Blog the 3rd
I agree with Johnson’s +5 method of describing power as social hierarchy. His + 5 methods it’s a very good way to describe power. I loved the fact that he used a white middle class person as an example and not use other classes and ethnicity. Because what we do see in reality that has more power, are a white male, in a middle class, a heterosexual and is Christianity. That’s what we see as a normal thing. This social hierarchy clearly defines power through culture, because if we used a Native American male, who also is in a middle class, and a heterosexual, and also a Christianity, he’ll be a + 4.
We lived in a place where we have to accept the +5 method that Johnson came up with. He came up with a very good method of putting social hierarchy. We act and live through social hierarchy to present our gender. Truly we believed or as some believed that acting a certain way and living a certain ways will put you to a higher spot on the chart. If we don’t act in that certain way then that puts us to a lower spot on the chart. For an example in the Hmong religion as I believed, is not all men that are put onto the top chart. But if we were to compare men to men, the smart toward the dumb oafishly the smart one who is educated is on the top list and the dumb one who is not educated is place on the lower list. Men and women have there on separate list in my point of view.
What might prohibit us from acting our own gender will probably be the classes that we have been placed on without noticing it. Sometimes it’s not based on our religion to be placed in the +5 method. We all came from different families who had been taught to act in a certain way of our gender. The other things that prohibit us from acting our gender are when we are with certain people as we said in class. If you are with someone who talks in a good manner than you would also what to talk like that person. If you are with someone who talks slang than you would what to talk slang like that person. I think that acting a certain way, living a certain way and speech is also a way to put someone on the +5 method. If we don’t reach those certain things we will probably be put in the lower +5 method.