Sociology question
? Examine the different ways cultural production occurs in modern society, and the significance of different forms of media.
? Understand recent changes in the media landscape, and what the implications are for American democracy.
? Understand how behaviors are defined as deviant or normal.
? Understand the role social groups play in determining normality and deviance.
? Distinguish between statistical and social deviance.
? Define norms and understand the role they play in setting the boundaries for everyday life.
? Discuss historical and contemporary struggles over morality and moral behavior.
? Understand the role of political and economic power in struggles over morality.
? Understand how society reacts to deviant and criminal behavior through social control.
? Discuss different types of sanctions and the impacts of these punishments on individuals and society.
? Define and distinguish between race and ethnicity and how sociologists' definition of these concepts differs from other definitions.
? Define what social movements are, and distinguish them from other types of collective action such as riots or fads.
? Understand how social movements can tell us about people's behavioral motivations, especially their decisions to act together.
? Identify and explain how the broader political environment externally, and resources, social networks, and moral commitments and emotional engagements internally, can help shape social movements.
? Explore how social movements recruit supporters.
? Understand what factors shape the decisions movements take to use certain tactics and strategies and not others.
? Examine what external and internal factors play a role in movement's decline or disappearance, and identify and elaborate what factors shape movement outcomes.
? Define and explain what revolutions, revolutionary movements, and revolutionary situations are.
? Discuss how and why democratic regimes differ from authoritarian regimes in reducing the likelihood of revolutionary change.