Also, your final papers and final tests will be available for you to pick up in 909 Social Sciences Building during normal office hours (8am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday). As we announced in class, we didn’t comment a lot on the papers or exams, so if you have any questions about your grade on anything, again, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Finally, I wanted to say that I really enjoyed this semester. You were a great class and I really appreciated the careful thought and hard work you put into this class. Good luck in all you do in the future!

There is a significant minority of the population that doesn't have a lot of the social abilities that the mainstream populace has. Autistics, specifically "high-functioning" autistics, have a tendency to feel withdrawn from society, not necessarily because of a lack of social development, but because of (possible) physical conditions which prevent them from understanding social culture and norms. Many report several people not wanting to "fit in" arguing for their own ability to stay excluded, because this is how society makes sense for them.

Is it possible that we could be forcing a minority into assimilation by trying to create an "inclusive" society? Aspies for Freedom (http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/) seems to argue this point at times.

This article is form Ashburn, Georgia
This article was about a prom for the first time ever was going to be a mixed white/black prom. All the other previous years the proms wer held seperate one for blacks, one of whites. Alot of parents disapproved of this and didnt let their kids go, and some kids did not agree either. But the town deciced it was time for a change. Although they had a mixed prom they had a white prom a week before. What is that really showing?? That the white race is more important than the black race? I think that a change should ahve happened along time ago. I think this is a great example of how racism still exsists in our society. What do you think about this article? IS this fair? From taking this course we have learned that to some degree there is a white/black divide but is this just pushing things to far?? I think it is only teaching younger generations the white/black divide. What do you think?

This article I found really alarmijng that this kind of thing still happen in America.

This article posted on askmen.com brought up many of the interesting issues we talked about in class regarding gender biases against women in the work place. I was especially intrigued by the chart on the second page of the article which outlined many of the different behaviors men and women exhibit in the workplace. Of the eight characteristics listed, all of them show the favorable attributes women display compared to men. It is obviously a generalization, but I can relate to all of the items and have seen them in everyday interactions with men and women. This article was written by a man, and his insightful commentary is impressive. He states that while women have made great strides in achieving some steps toward gender equality in the workplace, many men write these successes off to women using their attractive looks or flirting skills to achieve what they want.

Media Journal : Sex Change

On April 25th, 2007.USA channel showed an episode of sex change. In our class we saw how Sexuality is Socially Constructed, in a sense that people sexual orientation is imposed and med-up. This case support and contradict this believe. The case was of two identical twins, they were both boys. One of them got a very bad sirconcision that they had to remove the entire male organ. Well, one specialist convinced the parent that if they remove every thing from the boy as far as the male organ is concern and make him a new female sex; the boy will be no different then other girls in the neighborhood. The Doctor argument was that sexual identity is made up by society and that if the boy is raise a girls he will be nothing else than a girl. So they went on with the sex operation, hormone therapy the works. The journey for the young boy was not easy he as a little girl acted as a boy, he got often sick and was handful for the nannies most of them quit. One of the skim was to never tell the now girl that he was ever a boy so they change birth certificate at the hospital and every thing, no one except the parent and the sex Doctor new about this. Unfortunately at fourteen, the girl started loving girls and making out with them the parent panicked and increased the amount of therapy which involved making the twins kissing each other. I know it is gross but it does not end there. The girl was raped, on the scene, there was a male seaman of a twin, and the detectives assumed it was the male twin, but it was the girl who was raped, not the boy. How do you emplane this? The whole story unveiled for both the detective and the twins. The twins arrange to kill the doctor and even leave saliva on the scene but the detective can not tell who did it.
On one hand the case of gender construction is very accurate as we studied it in class, this case shows that the boy in most of the time behaved like a girl, had breasts and spook like a girl. She did feminine chores and every thing that women do. The case of sexuality as constructed by the society is proved to be wrong because the boy steel producing male seamen and prefers having sex with women when he was raised to love boys. It seams to me that in this case, her body spook to her, that there are some stuff that no one can control, some stuff are just
biological not imposed by society .

This interview relates to the course because we talked about how social construction affects society. We discussed how men and women differ throughout society and within this realm, men and women do differ. I discussed how boys and girls are treated when they grow up which is a social construction that society places on every girl and boy born.

This relates to the conversation we had in class about families and the parents changing the developments of their children. The mother here is struck with the decision of how can I make my kid as smart as the other kids out there and it is a tough spot. With parents having such an impact on the development of her child could be altered by whether she buys her kid fancy movies and what-not. Furthermore, this strikes a deeper chord in relation to whether or not people can afford these intellingence-advancing devices. Assuming that Baby Einstein does in fact make kids smarter, what about the parents without the money and time to make that happen. Is this yet another area where the poor will struggle more to educate their children at as sophisticated a level as the rich? If intelligence is purchased, is smart kids to some degree something you need money to have? If yes, the rich will keep getting richer and so on unless changes are made.