This is a blog based around Sal's period 4 Sociology class.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

In Conclusion

So my very first post on this blog was me explaining who I am. I think for the most part I am the same person, but in my everyday life I have started to think differently after taking sociology. If something comes up I think about it a little more, and have started to over analyze more things which could become good and bad in the future. In my first blog I said I wanted to go to Michigan State. That was my dream school for the longest time, and coming down to it I learned that I liked it mostly because it is a Big Ten and is a typical school that a student from my high school would go to. In a way that is stereotyping, but most of the kids wind up going to the Big Tens, and I wanted to be a part of that until I realized that the programs at ISU are better for what I want to do when I get out of college, but because I had the image of a Big Ten being so great to go to and saying I was going to go to Michigan State, should not be the main reason why I would want to go there. Along with that, most people in the area are upper middle class and can send their kids out-of-state with no problem, but in my case, money was a huge issue in choosing a school, and I realized it wasn't worth paying off student loans when I get out of college just to go to school for its name. Socialization and social class were the biggest units that made me think about college more and helped me come up with the right choice.
The other big topic for me that made me change the way I think is race, especially when we did an activity on the computer with pictures of people and having to try and put them in what race they are just by looking at them. I found this topic interesting because I always thought that someones skin color was their race, but it isn't, and it made me more intrigued in the topic. It made me look at people differently and not just generalize like most Americans do.
I learned a lot from this class and doing these blogs by learning to think differently and then apply things to my own life which makes it even more interesting.