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I find it crazy that the stigmatization in the funeral industry is really serious. They really take there job serious and try not to make any jokes or funny words about death. They don’t even say death they say “passing on or meeting an untimely end, etc.” They do this to not disrespect the deadContinue reading “(H) 249-264: Thompson, Handling the Stigma of Handling the Dead”

Goffman really had me thinking at the beginning of this chapter. Like what, is this really true, are we human begins good actors and don’t know our real self? He said we act different around friends, family, home, school, while on a date, while shopping etc. This does make me question human behavior because likeContinue reading “(H) 135-146: Goffman, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life”

Goffman said “How we present our self depends on the particular “stage” we are on, and also the kind of impression we seek to convey to our “audience”. ” I believe this is so true because my parents always told me how I dress and present my self every-time I leave the house is how IContinue reading “(JCB) Chapter 10 Branding/The Self and Social Interaction”

Trying to find a job out of jail is really hard especially if your black. The study in this chapter showed the difference of a black men and a white men that went to prison and has a criminal record trying to get a job. Black men didn’t get a call back at all itContinue reading “(H) 63-72: Pager, Would You Hire an Ex-Convict?”

This made me really think about commercials and how much really goes into making one. You can’t just make a commercial and put it out there you have to think about the people are going to react. For example like in the text it said ”  just because your little brother seemed to become more aggressive afterContinue reading “(JCB) Appendix 401-424) Advertising/Research Methods”

I do believe that “in order understand people’s behavior we must understand their symbolic worlds” (Henslin 32). This makes so much sense to me because not everyone is raised in the same country and has different behaviors. So once we understand how their symbolic world is we can understand that is why they behave thatContinue reading “(H) 29-47: Henslin, Doing Sociological Research”

I found this reading really weird to me. Then agin it says right in the title Nacirema is American backwards and how we see the miner and body ritual a different way. This chapter was interesting because it had different rituals and they were weird. The one thing that stuck out to me was coveringContinue reading “(H) Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”

Tamales in Latino culture means a lot. A tamale means “The Virgin Mary a mother who carries seeds for the future within herself as well as the fertility of the fields and the bounty of the harvest. So we can se this food as both the mother of God and the mother of us all.Continue reading “(JCB) Contrasting Marxist and Durkheimian Perspectives”

It’s crazy to think that we have certain foods that mean something to us. Food in some countries can me a lot and we also have cultures that have food and meaning to them. Every single culture has different type of food. Overall, it describes who that person is and what race they are orContinue reading “(JCB) Chapter 2: Food/Culture”

The first thing I bought was clothes from Forever 21. I was so happy because I actually made money on my own to buy my own self clothes I liked and love. My clothes didn’t last long because I grew more and plus they were old. This was a great purchase because I needed clothes.Continue reading “(JCB) The first thing I bought was……”