Assignments

**Students should be working on their major papers. Those doing the test option should be studying Sociology as a Science, Deviance, Roles/Statuses for the first test (April 26).**
 * POST BREAK**

Next test will be on Social Class/Caste and Stratification, inequality

**Week 8- Class Date March 22** **Test and Sociology as a Science** HW: Read Ch. 2 in your text Refine your research topic (**Due Sunday, March 25 by 8:00pm on the Wikispace)**
 * Melanie Buckley. My topic is Prison Gangs, Focusing on Aryan Brotherhood **
 * Nicole Kerstetter. My topic is Physicians Assisted Suicide. **



**Week 7- Class Date March 8**

**Culture, Socialization, and Social Institutions** review

Test on Thursday, March 22

**Week 6- Class Date March 1- Culture, Socialization, and Social Institutions** **Due March 8**

1. Critical viewing and review of The Beach (Leonardo Di Caprio movie)

**Week 5- Class date February 23- Culture and Socialization** **Due March 1**

1. Close reading of Nacerima article.

2. Close reading of plastic surgery article



**Week 4- Class date February 16- Foundations, Theorists, and ParadigmsTEST** **Due February 23**

1. Read Ch. 4 on Socialization

**Week 3- Class date February 9-Theorists and Paradigms** **Due February 16**

STUDY FOR TEST and work on essay component!

**Week 2- Class date February 2- Theorists and Paradigms** **Due Thursday, February 9**

1. Read DuBois chapter (below). This is to finish up Ch. 1. He is a theorist you will be responsible for on the test.

2. Read Ch. 3. Pay close attention to pgs. 47-52, 63 (Cultural lag and Social Evolution)-73 Skim 53-63

**Week 1- Class Date January 26- Foundations** **Due Thursday, February 2**



1. Read Ch. 1 from Curry. Be prepared for a check-in quiz on theorists and their related vocabulary.

2. Read "The Sociological Imagination" by C. Wright Mills. Annotate your packet (that means highlight, take notes, summarize, ask questions, etc.).

3. On the Wikispace under Assignments, post to the discussion on Mills. You may offer a brief summary of what you read, ask questions, respond to someone else's posts, etc. The main goal is to familiarize you with this platform and get you used to posting.