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M/W 6:10 to 8:00 PM 236 Bentley Hall Culture ◦ ◦ Values ◦ Culture as a product of action, or as an element of further action Institution ◦ An accepted and persistent constellation of statuses, roles, values, and norms that respond to important social needs Institution ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ Social Structure ◦ ◦ Statuses – your position in the social structure Roles – the sum total of expectations about the behavior attached to a particular social status Socialization ◦ Nature vs. Nurture How ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ socialization works Deviance ◦ ◦ ◦ and Social Control Deviance and Social Control ◦ Why deviance is good for society Functionalist ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ Perspective Conflict ◦ ◦ Perspective Feminist ◦ ◦ perspective Interactionist ◦ ◦ perspective Interactionist perspective ◦ Highlights “what we take for granted: the expectations, rules, and norms that we learn and practice without even noticing” (Leon-Guerrero 2011) ◦ Social problems are created and defined by social interaction “personal” problems vs. “social problems” The Sociological Imagination Biological and Psychological influences “Objective reality” “Subjective reality” ◦ The Social Construction of Society The role of “meaning” The role of “language” The role of “social learning” How social “things” are socially constructed Who defines something as a social problem? ◦ ◦ What do they (try to) do about it? How does it “spread?” How does it impact those affected? Transformation process Legitimization process ◦ Conflict stage ◦ Outside the system, or change the system? ◦ “…all human knowledge is socially constructed through our language, which means that all social problems are socially constructed.” (Best 2008:16) Making arguments Issues and Conclusions Reasons and Evidence Stated and Unstated Assumptions Fallacies of logic What is a “value?” Values as goals to achieve Value hierarchy ◦ Overt, or hidden Value congruence and conflict Importance of in critical thinking and reading