So Long!

In my first blog post I used my sociological imagination and asked the question why it is the social norm for boys to have short hair and girls to have long hair? When I first asked the question I didn’t realize how much of a societal purpose hair length actually served. The course wasn’t able to answer my question of when this phenomenon first occurred but it was able to supply me with an answer as to why it is still existent. Symbolic interactionism is how society is shaped through our face-to-face interactions a sub category of Symbolic Interactionism is labeling theory. I learned that through labeling theory we needed a simple way of distinguishing boys from girls, and since everyone doesn’t walk around naked, hair length was created a is a simple indicator of gender.

            Using your sociological imagination in practice means constantly questing the world around you and thinking of logical explanations that explain the phenomena. I feel that the idea of questioning the world around me I will take and use in future classes. When I pick out my clothes in the morning now instead of simply putting on my dress I now question how and why it became the social norm for girls to do things like were make up and wear dresses and ask myself why I conformed to these social norms. This class also caused me to strive to improve my social, cultural, and human capital in order to give myself the best chance for success. I’m going to miss Professor Anna’s delightful enthusiasm and Maryam’s sweet character. I hope everyone took away I better understanding of the world we live in and themselves like I did.  

            -XoXo Faith