Agenda for 3/30

1. 60 minutes - America's heroin epidemic  




2. Deviance and Social Control - video

A. What is deviance?

B. What are some examples of deviance?

C. What are some examples of informal social control?

D. What are some examples of formal social controls?

E. How does the functionalist theory explain crime and deviance? Be sure to explain how crime: 

•    identifies the failure of social structures

•    reinforces the societal norms and promote social unity

•    leads to social change

F. What is the major criticism of the functionalist perspective of crime?

3. How could we analyze the current heroin epidemic using functionalist theory?

4. Review for Sociology Mid-Term (on Thursday 4/7)

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. Symbolic Interactionism

•    What are the three main concepts of the Symbolic Interactionist theory?

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

•    material culture

•    non-material culture

•    ethnocentrism

•    Cultural Relativism

•    cultural universals

•    norms

•    subculture

•    counterculture

D. 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?

HW - Complete the above