The Retro wife" each reading correlated to socialization.  Socialization of children. Study the different parenting styles (Authoritative parents who instilled self-reliant and controlled children, Permissive parents who child outcome was usually aggressive and uncontrolled and Authoritarian Parents who had fearful and moody children.) Also it looked at the cross-cultural of parenting. The different types of parents also reveal that although parenting style defers it’s manly the same some may call it a different name in parenting.

 Retro Wife touches the foundation of the recent fab for young mothers; who choose to stay home and take the traditional role.  They feel that being at home with their children gives them a better chance in life and also be there for them when they need time. I must say that after reading this I called my mother up and asked her did she regret not being a stay at home mom, did she feel like she lost out in getting to know me and teaching me the lessons that were taught to her.. She said no because she taught me whatever your goal is in life follow it. My mom went to school full time plus when she opens her on practice she was barley home and honestly because of that I learnt independence

In chapter 6 we go in depth with the idea of socialization. The things that shapes one individual throughout life.  Theses social institues that influences us from the media, work, and groups we belong to; even religion defining who we are. I always use to the line “I don’t even know who I am because I am forever changing”. To some extent I guess I should be scared of the fact of not truly ever knowing me?  But I look at it as hey life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.

The Desensitized humanity #5

    The Five Faces Of Oppression Exploitation, Marginalization, Powerlessness, Cultural Imperialism, Violence.  These are the faces that oppress humanity, taking advantage of hard workers deciding not to pay for the services they do. Confining a group to a lower social standing; the process of exclusion. Dominated by the ruling class obligated to take orders; the new form of slavery. Ruling class define what’s the culture should be and established it as the norm. The knowledge that most members of some groups must fear random, unprovoked attacks.

 Milgram Experiment Showed the 2 key facts to the five faces of oppression Powerlessness & Cultural.  Obeying the higher monarchy without questioning or better yet without reasons we can see that Culture Silence played a part here.  Evening though the students knew what they were doing was unethical posing high volume shocks to another human being for the wrong answer; not wanting to go against the social norm in all reality sometime obedience out ways rational thinking.

Chapter 5 goes in depth explaining different type of power how and why power has such an impact on us. This gives us a better understanding how humanity works the cause and affect of things Cultural Power, Economic And Political Power. These Shapes and somewhat defines who we are.

When I view America and it’s values, I also see the Vail that it wears from the millions that were salugther, because the dominating culture wants to impose a new way of life, religions and thoughts; and going against that made you the target for violence as time progress we see that we are the ''Three Monkeys see no evil hear no evil speak no evil. Has Culture Silence become such a part of our being we don’t even realize it or is it Conscientization the real gain through the battle we fight.?

Milgram said it best we persuade ourselves to believe what isn’t normal to be normal.

                                    THE DESENSITIZED HUMANITY.....