Students are to complete the following for EACH credit:
Key terms (do all terms mentioned in the media or site)
Video Notes Sheet (take detailed 4-6 sentences worth of notes on the video) THES MUST BE HAND WRITTEN!!!
Tips for peer helping and how to help your peers.
Explanation of how this will assist you in helping others.
Reflection: What you thought about the topic
Take final test and staple to front of the notes for exam #10.
Unit 1: Intro to Social Responsibility
Terms
Find the term online, in the dictionary or in class text and define them. Give examples if necessary for understanding.
Social Responsibility
Ethics
Social Justice
Social Injustices
Inter-Social Treatment
Unequal Government Regulation
Voting Laws (i.e. redistricting and voter ID)
Policing Laws (i.e. traffic, search and seizure, and drug scheduling)
Environmental Laws (i.e. clean water and air, industrial waste disposal)
Health Care Laws (i.e. insurance mandates and coverage eligibility) (
Education Laws (i.e. public school segregation and integration)
Labor Laws (i.e. worker’s rights, occupational health and safety)
Important Questions:
What is social justice?
Why is social justice important in society?
What are social theories?
Explain status and society?
Why are ethics important?
Unit 2: You and Society
Terms to Know
Find the term online, in the dictionary or in class text and define them. Give examples if necessary for understanding.
Social stratification
social mobility
class system
caste system
meritocracy
relative poverty
absolute poverty
intragenerational social mobility
Aggregate
Alienation
American Dream
Unit 3: Leaders in Social Responsibility Theory
Terms to Know
Find the term online, in the dictionary or in class text and define them. Give examples if necessary for understanding.
Durkheim, Emile
Max Weber
Michel Foucault
Karl Marx
Pierre Bourdieu
Important Questions:
What did Karl Marx do?
Explain conflict theory?
What is modernity?
Who is Durkheim and what did he do?
How does society address suicide by Durkheim?
Unit 4: Communication and Society
Terms to Know
Find the term online, in the dictionary or in class text and define them. Give examples if necessary for understanding.
C. Wright Mills
Anthony Gidens
Erving Goffman
W.E.B. Du Bois
Auguste Comte
Important Questions:
What did Auguste Comte do?
How did Comte define sociology?
Why is Comte the "father of sociology"?
What is Goffman and the presentation of self?
C Wright Mills believed in what two things to create social change?
Unit 5: Social Cultural Communication Theory
Terms to Know
Find the term online, in the dictionary or in class text and define them. Give examples if necessary for understanding.
Georg Simmel
Sylvia Walby
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Robert Merton
Thomas Hobbes
Important Questions:
Explain Hobbs political theory...
Merton addressed functional postulates by...
Who is Arlie Russell Hochschild?
Sylvia Walby stated what in her theory?
What is the theory by Georg Simmel?
Unit Final Exam
In a short essay (3-5 paragraphs) choose a topic from the units above. Explain the concept (summarize the unit). Then explain how it impacted you (process how it applies to you). Conclude how it impacts society and why it was important to you. Turn in with the final unit.