Why is your performance decreases in a group discussion. http://dld.bz/5z62 psychology sociology
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“Symbols attached to the cultural product operate as a code, or language, that contributes to the understanding of meaning. The use of symbols is context dependent. The meaning transferred to cultural product reflects underling cultural categories that relate to the ways in which we characterise the world”
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Okay so today...
my Brother’s friend of many years now was over here at our house, hanging out with my brother, and he brought up this post on facebook (I believe I posted it on here too; it was about how this warped “pastor” told me that I was too pretty to be a lesbian and I how I thought that was an absurd statement to make)..
The only thing he honestly had to say was “well, are you a lesbian?”… now I sort of purposefully did not state my sexuality in the status/post because it actually didn’t matter; the post wasn’t about me; it was about a flawed line of think that perpetuates supposed ideals of what a “lesbian looks like” and I needed to address how problematic and ultimately messed up that is… also, I aimed to address how my absence of a disclaimer or account about my sexuality could spark heteronormative behavior and I mean to say that if I said a woman had told me I was too pretty to be straight, I most likely would have not been at ALL asked if I was actually straight… de facto, the legitimacy of my identity would not have been up for questioning.
I answered his question, grudgingly, while telling him, in a nutshell, the things I have been saying here….
It just bothers me how hung up folks will get about something that alludes to supposed-social deviance (i.e. we notice what is different and sticks out and question that more than we focus on & question the flawed systems perpetuated by the dominant, “normal” culture) while truths of inherent equality (i.e. we’re all human, okay?) are actually quite axiomatic (self-evident/non-disputable); the things we cling to are the less important details (i.e. folks care more to ask if I am a lesbian than to see that my point was about how stereotyping, in this context [but every context too], is problematic).
It’s just… mind-boggling really.
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From Google Books
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives “add up to something.
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You you know its a good text book when they define sociology as statistics and theoretical bullshit
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If my dash was any slower it'd me moving backwards
Ummm favor please.
I need more blogs to follow.
I don’t even care what they post about, just anything random, interesting, cool, funny, pretty, weird, whatever it doesn’t matter.
So recs? Please pretty please?
I’LL FOLLOW EVERYONE THAT REBLOGS this (like at least up to 30, but who am I kidding I don’t even get notes when I’m offering to follow people)
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I just downloaded four sociology podcasts.
The genre they are listed as is “blues.”
If you think about it, though, that’s actually pretty accurate.
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Why an athlete’s performance increase in the presence of competitors. http://dld.bz/5z62 psychology sociology
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“Think about it. Man has a longing for the spiritual essence of creation. A longing for the return of the source, a god head. If God hadn’t existed we would’ve created Him.”
This is a quote from a sociology book I recently read (though some of the words were partially re-written by me).
I believe this quote was written pro-Christianity, but I couldn’t help think of it as an anti-religion quote. I mean, it says we would’ve created God if we didn’t have the source of our creation. I think that’s what we might’ve done, and I can’t help but think this is the best way to explain how religion started; we wanted an explanation of our source.”
