doc mcstuffins

In this chapter I thought about this situation that happened to my cousin at the house. My little cousin loooves watching Disney and nickelodeon, she was growing up in a bling of an eye. I was telling them that she was learning this from the shows she was watching and my parents were not believing me. We got in an argument that shows cannot dictate her life, and I was trying to tell them that growing up my life kind of revolved around mickey mouse and whatever they said to do I would do. My little cousin loves watching doc mcstuffins an in order to prove my logic I began to put the character from doc on everything I wanted her to do, and miraculously she began to do everything I wanted because I said ‘doc mcstuffins’ would do it.

In this chapter, there were many quotes that led me to this situation. On the first page, Griffin et. al. stated, “multinational corporations such as GM, AT&T, Apple, Tie Warner, Disney and Microsoft are the dominant force in society- more powerful than the church, state, or family in their ability to influence the lives of individuals” (259). Another quote on that page, Griffin et. al. uses is, “more than 90 percent of the mass media outlets—newspaper, broadcast, cable, telephone, and satellite- are owned by just a handful of corporations” (259). The last quote in the chapter that Griffin et. al. says, “Deetz says that corporations “control and colonize” modern life in ways that no government or public body since the feudal era ever thought possible,” (260).

The quotes that were used in the chapter were great support for the situation that I used in the first paragraph. The first quote supports the situation because it showed that Disney every other company has a huge influence on our life and it just supported what I was telling my parents. In the second quote it also reiterated what I was trying to tell my parents about when I was growing and now why Layla is the way she is about Doc, yes that is majority our fault for always sitting her in front of a tv when we are trying to occupy her but it also shows that Disney is taking over. Finally, the last quote also emphasizes the fact that with doc it makes sense why Layla did everything to help me when I used doc as the motive.

my mom!!

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October 30

loser ex

Eveninnnngggg! For today’s blog I think I want to compare it to a previous relationship I was in. I was in a relationship where the guy did not really appreciate me, we started dating while we were in high school and I thought It was okay at the time. Once I left high school and came to Baylor I began to realize I was not being treated right and that I deserved better. Long story short, when I got to Baylor I had time to think about the way I want to be treated and the guy I want in my life. I realized it wasn’t him and I broke up with him. Years later he has been calling me an emphasizing the fact that he messed up and pleading for other chances.

In the chapter Cialdini goes in depth about scarcity and he has many quotes that emphasize the situation that I lived through. Griffin et. al. defines scarcity principle as, “that opportunities seem more valuable to us when their availability is limited,” (238). Further down that page, Griffin et. al. states, “people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value,” (238). On the next page, Griffin et. al. ends with, “if it is rare or becoming rare, it is more valuable,” (239).

The quotes in the book made me think of this situation immediately. The first quote directly correlated to the guy I was dating because as soon as I broke up with him he was calling trying to change and fix things that I had been telling him to change. It was almost comedy, we had been dating for two years and he started fixing things that I told him to fix way at the beginning of our relationship. In the second quote, it reminded me of him because when I was threatening him that I was going to leave him he was getting scared and trying to act perfect. Finally, in the last quote it just reiterates the second quote!

PROMM

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October 23

organizzeeee ya organization

In this chapter it talked about cultural approach to organization, the organization that I am going to use is our Baylor basketball team. On a basketball team, there are roughly 12 players. On our team, we not only have 12 players but we are all from 5 different states. To know that we are from 5 different states, is to also know that with that comes different backgrounds and different cultures. That is hard on its own, in order to gel we must understand each other’s backgrounds, which is also known as our webs according to the chapter. In order to perform the act of untangling one’s webs we needed to play team bonding games and get to know each other!

At the beginning of every chapter, there is a little story or scenario, that is where I got all of my quotes from this week. I felt that the describing at the beginning was enough for the whole chapter. It definitely described it well. In the first paragraph, Griffin et. al. defined culture as, “shared meaning, shared understanding, shared sensemaking,” (237). In the same paragraph Griffin et. al. stated, “in order to travel across the strands toward the center of the web, an outsider must discover the common interpretations that hold the web together,” (237). A couple of paragraphs down, Griffin et. al. talks about communication by saying, “that process is communication. It is communication that ‘creates and constitutes the taken-for-granted reality of the world,” (237).

This one was pretty tough to find a connection for, that’s why I kind of stayed on the first page. I didn’t really understand the chapter sadly. IN the quotes that I did make out, it seemed to connect to the idea of a team, and how we don’t really know anything about each other when we get here. The first quote kind of emphasizes the whole idea that with different people come different cultures. In the second quote, it just showed that we need to get to know a person by getting to know their culture and what holds them together. Finally, the last quote emphasizes communication as the main way of figuring out someone’s webs. Which goes a long way in our team bonding skills and getting to know each other.

ropes course

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October 23

remmyyyy

Last week when I had the opportunity to read chapter 5 and 6 in the Cialdini book it was hard for me to pick which one I wanted to write about. I chose to write about chapter 5 because I feel that it was more relatable in a lot of ways growing up. The example I have this week is when I had to take my little cousin to the park. One day I had to take her to the park and I was trying to help her make a friend, I was asking her about different kids playing at the park behind her school and she begin to tell me why she doesn’t like them and who she would be friends with. Once I named everyone on the playground I finally asked who’s your ideal friend, she told me someone that is pretty like her which I thought was funny. Next, she told me someone that likes the same things she likes and finally she told me someone who calls her pretty. When she went on about her list I realized that I kind of choose my friends the same way. It all starts with a compliment and it’s all uphill from there!

This whole chapter was kind of easy to find quotes that talked about my connection to the book. For starters, Griffin et. al. states, “research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence,” (171). On the next couple of pages Griffin et. al. states, “this fact seems to hold true whether the similarity is in the area of opinions, personality traits, background, or life-style,” (173). On the next page Griffin et. al. defines compliments by saying, “the information that someone fancies us can be a bewitchingly effective device for producing return liking and willing compliance,” (174).

In this chapter I immediately thought of my conversation with my little cousin. She has so much personality on her so I don’t expect every little kid to think the way she does but I noticed that I also think the way she thinks. When she said she wants someone that thinks she’s pretty, that is a direct correlation to the last quote talking about compliments. Then she went on to someone that likes the same things she likes, it’s easier to get along with someone that likes the same things you like and that’s exactly what the second quote told us. Finally, she said someone who is pretty. I don’t like that she thinks like that but its normal to want to be friends with someone that is physically attractive. In the book the first thing was physical attraction.

remmyyy

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October 16

Goalsssss

In this chapter for this week we read about group decision making and why it could be beneficial. There are so many times when we have to come up with something within a group, without even realizing it. Every night whenever I was back home with my family, we had to figure out where we were going to eat dinner or what we were going to eat for dinner. Some nights were better than others but we literally had to start slowing down the process because it became so feisty. We would each name the place where we individually wanted to eat, then we would weigh out the options and figure out which one is one that we all had a taste for.

There were many quotes that could have been used in order to further create the picture I needed for the analysis I decided to connect it to but I came down to the three that really outlined it. In the chapter they gave the Four Functions of Effective Decision Making and that’s where my quotes will be coming from. In the second function, goal setting, Griffin et. al. states, “because group members need to be clear on what they are trying to accomplish, Hirokawa and Gouran regard discussion of goals and objectives as the second requisite function of decision making,” (212). In the third step, identification of alternatives, Griffin et. al. states, “Hirokawa and Gouran stress the importance of marshalling a number of alternative solutions from which group members can choose,” (213). Finally, the last step, Griffin et. al. concludes with, “After a group has identified alternative solutions, the participants must take care to test the relative merits of each option against the criteria they believe are important,” (214).

These quotes further support my examination by explaining them throughout the book. The first quote supports the analysis because, our common goal is to get something to eat. We might not know what we are going to eat but we know that we are hungry! The second quote chains the two paragraphs together by supporting the idea of everyone giving their own food option. Every option is an alternative for the others. Lastly, the third quote supports my analysis because when we would give the reasons we had a taste for something those became what made it important or not.

fam portrait

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October 16

Sit back & watch

This week’s topic is on social proof. Social proof is when one means we use to determine what is correct is to find out what other people think is correct. When I read this chapter I automatically connected it to coming to a new team. When you are the new person on a team, you tend to sit back and watch what’s going on. For example, when I was new to the Baylor Women’s Basketball team I was confused about everything they did here. Every team runs everything differently, an instead of jumping in front I decided to sit back and wait to see what is right and what is wrong when it comes to warmups. For a whole year I sat behind someone in the warmup and watched their tendencies until they graduated and I became the one that the freshman watched. It is a cycle, that every team goes through. It is so that every coach doesn’t have to break down every little thing, you just watch what the person is doing in front of you.

I was a little confused when I first read the chapter, I was definitely reading too fast. They started the chapter out with a research that they conducted and I did not really understand why. On the following page when they decided to define what social proof was, I immediately connected it to multiple real-life analysis. In the book Griffin et. al. further defined social proof by saying, “we view a behavior as more correct in a given situation to the degree that we see others performing it,” (116). Another quote Griffin et. al. uses to further define social proof “the tendency to see an action as more appropriate when others are doing it normally works quite well,” (116). In the same paragraph, Griffin et. al. emphasizes his thoughts by saying, “usually, when a lot of people are doing something, it is the right thing to do,” (116).

These quotes definitely go more in depth with my analysis on a basketball team. I feel that the quotes emphasize my thoughts on the situation and why it is normal to feel the way I did when I came to the new team. The first quote shows why I decided to take a step back and watch what was going on. This not only connects with a basketball team, but in life. The second quote also emphasizes the situation because whatever the person in front of me did, I was going to do the exact same thing because clearly, she knows what she doing. Finally, the last quote just outlines the thought on people should sit back and watch before they start doing something. The easiest and most beneficial thing to do is sit back and watch.

The person I sat behind and watched for 2 years now

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October 2

my new bestie

Believe it or not, I was shy once upon time and believe it or not it was recently when I broke out of my shell. My freshman year here I had 3 roommates in the Texana girl dorm. I knew one of them because it was my basketball teammate, but the other two I had not met them yet. One day I needed help in a class that I had with girl in room A, so it took everything out of me to go and knock on her door and ask for help but I did. After we finished the assignment we starting talking about our lives, she started telling me about her boyfriend back home and how much she misses home. I was a little hesitant on opening up to her, and how much I told her at the beginning of the conversation. I did not want to spill too much about me to someone I really did not know. Once I felt comfortable I started talking back to her and the conversation started flowing, it became a normal thing for us to talk after classes and we began to support each other at our sport events and became roommates in an apartment off campus.

In chapter eight on the first couple of pages it introduces the idea of closeness through self-disclosure. In this chapter it kind of supports why I was the way I was and why people are so closed towards people they don’t know. On one page, Griffin et. al uses a character to help explain by saying, “Pete becomes accessible to others as he relaxes the tight boundaries that protect him and makes himself vulnerable,” (94). Towards the bottom of that page, Griffin et. al. he further explains, “if he admits these feelings, he’s opening himself up for some heavy-handed kidding or emotional blackmail,” (94). To end that section of the book, Griffin et. al. concludes with, “future privacy will be difficult. Realizing both of these factors, Pete may be extra cautious about exposing his true feelings,” (95).

While reading chapter eight I realized that this is a common reason why people do not open up to other people. It was definitlely my reasoning! In the first quotation I felt that emphasized when I finally got relaxed around Morgan (my roommate) I was okay with feeling vulnerable around her once we talked a little bit more! Moving on to quote #2 this is how I used to feel before I gain the confidence to knock on her door. I felt that if I told her anything, it would be all over the school and I could never trust her. I just didn’t feel the need to open up to someone I barely knew. Finally, the third quote caps it off with once I told her something she will obligated to know everything about me, or she would feel closer to me than I what I wanted her to feel like. Now I am happy I went the extra mile of knocking on her door because shes one of my best friends!

*SINGS* go best friend thats my best friend!!

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October 2

a trait u gotta have shrugs

For today’s blog I think I am going to compare the topic consistency to a relationship. I know that one of my ‘must’ in a relationship is consistency. If you are going to be one way, just be that way for the rest of the relationship. In my current relationship, it Is a long-distance relationship and they started out calling me after every workout and meeting they had with their team. A couple of weeks go back and they started changing up our schedule. Now that I was programmed to get a call after every function, it was definitely a problem that I was not getting the calls as often. I brought it to their attention what was going on and how I felt about it, but the huge problem that I had with the whole situation is they were being inconsistent. Do not get me used to one thing then change up what you are doing.

In Cialdini chapter 3 he talks about consistency and inconsistency. He definitely reiterates what I want from a future spouse one day or in a relationship now. Early in the chapter, Griffin et. al. explains why consistency is a necessity by saying, “to understand why consistency is so powerful a motive, it is important to recognize that in most circumstances consistency is valued and adaptive,” (60). In the very next sentence, Griffin et. al. goes more in depth about inconsistency, “inconsistency is commonly thought to be an undesirable personality trait,” (60). Further down the page, Griffin. et. al. explains why I felt the way I felt when the schedule was broken by saying “without it our lives would be difficult, eratic, and disjointed,” (60).

While reading chapter three last week I immediately compared the whole thing to relationships and what I expect from the person I am supposed to spend the rest of my life with. In my opinion consistency is a vital characteristic that people have to possess in order to be successful in anything they do. Life calls for consistency. The quotes that I used from the reading further explain my scenario simply by emphasizing the problem I had with the change in our daily routine. In the first quote Caildini supported idea as a whole, that consistency is just a vital trait to have. The second quote supports my views on why I want consistency in a relationship, by saying why inconsistency isn’t valued. Lastly, the third shows why I felt the need to bring it to their attention that something was going different in our daily routine. When they stopped calling around the same time of day it kind of threw my day off, my days were becoming a little difficult because I felt that I was missing something and I was. THEIR PHONE CALL.