PlaySpent

After completing the PlaySpent exercise, what are your reactions? Detail your decisions and why you chose to do what you did. For example, what job did you choose?  why? Did you choose health insurance? Why/Why not? What living arrangements did you make? Why?  What other circumstances affected your living expenses for the month? 

What is your reaction to this exercise? What struggles/issues do the American poor face that keep them from moving up in social class? 

http://playspent.org/

Death Penalty

Women on Death Row- executed since 1976 (SlideShow)


Women and Death Penalty

Taboo: Extreme Punishment

After viewing the episode of Taboo, what are your reactions? In a paragraph, respond to the following questions here by Monday 3/17 @ 8:00am

• Choose 1 deviant behavior you witnessed 
• Describe the behavior, it's value in that culture, and why it is taboo to us
• Describe the sanctions associated with each (are they positive? Negative? How so... How are the sanctions based on culture? In the US how would we sanction this behavior?)
• Overall reaction
• How did your ethnocentrism affect you?

Video Link: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/extreme-punishment/

Violate a Social Norm!

(1) As a group, determine a social norm that you all agree to break. Choose from one of the following 3 categories: (Dress/Attire; Behavior; or Language)

Dress/Attire

• Caution: do not wear anything illegal, dangerous, or extremely disruptive.
• Example: Try dressing in male clothes. Wear formal attire to a casual get together. Wear a winter coat in the summer. Wear sandals in the snow. Wear stripes with polka dots. Wear an unstylish or outdated outfit. Wear a bright colored wig.

Behavior

• Example: Picking your nose? Burping in public? 

Language

• Example: Try using proper language with your friend group, do not use contractions (“do not” instead of “don’t”). 

(2) One person from the group post here-- 

1. Type: Group #, class color, and names (first name, last initial)
2. Define the norm you will violate. Describe briefly how this norm acts as a mechanism of social control. Describe what you will do to violate the norm.
3. Write your group’s hypothesis:  Describe the range of possible reactions others will have to the violation of this norm. What do you predict the major reaction will be?