Agenda for 11/16/15

1. 60 Minutes - The Paris Attacks

2. Anyone remember 7/18/15? Or 11/12/15?

 

3.  Review for test

Terms/Concepts that you NEED to know:

A. Sociological Imagination, Categories and Labels - click here for the blog post that can help you to answer many of these questions

• Strange in the familiar - explain the concept and provide and example
• General in the particular - explain the concept and provide and example
• Beneath the waterline of visibility - explain the concept and provide and example
• "This is Water" -  explain the main point of the video and how it connects to the "sociological imagination." 
• How did the rat experiment explain the power of expectations/categories?
• Social labels - what label did you investigate and what did you learn about the social implications (positive and negative effects) of being given that label?

B. Culture - be able to explain and give an example of each term below

• material culture
• non-material culture 
• ethnocentrism 
• Cultural Relativism

C. Prussian Blue and Socialization 

• Describe the changes in the Prussian Blue girls from childhood to adulthood. What were the major influences in their feelings of hate?
• Define/explain the sociological concept of socialization. 
  
• Agents of Socialization - identify and describe four "agents of socialization
• Describe what happens in situations when a person receives no socialization (like Danielle).
• How did your children's book teach kids about your topic?

 

4. Drug use in America...how it's different from other countries.

5. Keynote - Drug Use in America