Chapter 9 Blog Post #3

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10Cultural.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

This is an article about how "mean girl bullying" can begin as young as grade school. Most of the time, the bullying starts because one person is different from the "group in charge". Chapter 9 discusses cultural restrictions on civil interactions and how it affects communication between people. People who are similar tend to stick together or form a group, the problem is when they get powerful and dominant. Those dominant group will then reject (and in this case bully) anyone who is different from them. In the case of this article, many of the girls affected by the mean girls wear different clothing labels or prefer different kinds of music. Unfortunately, intolerance is evident in the younger years.

Chapter 9 Blog Post #2

Above is a very early picture of Courtney Love and her band Hole. Courtney Love is known for many things, but one positive thing is that she helped usher in the "riot grrl" movement. Chapter 9 discusses consciously creating and performing gender and Courtney Love is an example. With her tattered babydoll dresses, smeared makeup, and rough, aggressive music, she chose to create a new style of gender rather than agreeing or modifying it. Although her looks could be classified as "feminine" it was a warped kind of femininity. It was making a statement that women could be tough and rock too and they didn't have to play by the rules of society to do so. She helped to bring change to the music scene, and to society.

Chapter 9 Blog Post #1

http://learnfinancialplanning.com/famous-people-who-didnt-go-to-college/

Chapter 9 addresses the idea of hegemonic perspectives. Hegemonic perspectives are ideas/beliefs that society has that are dominant. They seem concrete, fixed, and not eligible for compromise. The idea of adopting christianity (without fully announcing it, just implementing certain aspects of christianity like opening with a prayer), and going to college are all hegemonic perspectives. Even though there is no law or rule that says this has to happen, it is treated as such. I have included an article that refutes the hegemonic perspective that everyone has to go to college to be successful. Even though college is not 100% necessary for success (more like 80%) many people feel pressured into going. The article states that there are quite a few successful people who have dropped out of/ or not went out of college (ie. Mark Zuckerberg and Henry Ford respectively). Of course, people should not skip out on college because they believe they will be millionaires or billionaires, but they should not feel the pressure society puts on them to go.