Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tapped
While watching the movie "Tapped", I began to feel annoyed and upset at the way the big bottling companies made decisions about the water they were selling without allowing the people of the area to have part in it. It is their water in a way and the fact that they aren't benefiting from the profits is annoying. Also, the fact that there were droughts in many areas and there was no limit or restriction to the water being pumped but there was one for the people living there seems pretty backwards. This parallels with my research because in the sense that there are six men making decisions about birth control for women. An outside being is making the decisions similarly to the residents where water is being pumped. It just doesn't seem right.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Proposal
Womens Rights/Choice
Gay Rights: mainly law
Freedom of Religion
Respect in general
Womens Rights:
The ongoing controversy regarding women’s rights apart from unequal pay has been abortion. Pro-choice or pro-life? Recently, however, the heated debate has come to contraceptives and healthcare. Should insurance cover birth control as if it were any other medicine? Are employers allowed to dictate and discriminate based on contraceptives? Are the 99% of women taking birth control “sluts” and/or “prostitutes” as Rush Limbaugh would put it? Six men are making these decisions. Men, meaning they never have been, are not, and never will be women who could potentially become pregnant. I am sure these men enjoy taking part in sexual activity and would feel very different on the subject if other contraceptives were to fail. Noone should be able to tell another being what is right or wrong for their body and what they can and can’t do.
Gay Rights:
I recently heard on the news that Tennessee is making it illegal to discuss homosexuality in public schools from kindergarten through eighth grade. Concerns are that children who might be gay, be bullied or have a homosexual family member at home will have nowhere to go to discuss it if the need arises. Proponents argue that there is an ‘age appropriate’ responsibility to hold in the school area. Why is there the need to create this law in the first place? What are we so afraid of?
Respect:
United States soldiers burnt the Koran. Men are choosing what women can and can’t do with their bodies. The government is saying gay or lesbian love is invalid and inadequate. This all comes back to the point of respect. We need to respect other people and their differences.
Gay Rights: mainly law
Freedom of Religion
Respect in general
Womens Rights:
The ongoing controversy regarding women’s rights apart from unequal pay has been abortion. Pro-choice or pro-life? Recently, however, the heated debate has come to contraceptives and healthcare. Should insurance cover birth control as if it were any other medicine? Are employers allowed to dictate and discriminate based on contraceptives? Are the 99% of women taking birth control “sluts” and/or “prostitutes” as Rush Limbaugh would put it? Six men are making these decisions. Men, meaning they never have been, are not, and never will be women who could potentially become pregnant. I am sure these men enjoy taking part in sexual activity and would feel very different on the subject if other contraceptives were to fail. Noone should be able to tell another being what is right or wrong for their body and what they can and can’t do.
Gay Rights:
I recently heard on the news that Tennessee is making it illegal to discuss homosexuality in public schools from kindergarten through eighth grade. Concerns are that children who might be gay, be bullied or have a homosexual family member at home will have nowhere to go to discuss it if the need arises. Proponents argue that there is an ‘age appropriate’ responsibility to hold in the school area. Why is there the need to create this law in the first place? What are we so afraid of?
Respect:
United States soldiers burnt the Koran. Men are choosing what women can and can’t do with their bodies. The government is saying gay or lesbian love is invalid and inadequate. This all comes back to the point of respect. We need to respect other people and their differences.
Questions
1. What is your definition of social sustainability?
My definition of social sustainability is universal respect of differences, equal opportunity to resources, and the ability to sustain one's self and the previous.
2. In your own words what is social justice?
Social justice is equality on all levels. Equal rights (along with the obvious basic human rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), respect, access, opportunity, education, basic health care, etc. without struggle to receive and achieve these.
3. What is the biggest lesson you've learned from this class so far this semester?
The biggest lesson I have learned so far is that people aren't as understanding as I am. That may sound self-centered, but I am generally very understanding and/or willing to learn more to try and be understanding. I can visualize the other side of a situation, even if I don't agree, and say 'hey, I get what you're saying. I see what you mean, but this is what I think and maybe you can understand too.'
The people we discuss in class, read in text, and hear about on the news that are facing injustice, are being opposed by people who are set in their ways, and aren't so willing to work towards an agreement very easily.
4. What questions would you like us to answer next semester?
When I am asked to come up with questions, I struggle. I generally need something to spark a question, so this may seem half-heathed. I would like to understand the sustainable half of this class. What is meant by it? Is my definition of "social sustainability" correct, given that the sustainability portion seems foggy to me? I see the social justice aspect, and want to integrate the sustainability component. Will we be discussing those struggling with finances, and the unjust system they are coerced into? Not only people of racial descent are faced with social injustice. I would also be interested in discussing a way for students to become more involved and trying to create a sociology independent study or pulling more classes that integrate it into SNC. Amnesty International on a collegiate level facilitator? EHH?
My definition of social sustainability is universal respect of differences, equal opportunity to resources, and the ability to sustain one's self and the previous.
2. In your own words what is social justice?
Social justice is equality on all levels. Equal rights (along with the obvious basic human rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), respect, access, opportunity, education, basic health care, etc. without struggle to receive and achieve these.
3. What is the biggest lesson you've learned from this class so far this semester?
The biggest lesson I have learned so far is that people aren't as understanding as I am. That may sound self-centered, but I am generally very understanding and/or willing to learn more to try and be understanding. I can visualize the other side of a situation, even if I don't agree, and say 'hey, I get what you're saying. I see what you mean, but this is what I think and maybe you can understand too.'
The people we discuss in class, read in text, and hear about on the news that are facing injustice, are being opposed by people who are set in their ways, and aren't so willing to work towards an agreement very easily.
4. What questions would you like us to answer next semester?
When I am asked to come up with questions, I struggle. I generally need something to spark a question, so this may seem half-heathed. I would like to understand the sustainable half of this class. What is meant by it? Is my definition of "social sustainability" correct, given that the sustainability portion seems foggy to me? I see the social justice aspect, and want to integrate the sustainability component. Will we be discussing those struggling with finances, and the unjust system they are coerced into? Not only people of racial descent are faced with social injustice. I would also be interested in discussing a way for students to become more involved and trying to create a sociology independent study or pulling more classes that integrate it into SNC. Amnesty International on a collegiate level facilitator? EHH?
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