Orphan Train Chapter Summary

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

The foundational concepts of sociological imagination, social construction of reality and socialization help us learn more about ourselves and the world.

Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called

What’s the best way to face a difficult situation? Day in and day out, life circumstances force people to live their lives differently than planned. Some struggle with this concept, never seeing the silver lining in the unexpected turn of events. Others however, live their lives as normally as they can, regardless of whatever they’re faced with. During the second world war, America was faced with the question of how to keep their country safe from enemies that might live within its borders. Although every American citizen is legally innocent until proven guilty, all’s fair in love and war. America saw no choice but to lock away immigrants and their American born children. This is detailed in The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell as

The Train to Crystal City, written by Jan Jarboe Russell, is a book about internment camps that were constructed in the United States during WWII to house people the U.S. government classified as “enemy aliens”. For years, these camps were home to people of various nationalities, most notably those of Japanese, German, and Italian descent. A majority of the book follows the experiences and lives of several families that were interned at these internment camps during the war.

A good example of how the status of family affects the child’s socialization was stated in the book. On one playing sports and the other music. Another example would be how one family could be hard on education and another more dedicated to their faith. One child would be more outgoing in school and the other more religious. They would process information differently due to their upbringing. Children learn from what they see, hear and actions of their peers. Being target by bias affect socialization because many children think they have no options. When children are faced with bias they

Chapter one explains more about the ability to use sociological perspective, build understanding to each unique person with different patterned lives. As a college student I’d hope to get a good job after I graduate, because sociology is a great development of knowledge for the real world. Sociology can help anyone prepare for communication and learn different factors of the real world we live in. Our economy is nothing but industrial and without socializing and communicating in being bigger and better than before, where would we be? We are nothing but expanding

Sociology is the scientific study of being behavior in human groups (Schaefer). There are very many examples of sociology in the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I view alienation, deviance, and gender roles to be the most prominent. This movie is about the struggles of a teenage boy named Charlie’s freshman year of high school. Charlie is seen as a social outcast and he just barely makes it through the year with the help of his best friends Sam and Patrick. Throughout the movie Charlie experiences most of the basic struggles of starting high school and some. This movie is very relateable since it gives a more realistic view of high school for some people. Charlie , and the audience, learns the importance of love and friendship in growing up in today’s society.

Social Movements A. In the book Train To Crystal City the main issue in this book was that Japanese, German, and Italian Immigrants with their American-born children were forced and shipped to this “Family internment Camp” during World War II. These humans were never charged with any crimes, but only judged by their color of their skin. One of the worse things that happened in these camps was that immigrants and America-born citizens were exchanged with important white Americans that were held captive in either Japan or Germany. The lack of social movements to fight the injustice treatment of humans based on how they look was excruciatingly weak.

While watching the movie Machine gun preacher I discovered that many sociology terms from chapter four in the text “Mastering Sociology” are applicable to the film. The first term that is applicable to the film is socialization. Socialization is “the process by which people learn the characterizations of their group-the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them” (Henslin, 2014, pg.78). At one point in the movie Sam Childers and the soldiers were being attacked by the LRA while on a rescue mission. The men shot toward the source of fire and eventually Sam got close enough to kill him. As he peaked his over top of the rock it was a dead child. Through the process of socialization this child grew to hate the SPLA which were the good guys and never knew any different. He was more than likely ether born into this rebellious group or kidnapped by them at a very young age. Another term that is applicable to this movie is significant other. A significant other is “an individual who significantly influences someone else”(Henslin, 2014, pg.83). Sam Childers wife was his significant other in the movie and she had a great influence on what he did and didn’t do. After the first Orphanage was burnt to the ground he was on the brink of giving up and losing all hope. His wife changed his mind and had to remind him that all of the children had been through much worst and they had not given up there for he shouldn’t give up either. Gender also plays a huge role in this movie. Gender is “the behaviors and attitudes that a society considers prosper for its males and females; masculinity or femininity” (Henslin, 2014, pg.89). Gender roles seem to be strictly enforced with all soldiers being men and a lot of the care givers being women. All of the children look up to the men as there protectors while being invaded. When a lot of the children came in hurt often time they were taken care of by women. Naturally through society women are viewed as caring and nurturing they are mostly considered feminine. Men are often associated with strength power and intimidation they are mostly considered masculine. All of the Sundanese children were all part of the same peer group. A peer group is “a

Socialization is very important because it is the process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity. The agents of socialization are family, peers, school and media. In the movie “High School Musical” family played a big part. Troy one of the main character did not want to disappoint his father, so he would always practice basketball and worked hard to lead the Wildcats to victory. Gabriella always felt the need to be like her mother and to never disappoint her by always being a scholar and good person.

The typical agents of socialization described by the book are family, school, and houses of worship. I remember since I was little how we talked about the concept of politics in school. My dad and grandpa would also talk to me about our history and the importance of being loyal to our country. The first memory that comes to mind was me watching the news with my family, and they were talking about some speech the president had given at the time. I remember they showed a video of a man in a suit finishing up his speech and the people started clapping. At the time, I was like 8 years old and I got curious so I asked who he was, and my family said “that’s the president”.

When theories of socialization are thought it is possible to think that someone is affected

According to The Promise of Sociology by C. Wright Mills, “sociological imagination is a special way to engage the world and to think sociologically is to realize that we experience as personal problems are often widely share by others like ourselves” (p.1). What C. Wright Mills is trying to get across about the meaning of sociological imagination is that a person is somewhat connected to each other because of what they are both experiencing. An example of this is when there is an event that a lot of people, their families are all experiencing the same feeling, which is grief for the loss of loved ones but there are not connected to each other. This is what C. Wright Mills means about sociological imagination that even though two people are not related to each other, they can both experience the same feelings or problems. Also, as time and days go by, a person can experience confusion or positive and negative events in his or her life that can affect that person’s mood or emotions. These feelings will aid the person to improve and know his or her purpose in society. In addition, as the person will endure and experience all of these emotions and feelings, the person will undoubtedly encounter other people who share the same feelings, values, and emotions that he or she is experiencing and may come to realize that each individual is interconnected in some way, either by experience or emotions.

Agents of socialization in short are the people, groups, and social institutions, as well as the interactions within these groups that influence a person’s social and self-development. Agents of socialization are believed to provide the critical information needed for children to function successfully as a member of society. Some examples of such agents are family, neighborhood, schools, peers, religion, sports, the workplace, and especially the mass media. Each agent of socialization is linked to another. For example, in the media, symbolic images affect both the individual and the society, making the mass media the most controversial socialization agent. One of the most obvious places agents of socialization lay is in the malls of