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This article is focused on becoming a female. Females are always based on their looks. In the study they looked at middle school girls and how they gossip about other girls and they way they look. Even guys look at girls and go off their appearance. This is still a big problem today girls areContinue reading “(H) 173-179: Eder, On Becoming Female”

In this chapter Henslin talks about on becoming male. There is always a society role of males. Once they come out and have a penis they are gender is male. There are so many concerns about males they have to like male color and do male things. For example if they like the color pinkContinue reading “(H) 161-172: Henslin, On Becoming Male”

I asked my mom, dad, sister, grandma and grandpa these question and they all answered some what of the same. Their answer to the question what race are you they said they are Mexican. They said they knew they were Mexican because of their cultural aspects and way of living. They said all said thatContinue reading “Required Entry”

This chapter did not change my mind about Racist people. I think that if they have to have speeches and say what they don’t like about other people than they shouldn’t be heard. They should just keep it to themselves and not have a voice. This just causes hate and dislike between people. I willContinue reading “(H) 369-375: Ezekiel, The Racist Mind”

This story is basically how race is today. We live in a white community and white people set the rules and they see the world how they want to. The story of this journalist was he was “black living in a white society.” This really made sense because in today’s society there is still racismContinue reading “(H) 360-368: Page, Showing My Color”

This video was not a surprise for me I knew the reality pf how wealth is split. It was crazy to see how people think of the wealth was split. I didn’t think of the wealth being split like that I thought of it how the reality was. Especially the ideal and how it wasContinue reading “Youtube Video: Wealth Inequality in the United States”

The upper class will never understand how the other working class work for their lives. After reading this my mindset stayed the same and how I feel about the upper class. They will never have any problems with money and they get the private schools for their kids so they are set for life.

Being into today’s society we all want to succeed and have a higher education. Working class is a class that is very hard because they work a lot and don’t have a lot of time for there children. There is middle class and upper middle class as well and these people work but not asContinue reading “(H) 383-394: Morris & Grimes, Moving Up….”

I didn’t know that the poor support the functionalist thesis. There was 13 reasons how the poor is important and is overlooked. This made me really think about how my family helps and are hard workers. People being poor help out the world a lot and I realized that reading the 23 reasons how theContinue reading “(H) 376-382: Gans, The Uses of Poverty”

I was socialized in my gender by my mom. My mom always told me when I was younger I needed to help out in the kitchen because I am a girl and need to learn how to cook for my husband and kids one day. Which I never really though about this till now itContinue reading “Mandatory Post”