Prep For "No Technology Day"

As we all know technology plays a huge role in our lives. You could say that its technology that makes the world go round. People these days expect to be able to communicate with others at any given moment. Whereas back in the day it would have been every few days or even over a year in some circumstances. With such easy access to technology we do tend to take it for granted.

So to show how much our lives are given to technology, as a class next week we will all be taking part in a "No Technology Day". What does this consist of? Well this means from the second I wake Tuesday morning I can’t use my phone, my laptop or even watch TV. It even comes down to not using the microwave for food so hopefully I will remember to take out the food that morning to defrost. But on a scale of 1 to 10, (10 being difficult) I would say 10 is where Tuesday will be at. Out of the items I have mentioned above I feel that no TV will be the hardest. Like even if you’re not watching TV it’s still on in the background for noise.

To prepare myself for the day I plan to print out all the documents needed to finish off my Branding and Packaging report as it is due 2 days after. This might case difficulty as I will not be able to do research if needed on the day. Or even keep in contact with the group as it is a group report. As for what to do when I'm left with no TV, a book? I do have a book ("Life's that way" by Jim Beaver) that I keep meaning to finish. So this could be the day to get it done and finally be happy that I have completed it. No internet I think I could do as I only really browse when there is nothing else to do so if I keep busy I should be fine, hopefully. I guess we will find out how it goes next week. 

How Culture Is Related To Social Location

In today's world we see the world around us in a range of views:

• Our social location - where you are situated in relation to others. (Whether it’s race, religion, education etc.)

• Worldview - are can be shaped by our social, cultural, and personal experiences. Which are influenced by our social location.

• Confirmation bias - the impulse to take new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.

• Fundamental attribution error - the tendency to explain someone else on their behaviour based on internal factors (personality or disposition) and to underestimate the influence that external factors (situational influences) have on another person's behaviour.

For this blog post I will be focusing on social locations and how it can effect our culture. But first of all what is "Culture"? Culture basically gives a society its identity from its beliefs, its language, its customs, its laws and its cuisine. It is these that distinguish one group of people from another.

 

But how is culture related to your social location? Well for example, in your social location you have 8 institutions:

• Family

• Education

• Religion

• The Media

• Health

• Government

• Economy

• The Natural World

Each all linking under culture in one form or another. Not everyone has these 8 in their social location but there is a 99% chance that they have seen it in other family or friends social location. Each society has its own culture. For me I live in a very rural area about 90% of it being the natural world. So for me my culture would be based around my family and from them I would get their beliefs and their food culture. Whereas someone living in the city would have a wider culture of beliefs as there would be many more different cultures of people. And would experience more food cultures than I would as they have more accesses to them. Depending on your social location your culture will differ but this does not mean one person is at a greater advantage than the other. Both social locations will have their own benefits just like they will have their disadvantages.