Author Archives: talkswchlo

I was on snapchat and on snapchat there is a place where it gives you news updates and blog posts that these news people make such as “Daily Mail”. So I happened to be reading the articles as I usually do and I have been so caught up with he corona virus outbreak because toContinue reading “02/09/20: Nacirema (Present day example)”

Sympathy sits in all of us but I’ve never sat back and tried to examine why do I feel sympathy and whether or not I should sympathize for others or not. Children are always a sympathy trigger for majority of the society and so usually if you want emotions out of someone you talk aboutContinue reading “02/06/20: Sympathy in everyday life”

When we look into sociology we need to put on the pair of glasses because we have to look at the issues and facts that we will be presented with with a different open mind. Sociologist want to see the bigger picture so therefore they will have to go past beast and pre assumptions inContinue reading “02/06/20: Invitation to Sociology”

when we look at food it goes hand in hand with our culture depending on where we are the food that we might get served can be something is our “norm” or totally mind blowing. For example in America we eat hamburgers and bacon , those two foods are not mind blowing but rather aContinue reading “02/06/20:Chapter 2 Food/Culture”

A food that would be considered a totem in my life would be beans because my tia constantly would always have beans whenever I went to her house . No matter what day it was every week she would make fresh beans twice a week and everyone knew they where located in the fridge inContinue reading “02/06/20: Contrasting Marxist and Durkheimian”

When we think of silence we think of usually no communication but that in fact is not the case considering there is other ways of communications without having to make a physical sound by mouth or that the ear has to hear. We think of non verbal communication and we use this on day toContinue reading “02/06/20: The sounds of silence”

After reading the rituals of this group I was caught off guard with how weird that they have shrine boxes that have magical potions and that they actually believe that some of these things actually work and can keep them alive. With the potions they don’t know what is in them because only the peopleContinue reading “02/06/19 Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”

These Nacirema people every couple weeks go to a building and inside has buckets with chairs attached in a room and people go there to get their feet submersed into hot water and scrubbed harshly with a stone . They sit there with other people while one persons feet are in a bucket of steamingContinue reading “02/06/20 Required Entry: Our version of the “Nacirema””

The first thing I bought I don’t remember but the first big memorable purchase that I remember is my mcm bag it was a purse wallet. When I bought this purse I remember thinking about this purchase before I did because spending over 500$ on a purse to me was absolutely crazy . I wantedContinue reading “02/06/20: The first thing I bought was….”

Mills in this reading was able to highlight the fact on how we really do not have control of our lives and I never fully recognized that . I know coming into a sociology class I have to be willing to be open minded and I’ve always said that I listen to no one andContinue reading “02/01/20 : Mills, The Promise”