Download Broken Arrow Public Schools Sociology Objectives

Broken Arrow Public Schools
Sociology Objectives
Revised September 2010
1st six weeks
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Define sociology, perspective, and sociological
imagination.
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Compare and contrast sociology with the other social
sciences.
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Identify the contributions of early European sociologists
Comte, Marx, Weber, Spencer, and Durkheim.
4
Understand the concept of Social Darwinism.
5
Define symbol.
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Identify and Contrast the three main theoretical
perspectives used in Sociology today.
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Analyze research methods used in Sociology.
8
Define culture and analyze material and nonmaterial
components of culture.
9
Analyze the different types of norms including folkways,
mores, and laws.
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Examine the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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Analyze formal and informal sanctions.
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Analyze the difference between real and ideal culture.
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Examine subcultures and countercultures.
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Understand the term ethnocentrism and why sociologists
want to subscribe to cultural relativism instead.
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Identify cultural universals and cultural particulars.
16
Identify Robert Williams’ American Values.
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Define socialization.
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Analyze Harlow’s experiment with baby monkeys.
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Examine case studies of social isolation including Genie,
Anna, and Isabelle.
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Analyze socialization from the perspective of symbolic
interactionism.
21
Identify Cooley’s Looking Glass Theory.
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Analyze Mead’s 3 stages of role-taking.
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Identify Mead’s 2 parts of self, the I and the me.
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Examine the 5 agents of socialization.
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Analyze total institutions and desocialization and
resocialization.
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Define reference group.
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Define social structure.
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Analyze the difference between ascribed and achieved
status.
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Identify status set and master status.
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Understand the difference between roles and statuses.
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Understand the difference between role strain and role
conflict.
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Define society.
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Identify 5 types of societies.
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Analyze Industrial and Postindustrial societies.
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Define significant others.
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Define group.
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Understand the difference between primary and
secondary groups.
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Identify social aggregates.
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Understand factors that lead to primary groups and
primary relationships
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Identify secondary groups.
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Analyze In-groups and out-groups.
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Examine the 5 types of social interaction.
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Analyze how groupthink can negatively affect decision
making.
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Examine the nature of bureaucracies.
Broken Arrow Public Schools
Sociology Objectives
Revised September 2010
2nd six weeks
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Define deviance.
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Understand the difference between positive and negative
deviance.
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Analyze the functionalist perspective of deviance.
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Examine Strain Theory of deviance.
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Analyze Control Theory of deviance.
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Examine the differential association theory of deviance.
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Distinguish between primary and secondary deviance.
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Define stigma.
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Define victim discounting.
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Understand what types of crime are considered to be whitecollar crimes.
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Analyze how crime statistics are gathered.
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Define crime.
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Identify the components of the criminal justice system.
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Define social stratification.
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Understand the difference between wealth and income.
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Define prestige.
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Analyze social classes in America.
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Analyze poverty in America.
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Examine the different types of social mobility.
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Identify differences between a caste system and a class system.
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Define race and minority.
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Analyze the patterns of racial and ethnic relations.
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Define assimilation and genocide.
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Understand the difference between de jure and de facto
subjugation.
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Define discrimination.
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Examine hate crime.
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Analyze minority groups in the U.S.
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Sociology Objectives
Revised September 2010
3rd six weeks
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Examine gender inequality.
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Define biological determinism.
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Analyze the theoretical perspectives on gender.
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Analyze the difference between male and female brains.
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Define sexism.
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Analyze sex discrimination in the U.S.
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Examine ageism.
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Analyze America’s elderly population.
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Examine patterns of family structure.
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Examine marriage arrangements.
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Analyze family and marriage in the United States.
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Understand the danger of cults.
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Define sport and sport subculture. .
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Analyze sport and racism.
86
Analyze the world population and define demography, fertility,
and mortality.
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Analyze education in the U.S.
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Examine the difference between a charter and magnet school.
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Define meritocracy.
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Define hidden curriculum.
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Define self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Analyze the nature of corporations.
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Examine how religion is viewed in Sociology.
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Understand the danger of cults.
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Define sport and sport subculture.
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Analyze sport and racism.
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Analyze the world population and define demography, fertility, and
mortality.
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