Agenda for 3/12

1. Follow-up on Okl. Univ. Fraternity scandal

2. How can domestic violence be socialized?

3. Work on children's book. Due next class (Monday 3/16).

4. Prepare for "Test #1" on Friday 3/20

Terms/Concepts that you NEED to know:

A. Sociological Imagination

• Strange in the familiar
• General in the particular
• Beneath the waterline of visibility

B. Culture

• material culture
• nonmaterial culture

C. Ethnocentrism

D. Cultural Relativism

E. Socialization (definition)

F. Agents of Socialization 

• You will need to idenitfy/describe at least 4 agents of socialization

G. Prussian Blue

• Changes in them from childhood to adulthood
• Their influences

Agenda for 3/11

1. Follow-up on Okl. Univ. Fraternity scandal

2. How can domestic violence be socialized?

3. Work on children's book. Due next class (Friday 3/13).

4. Prepare for "Test #1" on Thursday 3/19

Terms/Concepts that you NEED to know:

A. Sociological Imagination

• Strange in the familiar
• General in the particular
• Beneath the waterline of visibility

B. Culture

• material culture
• nonmaterial culture

C. Ethnocentrism

D. Cultural Relativism

E. Socialization (definition)

F. Agents of Socialization 

• You will need to idenitfy/describe at least 4 agents of socialization

G. Prussian Blue

• Changes in them from childhood to adulthood
• Their influences

Agenda for 3/16

1. Fraternity Socialization?

2. An update on Danielle

3. Grooming Children to be members of ISIS - the socialization of terrorists.

4. Work on Assignment 9: Due Monday 3/16

Assignment #9 - Writing a Children's Book - Due Monday 3/16

1. After being assigned your topic, complete the children's book brainstorming handout - Writing a Children's Book - Topic Handout

2. Write an outline for your children's book. The outline should spell out the beginning, middle and end of your book and the overall story that you want to tell. Be sure to include when you will hit the "major points" about your topic in the story.

3. Use Adobe Voice to create your children's book (choose the "Tell What Happened" template).

4. Your book must be at least 11 pages (slides), including a cover page.

5. Each page must have text and images. No more than two sentences per page, and vocabulary must be age appropriate. At least one images per slide. Images must be age appropriate and relate to the text.

6. You should be prepared to "read" your book to the class on Monday 3/16.

Grading Rubric - 50 total points

• The book tells a clear story (beginning, middle, end) - 10 points
• The story holds "socialization value" for parents - it clearly teaches a child about your assigned topic - 20 points
• The book is age appropriate (writing and images) - 5 points
• Each page follows the requirements (see above) - 5 points
• The book is "read" to the class  - 5 points
• Mechanics - correct spelling, punctuation, appropriate images - 5 points

Agenda for 3/9

1. Grooming Children to be members of ISIS - the socialization of terrorists.

2. Fraternity Socialization?



3. An update on Danielle
  
4. Work on Assignment 9: Due Friday 3/13 

Assignment #9 - Writing a Children's Book - Due Friday 3/13

1. After being assigned your topic, complete the children's book brainstorming handout - Writing a Children's Book - Topic Handout

2. Write an outline for your children's book. The outline should spell out the beginning, middle and end of your book and the overall story that you want to tell. Be sure to include when you will hit the "major points" about your topic in the story.

3. Use Adobe Voice to create your children's book (choose the "Tell What Happened" template).

4. Your book must be at least 11 pages (slides), including a cover page.

5. Each page must have text and images. No more than two sentences per page, and vocabulary must be age appropriate. At least one images per slide. Images must be age appropriate and relate to the text.

6. You should be prepared to "read" your book to the class on Friday 3/13.

Grading Rubric - 50 total points

• The book tells a clear story (beginning, middle, end) - 10 points
• The story holds "socialization value" for parents - it clearly teaches a child about your assigned topic - 20 points
• The book is age appropriate (writing and images) - 5 points
• Each page follows the requirements (see above) - 5 points
• The book is "read" to the class  - 5 points
• Mechanics - correct spelling, punctuation, appropriate images - 5 points

Agenda for 3/5 and 3/6

1. An ambitious attempt is underway in the US state of Rhode Island to teach parents how to speak to their children more often.

2. Socialization Keynote
 
3. Everybody Poops

• How would parents use this book to socialize children?

 4. The Giving Tree

• What is the moral of the story? Why would parents read it to their kids? How would it help SOCIALIZE kids?

5. The Feral Child

• If a child was to receive NO socialization for the first 7 years of life, what would they NOT be able to do? What skills or abilities would they NOT have? 
• This is what happens if a person were to receive NO socialization? 

6. The socialization of future ISIS fighters.

Agenda for 3/3 and 3/4

1. CPS Finds "Free-Range" Parents Responsible for Unsubstantiated Child Neglect. Now What?

2. Assignment #7 - In-class Prussian Blue Reflection (Assessment)
Answer each question in several complete sentences:

• 1. How did your understanding of Prussian blue evolve (change) from the beginning to the end of this unit? Why has this evolution occurred? Be sure to use the "sociological imagination" in your response.

• 2. Identify and explain at least three societal factors that have influenced the beliefs of Lamb and Lynx Gaede.

• 3. As a society, is it more important that we support the freedom of parents to raise their kids however they see fit, or that we ensure kids are raised with morals and beliefs that society approves of?

• 4. Think about your own life. Identify a person, or group of people, that you may have judged. Are you sure these judgements are accurate? Where did your assumptions/beliefs about this group come from come from: parents, school, friends, the media, co-workers...? 

3. Assignment #8 - submit through eBackpack

• Read the following online articles about Socialization. Answer the questions for each article.
• Introduction to Socialization
• Define Socialization.
• How did Harry and Margaret Harlow demonstrate the need for social contact?
• See a video of Harlow's monkeys.
• Why Socialization Matters
•  Why is socialization necessary for societies and cultures to continue from one generation to the next?
• Why is socialization necessary for individuals?
• What is your opinion on the nature v. nurture debate?
• Agents of Socialization
• Briefly define/describe each of the major "agents of socialization" discussed in the article. 

4. The "socialization" of future ISIS fighters

Agenda for 3/2

1. A possible new law in Michigan

2. Continue the Prussian Blue Documentary

3. Prussian Blue - Where are the now?

4. If time..."Grooming Children for Jihad: The Islamic State"