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.


sociological sources

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/ 

Unauthorized sources are not accepted 


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