If everyone knew each other’s evacuation plan then they can properly plan where to evacuate the people to and to make sure that they don’t evacuate the millions of people in the same place. Carefully planning things out and communicating is the best and only way a safe evacuation can occur. It will bring the large numbers of people to act together in a safe way that will benefit each one of them. Sociologically it will tie the strings together and avoid any danger to can occur. Another way is by learning from past mistakes we already have made in an event or trying to organize an evacuation. Many mistakes have happened when the evacuation out of New Orleans was taking place. A lot of people had died because the evacuation wasn’t properly planned out. The government had waited till the day before the Hurricane had hit. Too many people were crowded together and panicked. Hopefully in the event of another major evacuation the government would think properly and get the people out early and in different directions so that when they panic it doesn’t get dangerous.
Wow. The article had really hit some key points. It provided a great argument to the mistakes human beings no matter what tend to fail when creating evacuation plans. My suggestion is for the government to stop educating people on the dangers that could happen in the event of an emergency. Because people know the dangers of what could happen if they didn’t evacuate they all tend to panic. This causes many more people to die from panicking then from the natural cause. If one person panics, the majority of the others would also panic. The invisible strings would tie together and cause chaos and further destruction. The article mentioned that planning for an evacuation can be too complicated to plan for or too resource-intensive to be made possible. I definitely agree to this statement. Herding thousands to millions of people together can be very dangerous. It can especially be dangerous in an event of an evacuation. The way I would suggest we motivate large numbers of people to act in ways that are in the best interests of every one as individuals is to communicate with others about their plan. This would prevent a common mistake.
The hidden structure of living in the absence of sunlight versus the presence of living with sunlight has shown how it affects the ever day lives of people and the way societies are structured in the city of Helsinki. Different activities are expressed in the sunlight than in the darkness. For example, in the darkness people are more vulnerable to spend time alone and reading a book. In the daylight people are more vulnerable to spend time accompanying others. People need each others company to survive and be happy. The more time a person spends alone, the more they are depressed and sad. It being mostly dark all the time in Helsinkin has affected the way people behave. It is a hidden structure that shapes and changes the way people live in their society. Facts are shown in the video they way people feel in the darkness versus in the lighting festival. They do not realize it because it is apart of their daily lives. I realize because I know what it feels like to be in the dark and in the light and in my experience I can say that I also agree that in the dark I feel more insecure and afraid especially when I am by myself compared to the light where there is nothing that I cannot see or hide from.
In the presence of sun, more people spend a lot more time outside in the beach or just enjoying walks along the river edge. In the winter, people spend more time alone at home reading a book or exercising at the gym. There are a lot more activities to do in the summer than in the winter. The most importance to the necessity of having sunlight is happiness. Where ever there is more sun, people seem to be happier. So compared to the summer because winter has a lot less sunlight, people are more depressed than happy. As shown in the city of Helsinki, citizens have reported feeling more depressed. The lack of daylight has demonstrated a real mentally affect on the citizens of Helsinki. It has become an illness known as the winter seasonal affective disorder. Symptoms said by Dr. Timo Partonen, include increase in appetite, weight gain, tiredness and long hours of sleep. In fact more than 40% of the citizens of Helsinki suffer from these symptoms.
Wow I can only imagine how my life would change due to the simple absence of sunlight. I myself can definitely agree that in the winter time I am more tired and seem to eat a lot more. I also spend a lot more time alone which feeds into the mood of depression. I count down the last days till summer where I can spend more time outside, enjoying the summer sun with my friends.
When I seen the video the first reaction was laughing. The video was very humorous in the sense that the target did everything the group did even though he knew exactly which way the elevator door would open. He probably felt very confused to why everyone else was doing the same thing but he still did it. The video perfectly also illustrates the principles of our culture and how eager we are to conform to the visions of others. I constantly hear people stressing the importance of being an individual and stressing the significance of expressing our own opinions. Even though we know what is right the principles of conformity and informational social influence shows us otherwise. Conformity is a great topic that illustrates the way our culture really is. It shows how we are very social by demonstrating what we do in situations where we might not agree with the group by agreeing anyways.
Conformity can impact society greatly as shown in the video. This video is a great demonstration that shows the influence conformity has on society. In class we discussed that informational social influence occurs in ambiguous social situations. Informational social influence is definitely a result from conformity. Human beings are very social mammals. Most of the time when we are in a situation where we might not agree to what others do or say at the end of the day we would agree anyways. The reason why is because no one likes to feel disliked by a group or isolated from the norms of the group so even though we don’t agree on what the group does or say to ignore the situation of feeling disliked we would agree. In class Sam concluded that, “people want to be social and liked so even though in situations we might disagree on things we will agree to what the group says.” In the elevator even though the target might have felt stupid for turning with the group he did anyways to fit in and be social and liked. The target showed that the tendency to go along with the group is stronger than our rational appraisals of reality. It is proven that we will conform to the group even if we don’t believe what people are saying or doing.
In conclusion, after the discussion in class about how social systems and people are rational it now completely makes sense to me as to why the prosecutors labeled the child as a suspect in the situation. They couldn’t bend the rules. Rules are created to control everything so that everything operates smoothly. If the rules were bent, there will be total chaos and destruction. So nothing is an exception in any situation.
The reason why the situation treated the child as a suspect is because of the rules and laws which state how criminals should be punished in circumstances where an individual brings a loaded gun to school. So prosecutors looked at the situation and handled it the way they would treat any other criminal case and obeyed the rules. This proves my point that people and social systems are rational. Systems want stability and in order to have stability in systems, rules must be enforced and never changed. Every situation has to be treated the same with no exceptions. If people had allowed exceptions in situations than social systems will not be stable and rules would constantly be bent leading to destruction and chaos. So to avoid difficult measures, rules are never bent no matter what the circumstances of the situation are.
The 5 year old child actually being stated as a “suspect” is completely ridiculous. I agree that this is a serious situation and should be handled as such, but I totally disagree that the fault should be pointed at the innocent child who probably thought it was just a toy. I agree the situation should be handled the way Sam had suggested. The parent who had allowed his child to have access to the loaded gun should take a guns safety class that he pays for and just send the child back to class. Suspending the child took the situation to extreme measures. Everyone knew that there was no way the child’s actual intention was to put any one in harm’s way, so why was the situation treated as such? It just blows my mind. Unbelievable . The situation just goes on to show how rational people really are along with social systems.
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