American Symbols

Apple, an easy recognizable symbol. Most Americans can see this symbol and relate it to Ipods, and computers. This symbol has become so obvious and noticable because of how technology is now popular. Apple, is the symbol for American advancements in technology.

Ronald Mcdonald is a symbol for the fast food chain, Mcdonalds. Which symbolizes American laziness, and the need for a quick meal. Mcdonalds has another symbol for obesity, because of how often we consume it. It is an oversweeping symbol of America.

Facebook is an American epidemic that is sweeping the nation. It has become the social scene of American internet that everyone seems to have one, no matter the age. Facebook is a American symbol because everyone knows what it is and what it can do.

 The American flag has many different symbols. One may be freedom, for this is the flag that we made when we recieved our independence from Britain. Others may be that the stripes represent the orignial 13 colonies, and the stars represent the 50 states. The flag is an American symbol that can bring us hope, and freedom.

 Baseball is symbolized as the American past time. It is known that baseball has come from America. America is known for baseball, and everyone watches it, most people play it once in their lives. Whenever someone sees baseball they associate it with America, because of how widely known it is.

Sociology...it's everywhere!!

All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I was talking to some of my friends and we started using words that as an American culture, we have created. I found us talking about how we will facebook each other later, if we cannot find it on facebook we will google it instead. We were using words that were never meant to be verbs. But now they are due to the change in language in our culture. It is funny how a simple website can affect how we as a society speak to one another. When we speak to people who don't understand when we say things like "facebooking" or "I'll google it" we think of them as weird, or different. The mentality of how do you not understand this. It is just amazing on how one little creation can spark a new language in our culture. As we incorporate this new language into our culture it is easy to see how our values of things have changed. Now that these 2 websites are all we can think about for the most part we forget what it was like when they never existed, in my opinion our priorities are mixed up.

Bemused in America

I examined the article "The Ground Running Chicago Visitor Will Have Lots to Jog His Memory". Which was about how people in Chicago have began to jog, while in Europe it is not as popular.

Stefan finds jogging strange about the American culture because it is different than what he is used to. He also finds it strange that we dont care what look like while jogging, because in Europe they do not see the point of running just to nowhere in back when they can be doing something more productive like chasing a soccer ball and sweating. I think he finds this strange because this is not what he is acustomed to, this way of life is different from his. (this is a combintation of questions 2 and 3 =] )

I can relate the aspect of how he states, " American jogging is apparently not subject to covenience but to dogged dedication..." because i have seen in everyday life the same people running everyday, and these people are in shape. It is not the fact that they are trying to loose weight , it is for the mere fact of dedication; and dedication alone, well maybe some for the endurance but that is besides the point here. I also see a mojority of joggers taking their dogs out and multitasking what they do. It is a way for them to get more than one thing done, and provide entertainment, which as a society, we all apparently need 24/7.

Woah! Sociological Moment!

All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I was in my statistics class. We also watched "What Would You Do?" and observed how different people react to different situations. And statistics is closely related to Emile Durkheim who is the first to use sociological methods. The classes, sociology and statistics. are closely related to eachother because they both include most of the same purposes. When I am in either class I fin myself thinking, "wow, i heard something just like this in my other class".

In both classes I have to observe people around me and record what I see. I have to do this in both classes to record accurate data. I find it funny that my classes are so closely related, but not surprised. In typing this I have realized that I have taken classes related to eachother in order to achieve my career. Woah freaky! Sociology, you are just everwhere!