Monday, April 30, 2012

Lesson 1 - What Is Sociology?

This is society going about an average day of living. This is the world that we have structured and have chosen to live in.  Society would not exist without us living in it and actively participating on a day to day basis.
These are literal glass ceilings in Washington D.C. There is a museum below them.
The environment we live in greatly shapes who we are. People that have grown up in Oak Park their whole lives are less likely to face great hardships that people living in an inner city community would have to face.
An example of culture shock was going to England. There are many radical differences in the structure of society there. A simple example is getting used to looking right for oncoming traffic as opposed to left.
This photo of my family together in a museum represents how humans cannot be understood apart from society. Society forms how we act and who we associate with.

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