Issues in Today's Society

Two issues in today’s society

Poverty is a very large issue in society today and it’s not getting any better. There are millions of people going hungry and not having enough nutritious food to support their body’s needs. Globally the poverty statistics are very scary, about 1.4 billion people worldwide struggle to survive on less than $1.25 a day and 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water. Approx. 24,000 children die every day due to poverty. I understand the poor people in areas such as Africa because there is nothing they can do about it, but the poor people in major cities in the united states don’t make much sense to me when they could go out and at least try to get a job rather than just sit there and not try to get out of the rut they are in.

http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/pages/search-for-a-child?open&campaign=11935137&cmp=KNC-11935137&ttcode=poverty

Another problem in today’s society is racial stereotyping and prejudice. I haven’t seen much of this because of where I live and my race, but they say everyone has equal right when below the surface people make decisions based on race even though they make a different excuse, for example: if an African American person went to the same job interview as a Caucasian man, the Caucasian man would have a better shot judging by whom was doing the interview. I myself don’t really understand why you could be racist because everyone is different why should you act differently towards them just because they look a lot different.

Chapter 8: Social Class and Social Stratification

I picked Chapter 8: Social Class and Social Stratification because I can somewhat relate to it because when I was in second grade my mother, sister, and I were living in poverty and it changed my life and views on poor people forever but now we would be considered middle class and we are doing pretty good so I have experienced the social classes other, than the upper class, pretty well. As for the reason people end up in the state of poverty, you get there by lack of hard work. If you get lazy when you don’t have margin for error then obviously you are going to end up in a distraught situation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/nyregion/03poor.html

This is a news article talking about the poor people in New York I chose this article because we are staying in New York City and I have seen some of these poor people.

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http://youtu.be/HLSHJI6dxJo This is a video that talks about poverty.

http://www.poverty.com/

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty

Poverty is the worst form of violence. -Mohandas Gandhi

Chapter 2: Culture and the Media

Chapter 2: Culture and the Media is a chapter I could relate to because I myself use lots of technology in my culture for example; my cell phone, iPod, computer. I really liked how they pointed out how much we use technology but didn’t do it in a way like most and say that it’s a bad thing but just that we could apply those skills in several situations. Media is a big part of my generation’s culture it’s how we communicate, it’s how we know what’s going on around us, and it’s a big part of our lives. Another part of the chapter that really interested me was how they said that culture was learned, taken for granted, and symbolic that just shows you how important culture is to our lives.

http://oneseventeenmedia.wordpress.com/category/education/         this shows how being “Screenagers” (Page 26 in the text) is looking good for our futures

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http://youtu.be/a3EeDb-wGF8 video that goes with the chapter

2 websites related  http://www.progressiveliving.org/mass_media_and_politics.htm

http://www.everyculture.com/wc/

Soc 101

Hello, my is Matt Munch I am 16 years old and going to be a junior at Kamiah High School. I like playing sports like football and track. I am in the Upward Bound Program and I am currently enrolled in Sociology 101. Sociology is important because if we didnt study peoples' behaviors we could never learn how to predict what people are going to do next for example; if we didnt have sociology the behavioral analysis unit in the FBI would a lot slimmer chance of catching criminals.

                               

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