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Stereotype Stigma

1/27/2023

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Due Dates (On Time):
  1. Mapping the School- Part 1. DUE: Friday, 2/3, Start of Class
  2. Quiz Corrections. DUE: Monday, 1/30, Start of Class

Due Dates (Late, -10%):
  1. Quiz. LAST DAY TO TAKE: Friday 1/27
  2. Ritual Observation Write Up. LAST DAY TO TURN IN: Thursday, 2/2, start of class

Stereotypes
Open your catch-all sociology document, and freewrite on the following questions for 5-8 minutes:
  1. What are stereotypes?  Try to define them.
  2. How accurate do you think stereotypes are?
  3. Agree or disagree with the following statement, and explain your reasoning: Stereotypes are harmful and should always be avoided.

Framing: 
As you know from yesterday's discussions of social groups, we are already grappling with the issue of stereotypes as we think about and create our social maps of AHS.  Today’s reading is meant to make you think more deeply about this issue and the role that stereotypes play in discourse and research. I look forward to reviewing it with you on Monday!

Reading: Fighting Stereotype Stigma 
Student should read and do Cornell notes on this document. There are blank Cornell note forms on my table (you may need to make some more copies). Students can also set them up on a lined piece of paper.

Answer Questions:
On a separate document, or on the back of their Cornell notes, students should answer the following questions:
  1. What is the main argument this author is making about stereotypes?
  2. T-Chart, with Uses/Positive Impacts of Stereotypes on the left, and Negative Impacts of Stereotypes on the right.  Fill out the T-Chart with examples and ideas from the reading.
  3. What was the most interesting idea in this document?  Why?
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Ritual Discussions + Social Mapping

1/26/2023

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Due Dates (On Time):
  1. Mapping the School- Part 1. DUE: Friday, 2/3, Start of Class
  2. Quiz Corrections. DUE: Monday, 1/30, Start of Class

Due Dates (Late, -10%):
  1. Quiz. LAST DAY TO TAKE: Friday 1/27
  2. Ritual Observation Write Up. LAST DAY TO TURN IN: Thursday, 2/2, start of class

Quiz Corrections- Due Monday, 1/30 at Start of Class
You may do quiz corrections for 50% credit. To complete these, please do the following for each question you missed, on a separate piece of paper:
  1. What did you answer on the original quiz?
  2. What is the correct answer?
  3. Why did you miss it?

To turn in, staple your ORIGINAL quiz to the quiz corrections, and turn in to the basket.

Ritual Discussions
Put in small groups, discuss findings. Please discuss in your group the following:
  1. What ritual did you each observe?
  2. What did you notice that wouldn’t have noticed without using this sociological lens?
  3. What was the hardest part of placing yourself in this observer position?  Why was it difficult?
  4. What theoretical perspective did you find yourself using?  Explain. Do you think you would use this lens for other rituals/observations?
  5. What is your big takeaway from this assignment?

Transition
We are now going to move into studying group formation and behavior- our goal here is to understand how groups form and behave, and to have words and concepts to describe our observations of roles, statuses, hierarchies, and power dynamics. I will introduce a project today that will ground us in this school.  As you work on this project and complete your observations outside of class, you will also be learning content and vocabulary about group and social dynamics that will help you to understand and interpret what you are observing in our school mapping project. 

Social Mapping Assignment
Intro assignment, assign mixed grade pairs.  You need to complete your draft map at lunch by next Thursday- this gives you a number of days to complete this assignment.  
  1. Project Pairs
    1. Hanna/Ewan
    2. Zoell F./Jasey
    3. Michael/Conall
    4. Zoell L./Victor
    5. Mia/Nia
    6. Bella/Cyrus
    7. Sophia/Klara
    8. Ariana/Asher
Read over the assignment and make a plan!
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Sociology QUIZ

1/24/2023

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Due Dates (On Time):
  1. QUIZ. DUE: Tuesday, 1/24 during class.
  2. Ritual Observation Write Up. DUE: Thursday, 1/26, start of class

Due Dates (Late, -10%):
  1. Nacirema Cornell Notes. LAST DAY TO TURN IN: Thursday 1/26, start of class.
  2. Society/Culture Collage. LAST DAY TO TURN IN: ​Thursday, 1/26, start of class.

Take the Quiz!
Turn it in!

Finish Rituals Write Up, turn it in (due on THURSDAY)
Watch and take notes on a family ritual or custom (such as a dinner, use of shower/bath, religious ceremony, breakfast, bedtime, getting ready to go skiing, etc.) Describe this family ritual or custom in a half page or more of writing- think about trying to mimic the style of Body Rituals of the Nacirema.  Use sociological imagination to explain what it tells you about the social structure of the family (as an institution).  If you are unsure of what to write about, answer the prompting questions below.  Add a paragraph that explains which sociological perspective (functionalist, conflict, symbolic-interactionist, postmodern) is most dominant in your description. Explain how so. 
    
Prompting questions (to help you with your description)
  1. How does the ritual demonstrate roles?
  2. How does the ritual demonstrate social status? 
  3. What does the ritual illustrate or teach about your place in life? Your future?
  4. What does the ritual show about social expectations? 
  5. In what ways is the ritual a microcosm of your society/culture?
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Ritual Write Up + Quiz Study Time

1/23/2023

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Due Dates (On Time):
  1. QUIZ. DUE: Tuesday, 1/24 during class.
  2. Ritual Observation Write Up. DUE: Thursday, 1/26, start of class

Due Dates (Late, -10%):
  1. Nacirema Cornell Notes. LAST DAY TO TURN IN: Thursday 1/26, start of class.
  2. Society/Culture Collage. LAST DAY TO TURN IN: ​Thursday, 1/26, start of class.

Ritual Observation Debrief
Find someone from another table.  Share with them:
  1. What ritual you observed
  2. The most interesting insight or observation you had
  3. What you noticed about roles or status in your observations

Class Tasks today:
Class time today is largely independent work- please split your time between the following two tasks:
  1. Quiz Study
  2. Write up your ritual observations (looking for 2-3 paragraphs here- you will have a little more time to finish this up in class on Tuesday after the quiz, it is due on Thursday at the start of class).

Quiz Study
We will have a small, multiple choice quiz on Tuesday of next week on major terms.  In this quiz you will need to know the definitions of these terms, and to think through how they would be applied to specific examples/situations.  We will spend 10-15 minutes studying on Friday and Monday.

  1. Sociology
  2. Structural-Functionalism
  3. Conflict Theory
  4. Symbolic-Interactionism
  5. Feminist Theory
  6. Society
  7. Culture
  8. Sociological Imagination
  9. Latent Function
  10. Manifest Function
  11. Norms
  12. Folkways
  13. Mores
  14. Taboos
  15. Personal Troubles
  16. Public Issues

Ritual Observations 
Watch and take notes on a family ritual or custom (such as a dinner, use of shower/bath, religious ceremony, breakfast, bedtime, getting ready to go skiing, etc.) Describe this family ritual or custom in a half page or more of writing- think about trying to mimic the style of Body Rituals of the Nacirema.  Use sociological imagination to explain what it tells you about the social structure of the family (as an institution).  If you are unsure of what to write about, answer the prompting questions below.  Add a paragraph that explains which sociological perspective (functionalist, conflict, symbolic-interactionist, postmodern) is most dominant in your description. Explain how so. 
    
Prompting questions (to help you with your description)
  1. How does the ritual demonstrate specific roles?
  2. How does the ritual demonstrate social status? 
  3. What does the ritual illustrate or teach about your place in life? Your future?
  4. What does the ritual show about social expectations? 
  5. In what ways is the ritual a microcosm of your society/culture?
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Roles Lecture, Collage Review, and Quiz Study Time

1/20/2023

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DUE: Collages
When you were making your collage, what did you focus on?  Please write a title on an index card/post it and put it with your collage.

Opening Freewrite
  1. What ritual are you going to observe for your homework this weekend.
  2. Where/when will you observe this?

Lecture on Roles
Roles
  1. Used to communicate how we want others to think of us
  2. Impression management
  3. We tend to become the roles we play- they get incorporated into self concept. This is why choosing your context, and choosing your roles is so important. Leaving roles = destabilizing to identity.

Stages
  1. Front Stages = playing your role in front of people
  2. Back Stages = private space where you can relax your role
  3. Can switch back and forth
    1. Ex: Car checking makeup/hair vs. dragging main street

Role Expectation
Expectation shared by members of a group that specifies behavior considered appropriate in a given situation for the occupant of a particular status.
  1. Ex: Teacher (dress, behavior, etc.)

Role Performance
Our style or interpretation that we bring to that role.  
  1. Ex: Role = wife.  My interpretation = equality, but some gender roles.  Others look very different.

Role Conflict
When you feel conflict between roles, because the xpectations attached to one role are incompatible with the expectations of another role.
  1. Ex: Female and academic from my teenage years (smart or pretty, but not both)

Role Strain
Feeling conflict within a role, because of incompatible expectations.
  1. Ex: Role = student. You are super well prepared for class, instructor asks a very hard question.  Raise hand = makes other students look bad. Not raising hand = not fulfilling expectations of instructor. 

Quiz Study Time
We will have a small, multiple choice quiz on Tuesday of next week on major terms.  In this quiz you will need to know the definitions of these terms, and to think through how they would be applied to specific examples/situations.  We will spend 10-15 minutes studying on Friday and Monday.

  1. Sociology
  2. Structural-Functionalism
  3. Conflict Theory
  4. Symbolic-Interactionism
  5. Feminist Theory
  6. Society
  7. Culture
  8. Sociological Imagination
  9. Latent Function
  10. Manifest Function
  11. Norms
  12. Folkways
  13. Mores
  14. Taboos
  15. Personal Troubles
  16. Public Issues

​Homework: Ritual Observations (Notes due Monday, start of class- you will have some time on Monday to work on your write up).
Watch and take notes on a family ritual or custom (such as a dinner, use of shower/bath, religious ceremony, breakfast, bedtime, getting ready to go skiing, etc.) Describe this family ritual or custom in a half page or more of writing- think about trying to mimic the style of Body Rituals of the Nacirema.  Use sociological imagination to explain what it tells you about the social structure of the family (as an institution).  If you are unsure of what to write about, answer the prompting questions below.  Add a paragraph that explains which sociological perspective (functionalist, conflict, symbolic-interactionist, postmodern) is most dominant in your description. Explain how so. 
    
Prompting questions (to help you with your description)
  1. How does the ritual demonstrate roles?
  2. How does the ritual demonstrate social status? 
  3. What does the ritual illustrate or teach about your place in life? Your future?
  4. What does the ritual show about social expectations? 
  5. In what ways is the ritual a microcosm of your society/culture?
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Nacirema Discussion + Quiz Overview + Collages

1/19/2023

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Nacirema Discussions (small groups)
  1. What is valued in Nacirema culture?
  2. What do you find unusual or novel about the Nacirema? 
  3. What sorts of norms do you see in Nacirema culture? These could be informally or formally enforced.
  4. In what ways is Nacirema society similar to / different from your culture? 
  5. What do you notice about how this is written/observed?

Collage Time
Finish up your collages- they are due tomorrow at the start of class.

Quiz Study
We will have a small, multiple choice quiz on Tuesday of next week on major terms.  In this quiz you will need to know the definitions of these terms, and to think through how they would be applied to specific examples/situations.  We will spend 15-20 minutes studying on Friday and Monday.
  1. Sociology
  2. Structural-Functionalism
  3. Conflict Theory
  4. Symbolic-Interactionism
  5. Feminist Theory
  6. Society
  7. Culture
  8. Sociological Imagination
  9. Latent Function
  10. Manifest Function
  11. Norms
  12. Folkways
  13. Mores
  14. Taboos
  15. Personal Troubles
  16. Public Issues

Homework: Ritual Observations (
Notes due Monday, start of class- you will have some time on Monday to work on your write up).

Watch and take notes on a family ritual or custom (such as a dinner, use of shower/bath, religious ceremony, breakfast, bedtime, getting ready to go skiing, etc.) Describe this family ritual or custom in a half page or more of writing- think about trying to mimic the style of Body Rituals of the Nacirema.  Use sociological imagination to explain what it tells you about the social structure of the family (as an institution).  If you are unsure of what to write about, answer the prompting questions below.  Add a paragraph that explains which sociological perspective (functionalist, conflict, symbolic-interactionist, postmodern) is most dominant in your description. Explain how so. 
    
Prompting questions (to help you with your description)
  1. How does the ritual demonstrate roles?
  2. How does the ritual demonstrate social status? 
  3. What does the ritual illustrate or teach about your place in life? Your future?
  4. What does the ritual show about social expectations? 
  5. In what ways is the ritual a microcosm of your society/culture?
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Society/Culture Collage

1/13/2023

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Essential Questions
  1. What are the four major theoretical perspectives in sociology, and how are they applied?
  2. What is my society/culture?

Debrief of Notes
  1. Which theoretical perspective are you most drawn to?  Why?
  2. Which one was hardest to wrap your mind around? Why?
  3. What questions do you still have about any of these?

DO THE PERSPECTIVES ASSESSMENT IF YOU HAVEN'T YET!  
See Google Classroom for directions!


Society and Culture Collage
Complete collage that demonstrates that you understand the concept of your society & culture.  You may structure your pictures to show: 
  1. The dominant culture in your society- think about showing values, norms, behaviors, etc.
  2. The dominant culture in your society contrasted with a specific subculture within that society
  3. Your society/culture contrasted with another society/culture – AKA normal/novel
  4. Showing the major institutions of society (look at your notes!), and what values/behaviors they encourage
  5. Another design of your choosing (maybe run your idea by Lori first. 

Use pictures, words and/or illustrations to show what is “normal” to you. If we need more time, we can work on these a little more on Monday.

HOMEWORK: Body Rituals Among the Nacirema
Read and do Cornell notes for this. Make sure you look up unfamiliar vocab, as this is written to a college level!
This is a great example of exercising the sociological imagination, and an example of what sociologists look at in societies when they are doing this type of observational research.
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Theoretical Perspectives + Society/Culture Collage

1/12/2023

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Essential Questions
  1. What are the four major theoretical perspectives in sociology, and how are they applied?
  2. What is my society/culture?

Four Perspectives Notes
Finish these notes first!

Perspectives Assessment
Answer the assessment question on Google Classroom when your notes are complete. 

Question: How might each of these perspectives view the shopping and consumption in society? Discuss in 3-4 sentences for each perspective.

Society and Culture Collage
Complete collage that demonstrates that you understand the concept of your society & culture.  You may structure your pictures to show: 
  1. The dominant culture in your society- think about showing values, norms, behaviors, etc.
  2. The dominant culture in your society contrasted with a specific subculture within that society
  3. Your society/culture contrasted with another society/culture – AKA normal/novel
  4. Showing the major institutions of society (look at your notes!), and what values/behaviors they encourage
  5. Another design of your choosing (maybe run your idea by Lori first. 

Use pictures, words and/or illustrations to show what is “normal” to you. This will be due on MONDAY at the start of class, and you will have some time to work on it tomorrow.

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Sociological Imagination + Major Theories in Sociology

1/10/2023

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Essential Questions
  1. How can I apply my sociological imagination?
  2. What are the four major theoretical perspectives in sociology, and how are they applied?

The Promise- Troubles vs. Issues 
  1. Glue card to whole sheet of paper and use arrows to create the “directory” of influences

Sociological Imagination- Applied
Watch video of a parade, answer the following questions:
  1. How does a parade serve an opportunity to exercise one’s sociological imagination? 
  2. Explain the relationship between social structure and parades. Think about what you can see in this parade that gives us clues about culture, values, norms, about power dynamics/structures.
  3. Are there other social activities such as a parade in which you can see a micro-sociological example of our social structure? 

Four Perspectives Notes
  1. Video Overview of 3 Theories
  2. Symbolic Interactionism (11-14)
    1. Video Resource
  3. Functional Analysis, or Functionalist (14-15)
    1. Video Resource
  4. Conflict Theory(s) (15-16)
    1. Video Resource
  5. Postmodern Perspectives (printed handout) (Challenge Option)

HOMEWORK- Bring in photos and materials for a collage about your society/culture.  Show what is “normal” to you.  Think about images that show different aspects of culture- beliefs, values, behaviors, etc. 

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Culture Lecture + The Promise

1/6/2023

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Essential Questions
  1. What is the difference between society and culture? How do they relate to each other?
  2. What are the main ideas and terms in “The Promise”?​

Society vs. Culture Diagram
  1. Society (add to notes from yesterday)
    1. Society uses Institutions  (a collection of norms, values and roles into a patterned or organized way of living)
    2. Institutions (Economy, Politics (Law), Education, Family, Religion) and Establishments
  2. Culture
    1. Culture is an element of society.  Multiple cultures and subcultures can exist within a single society. 
    2. Values and behaviors passed through generations.  The lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us.  Use as a yardstick for judging others (ethnocentrism).
    3. Ways of thinking (beliefs, values, assumptions) and doing (behaviors, language, etc.)
    4. Nothing “natural” about either.
    5. Material vs. Nonmaterial: art, buildings, weapons, etc. vs. ways of thinking, values, etc. .
    6. Four elements of Non-Material Culture (for each of these, have students come up with examples)
      1. Gestures: Communicate messages w/out words  (hand gestures)
      2. Language: Allows culture to exist, lets you move beyond immediate experience and imagine the future, have a shared past.  Language shapes consciousness (common language🡪communication, Hebrew example of jam/jelly)  Without language, there is no culture.
      3. Values  (what is desirable in life): What are the  most important values in US society?  
      4. Norms 
                Folkways: not strictly enforced (ex: picking nose)
                Mores: very serious  (exposing genitals)
Taboos: so ingrained that the thought of breaking them meets with revulsion  (cannibalism, incest
  1. Real vs. Ideal Culture: What is it in US?


Finished? Read and Notes on “The Promise”.
This will be our first difficult text.  You will need to read and annotate it carefully, and look up vocabulary as we go.  We will discuss/seminar on this text on Friday.  This will introduce you to a core concept/mindset for this class: The Sociological Imagination.

This is a college level text- skimming won’t work for this!

You will be taking Cornell Notes on this- they are a great way to keep track of important information, and this specific note-taking formula is one that we will use all semester for lectures and for readings.
  1. Review Template + Example
  2. Give students reading + template, have them start reading and taking notes. 
  3. This needs to be read, and notes completed by MONDAY. ​
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