WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? HOW CAN THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION HELP US UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AND PEOPLE BETTER?
In three and half pages, typed, double-spaced, 12-font TIMES (preferrably) with at least 5 sociological sources from CLASS Materials (links, lectures, videos, etc.), please answer the following questions:
WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? HOW CAN THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION HELP US UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AND PEOPLE BETTER?
Whenever possible, please try to incorporate the following topics:
a). dialectics
b). intersectionality
c). sociological imagination (obviously)
d). the three main paradigms (structural functionalism, social conflict, symbolic Interactionism)
e). at least three major sociologists (e.g. Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Sanger, Mead, Goffman, DuBois, Spencer, Berger, etc.)
All of your writings and essays in this class will be graded according to the following:
1) COMPOSITION: grammar, syntax, spelling, organization
2) CONTENT: information & data
3) CREATIVITY: originality of approach and ideas
4) CRITICAL ANALYSIS: sociological imagination
5) CITATION: sources; references of each textbook, each film clip, online Canvas posts, class lectures/discussion, bibliography/works cited -page.
Reading
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/alamo-sociology/chapter/the-sociological-imagination-add-image/
https://www.sociologyatwork.org/sociological-imagination/
https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Sociology/Book%3A_Minority_Studies_(Dunn)/08%3A_The_Three_Sociological_Paradigms%2F%2FPerspectives/8.01%3A_The_Three_Sociological_Paradigms%2F%2FPerspectives
https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/user/kfrench/sociology/The%20Three%20Main%20Sociological%20Perspectives.pdf
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/what-is-sociology/
https://revisesociology.com/2016/01/03/research-methods-sociology/
https://www.thoughtco.com/ethical-considerations-definition-3026552
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-introductiontosociology/chapter/reading-ethical-concerns/
The Milgram Study:
https://behavioralscientist.org/how-would-people-behave-in-milgrams-experiment-today/
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-milgram-obedience-experiment-2795243
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinking-one-of-psychologys-most-infamous-experiments/384913/
https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm
The Stanford Experiment:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html
https://www.prisonexp.org/
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/06/20/new-stanford-prison-experiment-revelations-question-findings
The Tuskigee Study
https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center/about-the-usphs-syphilis-study
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/tuskegee-study-medical-distrust-research/487439/
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
The Tearoom Trade
https://sites.google.com/a/narrativebioethics.com/emhr/contact/the-tearoom-trade-study-1
https://www.drjkoch.org/Intro/Readings/Humphreys.htm (Links to an external site.)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00988595
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter3-culture/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-bmcc-sociology/chapter/what-is-culture/
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter5-socialization/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introtosociology/chapter/socialization/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/social-class/
https://revisesociology.com/2016/08/04/social-class-definition-introduction/
https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/8-3-social-class-in-the-united-states/
https://www.sparknotes.com/sociology/social-stratification-and-inequality/section6/
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/204497/determines-americans-perceive-social-class.aspx
https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/family-finance/articles/where-do-i-fall-in-the-american-economic-class-system
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter11-race-and-ethnicity/
https://www.asanet.org/topics/race-and-ethnicity
http://homepage.smc.edu/delpiccolo_guido/Soc34/Soc34readings/omiandwinant.pdf
https://www.thoughtco.com/sociology-of-social-inequality-3026287
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter11-race-and-ethnicity/
https://www.asanet.org/topics/race-and-ethnicity
http://homepage.smc.edu/delpiccolo_guido/Soc34/Soc34readings/omiandwinant.pdf
https://www.thoughtco.com/sociology-of-social-inequality-3026287
https://othersociologist.com/sociology-of-gender/
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter12-gender-sex-and-sexuality/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/gender/
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter14-marriage-and-family/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introtosociology/chapter/marriage-and-family/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/the-sociological-approach-to-religion/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/theoretical-perspectives-on-education/
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