1. Do Money, Social Status Woes Fuel the U.S. Gun Culture?
2. Should we regulate guns like automobiles? 3. How to Prevent Gun Deaths? Where Experts and the Public Agree 4. Pass back and review Sociological Paradigms quiz 5. Finish Breakfast Club and discuss Breakfast Club questions HW: Assignment #7 - Gun Discussion Reflection In a 1-2 page typed response, reflect on the discussion we had in class today about guns in America. Questions to consider: Answer at least two of the following: A. Must answer: applying Structural Functionalism to the issue, do you see guns as a primarily functional or dysfunctional aspect of American society? B. Must answer: apply Symbolic Interactionism to the issue of guns in America. How have guns taken on a symbolic meaning in America? C. Must answer: apply the sociological concepts of "Seeing the general in the particular" OR "Seeing the strange in the familiar" to the issue of guns in America Some additional questions to consider (you don't need to answer them all, just respond to the questions that stand out to you) D. How has this most recent school/mass shooting left your feeling about your own safety in school, in society as a whole? E. How has it made you feel about the role of guns in America? What ideas or arguments that you heard today do you agree or disagree with? F. How do you feel about some of the gun regulations that were discussed today? Do you think gun ownership is an absolute right, should be minimally regulated, or ought to be regulated in more significant ways?
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Please take class today to finish and/or improve your "Breakfast Club" questions. If you need another copy of the questions, click here for a digital copy. If you were not in class the day that we watched the film, please answer the following questions: 1. Which of the three major sociological paradigms do you gravitate to the most (structural functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism)? In other words, which is closest to how you think about the way society works. 2. Describe/Explain a group at TA that is an "in-group" for you. Why is this an in-group for you? 3. Describe/Explain a group at TA that is an "out-group" for you. Why is this an out-group for you? 4. Describe/explain an example of in-group preference at TA. 5. Describe/explain an example of out-group bias at TA. 6. Identify and describe three different social groups at TA. For each group identify whether its an in-group or out-group for you and whether the group is a high status or low status group at TA. Once you have completed the "Breakfast Club" questions or the alternative assignment, you may quietly work on an assignment from another class. Thanks and see you on Wednesday! Brandon *Click here for the course syllabus 1. What is sociology? Sociology is the scientific study of human groups. It provides tools for understanding how and why our society functions, impact of social intuitions on individual lives, and the challenges of social interaction between individuals and society. 2. What is the Sociological Imagination (how do sociologists think about the world)? 3. A sociological perspective on the demographics of gun violence A. Who is the most common victim of gun violence and why (type of person and cause)? B. Include the following in your hypothesis:
C. Using this data visualization test your hypotheses and determine "who" is the most common victim of gun violence (cause, sex, age, race). 1. Why the poor are less likely to scuttle the Skittles
2. The Looking Glass Self
3. How would the Looking Glass Self theory apply to the following: Why Parenting Is More Important Than Schools: A new study shows that parental involvement matters more for performance than schools, but that doesn't mean going to PTA meetings. 4. Social Groups
5. Begin "The Breakfast Club" 1. Practicing the 3 Paradigms
A. What is "stop and frisk"? B. Are innocent people the "victim" of stop and frisk police abuse? C. How effective is it? Go here to see a data visualization of all "Stop and Frisk" stops by the NYPD in 2012. 2. Sociological Perspectives Quiz 3. The "Looking Glass Self"
3. Assignment #5 - Collins Type 2 Writing Activity A. Describe the "looking glass self" theory in your own words. B. Explain ONE thing that you do (wear, act, say, etc.) that is based on how you think others feel about you? (apply the "looking glass self" theory to your own life) C. What is ONE thing that you have observed others doing (wear, act, say, etc.) that is based on how they think others feel about them? HW: Finish Assignment #5 1. The Three Major Sociological Paradigms - slideshow
2. More about Symbolic Interactionism: A. According to this theory, people inhabit a world that is in large part socially constructed. In particular, the meaning of objects, events, and behaviors comes from the interpretation people give them, and interpretations vary from one group to another.
B. What do diamonds symbolize?
3. Review Big Ideas/Notes HW - study for quiz on the 3 major sociological paradigms
1. 'He Knew Football Had Everything To Do With It': A CTE Journal
2.The blind men and the elephant 3. The Three Major Sociological Paradigms A. What is a paradigm? What is theoretical paradigm? B. Is sociology more concerned with the Macro or Micro? C. What kinds of issue are "macro" and "micro"? D. Explain structural functionalism. Which early sociologist is credited with this theoretical paradigm? E. Explain an example of how this theory would look at something in society. F. Explain the difference between manifest and latent functions. G. What is social dysfunction? H. What are some problems with structural functionalism? An example? I. Explain conflict theory. J. Explain Marx's "class conflict theory." K. Explain another conflict theory (race or gender). L. What are some problems with conflict theory? An example? M. Explain symbolic interactionism. Which early sociologist is credited with this theoretical paradigm? N. What does it mean to say that for symbolic interactionism there is no "big T truth"? O. What are some problems with symbolic interactionism? An example? 2. More about Symbolic Interactionism: A. According to this theory, people inhabit a world that is in large part socially constructed. In particular, the meaning of objects, events, and behaviors comes from the interpretation people give them, and interpretations vary from one group to another.
B. What do diamonds symbolize?
3. Review Big Ideas/Notes HW - finish any questions from #3 above (3 Major Sociological Paradigms) |
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