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ESSENTIAL
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1.
What is sociology all about?
2. How do sociologists learn their materials?
3. What is the culture of a society? |
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1.
(a) Sociological imagination, (b) Founders of
sociology, (c) Sociological perspectives
2. Methods of research
3. Definition of culture, parts of culture, how
culture changes, culture and mass media |
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1.
(a) Explain how we use the sociological imagination
every day, (b) explain the three basic sociological
perspectives, (c) use perspectives in various
situations
2. Identify the founders of sociology and what they
did.
3. Define culture. How does culture affect your
life? Four characteristics, parts of culture,
difference between ethnocentrism and cultural
relatives |
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plays, worksheets, notes, quizzes, exams, readings |
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4.
How do we become socialized?
5. How and why do people form groups? |
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4.
(a) Explain nature vs. nurture, (b) Socializations
process, (c) Agents of socialization, (d) Adult
socialization, (e) Resocialization
5. (a) Types of groups, (b) Organization in groups,
(c) Bureaucracy |
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4.
(a) Socialization process, agents of socialization,
define nature vs. nurture, (b) affects of social
isolation on people, (c) how does socialization take
place, (d) theories of adult socialization, (e)
total institution
5. (a) Secondary vs. primary group, how to identify
a group, (b) leaders and followers, (c) Weber's
Ideal Bureaucracy |
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worksheets, research projects, notes, quizzes, exam,
readings |
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5.
How and why do people form groups?
6. How is society affected by deviance? |
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5.
(a) Types of groups, (b) Organization in groups, (c)
Bureaucracy
6. What is deviance? What causes deviance? How does
society respond to it? |
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5.
(a) Secondary vs. primary group, how to identify a
group, (b) leaders and followers, (c) Weber's Ideal
Bureaucracy
6. Folkways, mores, laws, relativeness of deviance,
criminal justice system, theories of deviance, media
and violence |
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worksheets, research projects, notes, quizzes,
exams, readings, guest speakers |
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7.
How are people and groups identified in our society?
8. What makes up a minority? |
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7.
Stratification and differentiation
8. Race, ethnicity, and our society |
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7.
Wealth, power, prestige, stratification systems,
social mobility
8. Biological and sociological definition of race,
difference between race and ethnic group, prejudice
and discrimination, institutional discrimination |
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worksheets, projects, notes, quizzes, readings, exam |
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