Social Psychology

I'm a tad bit behind but.....

2/7/2011

Instincts are impotent explanations of interactions.

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Social Psychology

I haven't done this in a while. I miss sharing my notes from class.

2/10/11

Me thinking while the professor is lecturing: Sometimes she sounds like a poet. Other times she sounds like a redneck.

What you heard is not what the person said.

Understanding intention requires imagining a situation from the others point of view.

'They' sway us. Who is 'they'?

Meaning is anchored in behavior.

We must adjust attitudes to create balance (clearly I need to follow this advice).

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....Biological Anthropology....

We spent time in the Archaeology lab today. I felt like a kid in the candy store. There were skeletal remains of 2 bodies laid out for us. Both about 200 years old. I was FILLED with excitement.

Most of you will never know the feeling of being able to touch history like that. It's not a book, you can't read it and automatically know who, what, when, where, and why. These bones are amazing! I touch them and I feel an instant connection to whomever they belong to. My job as anthropologist and archaeologist is to find out who this person really is and how they ended up here.

In skeletal remains, I can figure out if you were abused, or if you were a man or woman, hunter, or gather, or a young child born with a disorder, or if you broke your arm, or didn't eat enough vegetables, or drank unfiltered water (or sometimes I can even determine their "race" but it's getting harder with the amount of multi-race reproduction). Can you even imagine that?

I'm still even surprised at myself for taking on this career path. One that I definitely plan on utilizing later in life. Right now, I want to be in brand marketing and fashion show production/makeup artistry, but I can't even explain the power I feel when I see bones. Power, but uncertainity....because regardless of what my schooling has taught me, this is still someone's core. Someone's structure. Someone's history. Someone's malnutrituion. Someone's accident. I have to decipher everything. It's a scary but inviting thought.

'Globalization of Genes'

'Race is soft tissue, not hard bones.'

'Race is becoming self-identify. Cultural.'

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.....Biological Anthropology.....

Archaeologists have God's eyes.
We see the beginning.....the inception. We decide who and what they were. Then we see them at the end.....in the dirt.

Our subjects can't speak. They speak through their remains.

Society-People.
Culture-Norms and Values.

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.....Marketing Research.....

10/13/10

Mindless images. I don't have to worry about anything.

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...Social Theory...

10/13/10

Free creation without the arbitrary restrictions of coersive instituitions.

Defend you or condemn you.

The Sociological Imagination.

Functions (manifest vs. latent)

When you talk about the power elite, you automatically think millions (not in terms of numbers, but in terms of wealth)

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