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Sociology Is

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What is Sociology?

Topic Collage (screen grabs for stereotypes and snap judgements activities)

What is Sociology

The world over, people wear much or little clothing, have many or few children, venerate or shun the elderly, are peaceful or warlike, enjoy different kinds of art and music and hold different religious beliefs. We may be the same people biologically, but we certainly differ in our tastes, behaviors and beliefs. The capacity for such startling differences is human culture; the study of how people live is the discipline of sociology.

Sociology is the systematic study of how human societies shape the lives of people who live in them. People make lots of decisions in the course of living every day. But we make these decisions within the context of “society;” our family, school, nation and the larger world. The essential wisdom of sociology is; the social world guides our life choices just as the seasons influence our selection of activities and clothing.

SOCIOLOGY IS… “Understanding that prejudice and discrimination based on appearance is referred to as ‘lookism’

Example: Marylin Manson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEOZF9MNS0

SOCIOLOGY IS…"Understanding that stereotypes are simplified perceptions about an entire group that are usually based on false assumptions .”

Example: Crash Scene Analysis
While the beginning of the movie Crash focuses on the distorted ways people too often perceive and treat each other, the end of the movie gives us a glimpse, however limited, of the way God see us. While we are flawed, He does not focus on our flaws but desires to free us from them. Although we do things to separate ourselves from Him and others, He desires to love us, heal us, and fill our lives with friendship and connections. In a world that too often makes us feel like we are alone and untouchable, He lets us know that He is here, watching over us, working around us, and always loving us. --Elisabeth Leitch

SOCIOLOGY IS…

"Understanding that stereotypes are simplified perceptions about an entire group that are usually based on false assumptions .”

Example:

The song is by Kareem Salama, an Egyptian-American country singer. (If you can't see the embed, you can go directly to it here on YouTube. The technique of featuring people holding up signs originates (I think) in the "film clip" released with Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues; plenty of other bands have used it since. But none of those instances have moved me the way this one did. The short film was made by Lena Khan, who was 23 at the time when it was made. This won the grand prize in the One Nation, Many Voices short film contest a few years ago. As this USA Today story explains: Muslim Americans say they often feel like strangers in their own country, and the struggle to overcome stereotypes became more complicated after 9/11. So when given the chance to tell their stories, more than 100 young Muslim American filmmakers poured their creative energies into producing four- to five-minute films about Islam and its followers for an online competition... Frustrated with the myths and stereotypes surrounding Muslims in the media, Khan wanted to help viewers relate to Muslims in America. "The idea was, 'I really wish everyone knew this about Muslims,' " says Khan, a USC film school graduate. So she collected more than 2,000 comments from Muslim Americans, many of which she put into a music video set to Kareem Salama's song A Land Called Paradise. And here's another article about Khan, slightly more recent: Muslim Filmmaker Looks at Social Issues with Humor, Warmth. The contest was in 2007; this film is a few years old, but holy wow, it still speaks today. All of the winning films can be seen at LinkTV.org, and here's a link to a short news piece about / interview with winner Lena Khan. SOURCE LINK

SOCIOLOGY IS…‘Understanding how outside forces can impact individual circumstances’

Example: The Sociological Imagination What its Like
Each character is presented in a sympathetic light as a victim of circumstance and as being an object of derision. Each verse ends with the line God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes and Cause then you really might know what it's like to, with the action varying depending on what the character has to do (sing the blues, have to choose, and have to lose, respectively).

SOCIOLOGY IS… “Contemporary connections to primitive cultures”

Example: The Cannibal in the Mirror
Introduction: We flip through old National Geographic and smirk at the photographs of the natives. They are savages. We are modern, light years away from them. Or are we? Immersed in our culture, we see its new and improved surface but rarely reflect on the substance below that links us to all of human kind. The microwave and the open fire both serve the same end. The family listening to an elder declaim and the family watching a movie on the VCR both have the same need for stories that entertain and instruct. The following quotes from explorers, missionaries, and writers are meant to be windows on “primitive” cultures. Looking beneath the surface we’re struck by how much we have in common with people of every age and place – even barbarous savages!

Understanding Snap Jugements
"Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?'
... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Case Study #1 Mass Media and the Culture of Fear
How does the media perpetuate stereotypes? (2:22)

Case Study #2 What Would You Do?
Race and Reaction - Teen Vandalism (6:37)

Case Study #3 Marylin Manson
I wouldn't say a word, I would just listen (3:24)

I sucks being a post Columbine teenager (6:34)

Case Study #4 General Larry Platt

Looking Like a Fool with your pants on the ground (3:35)

Case Study #5 Susan Boyle

I want to be a professional singer like Elaine Paige (5:55)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvcpHvitjY

SOCIOLOGY IS… “Contemporary connections to primitive cultures”

SOCIOLOGY IS… “Understanding wealth, power, and prestige is represented in social patterns and inequality throughout the world”

Example:http://www.miniature-earth.com/If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this: The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific.

SOCIOLOGY IS… “Identifying and addressing issues of global importance” and SOCIOLOGY IS…“Understanding that our lives are affected not only by our individual circumstances, but our place in the social world”

Example: TED Talk is an inspiring talk by Jessica Jackley, founder of Kiva.org. Some of the top take aways: Micro-finance and Micro-lending are incredibly powerful tools to assist people in 3rd world countries. Pro-Founder does the same thing, but for entrepreneurs anywhere in the world. People often care so much that they fail to act because they are afraid they are going to make a mistake. The best way to help people is to truly stop and really listen to their story.