Question:
You will have an opportunity to put into action what you've learned about sociological research, social norms, socialization and/or deviance.
You will write an essay of approximately 1,250 words, addressing one of the two options below.
Step 1: Review the research methodology in order to familiarize yourself with sociological experiments.
Using participant observation, choose two specific learning situations that can be observed during your daily activities, I Choose a parent teaching a child, store or restaurant interactions. As these to go well together and I have a 2 year old daughter.
Write up a detailed description of what you would have observed in a week, and identify the components of culture being taught and/or learned.
You should also detail the agent(s) and stage(s) of socialization and how these incidents support one of the theories of socialization developed by Jean Piaget, Carol Gilligan, George H. Mead, Lawrence Kohlberg, or Erik Erickson