Reflection On Social Reflection

On 08/20/2017 at 1002 hours FTO Wheeler #4361 and I responded to St. Luke’s Hospital emergency room entrance, on 3555 Cesar Chavez St., regarding a women in a hospital gown trying to break the caller’s vehicle window with a brick. Officer Wheeler and I were in full police uniform driving a marked patrol unit when we responded.

After taking a Sociology class this semester, I learned a lot of about the different topics and concepts in this course and how they are related to our society, which has changed my perspective as well as how I view and see the meaning of my surroundings. I would also think about what would be going on inside a specific person's mind and how he or she was feeling. After learning about different concepts in Sociology and watching the videos presented in class, it became easier to just stop and think about a person, wonder who that person was, and be curious about that person's life story. We pass by people all the time every day, but we never really know what is going on with them and don't really think about it or care since it is so

‘An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their 
experience of belonging.’

making Practice-Based Learning work Reflection on PRACTICE A resource commissioned by the Making Practice Based Learning Work project, an educational development project funded through FDTL Phase 4 Project Number 174/02 and produced by staff from the University of Ulster. www.practicebasedlearning.org Author Patricia McClure School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster www.practicebasedlearning.org contents Reflection on Practice 02

These things contributed towards an increase in isolation and negativity in this world. Such rejection one person could face can cause psychological damage in that one individual making them feel less important and unwanted in society. Society tends to shun for reasons that

Being extremely social, humans have a deep need to belong; to feel wanted and accepted, to have and maintain lasting relationships as well as being social in various ways that other animals are not. In animals social acts are ingrained, an act of nature per say; whereas, in humans, we learn social cues and habits by watching others. Baumeister and Tice showed from their research that social rejection corroborates the power that drive individuals to have a deeper desire to have and maintain relationships with others (Aronson, J. & Aronson, E. (2008). The experiments also revealed that being excluded causes individuals to have strong reactions; such as aggression, reduced prosocial behavior and an increase of self-defeating behavior all while

Therefore, Social Acceptance is appreciated when one is welcomed by one’s fellow for what he in or what he believes in. However, Baumester and Bushman (2008) suggested that social exclusion is considered to be the opposite of acceptance. It is a concept that refers to the process in which individuals are being prevented by others from forming or keeping a social bond with them. If an individual experiences such dilemma, then, he is socially excluded.

This semester has been filled with informative information when speaking about our own social skill, but also other people’s social psychology as well, thus is why it will be very useful in future. Throughout the semester we studied everything from the introduction of social psychology, social influences, aggression in psychology, and interpersonal attraction and close relationships. A lot of the knowledge that I gained was not only from the “Social Psychology” textbook, but also in the videos and the reactions that we needed to come up with on a weekly basis. I like the idea of being able to watch the video to see if the experiment was successful or unsuccessful and commenting on it by giving my opinion if I agreed or not. For me,

The desire for positive social relationships is one of the most fundamental and universal human needs. This need has a deep root in evolutionary history in relation to mating and natural selection and this can exert a powerful impact on contemporary human psychological processes (Baumeister & Leary 1995). Failure to satisfy these needs can bear devastating consequences on the psychological well being of an individual. These needs might not be satisfied as rejection, isolation, and ostracism occurs on a daily basis to people. Although being ignored and excluded is a pervasive circumstance present throughout history across species, and humans of all ages and cultures i.e the use of Ostracism (the feeling of isolation and exclusion) has been

Alienation, while mainly used as a Marxist term, has also been widely adopted by the LGBT community for that feeling of isolation and imaginary barrier that we have experienced. As bisexual icon David Bowie once said about his very influential music, “Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society,”(“David Bowie Quote” par. 1). This was never going to be one of his most famous quotes, because not even all of the LGBT community identifies with the word alienation. Some see it as too extreme a vernacular— we were not alienated, for we were still people, we were just different— while others simply remain ignorant that such a word exists. This latter group can be a true tragedy: perhaps these people are not close enough to the rest of the community to know the lingo, or perhaps they use synonyms such as isolated or outcasts to describe the same emotion. Either way, they can and most likely will experience some form of alienation in their lifetimes.

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.” ― Aristotle

The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.

I believe that it is an opportunity to begin turning at the forefront of my thoughts to the likelihood of progress through engaging in the present moment and dealing with external and internal conflict. I sometimes end up concentrating on past occasions or future occasions as opposed to getting a charge out of the present moment. I also try too hard to figure out how to discover achievement or fulfilment in the occasions that I am encountering without conflict even when there is a checked bringing down of tension levels and increment in fulfilment, of the present experience as well as how we comprehend or feel about past occasions and expecting what 's to come. I’ll often observe my own particular emotions and practices in the without a moment 's hesitation, if I can utilize care to stay in that time and appreciate it, I know I will have the capacity to translate things in an unexpected way.

Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, used to believe that “human is a social and political creature and the one, who can live far away from human societies, is either a beast or a god.” Plato, another philosopher from ancient Greece also claimed that “the creation of the society is a natural construction. People by nature create societies, and they only achieve its completion inside them.” However, philosopher Kant insists that “human is a lonely animal that avoids the mob” and the even more cynical De La Croix, the French artist, believes that “people are social human beings that hate their peers.”