Sociology Final Exam Project

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Sociology Final Exam Project
Decade Culture
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Decade Culture Final Project

• Create any combination of the Following
• Power Point presentation
• Video
• Newspaper
• Brochure
• DUE DATE JANUARY 24, 2008

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Your Project can include

• Narrative (written)
• Video
• This can include interviews or anything creative
  that you want to do
• Slide Show
• Brochure style (as in time travel or the like)
• Newspaper style
• Magazine style

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Project Musts

• Within your project you need to incorporate all
  of the following in research on your decade.
• Sociological Perspective
• Social Marginality
• Social crisis
• Micro and macro social elements

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Must include..

• Globalization
• The global village
• the general in the particular
• strange in the familiar
• Sociological Imagination (Mills)
• Political and economic influences and changes of
  your decade as relating to sociology

• Roles
• Class conflict (Marx)
• African Americans (Dubois)
• Group Forces (solidarity)
• (Durkheim)
• Structural Functionalism
• Social Structure
• Social Function
• Social Conflict
• Structure based on inequality (race, age, gender,
  class)

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More.

• Symbolic interaction
• Culture
• Material culture
• Culture shock
• Ethnocentrism
• Cultural relativism
• Symbols
• Language
• Values
• Core american values relative to your decade

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Still More

• Culture.
• Norms
• Mores
• Folkways
• Social control
• Diversity
• Subcultures
• Countercultures
• Cultural lag (examples)

• Deviance
• Crime
• Hate crime
• Crimes of social crisis
• Foundations of deviance (Durkheim)

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Racism and Ethnicity

• Significance of Race
• White America
• Stereotype
• Predjudice
• Superiority
• Discrimination
• Assimilation
• Segregation
• pluralism