I'm a Sight Unseen
So how does one perceive me? Can you visually perceive someone? I was born in this world with a "empty" mind. The world was what we could perceive it. A perfect imprint of empirical reality.
When you walk into a room with people you know, what is your emotional reaction? How about if you walk into a room and you don't know anyone. Will your reaction be the same? Most of us know that the answers are different in many ways. This brings me to the question of what conversations are okay in the presence of friends, family, and co-workers. Now, the way I speak in front of a friend is not the same as when I talk to my mother. Why is this?
This week I have been viewing each conversation from a different angle. I have always known that what I say to people always varies by who is in the room but the realization has changed many views on things. Now looking at the daily conversations with these individuals I have really seen how inappropriate and "Deviant" they can be. To me this is my "norm" and with my friends and co-workers they intermix. Two of my closest friends are my bosses or have a "higher rank."
This week I walked into work to see my closest friend/boss sitting in the office crying about her new boyfriend (of two weeks) broke up with her. She was really sad because he was a great guy, liked kids, she could see herself marrying him, oh and the sex...etc. This conversation is held at my work where clients are coming in and out. I would have never thought that this was A great example of this week would be about one of the front desk ladies tell us about her Las Vegas trip. Back from Vegas, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" but the conversation started with how big was "it?" and ended with endless jokes that are used.
Realizing that what we hear is inappropriate so instead of bringing up the topic again, we turn them into "inside jokes." Jokes that are still inappropriate to us but the average person would never guess. This is a very important detail that co-insides with my other job.
I was sitting in a room with all co-worker and they never say anything that is appropriate. Race is always a big topic. They all think it is funny see peoples reactions to each others jokes. They only say these jokes when they are in a closed area with certain people around. The main comment is "I'm not racist, I hate all races evenly." Is this right?
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NORMAL? NORMAL MISHAPS? DEVIANT?
Disagree/Do Better:
ReplyDeleteI will admit I feel somewhat hesitant to write a negative post to someone I do not know yet share a class with, please know that my comments are not meant to offend. To start with there are things about this post that I very much enjoy; I believe you are a deep, intellectual individual, and you are very good at expressing your thoughts into text. The issues I take with your post stem mainly from what the assignment called for. For example, your post has a strong sense of narrative (which can be a good thing) but does not have the academic flow or expression that the assignment calls for. Furthermore, you did not appear to site any of the text or web readings when the assignment requires at least three. What makes that worse was there were a number of instances when you could have easily cited material we have discussed in class. For example you could have referenced Johnson's work regarding Privilege, and state that individuals may not feel comfortable with the material your co-workers talk about but follow along with it because it is the path of least resistance. Also, you did not seem to look at four instances within your target sample (I counted only two). I think going into the next blog post if you find a balence of your personal narrative and research analysis, you will have a terrific blog post.
John Consiglio
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ReplyDeleteThere is really nothing to disagree with here, but I do feel you could do better. I am having trouble discerning any coherent stance on the topics. For example, who is deviant? Are you implying that your coworkers are deviant because of their “racist” discussions or that the peoples being discussed are deviant? I also could not find any use of the readings in your text, which would have helped clarify your ideas. For example, “Now looking at the daily conversations with these individuals I have really seen how inappropriate and "Deviant" they can be. To me this is my "norm" and with my friends and co-workers they intermix,” could have been supported by Howard Becker’s book “Outsiders.” Specifically the information on page 6 that illustrates social deviance as a group’s social construction could have been used to emphasize your own group’s social construction of what is deviant. Additionally, your blog did not flow well from sentence to sentence and I felt I was really digging for what concepts you were trying to express as a result. I think that the writing center could help you more clearly convey your ideas in your next blog post.
Beau Mills
SOC 360
Social Deviance
I would like the videos to be more integrated and talked about throughout the blog instead of all at the end. I liked the Katy Perry video about Sesame Street and all parents judging her for her cleavage. Honestly, unless all the videos are throughout I get distracted. I actually went straight for the videos and then read what you said.
ReplyDeleteThe example of your friend/ boss needed to be a more clear example of being deviant. Perhaps include an article about deviance in the workplace.
Good luck for your next blog post. :)
Erin Kellett
I enjoyed reading your blog post, it was interesting how you self-disclosed that what you do at work with inside jokes is considered deviant to outside people, but you at your workplace it is the "norm." However, for this reason, if inside jokes are the "norm" at your workplace then I don’t believe you are being deviant. According to our book "deviants never exist except in relation to those who attempt to control them." (Thio, Calhoun, & Conyers, 2010, p. 12) In your post, if inside jokes (what you consider to be deviant) is the "norm," then according to our book you that isn’t the case. Although I agree that inside jokes are a form of deviance in the right context, in this context however, I think inside jokes are not deviant. All in all though good post!
ReplyDeleteThio, A., Calhoun, T. C., & Conyers, A. (2010). Readings in deviant behavior (Sixth ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
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ReplyDeleteWriting a "do-better" reply is not my idea of fun and my comments and thoughts are not meant to offend or degrade you or your work.
Like individuals above stated, there is not a bunch to disagree with here, and I do believe you could do better. Perhaps consider a certain group of individuals that society makes deviant, and why they do so, along with the repercussions of their deviance. In this blog post I feel like you didn't define or use any of the readings from class to back up what was deviant.
As I was reading your post, which is very interesting, I thought that you could have totally nailed a perspective of deviance when you were talking about your coworkers. It would have been incredibly interesting to find out what is deviant at your workplace, among the employees.
I do enjoy your writing style and look forward to reading future posts by you.
I apologize I was a disagree/do better post this week.