“Socialization” Please respond to the following:
- Explain how the various
agents work together to socialize today’s adolescents compared to the
socialization of your grandparents or parents. - Imagine how the next
generation might answer this same question.
“Social
Interaction in Everyday Life” Please respond to the following:
- A status is a recognized social position that an
individual occupies. People occupy many statuses at the same time. Each
status has a role associated with it. A role is the behavior and attitudes
expected of someone who occupies a particular status. Discuss your current
ascribed and achieved status set. - Identify your statuses that operate as a master status.
If you have no master status, state what will have to change for you to
hold a master status. - Describe the role expectations of your statuses.
“Sexuality and
the Media” Please respond to the following:
- From the first e-Activity article, discuss whether you
agree or disagree with the article’s premise that the media portrays women
as sexual objects. - Describe the boundaries you think that the media should
adhere to when it comes to issues of sexuality.
“Deviance”
Please respond to the following:
- From the second e-Activity, identify any items from the
list that you feel are not a violation of a social norm and propose items
that you would add to the list and state why. - There are a lot of things that should be on this list.
Here are a few of my top “violations”: - Explain who is responsible for establishing what is,
and is not, considered deviant behavior.
