Blog #1 Free Write

The first day of class was a very interesting one. I’m really into the reason of conflicts and control and I believe this class will analyze these ideas. As well as analyzing social forces such as religion and culture. What I thought was really interesting was to see that the declaration was backed by a Christian philosophy. The use of God was used in every other sentence. It made me think that as a society we have mutated along the ideas of religion and culture to identify ourselves. Nowadays it isn’t as big to identify yourself as Christian, Jew or Muslim. Its more of identity of where you come from. You come from this certain country in Asia for example. You don’t sign on a form such as the census that you’re a Christian but if you’re white, black, Hispanic etc. These ideas all have something in common and I believe the social psychology behind it is that humans that can identify themselves as being similar like to stay together. But then that’s when the morals, values and culture come in. I think in an evolutionary theory humans who are different wouldn’t be able to get along, therefore creating violence. I strongly believe that the social forces such as religious leaders, mass media and educational institutions have to socially construct the human mind to get along. If you analyze this idea and explain it bluntly, you can argue that we are puppets who are molded from the learning age of a baby until the end of life. However the only reason we share certain ideas is because deep within ourselves we have natural laws and morals embedded in us. But ideas outside of this perimeter are molded into us through social forces.