3 Weeks

Foundations of Sociology

Focus Questions:

*What is sociology?

*Why study sociology?

*Who do Sociologists study?

*What is a sociological imagination?

*What are the differences between micro level and macro level sociology?

*How do Functionalist Theorists view society?

*What is a conflict theory?

*What are the theoretical perspectives of sociology?

What is Sociology?

The Foundations of Sociology

History of Sociology

Founders of Sociology

Theoretical Perspectives of Sociology

Micro Sociology vs. Macro Sociology

Sociological Imagination 

Careers and Sociology

Social Inequality 

• sociology
• society
• macro-level sociology
• micro-level sociology
• culture
• sociological imagination
• cultural patterns
• figuration
• hypothesis
• grand theories
• paradigms 
• functionalism
• manifest functions 
• latent functions 
• constructivism 

• I can demonstrate an understanding of the major concepts in sociology.
• I can compare and contrast the difference between micro level and macro level sociology.
• I can demonstrate and understanding of sociological imagination. 
• I can conduct research on the founders of sociology in order to obtain a greater understanding of theoretical perspectives. 
• I can identify the different theoretical perspectives of sociology and their impact on society. 
• I can identify major sociological paradigms. 

Chapter 1: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax: Introduction to Sociology 

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"What Explains Social Inequality?" By Janice Inniss

"Micro Meets Macro: Walking in Your Community" By Karen Sternheimer

Crash Course Sociology: What is Sociology?

Sociologists on Sociology

Crash Course Sociology: Major Sociological Paradigms

• Sociological Imagination Scenarios 
• Reflections
• Sociologist 'One Pager' Activity
• Assessment

1 Week

Research Methods

• How do you approach sociological research?
• What are the ethical concerns surrounding sociological research?
• What are the different research methods?

Scientific Method Review

Schuman, H Sense and Nonsense About Surveys

Bradley Wright, from the Everyday Sociology Blog: 'What is Spurious Correlation?'

Ethics in Sociology/Stanford Prison Experiment

Code of Ethics

Content Analysis

Correlation

Debunking

dependent variables

independent variables

qualitative data

quantitative data

• I can identify the different research methods in Sociology

• I can demonstrate an understanding of the ethics in sociological research  

Chapter 2: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax: Sociological Research

Crash Course Sociology #3: Sociology and the Scientific Method

Identifying Variable

Ethics in Sociology

Research Methods

Assessment

Casestudy 

Reflections

3 Weeks

Culture

• What is culture?
• What are the different elements of culture?
• What are the theoretical perspectives on culture?
• What are the differences between culture and society?
• What is the role of social control within culture?

Coontz, S. 'The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love'

'Culture Shock'

Immaterial Culture

• Counterculture
• Cortisol
• culture lag
• diffusion
• folkways
• globalization
• mores
• norms
• primary appraisal
• sanctions
• social control

• I can acquire and integrate knowledge to understand issues related to diversity and the
  interconnectedness of cultures

• I can define the key components of a culture, sorting into material and non-material components of culture 

Chapter 3: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax: Culture

Culture Slides

Coontz, S. "The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love"

Caplow, C. (1984) Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means. American Journal of Sociology, 89(6).

Crash Course Sociology #10: Symbols, Values, and Norms 

Crash Course Soicology #11: Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures

Assessment

Reflections

Our Culture Activity

Immaterial Culture Activity

Case Study

7 Weeks

Socialization

• What is socialization?
• What are the theories of Self-Development?
• What are the agents of socilization?
• What is nature vs. Nurture?
• What are the roles of families and peer groups in socialization?
• How does socialization occur and recur throughout life?

• Tendencies/Values 
• Feral Children
• Looking Glass Self 
• Adulthood Casestudy
• Anticipatory Socialization
• Development Case Study
• Hidden Curriculum
• Cognitive Stages
• Agents of Socialization

• Anticipatory socialization
• Secondary Socialization
• nature
• nurture
• self
• resocialization
• Cognitive stages
• Self concept

• I can define the key components of  socialization.

• I can define socialization as a process unique to humans and how it
  changes through the life cycle

• I can explain how human capacity for extensive symbolic communication allows for socialization and the effects of limited socialization on social development

• I can analyze and evaluate the ethics and issues involved in sociological research methods, including experiments, interviews, and observation

• I can examine how technology has influenced major social institutions and socialization.
• I can analyze and differentiate the major agents of socialization (like family, peer group, school, jobs, and mass media) and evaluate the role and function each plays

• I can Analyze various goals of socialization, including transmission of cultural values, self-control and social control, appropriate role behavior and social skills

•  I can analyze the major agents of socialization (like family, peer group, school, jobs, and mass media) and evaluate the role each plays

• I can analyze how the self-concept is formed.

• I can explain the contributions of various sociologists to the development of theories of self concept

• I can explain how roles and role expectation can lead to role conflict and role strain
• I can explain the developmental stages throughout the life cycle

• I can discuss how social interactions and culture could be affected in the future due to technological change

• I can identify issues and pressures facing contemporary adolescents

• I can analyze how self concept is formed.

Chapter 5: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax: Socialization

Childhood Socialization Slides

Crash Course Sociology #13: Social Development

Wild Child- Stories of Feral Children

Crash Course Sociology #14- Socialization

Agents of Socialization Slides

Ideas About Socialization Slides 

Anticipatory Socialization 

Three Identical Strangers

Unit Assessment

Looking Glass Self Activity

Development Case Study

Feral Children Essay

Adulthood Case study

3 Weeks

Demography

• What is demography?
• What is urbanization?
• How does fertility and mortality vary by country?
• What are the theoretical perspectives on urbanization?
• What is climate change?
• How does carrying capacity apply to environmental concerns?

Demography and Population

Urbanization

The Environment and Society

Population Measures

Population Pyramids

• carrying capacity
• concentric zone model
• demography
• exurbs
• gentrification
• mortality rate
• urbanization

• I can describe trends of world population growth and distribution

• I can describe the human and physical characteristics of different regions

  of the world

• I can analyze world population, using data, graphics, and maps to
  describe its characteristics and trends

• I can describe trends of world population growth and distribution

• I can analyze population pyramids and other data displays to describe
  the population characteristics of different societies and to predict
  future population trends

• I can describe life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the world to
  compare political, economic, social, and environmental changes

Chapter 20: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax: Population, Urbanization, and the Envrionment

Demography Lecture

Human Population Growth: Crash Course Ecology #3

Population Pyramids

Japan’s Demographic Time Bomb

Unit Assessment

Population Measures Activity

Population Pyramid Activity

Case Study

6 Weeks

Groups,  Organizations, and Bureaucracies

What are the different types of groups?

What is the difference between primary and secondary groups?

What are reference groups?

How do groups impact individual behavior?

What is conformity?

• Social Groups
• Aggregates
• Primary and Secondary Groups
• Statuses and Roles
• Issues with Social Groups
• The impact of Social Media
• McDonaldization of Society

aggregate

conformity

impersonality

in-group

laissez-faire leader

meritocracy

bureaucracies

impersonality

• I can identify social groups to which one belongs.

• I can distinguish between primary and secondary groups, formal and informal, reference and online groups, providing examples of each.

• I can examine how primary and secondary groups have changed over time, particularly in howtechnology affects social interactions

• I can describe how status affects order within the group and examine the various types of types of leadership styles, interactions that emerge in groups,and the effects those have on the group and individual members.

Chapter 6: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax:Groups and Organization

Social Groups Lecture

Crash Course #16

Crash Course #21 Clip

Issues with Social Groups

The Social Dilemma

McDonaldization of Society

Unit Assessment

My Identity Wheel Activity

Statuses and Roles Activity

Reflection paper

4 Weeks

Deviance

What is deviance?

What are theoretical perspectives on deviance and crime?

What is deviant behavior?

What is social control?

What is gentrification?

• Social control and the relativity of deviance
• Social influence
• The power of peer pressure
• Sociological Perspectives on Deviance
• Crime and criminals
• Extreme deviance

• conflict theory
• control theory
• deviance
• formal sanctions
• master status
• negative sanctions
• primary deviance

• I can explain deviance and conformity and the influence peers and authority have on society.
• I can explain how extreme deviance is prevalent in society and some common typologies used to better understand serial killers and other kinds of extreme deviants

• I can explain deviance and conformity and the influence peers and authority have on society.

Chapter 7: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax:Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

Deviance Crash Course Sociology #18

Social Control and the Relativity of Deviance Lecture

Explaining Deviance Lecture

Social Influence video

Neighborhood and Community Characteristics Lecture

Crash Course Sociology #19 Theory and Deviance

Crash Course: Crime 

Prison State Documentary

Extreme Deviance lecture

Unit Assessment

Case Study

Reflections

Serial Killer Project

3 Weeks

Stratification and the Social Class

• What is social stratification?
• What is social mobility?
• How does social stratification influence social mobility?
• What is the difference between an open system and a closed system?
• What is status consistency?
• What are theoretical perspectives on social stratification?
• What is global stratification?
• Who are the impoverished?

• Stratification
• Social Mobility
• Open system and closed system
• Theoretical perspectives on stratification
• Global stratification

relative poverty

subjective poverty

absolute poverty

caste system

meritocracy

socioeconomic status

• I can distinguish between types of stratification: caste and class systems as well as
  ascribed and achieved status

• I can explore the causes and consequences of stratification and inequality in the U.S.

• I can analyze issues with social mobility.

Chapter 9: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax: Social Stratification in the United States

Chapter 10: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax:Global Inequality

Stratification and Social Mobility Lecture

Crash Course Sociology #21 Social Stratification

What is Social Mobility? Lecture

Crash Course Sociology #26 Social Mobility

Unit Assessment

Case Study

Reflections

Social Mobility Analysis

4 Weeks

Race and Ethnicity 

What is race and ethnicity?

What effects do racism and discrimination have on society?

What are the theoretical perspectives on race and ethnicity?

What are the different experiences of various ethnic groups in the United States?

• Race and Ethnicity
• Racial Disparity
• The Jane Elliot Experiment
• Racism and Discrimination
• Agents of Social Change

amalgamation

assimilation

discrimination

expulsion

pluralism

segregation

stereotypes

• I can define race, ethnicity, and minority, and differentiate among various 

  groups

• I can compare and contrast the terms discrimination, prejudice, and bias as well as institutional and individual racism.

• I can analyze problems certain U.S. subcultures have within and among different 

           institution

•  I can describe how social movements can influence society and create immediate and 

             long-term changes.

• I can define race, ethnicity, and minority, and differentiate among various
  groups

• I can describe how social movements can influence society and create immediate and
  long-term changes.

Chapter 11: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax:Race and Ethnicity

Race and Ethnicity Crash Course

Why the Census asks these questions

What is Race and Ethnicity? Lecture

New York’s Population

A Class Divided- The Jane Elliot Experiment

Racism and Discrimination Crash Course Sociology

Housing Segregation and Redlining in America

The Root of Racial Injustice

When the Revolution was Televised 

Unit Assessment

 Case Study

Reflections

The Jane Elliot Experiment reflection

Racial Disparity Activity

2 Weeks

Gender

What are the differences between sex and gender?

What are some examples of gender inequality?

How is gender influenced by socialization?

What are the theoretical perspectives on gender?

Gender Stratification

Theories on Gender

Gender in Adulthood

gender identity

gender role

sexual orientation

I can distinguish between biological sex and socially-constructed gender roles

I can explain how stratification differs from simple inequality and how stratification is 

rooted in ideology

I can describe the gender norms and beliefs that have existed in work and

family in the past and explain how they have changed over time

I can explain how stratification differs from simple inequality and how stratification is 

rooted in ideology

Chapter 12: An Introductin to Sociology -Open Stax:Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

Crash Course: Gender Stratification

Crash Course: Theories of Gender

Unit Assessment

Case Study

Reflections