Unit Ia: Thinking Sociologically

1. Unit 1 Test--Testing Objectives

2. Textbook Reading: Using the Sociological Perspective

3. Lecture: Applied and Pure/Basic Science-Debate

4. Lecture: Sociological Imagination

5. Reader Article: Teenage Wasteland

6. Discussion: Teenage Wasteland

7. Demo: Common Sense and Common Nonsense

8. Common Sense and Common Nonsense 2--Poverty & Welfare

9. Demo Rape #1

10. Demo Rape #2

11. Directions: Demo Teaching and Learning Experiment #1

12. Demo-Teaching and Learning Experiment #1

13. Demo-Teaching and Learning Experiment #2

Unit Ib: Understanding Theoretical Perspectives

1. Lecture: Theoretical Perspectives-Questions Asked

2. Lecture: Theoretical Perspectives and TV

3. Lecture: Lessons from Feminist Theoretical Perspective

4. Videos: Why Sociology; Sociological Perspectives

5. Discussion: Video "Stand and Deliver"

Unit 1c: Doing Research

1. Textbook Reading

2. Lecture: Common Sense and Science-Who Needs Science?

3. Answers to Demonstration: Common Sense and Common Nonsense

4. Research and Common Sense: Durkheim's Study of Suicide

Unit 2-a Culture

1. Unit 2 Test--Testing Objectives

2. Textbook Reading (All Pages in Chapter about Culture)

3. Lecture: Culture and Cultural Change

4. Culture Demonstration & Exam BONUS: Test Your Knowledge (due at same time as Unit essay Exam)

5. Reader Article for Discussion:  Tribe & Tube Article

6. Lecture: Extreme Individualism as Ideology

Unit 2-b Culture: Ethnocentrism

1. Textbook Reading (Review Information  that Focuses on Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativity in Chapter about Culture)

2. Directions: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema article

3. Discussion: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Unit 2-c Language and Culture

1. Textbook Reading: (Review Information that Focuses on Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of Language in Chapter about Culture)

2. Lecture: The Power of Language-Theories

3. Reader Articles for Discussion:  Language and Bias

Unit 2-d: Socialization

1. Textbook Reading:  All Pages in Chapter about Socialization

2. Lecture: Socialization

3. Textbook Reading:  (Review Information that Focuses on Social Isolates in Chapter about Socialization)

4. Textbook Reading:  (Review Information that Focuses on Theories of Socialization)

5. Discussion and Group Exercise

Unit 2-e: TV and Mass Media as Socializing Agents

1. Lecture: 5 theories and impact of TV & Mass Media

2. Lecture: Some recent statistics about media

3. Reader Articles for Discussion: Media Magic

4. Video:  "Mickey Mouse Monopoly"

5. Video: TV Electronic Storyteller

6. Video: TV Electronic Storyteller Part 2

7. Video: Bowling for Columbine

Unit 2-f: Social Structure (Macro) & Social Interaction (Micro)

1. Textbook Reading:  All Pages in Chapter About Social Structure and Social Interaction

2. Lecture:  Pathology of Imprisonment

3. Textbook Reading (Review Information that Focuses on Irving Goffman's Total Institutions in Chapter About Socialization)

4. Discussion:  Impact of Social Structure--Pathology of Imprisonment

5. Lecture: Power of Social Structure-Lessons from Feminist Theory

TAKE HOME ESSAY

Unit 3-a: Social Groups and Formal Organizations

1. Unit 3 Test--Testing Objectives

2. Textbook Reading: (all pages about Groups pages 109-116,124-end of chapter)

3. Textbook Reading: (all pages about Conformity & Peer Pressure, Obedience, and Groupthink)

4. Demos: Bring to class demos about teaching and learning which you completed the first week.

5. Discussion: Handouts "The Power of Social Groups; Doing Sociology-Intercollegiate Rivalries" (See handouts given in class.)

6. Lecture: Lord of the Flies

7. Preparation for Discussion: Lord of the Flies.

8. Discussion: Lord of the Flies

9. Textbook Reading: (pages117-125, sections about organizations and bureaucracies)

10. Reader Article: McDonaldization of Society or 'McJobs'

11. Essay about reader article : McDonaldization

Unit 3-b: Deviance
 

1. Textbook Reading: Deviance and Crime (Read entire chapter.)

2. Discussion and Essay: Boyz n Hood
    

Unit 4-a Social Stratification; Social Class
 

1. Textbook Reading: Global Stratification; Social Class in U.S.

2. Lecture Notes: Contrasting Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives on Social Stratification

3. Lecture Notes: Dimensions of Stratification Marx and Weber

4. Lecture Notes: Some Statistics on Social Stratification in U.S.A.

5. Demo: Answers to Common Sense and Common Nonsense 2

6. Articles: 2 articles- myths and facts of social stratification in U.S.A.

7. Discussion Preparation: Welfare and Wealthfare Controversy

8. Discussion: Debate over Welfare and Wealthfare
 

Unit 4 b Politics and the Economy
 

1. Textbook: Politics and the Economy

2. Lecture Notes: Models of Political Power in United States

3. Lecture: "Power Elite" Theory and Mass Media

4. Discussion: Who Rules America?

5. ****** Preparation for Exam Unit 4
 

Unit 4-c Race and Ethnicity
 

1. CUMULATIVE QUIZ REVIEW: Performance Indicators (required by state of Florida)

2. Textbook Reading: Race and Ethnicity; Theoretical Perspectives on Education

3. Lecture Notes: Mechanisms of Dominance

4. Reader Article and Preparation for Discussion: White Privilege and Male Privilege

5. Discussion: White and Male Privilege
 

Unit 4-d Sex and Gender
 

1. Essay: Influence of Social Location on Your Life

2. Textbook: Sex and Gender

3. ***** FALL 2004 DO NOT COMPLETE: Essay from Reader Article: The Great American Football Ritual

4. Lecture: Sexism as Ideology & Part of Social Structure

5. Lecture: Gender as a Central Organizing Principle

6. Lecture: Power of Language: Symbolic Interactionist & Feminist theory combined

7. Reader Articles: Rape, Harassment, and Gendered Violence

8. Lecture Notes and News: Sexual Assault

9. Video and Study Guide "Tough Guise"

10. Summary Notes from "Dances with Wolves"

11. Lecture Notes: Women's and Men's Work

12. News: Title VII of 1964 Civil Rights Act--Sex Discrimination

13. Discussion: Gendered Violence: Rape and Gender Harassment

14. Reader Articles: several articles on masculinity
 

Unit 5 Marriage and Family as a Social Institutions |
 

1. Textbook: Marriage and the Family

2. Lecture Notes: Double Duty

3. Articles and Preparation for Discussion: Marriage and Family

4. Discussion: Gender Socialization, Marriage, and Family