Topic outline

  • General

    • Key:  Objectives, Something due, Learning task, Project work, Reflection, Anything else

  • Unit 2 - The Individual in Society

    Chapter 4 - Socializing the Individual
    Chapter 5 - The Adolescent in Society
    Chapter 6 - The Adult in Society
    Chapter 7 - Social Control

    • Unit 3 - Social Ineqaulity

      Chapter 8 - Social Stratification
      Chapter 9 - Race and Ethnic Relations
      Chapter 10 - Gender, Age, and Health
      • This topic

        Unit 4 - Social Institutions

        Chapter 11 - The Family
        Chapter 12 - The Economy and Politics
        Chapter 13 - Education and Religion
        Chapter 14 - Sport and the Mass Media


        • Week of November 11th

          Mon/Tues - Ch11 The Family: Systems and Functions, Families in the U.S., Recent trends in Marriage and Family

          Tues - Family Case Study

          Wed - Case Study Presentations

          Thurs - Ch13 Education and religion are important institutions in American society, and beliefs about them vary widely

          Fri - Ch14 Sport and the mass media exert significant influence on society and have become social institutions.
        • Family Case Study Page

          Choose a famous family (real or TV/Movies)

          Create a two slide presentation:

          Slide 1 - PICTURES of your family. Describe the structure of your chosen family (1 paragraph or bullets)

          Slide 2 - Describe how your chosen family fulfills the main functions of the family:  regulation of sexual activity, reproduction, socialization, economic and emotional security (pages 264-265) Add pictures if you have space!

          Presentation:

           Use as many of the vocabulary discussed in class as possible when presenting your family. 

          Vocab to use:

          family, nuclear family, family of orientation, family of procreation, extended family, monogamy, polygamy, kinship, patriarchy, matriarchy, egalitarian, heterogamy, dual-earner families, family violence, divorce, empty nest, cohabitation, sandwich generation, voluntary childlessness, Family & Medical Leave Act, task overload, blended families

      • Unit 5 - The Changing Social World

        Chapter 15 - Population and Urbanization

        Chapter 16 - Collective Behavior and Social Change