Compare murder with forms of assault. Explain the differences in murder demographics. Differentiate homicide patterns by socioeconomic class. Characterize different forms of homicide.

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Discussion Essay

4.1 Compare murder with forms of assault.

4.2 Explain the differences in murder demographics.

4.3 Differentiate homicide patterns by socioeconomic class.

4.4 Characterize different forms of homicide.

4.5 Differentiate between mass and serial murders.

4.6 Describe the social profile of serial killers.

4.7 Identify social influences on homicide based on global statistics.

4.8 Evaluate factors for contribution to school violence.

4.9 Identify common characteristics of stalkers.

4.10 Summarize the motivations of hate killers.

4.11 Describe the social factors associated with genocide.

4.12 Analyze the motivations associated with terrorism.

4.13 Evaluate positivist theories on the causes of homicide.

4.14 Outline reasons why the death penalty is not a deterrent to murder.

Outline the symbolic interactions that occur when a person is labeled deviant. Describe phenomenological approaches to deviance. Explain how narratives impact our understanding of deviance.

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Deviance

3.1 Outline the symbolic interactions that occur when a person is labeled deviant.

3.2 Describe phenomenological approaches to deviance.

3.3 Explain how narratives impact our understanding of deviance.

3.4 Relate conflict theories to crime.

 

Explain a deviant activity according to different versions of anomie-strain theory. Describe the sociological applications of social learning theory.

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Sociological applications

1 Explain a deviant activity according to different versions of anomie-strain theory.

2 Describe the sociological applications of social learning theory.

3 Compare ways that different versions of control theory explain conformity.

 

Conduct a survey by asking a sample of your fellow students “What is deviant behavior?” and then “Why do you think it is deviant?” How do their responses fit either of the two perspectives of deviance?

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Assignment

  1. Are liberals more likely than conservatives to hold the positivist or constructionist view of deviance? Why? Which view makes more sense to you and why?
  2. Conduct a survey by asking a sample of your fellow students “What is deviant behavior?” and then “Why do you think it is deviant?” How do their responses fit either of the two perspectives of deviance?
  3. Do you consider hacktivist groups like Anonymous to be deviant? Defend your position.
  4. In your experience, who or what decides what is or isn’t deviant most often?
  5. What are other possible examples of “positive deviance” not mentioned in the chapter? Defend your response.

 

Identify your personal definitions of deviant behavior. Compare sociological perspectives on deviance. Describe the assumptions of the constructionist perspective on deviance.

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Discussion Essay

1.1 Identify your personal definitions of deviant behavior.

1.2 Compare sociological perspectives on deviance.

1.3 Characterize the positivist perspective on deviance using their three major assumptions.

1.4 Describe the assumptions of the constructionist perspective on deviance.

1.5 Relate the main sociological perspectives to public consensus on deviance.

1.6 Differentiate between deviance and crime.

 

Using Hymer’s strategies to embody capitalism, discuss what is happening in the system of objects, the narrator/author, accumulations, and structures of feeling in Shelton’s and Stewart’s portrayals of the contemporary.

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Capitalism

Essay Question: Using Hymer’s strategies to embody capitalism (since neither Shelton or Stewart give the exact coordinates), discuss what is happening in the system of objects, the narrator/author, accumulations, and structures of feeling in Shelton’s and Stewart’s portrayals of the contemporary.

Read:

“Dark waters, Dark waters” by Allen Shelton

“ structures of feeling” by Raymond Willams

“ Robinson Crusoe and the secret of primitive accumulation” by Stephen Hymer

“Ordinary Affects” by Kathleen Stewart

  • https://monthlyreview.org/2011/09/01/robinson-crusoe-and-the-secret-of-primitive-accumulation/

How has globalization and technology changed play and leisure activities in American society? How has it changed social relationships, cultural ideas and values? Provide at least one reference to the reading.

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SSC 327 DB 7

We hear often that children today do not play the same way as children did years ago. This has changed American family dynamics and the way Americans practice leisure activities. How has globalization and technology changed play and leisure activities in American society? How has it changed social relationships, cultural ideas and values? Provide at least one reference to the reading.

Discuss its contribution/relationship to race and gender stratification–including the name(s) of specific racial and ethnic, sex and gender group(s) the policy targets (directly or indirectly)–and discuss its relevance to some current event or policy in action today that centers race/ethnicity and sex/gender.

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Race and gender stratification

Choose one of the policies from the Virginia Codes, Art Munin Policies list, or either one of the 13th, 14th, or 15th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
You may choose one not on the list but it should exist between the 15th and 19th Centuries, and you must provide a link to the policy.

Discuss its contribution/relationship to race and gender stratification–including the name(s) of specific racial and ethnic, sex and gender group(s) the policy targets (directly or indirectly)–and discuss its relevance to some current event or policy in action today that centers race/ethnicity and sex/gender.

Feel free to link to the source of the current issue/policy/law.
Respond to one other person in the Forum.

Compare and contrast phenomenology and poststructuralism as to the properties and dynamics of knowledge and langue.

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Properties and dynamics of knowledge and langue

Compare and contrast phenomenology and poststructuralism as to the properties and dynamics of knowledge and langue.

Discuss the findings, wrap up the paper, recognize gaps and limitations of your work, and make suggestions for new studies.

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Distribution of power and wealth

It is now time to put all of the information you have been diligently working on throughout this course together in one cohesive paper. The topic you chose needs to be explained through your theorist. (Example: If you chose Karl Marx as the theorist and the struggles of the lower class as the topic, you could explain how conflict theory suggests that the uneven distribution of power and wealth continues to create inequalities.)

You have a social issue, a theorist with a model, and have gathered studies to analyze. Moving forward, construct a final paper that includes :

Title page: Title, name, course name and number, instructor name, date

Abstract page: no more than 250 words, can include key words

Introduction: Social issue, theorist, the reason you believe the topic is important, the gaps/ limitations you found within the scholarship, thesis.

Body/ Literature review: the research (4 articles and 1 text book), , compare and contrast articles,

Discussion:: Discuss the findings, wrap up the paper, recognize gaps and limitations of your work, and make suggestions for new studies.