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Blog entry 3

            Teenage suicide had been a serious problem. I have this believe that there is anything in this world that can make us kill ourselves. I mostly here one person commit suicide but if it is a group, then it must be a problem. By reading “Teenage Wasteland” by Donna Gaines, I understand it is a public concern. By researching by the history and biography of suburban, Gaines explains here that in suburbia where the suicide were commit, teenagers don’t have anything to do after school. They only hang out around the corners which make them think of drug and suicide. They are defeated in their lives; they don’t good school and other activities like sport and other because they belong to poor families. These teenagers feel that their lives don’t mean anything anymore that’s why they kill themselves. If we pay to close look at it, boredom is something that is link to it and makes them stand to teenage wasteland.

Gaines has use research to be able to explain her theory.  She highlights the key questions and explains the data that she has collected. She gave different examples to elaborate her idea. We, as Gaines explains never bother to what they do until they do something that is terrified. Just like after the shouting in Newtown, then they started questioning about how it happens and having security guard on public school. Also they started reviewing gun control.

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We usually associate violence to alcohol and all kind of drugs to violence. I see most of the time when a woman is abused by her husband or boyfriend, or a child is abused by his or her parents, people question about if they are not influenced by any of these. Sometime it does and sometime it does not. In this article: “association Is Not Causation”, Richard J. Gelles and Mary M. Cavanaugh believe that “alcohol and other drugs do not cause violence”. However, it they claim that “ there is a little scientific evidence to support the theory that alcohol and drugs such as cocaine and crack have chemical and pharmacological properties that directly produce violent and abusive behavior.”    

I believe that it is a cultural manner and they explain, it depends of how people see within a cultural. If a society believes that we are violent after drinking then people who belong to that culture will act violent when drunk or using other drugs. My country is part of country that relate drugs and alcohol to violent and that cause that almost all the people that uses drugs and alcohol there are abusive to everyone, they lead violence of any kind there especially when they need the money to buy it.

This article is related to chapter 2 in the way that these writers collect data from different sources to show us explain their theory about alcohol and other drugs and violence. Also they connect it to culture. In their research, they perform different kind of method such as survey to demonstrate the evidence and to be able to largely what is their theory.

 

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My name is Sokhna, from West Africa Senegal. As part of Africa, Senegal, like other country from there care a lot of cultures. We hold on to our cultures and its part of what shapes us, me. In Senegal where the population is mostly Muslim, culture and religion are what influence my life. French culture also plays a lot in my life since we were colonized by them. I don’t even speak my language well; it has to be a lot mixed with French. It is kind of confusing because we combine three different cultures but it is sometime helpful and it help a lot when I came to this country. My goals in life are to try to understand everyone’s culture and behavior from different space because it makes it easier to live socially within a community.

 As we can see in the article we study in class, “Invitation to Sociology” by Peter L. Berger, and as we discuss in class we sometime think that we know things by reading the newspaper and watching a magazine. A lot of people ask me if I live in a jungle since I’m Africa. Last Thursday in my English literature class, one of my classmates was giving the example that in Africa people don’t were proper like him but use leaves instead. After the professor explains him, he seemed to be more interested in discovering how Africa is really. What Berger explains in his article that “…with the shock may go to not only disapproval or disgust but a sense of excitement that things can really be that different from what they are at home.”

If we consider the video we watched about technology and phone, we can that study that even though we are together, and we aren’t together.  I see more about what she telling about being “alone together” when after I get home. I enter the house and see that they all busy texting, playing or being on Facebook while in the living room trying to watch T.V.

I’m more like Comte, I believe in positivism meaning that it is very important to base on the scientific method. After studying the scientific method in my previous class, I use it to experiment why in my country most of the houses have only one household who do all the spending even though there are other adult we earn money but refuses to buy food or any bill in the house. After my study I understand that it is cultural thing that the older sublime should always take care of everyone within a family. I have found that the only way we can get rid of that is to start dividing family into smaller so each one is going to take care themselves.