group observing (creepily watching people lol jk)

  
Last week in sociology we were talking about the different types of groups and group interaction so I decided to observe this. It wasnt very hard to see all the different types of groups at our school and it took very little time to see all the interactions and it was very interesting. (if you have never watched people, from a scientific perspective, I suggest you try it) While I was observing the most common group I saw was secondary group. Secondary groups are groups where you are kinda close to the other people in the group but you are there for a specific reason alot like school its self. So In this group I guess everyone fits because while you are at school our main goal is to learn and thats what brings us all together and really if we had a choice many of us would choose not to go. I also saw alot of interest groups like the one im in, Chorus, the reason why people who are in chorus are in chorus  is because we share a common instrest, singing. Other examples of intrest groups are, Art club, drama, and journalism or any other elective really. With government going on I also saw alot of pressure groups. Mainly Republican and Democratic, but even within those two main groups there are even smaller groups of people studying certain bills together and the  only thing that is keeping them in that group is the fact that they share the same belief on the issue and that they are trying to get other people to agree with that belief. These were the three main groups that I saw but there are also many other groups that people are involved in, you can probably find yourself in one of each actually. :)

last week

Last week was pretty crazy. I only had one full day of school, Monday. Tuesday I went to court just to show the judge my proof of insurance that took about 2 hours so i go back just in time for sociology lol (the class I'm blogging for right now). Then Wednesday and Thursday we got 2 feet of snow so school got called off for a snow day and I'm glad it did because there would have been no way to drive to school. The streets were insane, there were so many accidents happening that everyone would have been better off having a snow day. This really showed me how dependent people are on each other. If we had not had any snow plows we still would not be able to get anywhere and people would be starving to death by now and to think all because of snow. When you think of snow you don't really think about how deadly it is but in the dupage area alone 4 people died because of it. There was this one 57 year old woman who froze to death in her car because it wouldn't start so she ended up being there stuck over night. After hearing about this it makes you wonder how kids can stand to play in the snow for hours on end. Me on the other had have never liked snow, I hate the cold weather, this is probably because I grew up in Mississippi so I'm used to temperatures not getting below 20 degrees which is how id like it to stay lol. well getting off the point then after all that snow craziness we had to go back to school on Friday which was, in my opinion, pretty pointless. But anyway I again didn't make it to school that day until half-way through sociology because walking from my parking spot to the school i slipped and fell on the ice and then puked. A group of jerk teenage boys were laughing at me (I'm guessing because I looked funny falling flat on my face) so i started crying and walked (being careful not to slip again) back to my car and went home to clean myself up. So needless to say my day on Friday kinda sucked :P So that was my week, I'm glad its finally over and I get to start over with this week! yayyy at least I know it cant be worse then last weeks lol :)