Sources:
Introduction to Sociology Text book – CHAPTER3 Culture Pg.65-93
Introduction to Sociology Text book – CHAPTER7 Deviance, Crime, and Social Control Pg. 173-197
Chapter 3 Culture Powerpoint
Chapter 7 Deviance Powerpoint
Purpose:
- The goal of this essay is to examine types of cultural norms, deviant violations and social control in your life.
Requirements:
- Not all cultural norms and deviant violations are created equally and some are more important than others. For this assignment, examine folkway and mores that are in your life. For folkway and mores, provide a personal examples and explain how you know that it is that type of norm by the mechanisms of social control. Examples of folkways are likely easy. However, not everyone has violated a mores but you are likely to know someone in your group or organization that has.
- Provide two examples from your experience of compliance and two examples of violations that vary in importance. In sum, discuss a compliance and violation for both folkway and mores, which is a total of four examples. Identify and explain the social control mechanisms.
- Include course terms and theories for your analysis. Concepts and theories exploring types of norms and violations are covered in chapters 3 and 7.
- Provide clear examples of your life or those in your immediate social context.
- Formatting: Create a 3-4 page essay by integrating course material and personal examples.
- Cite all sources including lectures, textbook and lesson slides. Focus on course material!!!
- Either MLA or APA are accepted