Soc Team,
This weekend will be our first venture into the practice of applying the Sociological Perspective (seeing the general in the particular and the strange in the familiar) to what we see.
As you go about the end of this week and this weekend, truly see what is before you - especially in how we as humans act and arrange ourselves in relationship to one another. We want to go through our lives not merely as passive recipients, but as active members who are cognizant of what is going on around us. Therefore observe and "do not be content with the mere act of seeing" (Helen Keller).
You will be using your newly created blog (via Blogger tied to your MVCS email) to post three observations. Here are a couple things to be sure to do:
- You must fill out your observation. For example you should not only say, "I find it odd that people dye their hair" or "Why is it that people dye their hair?" You must also include WHY your observation is an example of the general in the particular and/or strange in the familiar, e.g "I find it odd that people dye their hair. Though I understand some people might want a different color for their hair, it seems most often that society expects something about our hair that we feel we must conform to. Grey hair on women is generally seen as a bad thing and many adult women dye their hair."
- One of your three observations needs to include a photo (one you have taken or one you have found), for example:
"It is weird how cheerleaders can trust someone with their lives by throwing one another in the air, yet they can't even trust their best friends with a secret. Why would one area of life be so radically disconnected from another part of life? Is this more common in our lives than we would like to admit?"
- Publish your observations by the beginning of class on Monday.
I look forward to reading your insights. And I hope you look forward to reading one another's insights.
