Group cohesion is a solidarity or loyalty one feels toward a group in which a person belongs to. This loyalty can be dependent on shared characteristics or opportunities for cooperation such as aiming to achieve the same goal. Pictured is a drawing one of my coworkers recently made. Because of how crazy busy the pharmacy I work at has been, she felt as if we were losing ourselves as a team. So, in an effort to strengthen our bonds and our cooperation with each other, she drew this. As you can see, in the corner it says "team pharmacy". I think this picture helped everyone realize how much of a team we actually were and that we all had similar goals.

Socialization is the process of learning and internalizing norms and values of our social group so we can become functioning members of society. There are four major agents of socialization. Everything we do to socialize fall into these categories of family, school, peers, and media. The family is the most significant agent of socialization where we first begin to internalize things. These things can be intentional or unintentional. Schools are considered most important in conveying the dominant culture's values and norms. Peers are able to create a way for a person to develop away from the adult control and is used as an act of independence. 

Media can be used as agents of socialization by helping us determine what is reality and what is fantasy. Media can have great control on what we think about ourselves or others.  The pictures shown are the most recent family picture I have, a picture of my best friends from this last September, and a picture of my brother on his graduation day in front of the high school I went to. All of these people and places have had a major impact on the way I look at the world and how I act in today's society.

Health and illness are topics that are focused on in sociology because our bodies can be considered social objects. There are so many meanings placed on them. We can have chronic or acute diseases. Chronic is long term and can be related to your lifestyle. Acute is short term and is sudden, onset, and brief such as the flu or getting the COVID-19 virus. This picture depicts me and a few of my coworkers working hard drawing up the vaccines for the Covid vaccine clinics. We spent countless hours and early mornings at that table trying our best to hopefully prevent somebody from getting what is considered to be an acute illness that had