Week/Date |
Unit |
Assignments |
Week One:
May 16-18
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Unit One
Part 1 : The Nature of Perspective
Part 2: Academic Disciplines and Sciences
Part 3: Sociological Perspective
Part 4: Postmodernity |
Read: Thio, Chapter One
Web Reading: "The Promise"
Journal I: Sociological Imagination
Journal II: Explain the system of education using the classic perspectives.
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Week Two:
May 21-23 |
Unit 2: Human Nature, Or How Sociologists Think
Part 1: Species Survival
Part 2: Defining Culture
Part 3: Socialization
Part 4: Durkheim and Suicide |
Read: Thio, Chapter 2 and 3
Video: Watch The Gods Must be Crazy
Journal I: The Gods Must be Crazy
Web Readings: Durkheim and Suicide and Suicide Facts
Journal II: Durkheim and Suicide
Discussion Board: Ethnocentrism
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Week Two: May 23-25
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Unit 3: Social Organization
Part 1: Social Action and Interaction
Part 2: Social Organizations
Part 3: Social Organization and You |
Read: Thio, Chapter 4
E-Reserve: "What do you Mean? Conversation Styles of Men and Women" By Deborah Tannen
Discussion Board: Genderlects
Web Reading: "McDonaldization of Society”
Journal I: Response to McDonaldization Reading
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May 28th & 29th |
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Self-test I (Units 1,2 & 3)
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Week Three:
May 30 - June 1
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Unit 4: Social Structure
Part 1: Defining Social Structure
Part 2: Status Positions, Roles, Norms, Etc.
Part 3: Identity
Part 4: Structural Effects
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Read: Thio, Chapter 5
Web Reading: The Milgram Experiment
Discussion Board: Agency/structure debate
Web Reading: White Privilege
Journal: Social structure
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Week Four:
June 4-6
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Unit 5: Inequality in Society
Part 1: Stratification, Mobility, Change
Part 2: Social Class
Part 3: Gender
Part 4: Race |
Read: Thio, Chapter 7
Watch: Clips from "People Like Us" Documentary
People Like Us or People Like Us - Homepage
Discussion Board: Classism
Read: Thio, Chapter 9 (pp. 263-285)
Web Reading: Patriarchy and Engels
Journal I: How has patriarchy and capitalism contributed to institutionalized sexism?
Read: Thio, Chapter 8
Web Reading: "Still Separate Still Unequal" "Where Race Lives"
Journal II: How have government policies and institutionalized discrimination made upward mobility less likely for some Americans?
Discussion Board: Race and Stereotypes
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June 7th & 8th |
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Self-test II (Units 4, & 5 )
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Week Five:
June 11 - 13 |
Unit 7: Institutions
Part 1: Social Institutions
Part 2: Adaptation
Part 3: Goal Attainment
Part 4: Integration: Law
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Read: Thio, Chapter 12
Web reading: "The Origin of Institutions"
Journal I: Define institution
Web reading: The Power Elite
Video : Roger and Me
Journal II: Roger and Me, Power Elite and Marx
Web reading: Max Weber's "Types of Authority" Weber's Types of Authority
Weblink:
Organizational Chart of U.S. Government
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/files/gov_chart.pdf
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Week Five:
June 13-15
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Unit 8: Socialization
Part 1: Latency: Family
Part 2: Latency: Religion
Part 3: Education
Part 4: Interrelationships |
Read: Thio, Chapter 10
Web Reading: "Family in Transition"
Discussion Board: Traditional Family?
Read: Thio, Chapter 11
Journal: What are the functions of religion?
Discussion Board: Education inequality? (applying the Conflict Perspective)
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Final Exam
June 18th & 19th |
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Self-test III (Units 7 &8) |
