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Sociology in ACTION

1) To understand how society WORKS, 2) In order to make society BETTER

NTHS "Freaks" and "Geeks"

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Click here to watch the entire episode. Please fill out the study guide below.
Download Freaks_and_Geeks_worksheet.pdf
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Sociological Mindfulness

Read and annotate for HW. Please fill out the worksheet (below) which can be made into a Google doc by clicking here.

Download Schwalbe_Sociological_Mindfulness.pdf

Download Schwalbe_Sociological_Mindfulness_-_Questions.pdf

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GATTACA and Deviance

Download Gattaca_Deviance_C19__1_.pdf

If you missed the film, feel free to watch it linked here.

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Key Terms and Concepts



Keeping Up Appearances: the Culture of Conformity


Download Why_are_people_unequal.pdf
Download James_Nares_Street.pdf


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"Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"

Due next class (on paper).

Download 1996_001.pdf

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Hostile Architecture or Smart Design?

For your assigned slide, please answer the following questions:
  1. What is the explicit/stated purpose of the featured piece(s)?
  2. What specific characteristics or features make this an example of hostile architecture?
  3. Who or what does this apply to or target? How do you know?
Download Hostile_Architecture.pdf
For more examples, here is an article from the New York Times about this development in New York City.

One man who beat hostile architecture:

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How to do NOTHING

This assignment is due next Friday typed, printed, and stapled. See us sooner rather than later if you are experiencing challenges.

Download Norm-Breaking__How_to_do_nothing.pdf

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Norms: Folkways, Mores, Taboos, and Laws

Please read and annotate.

Then make sure you also write down your own example of each type of norm at the end of the article.

Download norms_-_folkways_mores_taboos_and_laws.pdf

Click here or the image below to contribute:

Here is a past version of Mrs. T's annotations. Your own annotations may look quite different, but that's okay!

Download annotated_norm_article.pdf

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If Only One Hundred People Lived on the Earth

Which statistic surprised you MOST? Why?

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Sociology in Action (p. 7)

"Sociology is the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see" — Sam Richards

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A senior social studies elective, co-taught by Spiro Bolos & Anne Twadell at New Trier High School
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