Social Problems And Social Actions Analysis

Social Problems and social actions” by Anna Guerrero brought up many great issues within today’s society and even some of the different social movements of today’s time. One example is occupy Wall Street. This article discussed cognitive liberation which is something that takes place when an aggrieved groups begins to consider there situation as unjust. This to me is talking about things such as social class and race and even relates to some of the issues going on today such as the black lives matter movement and other movements like that. In the article she says “Freedom comes first in identifying the social “machinery” that controls us and second in recognizing that the way society controls us…” Society and control are something I find to be very important because before thinking of my future I never quite understood how controlled we truly are. The way I view things is that as human beings yes we have freedom but only freedom to choose certain options. In America we are taught to believe we are free to make choices but truthfully we are not. There is always some type of criticism that comes along with you
Basically we are born work our entire lives than die. This to me says that we have no real control over our lives all we truly have is few options that society try to pass off as freedom to make us feel better about ourselves but, in all actuality it is not. Another huge thing is when you go against the grain and practice your freedom and it does not agree with the set of rules set up by society you are punished. You must spend an extensive amount of time in a small cage. Where society will then once again control you only this time with a more hands-on