Assignment: Deviance, Race & Gender
Choose five questions to answer. Answer to the best of your ability using discipline-specific content and in-class discussions. Rewrite the questions you are answering.
i. a. Define deviance. b. Is deviance a universal human behavior? Are norms dictating deviance universal or they different for all societies? What is the conflict and functionalist perspectives on deviance and social control?
ii. a. Define the term sanction. b. State the two types of sanctions and provide examples.
iii. Is race a myth or a reality? Compare institutional and individual discrimination. Explain two sociological theories for prejudice.
iv. State three theories that symbolic interactionists use to analyze deviance and conformity and explain one.
v. a. Define gender. b. In what ways are our agents of socialization responsible for the formation of gender? How do conflict theorists and functionalists compare in their view of gender? Explain two forms of gender inequality.
vi. Generally, from the period of hunters and gatherers to postindustrial society what happened to the status of men and women? Explain
vii. What is feminism? Explain the significance of the three waves of feminism and state which one resonates with you the most and why?
viii. How does social stratification impact how we think about or socially construct norms defining conformity and deviance?
ix. Reflect on how gender, race, and ethnicity, are instrumental in constructions of beauty in the US. Explain the societal consequences of these constructions?
x. Compare moral and legal explanations with medicalized explanations of deviance.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.