Download Sociology lesson plans for the week of 1/28/2013

Sociology lesson plans for the week of 1/28/2013
Monday 1/28/2013
Read page 5 aloud and ask what they think “patterns in social relationships” means
Can you identify any behavior patterns from your own life?
Do demonstration on page 6. Fill in the following:
1. Someone who can’t find a job is_____________?
2. Homelessness is the result of ______________?
3. Immigrants come here because of ____________?
Sort the responses of the class into person and societal.
Read pages 6 – 13 and do interpreting the map and learning check on page 13
Tuesday 1/29/2013
Warm-up: Defend your route as the best route.
How is this an example of construction of reality?
Read story to class to illustrate the perspective of sociology and psychology.
Discuss the power of the situation. What would you do if a fight broke out? Stand and
cheer, watch, or break it up. Tell them what research says.
Read page 10 Another Time outloud and discuss Discounting as a form of
ethnocentricism
Do you schedule in hourly increments. What do we notice about the patterns?
Do town of truth or town of lies on page 11
Tell the students more about C.Wright Mills
Father of the student movement in the 1960’s
Sociological imagination
First to describe the new middle class that are sales people and bureaucratized
office workers
He hypothesized that America was becoming more concentrated in the hands of 3
groups businessmen, politicians, and the military (white males) and they would
morally direct society
Discuss how the illustration on page 11 shows an example of normative values
Read pages 14 – 22 and do questions on pages 21 &22
Wednesday 1/30/2013
Warm-up: Why is Weber’s concept of verstehen the very essence f modern sociology?
Activities:
1. put up pictures of the contributions of early sociologists
2. Auguste Comte was quite brilliant but eccentric. He had phobias about germs and
contamination. He formulated a principle called cerebral hygiene. This was to
prevent others from polluting his thoughts. He stopped reading because he thought
this was the main source of the pollution.
3. Do back to back chair demonstration
4. America takes the lead in sociology. Go on-line and google the title of this journal
The Journal of the Mundane and choose an article an abstract it.
5. Durkheim was studying to be a rabbi and believed that they were compatible. He said
that both disciplines are directed toward the universal, and both seek the truth. Do
you agree or disagree with this, and why is this so.
6. Sociology is based on the gathering of scientific data, and evidence. What is the
difference between anecdotal and abstract data. Ancedotal is based on reports or
observations of individuals, usually by unscientific observers. The amputee story.
7. What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee” What does this mean? What
does this quote say about the value of the individual compared to the value of
society?
8. Sociology has nothing to do with reading writing, or mathematics according to
Munising school board. So therefore it should not be a part of the curriculum
9. What are the four criteria of McDonaldization.
Efficiency, predictability, calculability and control
10.Read pages 14 – 22 and do questions on pages 21 &22
10. read pages 23 – 31 answer questions on page 24, 29, and 31
Thursday 1/31/2013
What is the relationship between perception and perspection?
Activities
1. Identify a problem in your life and decide which of the perspectives you believe
would be most helpful in analyzing the situation.
2. Functionalism is a viewpoint that emphasizes the smooth functioning of society.
Macro approach
3. Conflict theory looks at the problems caused by groups who oppose each other.
Macro approach whole societies
4. Symbolic interactionism looks at the interactions based on shared symbols. Micro
approach small groups
5. Play chairs game. How does this exercise exemplifiy manifest and latent
functions? What is the intended function of musical chairs? What is the latent
function
6. Why do your parents think that you are going to school? Why do you go to
school?
Friday 2/1/2013
1. Look at pages 20 – 21 and answer the following questions
What are the manifest functions of college?
What are the latent functions of college?
From a conflict perspective, how is the McDonaldization of higher education
problematic?
How would the interactionist perspective view this new process?
2. Do masking tape demonstration
3. How has the computer and the Internet affected my life?
4. Rename ten items and write a paragraph using the words in the paragraph
5. What does the flag mean?
6. What is sacred and profane according to Durkheim
7. read pages 23 – 31 answer questions on page 24, 29, and 31