Agenda for 3/31

1. The Heroin Boom

2. Review functionalism

3. Review for Sociology Mid-Term (on Friday 4/8)

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