Discussion 1.1 - Applying Sociology Discussion

8/31/2017

Discussion Question: Look at your own experience with school and examine how the three different perspectives might examine different parts of the school experience. You can examine the school as a whole, or individual parts of it. Make sure you address all three perspectives and explain something that they might be interested in studying about your school.

For the second part of your discussion reply to another student's comment with some additional insight, correction, agreement, etc.. Explain your reasoning and expand on your answer.

10 Comments

skylee obenschain

1/11/2021 02:49:06 pm

functionalist - sports- gets people excited for the nights they play and almost everyone shows up
sociological perspective - classes- some you can tell who are friends and who aren't but either way yall still work together cause you cant pick your partners. or they help you get caught up on the notes if they are nice enough
symbolic - clubs- everyone there has the same interest but are either to shy so dont talk to the others or they already have their little friend group that they made join the club with them

Collin Nguyen

1/11/2021 02:49:21 pm

Functional: Everyone works together to help the students succeed, the teachers will help educate the students, the students will help other students on tests. And the higher ups will lover the graduation minimum so more students can graduate.
Conflict: There is an in school social structure that most people follow, where the football players will be the popular (Kings) that run the school, and then it would make a social structure till they get to the bottom where it would be the nerdy and emo kids, the kids that aren't definition normal, the ones that get picked on by the "kings" to make them get higher, and make the bottom class get lower.
Symbolic: Our school's fight song is symbolic because it is played at sports games to show our spirit and to show how our school is better than theirs, it is only played after victory.

Ben.s

1/11/2021 02:55:22 pm

The different parts of the school can be looked at like how people interact is a big one the functionalist perspective can look at how the freshman are separated from the rest of the upperclassmen (the have a new wing) and how does that make the grades stay with each other. The conflict perspective can look at how the older students teach the freshman they keep them doing what they need to do. The symbolic really is just going to look at a class and see how they get along with one and another.

Williamson

1/11/2021 02:56:03 pm

Functional; Teachers teach, students learn, and better themselves for it in a semi-okay structure.
Conflict: Did you know that because of the changes teenagers go through at this stage in their lives, they become more aggressive and overly sensitive? I can't focus right now.
Symbolic: I don't know i can't focus on anything at the moment

Wattles

1/12/2021 08:46:05 am

Functional- everyone works together to create a safe and challenging learning environment for the students, the students learn and develop relationships.
Conflict- students compete for teachers attention, underclassmen fighting to be “cool” upperclassmen.
Symbolic- our mascot represents school pride.

Liv Baker

1/12/2021 09:15:36 am

Functional: teachers teach the students, the students learn from the teachers, the students help other students understand, and better themselves and the people around them.
Conflict- Students want to be in the "popular" groups and maybe even change themselves to fit into that group. The "popular" kids are seen and treated as better than the people who aren't as popular.
Symbolic- Wearing our school's color purple is seen as showing "purple pride" and being proud of the school that we got to. Also, not being at sports games is seen as not supporting the school whereas going to all/most games is also showing pride.

Liv silva

1/12/2021 09:39:52 am

Functionalist = everyone in the school works as whole to make it run smooth and keeping everyone content, teachers teaching and students following directions

Symbolic= wearing purple and white to games to show school pride and caring for school

Conflict= East vs west rival football and basketball game both teams wanna come out on top and win the game

Fleener

1/12/2021 07:17:01 pm

Conflict - During prep rallies (when we had them) each grade does this chant thing and whichever class was the loudest “won” and pretty much every time the seniors won.
Functionalist - Staff works together to make school a good learning environment.
Symbolic - seniors where all white to the titan monarch game while everyone else wears blue

Matilda

1/13/2021 09:57:01 pm

Conflict:
Academic superiority—who’s got the highest GPA? Yes, sure, popularity is another example of one thing people will vie for en masse, but popularity doesn’t hold as well in this discussion because ideas of what should be and is popular vary from community to community. Thus, academic achievement is a more solid example. We see students vie for what is, in the end, a number and the approval of others based on that number. Honor roll is announced every quarter. Some students find themselves sleepless at night over this. I can’t deny the feeling of pride that comes with having outdone your peers. It’s a comfortable state of equilibrium found, to be on top.
Functionalism:
Students form cliques that work as interlocking pieces…it works. The opening scenes of Ten Things I Hate About You come to mind. Everybody has their clique, and every clique is defined in relation to the other cliques—some are all Reggae impersonators, some are preppy, and one is Katarina. The world is established! Similarly, in my own experience I can say Duchesne’s cliques are defined by a collective trait that separates them from the rest. But are the interlocking pieces dependent on each other for the formation of these structures? I’m not so sure. There isn’t much of a hierarchy upheld at Duchesne, it seems. I can’t speak well for a clique because I’ve never been a part of one—not long enough before I’ve enacted anarchy and gotten ousted or run away by my own volition.
Symbolic:
I speak for myself first and foremost here—I’m the only person I know who wears a red cloak everywhere, and damn it am I known for it. It’s “cool,” I guess. Some associate it with fictional characters such as Edward Elric or Harry Potter. I don’t know what I really intend with it, but it does affect how I’m treated—everyone recognizes me, my boisterousness and cockiness, right away. There are few others I encounter who have such a distinct style—most people my age just wear jeans/shorts and hoodies, both at Duchesne and the zoo. And that’s comfortable! Don’t get me wrong! But I won’t deny it—how you dress affects how people perceive you. And the uniform! It’s hilarious, really—some seem to look at me like I’m wealthy. I’m not. I’ve done work study and barely scraped by at Duchesne for the past four years. I can’t travel for college—need in-state tuition and to stay at home. Or the ideas of Catholic legacy! I’m the first person in my family to attend Duchesne, and my family is not historically Catholic. Often, everything is not what it seems with symbology—and I’ve had the closest encounters with this out of any idea here.

Dunlop

1/19/2021 08:08:29 am

Functionalist - sports teams work fairly well together to win for the school.

Conflict - for some reason, different 'cliques' so to speak sort of fight each other for who does best at pep rallies or something that will make them more well-known in school.

Symbolic - the silly school song represents like school spirit and stuff.

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