Previous Weeks

Week 17: January 6th to 10th

Friday, January 10th

Learning Target(s): 1. Differentiate between Individual, Institutional, and Ideological Racism?

• Discuss Activity from Yesterday
• A trip to the Grocery Store (How does the clip illustrate what Beverly Tatum describes)
• Defining the three levels of racism and discrimination Activity

Thursday, January 9th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the concept of implicit bias. 2. Identify the implicit bias that you may have.

• Expert and Superficial Knowledge Discussion
• Lecture: What is Implicit Bias?
  • Video: What is Implicit Bias?
• Activity: Project Implicit (what implicit bias do you hold?)
  • If you want to know more about Implicit Bias and the research surrounding it you can check out The Mind of the Village by Hidden Brain

Wednesday, January 8th (Reflect)

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain and evaluate Beverly Tatum's definition of Racism.

• Discussion of Beverley Tatum's Defining Racism- Can We Talk?

Tuesday, January 7th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the various definition of racism.

• Lecture on Racism and Discrimination
• Close Reading: Defining Racism- Can we Talk?

Homework: Finish the Close Reading "Racism: Can We Talk?" and be prepared for a discussion tomorrow

Monday, January 6th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the concept of optional ethnicity.

• Discuss Optional Ethnicities Reading
  • Optional Ethnicities Key Take-Aways
• Clip from the Color of Fear (watch from 2:45 min to 43:30 min)
  • If you are interested in watching a more recent conversation on race by college students you can view If These Halls Could Talk [2010]

Week 16: January 2nd to 3rd

Friday, January 3rd

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the concept of optional ethnicity.

• Clips from Race the Power of an Illusion (00:46-!4:19 & 24:41-37:51)

Homework: Close Read- Optional Ethnicities- For Whites Only? (through line 100)

Thursday, January 2nd

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the difference between race and ethnicity.

• Guess Who Game
• Lecture: Race and Ethnicity

Week 15: December 16th to 20th

Friday, December 20th

Learning Target(s): Identify the challenges of living in poverty.

• Finish Paycheck to Paycheck (Finish the documentary - the last 30 minutes)
• Discuss Paycheck to Paycheck

Thursday, December 19th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the characteristics of poverty in the United States.

• Start documentary Paycheck to Paycheck (watch the first 50 minutes of the documentary)

Wednesday, December 18th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the difference between absolute mobility vs relative mobility.

• Mobility Activity
• Lecture: Poverty in the United States

Tuesday, December 17th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the concept of social mobility. 2. Explain what factors contribute to social mobility.

• Beliefs about Social Mobility in the United States
• Notes on Social Mobility in the United States

Monday, December 16th

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the questions sociologist ask about social inequality.

• Finish the game of sociopoly/Discuss the Game
• Notes: Introduction to Social Stratification

Week 13: December 9th to 13th

Friday, December 13th

Learning Target(s): 1. Do well on the game sociopoly.

• Discuss Unit 4 Exam (Retakes available until Wednesday, January 10th)
• Play the game of sociopoly

Thursday, December 12th

Learning Target(s): 1. Do well on the Unit 4 Deviance Exam.

• Unit 4 Deviance Exam

Wednesday, December 11th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the ways in which US prisons are used as sanctions for deviance.

• Finish Lecture: Conflict Theory on Deviance
• Discuss Guest Speaker
• Review for Exam

Tuesday, December 10th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the ways in which US prisons are used as sanctions for deviance.

• Guest Speaker: Rush City Correctional Facility Vicki Jansen

Monday, December 9th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply social theories of deviance to the inmate visit. 2. Apply the conflict theory of Deviance to MVHS.

• Discuss Guest Speakers from Friday
• Lecture: Conflict Theory of Deviance
• Scale/Study Guide for Exam on Thursday (in Google Classroom)

Week 13: December 2nd to 6th

Friday, December 6th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply social theories of deviance to the inmate visit.

• Inmate Visit from the Women's Shakopee Prison

Thursday, December 5th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how the symbolic interactionist perspective understands deviance.

• Review Labeling Theory
• Lecture: Symbolic Interactionist Perspective and Deviance
• How would different social theories prevent deviance at MVHS?

Wednesday, December 4th (Reflect)

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply concepts of Deviance to the Reading Saints and Roughnecks.

• Discussion of Saints and Roughnecks
• 4 Factors of Labeling the Saints and the Roughnecks

Tuesday, December 3rd

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply concepts of Deviance to the Reading Saints and Roughnecks.

• Applying Labeling Theory
• Reading: Saints and Roughnecks

Homework: Finish Close Reading Saints and Roughnecks

Monday, December 2nd

Learning Target(s): 1. Create examples of Modes of Adaptation. 2. Explain the key components of labeling theory. 3. Apply labeling theory to forms of deviance.

• CLEP Exam Instructions (resources link)
• Modes of Adaptation Examples
• "Quiz" on modes of Adaptation
• Lecture: Howard Becker's Labeling Theory

Week 12 November 18th to 22nd

Friday, November 22nd

Learning Target(s): 1. Evaluate the role of punishment in reinforcing conformity. 2. Explain strain theory. 3. Create examples of modes of adaptation.

• Finish Student Handbook Analysis
• Lecture: Functionalist Perspective on Deviance

Due: Gender Interview or Photo Essay by 11:59PM

Thursday, November 21st

Learning Target(s): 1. Evaluate the role of punishment in reinforcing conformity.

• Lecture: Punishment and Moral Behavior
• Student Handbook Analysis

Wednesday, November 20th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the role of punishment (sanctions) in defining deviance.

• Should it be a Crime? Activity

Tuesday, November 19th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain what deviance means in sociology. 2. Explain how affirmations are used to create or reinforce societal concepts of deviance.

• Lecture: Introduction to Deviance

Monday, November 18th

Learning Targets: 1. Do well on the Unit 3 Basic Assessment.

• Unit 3 Basic Assessment
• Work-time for Unit 3 Performance Assessment: Gender Interview or Photo Essay

Week 11 November 11th to 15th

Friday, November 15th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the "challenges" of using a binary system of sexual orientation. 2. Explain the ways in which heteronormativity is reinforced in socialization of children.

• Discuss Reading: Keyword Sexualities
• What ways do you remember heterosexuality being reinforced as you were socialized as a child? In other words, how was your childrearing reinforcing heteronormativity?
• Discussion of Heteronormativity in Pre-school
• Lecture: Monosexism

Homework: Study for Basic Exam on Monday

Thursday, November 14th

• Work on Gender Performance Assessment (photo essay or interview)

Wednesday, November 13th (Reflect)

Learning Targets: 1. Apply the concept of sexual scripts to hookup culture on college campuses.

• Podcast: Just Sex- Hookup Culture on Campus (Transcript)

Homework: Review for Basic Exam on Friday

Tuesday, November 12th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the history of research on sex and sexuality in Sociology. 2. Explain how sexuality is a social construct. 3. Apply the concept of sexual scripts to hookup culture on college campuses.

• Study Guide/Scale for Unit 3 Exam
• Lecture: Sex and Society
  • Sexual Orientation Scenarios and Discussion
• Reading: Keyword Sexualities

Monday, November 11th

Learning Target(s): 1. Define patriarchy. 2. Differentiate between misogyny and patriarchy.

• Lecture: Explaining Patriarchy
• Discussion of Himpathy
  • Scene on the Radio: Himpathy Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved ones’ responses, or lack thereof, that she went back to them years later to record conversations about it all. In this episode: Janey’s story, and philosopher Kate Manne, who coined the term “himpathy” in her 2017 book, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. With co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee.
  • Jonathan Katz Violence Against Women- It's a Men's Issue Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called "women's issues." But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men's issues -- and shows how these violent behaviors are tied to definitions of manhood. A clarion call for us all -- women and men -- to call out unacceptable behavior and be leaders of change.
• Article: Trump’s Locker Room Talk: Proving Masculinity Through Objectification

Week 10 November 4th to 8th

Friday, November 8th

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the effects of masculinity and the gender socialization of males.

• The 4 Rules of Masculinity Discussion
• What effect does an emphasis on masculinity have upon the gender socialization of males.
  • Viewing The Mask You Live In [2015] (12:33-18:14 & 36:05-51:05)
  • The Secret Lives of Boys Discussion with Malina Saval: Malina Saval wasn't satisfied with the easy archetypes — nerd, jock, troublemaker — people turn to when talking about teenage boys. She interviewed about 30 boys to find out who they are and what they think about themselves for her book, The Secret Lives Of Boys
  • Scene on the Radio: Warriors: Do nations fight wars because men are naturally violent? Or do societies condition men to embrace violence so they’ll fight the nation’s wars?
  • Scene on the Radio: The Juggernaut Writer Ben James and his wife Oona are raising their sons in a progressive and “queer-friendly” New England town. They actively encourage the boys to be themselves, never mind those traditional gender norms around “masculinity” and “femininity.” All was well. Until the elder son, Huck, went to sixth grade.
• Discussion
• If Time- Introduce Gender Assessment

Thursday, November 7th

Learning Target(s): 1. Critique the Nature and Nurture argument for Gender. 2. Critique the impact of children's movies upon the socialization of gender.

• Apply this clip to the podcast from Monday
• Clip from Mickey Mouse Monopoly (11:37-22:40)/Discussion
  • Discuss: How much of a role does entertainment shape children's ideas of male and female?
  • Sparkle Unicorns And Fart Ninjas: What Parents Can Do About Gendered Toys

Wednesday, November 6th

Learning Target(s): 1. Distinguish the concepts of sex and gender and explain how gender is socially constructed. 2. Explain how gender differences vary by setting and time.

• Lecture: Introduction to Gender
• Hidden Brain: The Edge of Gender/Discussion (start at 4:30 to 31:00)

Tuesday, November 5th

Learning Target(s): 1. Critique Judith Lorber's argument in Night to His Day.

• Conver-stations: Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender

Monday, November 4th

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the various ways in which gender is socially constructed. 2. Identify the various ways in which gender is socialized.

• What are the socialized gender role/expectations in American society?

Week 9 October 28th to 31st

Thursday, October 31st

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the role expectations of gender in the United States.

• Role Expectations of Leaders
• Close Reading: Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender (in google classroom)

Homework: Finish Close Reading: Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender

Wednesday, October 30th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the concepts of role and status to your life.

• Finish Who Am I? Role and Status Activity
• Role Expectations Examples: Milgram and Zimbardo

Tuesday, October 29th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the concept of status to roles students play in their lives.

• James Baldwin Quote analysis
• Which occupations have the highest status?
• Lecture: Status
  • Article: Is Being a Parent an Ascribed or Achieved Status?
• Question: How would you describe yourself?
• Activity: Start Who am I? (in Google Classroom)

Monday, October 28th

Learning Goals: 1. Apply George Herbert Mead's theory of socialization to examples of Children.

• Applying Mead's Theories to Clips of Children
  • Clip #1, Clip #2, Clip #3, Clip #4, Clip #5, Clip #6, Clip #7
• Lecture: Roles

Week 8 October 21st to 25th

Friday, October 25th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply George Herbert Mead's Theories of Socialization to Children.

• Who are you? Describe Yourself? How do you know you are this person you describe? or When someone says "I can't believe what I did last night, what will others think of me" what would sociologist say the person is expressing?
  • Reading: "I Can't Believe What I Did Last Night"
• Lecture: Theories of Socialization

Thursday, October 24th

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the debates between nature and nurture in theories of socialization.

• Discuss Unit 2 Exam and Retakes
• Discussion: How would you act if you were on a deserted island by yourself? How would your behavior change and to what extent?
  • Case of Christopher Knight: Why The North Pond Hermit Hid From People for 27 Years
• Clip from Secrets of the Wild Child [1994] (if absent watch the clips at this link- watch the first 30 minutes)
• Discussion: Did Genie have self? How much did social interaction shape he behavior? Would she have been different had she had social interaction at a young age?

Wednesday, October 23rd (Reflect)

Learning Target(s): 1. Do well on the Unit 2 Exam.

• Unit 2 Exam

Tuesday, October 22nd

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how class is reproduced through child-rearing practices in Working Class and Middle Class families.

• Social Class and College Success
  • Optional Article: The Subtle Ways Colleges Reinforce Class and Mobility (not a scientific article itself but it does cover recent research on 1st and 2nd generation college student experiences)
• Review (Unit 2 Study Guide)

Homework: Study for the Unit 2 Exam

Monday, October 21st

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how class is reproduced through parenting.

• Socrative Seminar on Concerted Cultivation and Natural Growth

Week 7 October 14th 16th

Wednesday October 16th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how class is reproduced through cultural practices.

• Close Reading: Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth

Homework: Finish Close Reading- Prepare for Tomorrow's Discussion

Tuesday, October 15th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how class is reproduced through cultural practices.

• Clips from People Like Us (00:33:00-00:48:40 & 1:03:30-1:11:30, 1:21:01-1:33:27)
  • Podcast: Filthy Rich What's It Like To Be Rich? Ask The People Who Manage Billionaires' Money
  • Born Rich [2003] Documentary on very wealthy young people that was mentioned in class

Monday, October 14th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the class structure in the United States. 2. Identify the cultural characteristics of the class structure in the United States.

• What social class are you? Where do you fit in?
• Lecture: The Class Structure in the United States
• Clip from People Like Us (Start to 8:20)
  • The Rise and Fall of White Bread (Article)
• Clips from People Like Us (13:34 to 26:17)

Week 6 October 7th to 10th

Thursday, October 10th

Learning Target(s): 1. Differentiate between subcultures and countercultures. 2. Explain how social class is defined by culture.

• What are the subcultures and countercultures of MVHS?
• Lecture: Culture and Tastes
  • Some ways you can measure your social class Class Matters (Does not work in the chrome web browser), What social class do you belong?, Good Taste: What your habits reveal about social class (An Australian site, so not as accurate but change the phrases from Australian to American and you can still get a good measure)
• Hidden Rules Among Social Classes

Wednesday, October 9th

Learning Target(s): 1. Differentiate between subcultures and countercultures.

• Reading: The Cultural Values of the Nacirema (in Google Classroom)
• Lecture: Culture and Groups
• What are the subcultures and countercultures of MVHS?

Tuesday, October 8th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the two aspects of culture to the reading Code of the Streets.

• Jigsaw Discussion of Code of the Streets
• Discussion Questions (In classroom)
• Clip of Elijah Anderson and the Code of the Streets
  • If you want to explore the issue of violence in many urban cities as well as ways people are trying to stop the violence, you should watch the documentary The Interrupters.

Monday, October 7th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain Pierre Bourdieu's concept of Habitus.

• Notes on Habitus (if absent Watch this video and Take Notes)
  • Podcast of Sociologist Brooke Harrington's Research on the Super Wealthy
• Close Jigsaw Reading: Code of the Streets (In google classroom- if absent email me before 7pm to find out which section to read)

Week 5 September 30th to October 4th

Friday, October 4th

Learning Target(s): 1. Win the game of 5 tricks.

• Review Activity from Thursday (Finding the cultural values of MVHS)
• Play the game of 5 Tricks

Thursday, October 3rd

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the cultural values of Americans and Mounds View High School.

• Discussion: What are the cultural values of Americans? What symbols, actions, practices, etc reinforce these values?
• Activity: Finding the cultural values of MVHS

Wednesday, October 2nd (Reflect)

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the cultural values of Americans and Mounds View High School.

• Lecture: Introduction to Culture

Tuesday, October 1st

Learning Target(s): 1. Analyze areas for improvement on the Unit 2 Exam. 2. Explain how culture is both a "system" and a "practice."

• Return and discuss Unit 1 Exam
• Distance Activity
• Minnesota Body Language (How to Talk Minnesota Clip 9:35min-11:46min)
• Discussion of Taarof (you can listen to a short story of how cultural misunderstandings leads to confusion in this podcast on taarof)(another example is this youtube video that explains how to Taarof)(Taarof makes Iranian Nuclear Talks Challenging)(A comedic take on Taarof)
  • How is culture seen both as a system and a practice with Taarof

Monday, September 30th

Learning Target(s): 1. Do well on the Unit 1 Exam.

• Unit 1 Exam

Week 4 September 23rd to 27th

Friday, September 27th

Learning Target(s): 1. Identify their current level of understanding on course material. 2. Identify the areas that need to be studied for the Unit 1 Exam.

• T/F Practice Test (in google classroom)
• Reading: I Do: Examining Expensive Weddings through Three Sociological Theories
• Taboo Review Game

Homework: Study for the Unit 1 Exam

Thursday, September 26th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the symbolic interactionist perspective to shopping in department stores. 2. Apply the symbolic interactionist perspective to the US War on Drugs.

• Discussion: What is the economic distribution of Wealth in the U.S? (Video watched in class)
• What would be the ideal distribution of wealth vs reality?
• Lecture: Introduction to Social Theory- Conflict Perspective
  • If you wish to explore the conflict perspective further take a look at G. William Domhaff's "Who Rules America?"
• Symbols in the US War on Drugs
• Discuss Learning Goals for Unit 1

Homework: Start Studying for the Unit 1 Exam (use the learning goals to help with studying)

Wednesday, September 25th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the conflict perspective. 2. Apply the conflict perspective to the rates of inequality o wealth in the United States.

• Discuss Reading: Shopping as Symbolic Interactionism
• What kind of symbols and interactions do we see with the US war on drugs and how does that shape reality?
• Lecture: The Social Construction of Reality

Tuesday, September 24th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective. 2. Apply the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective to deer hunting.

• Lecture: Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
• What is something you enjoy that is filled with symbols and interactions outsiders may not understand. What is the reality it constructs for you versus what others see?
• Reading: Shopping as Symbolic Interactionism- Race, Class, and Gender in the Toy Store (2006) (if absent close read the section entitled "The Ropes"
  • Accompanying Presentation

Homework: Finish Close Reading the Section entitled "The Ropes"

Monday, September 23rd

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the functionalist perspective to the social phenomenon of labeling some poor individuals as "undeserving".

• Close Jigsaw Reading: Positive Functions of the Undeserving Poor
• Discussion of the Reading
• What are the symbols of hunters?

Week 3: September 15th to 20th

Friday, September 20th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the structural functionalist perspective on society. 2. Apply the structural functionalist perspective to MVHS.

• Classical Social Theories Quiz
• Why do societies have marriage? Why do people get married?
  • I Do: Examining Expensive Weddings through Three Sociological Theories
• Lecture: Structural Functionalist Perspective

Homework: Jigsaw Read Your Section of Positive Functions of the Undeserving Poor

Thursday, September 19th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply Max Weber's Social theory to MHVS.

• Max Weber and MVHS Activity
• Lecture: The Social Theory of W.E.B. DuBois

Homework: Study for the Classical Social Theory Quiz on Friday (Durkheim, Weber, Marx, DuBois)

Wednesday, September 19th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply Max Weber's social theory to workplaces.

• Finish Lecture: Social Theory of Karl Marx and Max Weber
• Apply Max Weber's Social Theory to MVHS
  • Discussion of modern Jobs and Rationalization (Hidden Brain B.S. Jobs)

Tuesday, September 18th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply Durkheim's Social Theory to MVHS. 2. Explain the Social Theory of Karl Marx and Max Weber.

• Activity: Applying Durkheim to MVHS
• Lecture: Social Theory of Karl Marx and Max Weber

Monday, September 17th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the role of social theory in sociology. 2. Identify the norms of MVHS.

• Normlessness in everyday life
• Lecture: The Social Theory of Emile Durkheim

Week 2: September 9th to 13th

Friday, September 13th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the sociological imagination to US incarceration rates.

• Socratic Seminar on the Sociological Imagination and US Incarceration Rates (if absent complete the alternative assessment in Google Classroom by Friday, September 20th)

Thursday, September 12th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the sociological imagination to US incarceration rates.

- Documentary: The House I Live In (2012) (if absent finish documentary)

- Example of “How it could be different” How Portugal Tackled Its Dr

• If you would like to know more about what steps are being, taken since the document, in regards to drug laws you can check out the Frontline Documentary

- Discuss Rubric for Discussions

Homework: Prepare for Friday's Discussion

Wednesday, September 11th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the sociological imagination to US incarceration rates.

- Documentary: The House I Live In (2012) (if absent watch from 37 min to 1:25min)

Tuesday, September 10th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the sociological imagination to the high US prison rates.

• Start The House I Live In [2012] (If absent watch from the beginning to about 37min- in Google Classroom)

Monday, September 9th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain why social context matters.

• Finish Applying the Sociological Imagination to the Gender Wage Gap Activity
• The Social Context of a Nursery
• Lecture: Social Context

Week 1: September 4th to 6th

Friday, September 7th

Learning Target(s): 1. Apply the sociological imagination to the gender wage gap.

• Mate Preference Activity
• Finish Introduction to Sociology
• Applying the Sociological Imagination to the Gender Wage Gap

Thursday, September 6th

Learning Target(s): 1. Explain what sociologist study.

• Questions for 1st Day
• Lecture: Introduction to Sociology

Wednesday, September 5th

• Introductions
• Syllabus/Grading 2019-20/Parent/Guardian Grading Letter
• What's in a Name Activity
  • Article on the impact of names and life outcomes
• Hi-Low Game