free write

Do athletes really get better, faster, stronger? In my opinion athletes do not get better, stronger, or faster because of technology.  Back in the day they didn’t have what all athletes have nowadays. We all have better clothes and shoes so that we are able to run smoother and faster. Also, we have better areas for the sport, like better fields, courts, and better tracks. All of these things contribute to athletes performing at a higher level than before. So I don’t think athletes are really getting better, stronger, or faster.

     Back in the day athletes would perform in clothes and shoes that weren’t well fitted for the sport. For example sometimes they wore baggy shorts to swim or run, or maybe even wore chuck taylors on a basketball court, or flat cleats on a soccer field. All of these little things slowed down athletes and didn’t allow them to perform how they would in todays sports if they had all the newer, better things. This is one of the reasons why I think athletes now aren’t really getting better than the ones before us.  Second of all, we now have better areas for athletes to perform at a higher level than before. For example, we have better tracks that allow runners to get a good grip and have better agility while running. Also we have better fields that allow them to run up and down without getting as tired because of the nice, flat, smooth surface that is provided. This is a big help to all the athletes of this generation because it benefits them in so many ways and they don’t notice it. So really when you think about it, you never beat someones record, you just have technology by your side. athletes do not get better, faster, or stronger. It’s all thanks to technology helping us out and letting us perform better. I would’ve never thought that technology was what caused athletes to better themselves. I always thought if you trained certain ways you’d become a better athlete but no matter what you say or do, it’s still all technology. This is why I think athletes do not get better, faster, stronger and they should all know that

.https://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger/transcript?language=en

free write

   Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are usually short-lived and pass within a couple of days. When you have depression, it interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you and those who care about you. Depression is a common but serious illness.Many people with a depressive illness never seek treatment. But the majority, even those with the most severe depression, can get better with treatment. Medications, psychotherapies, and other methods can effectively treat people with depression.There are several forms of depressive disorders. some forms include major depression, which has symptoms that interfere with your ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy life. One of these episodes can occur only once in a persons lifetime. Another form of depression is persistent depressive disorder. Moods from this can last two whole years. They may have episodes, but symptoms last two years. depression can cause many people to chance dramatically and may cause them to begin to have bad thoughts. Depression is something that not everyone takes seriously. We live in a world where if you break your arm, people immediately run over to sign your cast, but if you tell them you're depressed, they run away. 

 http://www.webmd.com/depression/

economy as a social institution

   Economy is the institution that provides for the production and distribution of goods and services. People in all different societies need this. Most people can provide these things for themselves or maybe some people cant provide it for themselves so they rely on others to provide for them. When there are people who want others to provide for them, there must be something that they have to be able to exchange with that person or persons. For example, Money.Money can be given to someone in exchange for what they are providing for you. Another good exchange you could make are other goods or services in exchange for someone else's good and services. Economy affects the lives of everyone around the world. for example, capitalism. With capitalism, resources and the means of production are privately owned. People are encouraged to provide for themselves and seek profit for themselves. Some people can not seek profit for themselves and so they become affected negatively. But if someone can seek profit for themselves then they will benefit the most.







.http://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/College/economicinstitutions.html

Symbolic interaction

   Symbolic Interaction is a theoretical approach to understanding the relationship between humans and society. The basic notion of symbolic interaction is that human action and interaction are understandable only through the exchange of meaningful communication or symbols. In this approach, humans are portrayed as acting as opposed to being acted upon. Some of the main principles of symbolic interaction are human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings that things have for them. Some of these meanings arise from ongoing processes of social interaction and interpretation. Social action results from a “joint action” or the fitting together of individual lines of action. According to symbolic interaction, humans are distinct from lower animals because lower animals simply respond to their environment whereas humans have the ability to interrupt that process. People interpret one another’s behavior and it is these interpretations that form the social bond. People show how they feel and what they are thinking through symbols. For example, if someone doesn't score a high grade in class, they'll get a big fat F on their paper. Another example would be how people around the world greet each other. some people wave, other kiss, others hug, and some bow. Symbolic interaction allows people to show their feelings to others through symbols, and that helps them understand better too.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Symbolic_Interactionism.aspx

 

Religion as social institution

   Religion is the set of beliefs and practices regarding sacred things that help society understand the meaning and purpose of life. Religion as a social institution answers questions and explains the the seemingly inexplicable. Religion provides explanations for why things happen and helps understand them too. Religion helps unite many people around a city, state, and a country. When people unite due to religion, it helps teach many people about the religion of others. Many people become influenced by religion and so they want to teach it to others and make them understand other religions. Whenever families attend religious services or if they put up some decorations in honor of holidays, they are teaching the children and others about their religion and how to observe it. By engaging in these activities, children and adults are united with others of the same or different religion around the world. In this way, families teach their own culture as well as the culture of the society at large. 

    We tend to think of religion in individual terms because religious beliefs and values are highly personal for many people. However, religion is also a social institution, as it involves patterns of beliefs and behavior that help a society meet its basic needs. Religion determines the way most people act towards certain things in life. For example, some people accept gay marriage because of the religion, but others in a different religion would not accept that. Everyone has their own set of beliefs and practices.
http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/paragraphs/religion-as-an-institution/31382/

Functionalism

  I believe that functionalism helps explain and understand society.it is the central idea that society is a whole unit, made up of related parts that work together. Functionalism is rooted in the origins of sociology. Just as a person or animal has organs that function together, so does society. And like an organism, if society is to function smoothly, its parts must work together in harmony. Functionalists say that to understand society, they need to look at both structure and function. Structure being how the parts of a society fit together to make the whole, and function being what each part does, and how it contributes to society. Institutions come about and persist because they play a function in society, promoting stability and integration. Functionalism has been criticized for its failure to account for social change, some consider it conservatively biased. Functionalism has also been criticized for attributing human-like needs to society. Emile Durkheim viewed society as being composed of many parts, each with its own function. Emile Durkheim’s work is considered the foundation of functionalist theory in sociology. functionalism is a key component to society and it helps society come together and work as a whole.

 

http://www.iep.utm.edu/functism/

Free write

  I want to talk about functionalism In a soccer team. Functionalism is the way that a society works and functions together. In society everyone has their place and their way of doing things so that other things work efficiently and without any problems. So, in soccer there are many people involved in the sport and each person has their way of making the team function correctly and with zero problems. First, we have the soccer players. The soccer players are the people that play on the field and give it their all to win games. They play for their team to help it grow and become champions. Second, is the coach, assistant coaches, trainers, doctors, all that a team needs to function on and off the field. These people make sure that the team is doing what they are supposed to be doing, but also they make sure that the players are healthy and are good to go and play. Third, the president and other bodies that are in charge and own the team. These very important people fund the team, they make sure that the players and coaches get their paycheck. With all these
important people involved in the program, it works efficiently and correctly.

social interaction

  Social interaction is an exchange between two or more individuals and it is a building block for society. exchange is the most basic type of social interaction.whenever someones wants to interact with someone else and receive some kind of action back to the action they did, then that is an exchange. For example, here at college all the students talk to other students as friends or family and they expect a certain respond back to the action they gave. i interact with mainly the people i already know and i don't try to meet many new people here at the college or anywhere else. i do this because i already know how to interact with all the people that i know and i already know the response that they will give me, most of the time. But, if i try to interact with someone that I've never interacted with before then ill be a but timid because i don't know what kind of response to expect for the action that i am giving them. Social interaction helps people interact through means of dialogue. The society we live in has its own way of understanding and its own way of interpreting their language.

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/TCH.CHAP9.HTM

Song focusing on conflict

 A song that focuses on conflict for me is the song "Steven" by Jake Miller. this song is depressing and it's more like a story being told about a kid rather than just a song with random words. The song is about a kid named Steven, and he has problems at home with his mom always leaving him and the stepdad is always beating him. He doesn't have many friends so he's lonely and they don't want anything to do with him. His father passed away from a car accident and he's been having flashbacks about it because his father was his whole life and now Steven doesn't know what to do. Also, Steven is constantly getting bullied and beaten at school because he doesn't fit in anymore and he's targeted more. He is tired of everything that is being done to him and he doesn't know what to do. He has a brother too but he can't look up to him because his brother is a bad influence. Steven's brother has been in and out of jail and has been doing many drugs and so steven was influenced by that and now he smokes weed and blocks everyone out of his life. He started stealing pills from his mom and after awhile he figures out the drugs can't fix him. He starts to talk to God and asks for help because he doesn't know what to do anymore. he knows there is a better way than suicide but he doesn't see it getting any better anymore. So one night he just goes to his desk and starts to writes letters to everyone who has helped him get this bad. He thanks them and says that they are all an accomplice to murder and he tells them they don't have to worry because he isn't coming back. I feel like the song shows many conflicts with the boy and that's why i wanted to write about it.

State as a social institution

   State as a social institution can have many affects on the people that live and go to that certain state. The state is a special institution and it serves the whole community or a class of society. There are some main elements in a state that actually makes it a social institution and those are population, territory, Government.    All states must have a population and Territory in order for it to be considered a social institution. states can have certain portion of land and water and air within its boundaries and that too can affect the way that the people living there or going there behave. Also, people have to organize themselves politically and establish some sort of civil government. Me being from Florida, i am used to the population of less than 5000 in one city and the weather being hot and humid. I have lived in Florida all my life so i'm accustomed to everything there. But, if i were to leave the state and go somewhere else that has a higher population and the weather is colder and never warm, then i would be having problems to get used to it just because i'm so used to my state. State has a high effect on people not only by population or the territory but also by the government. in a state there is a government and then there is the governed. the way that the government is ran and the way the people see the government determine how the people of that state will act towards the political administration that is a representation of our state.


http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-institutions/

movie blog

   The other day i watched the movie "The Stanford Prison Experiment" and it was really interesting to me. To study the roles people play in prison situations, a doctor named Zimbardo converted a basement in the Stanford University psychology building into a mock prison. He advertised for students to play the roles of prisoners and guards. 24 male college students were screened for psychological normality and paid $15 per day to take part in the experiment.

 
 
   This experiment was more than just any usual experiment because it affected the participants in negative ways which wasn't planned. the experiment made the participants feel like they were in a real prison and so this affected their mind and it made them feel like the whole thing was actually real. the experiment got out of hand sooner than expected and so the Dr. had to call the whole experiment off. The Stanford Prison Experiment was supposed to last two weeks but instead it only lasted a surprising six days. The participants didn't have any permanent damage done to them but the experiment still affected them in emotional and mental ways.

Family

 We tend to think of a family as consisting of a mother, father, and children living under one roof.  Before societies modernize, families usually consist of several generations and branches of extended family living in the same location. As modernization occurs, young people tend to move away from the places in which they were raised in search of jobs, leaving the older generations behind. They relocate to cities and meet people they probably never would have met had they stayed home. People in modernized, urbanized societies meet spouses on their own, rather than being introduced by family members, and marry and settle down in locations that are often far from their original communities. One's family can affect the behavior of everyone involved in that family and so it causes certain outcomes either good or bad. http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/family-as-social-institution