BLog post for 11/18

It really upset me that when we visited the jails, that most of the prisoners we saw were of minority racial groups. I wish it wasn't that way, that more people in minorites are caught doing whatever crimes that white people are doing also, but unfortunatley that is the way it is. As it says in The Vicious Circle essay, more minority racial groups are in the jails. Most prisoners have commited secondary deviance. They did not just make on estupid mistake when they were young. They have made repeated deviant acts and crimes which have landed them in jail.
I do think prisons are a way of controling criminal behavior to an extent. For murders and rapists yes, I do believe that they should be locked up and away from society. But for others no, I do not think prisons are the answer. Rehabilitiation centers are. That way, secondary deviance can be avoided, and less crime will be commited. Yes, secondary deviance is being seen here because these people have commited their crimes more than one time.

blog post for 11/12

All of a sudden, I found myself experiencing sociology when my mom was telling me about her job. My mom works at a doctors office as a receptionist. She tells me funny stories all the time about the patients that she sees in the waiting room. One story she told me intrested me a lot. I asked her if the waiting room got noisy when it is full. Surprisingly enough, she said no. She said that actually, the more people in the wating room, the quieter it is. People don't want other people to hear their converasations and judge them.
This was very interesting to me. The people in the waiting room would be breaking a folkway is they talked really loud about their personal lives. That would be strange, and people would most likely give them looks and listen to their converstation. My mom said it's actually nosier when just one family is in, because then they can talk about whatever and not have to worry about other people hearing about their personal lives. After my mom told me about this, I told her that I was going to write my next sociology blog post about it. And so I did :)