Attendance
Take 1st quiz collaboratively
(Ask for a volunteer who has not yet taken it to log in, and take it on their profile)
- Let them work for the grade on the quiz as a whole group.
Then for the remaining time, please cover some sociological content:
Functionalism - I like them to understand that all things serve a purpose from this perspective - poverty, stratification, etc. However, there are challenges to this theory, and at times it gives almost a "lazy" excuse not to try to change things, to improve them.
Latent = unplanned side effect
Manifest = planned
Function positive +/neutral 0 outcome and
Dysfunction negative-outcome
Examples?
evaluate choices they may make in their professions - for Crim Justive - giving a ticket, For health care giving a medication, such as a pain killer? - what is the +/0/- outcomes planned and unplanned - what did you do it for? what did you want to have happen? Are there any possibly problems or unintended good or bad consequences?
Conflict theory - Power and Resources - people using their power and resources to maintain or grow their power and resources.
Examples? How do police and health care providers do this?
Symbollic Interactionism, Culture and Meaning mutually generate the other. What does a badge, uniform, etc. mean?
Then Role Strain (1 roles pulling in multiple directions - a single parent with 3 kids with different games, recitals, etc.), and Role Conflict (2+ competing roles - parent and worker - boss says stay late, kids want you home, what about school now, what does this class take you from? Work, family, friends, fun, sleep :) etc.
How do you prioritize? What pressures contribute to the decision? Which are internal - possibly more psych related, and which are more social - external pressures?)
You are welcome to introduce other theories (dramaturgical, etc.) as time permits, but these three above are essential.
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