• who were you?

• What happened (event)

  Some Sociological concepts you may use

  1. Mead's "me" and "I"

  2. Traditional - Modern

  3. Tabor's  cube

  4. Weber's consciousness;
     Marx's exploitation;
     Durkheim's integration

• Child - Adult
  Group member - Solo artist

  Traditional me - Modern I
  Me - I  or  I - me
  Married - Single   or Single - Married
  Closeted - Out
  Lonely - Connected  or Connected - Lonely

  Sedentary - Active - sedentary

  Moment of change:  e.g., Big Sur moment
  Read Cheerleader paper  I focused on Self and Change

  One student example
   

                  LINKS WORKING: 

  • Live to be 100-networks & self

  • The emotional life PBS

  Title page w abstract (not numbered) - 2-3 pages of text.  No paper with more than 4 pieces of paper, i.e., title +3.  If you can be concise and say what needs to be said, with structure, in two, do it in two.

   

  Press Creative CHANGE	Congress HR Me NETWORK
  Executive CEO I SELF	Judicial CFO CIO We SOCIAL STRUCTURE

CHANGE "ADAPTATION" CHG is a faucet, always on, the flow, the gap, the pivot on which the group and the individual DANCE	NETWORK  "INTEGRATION" big - small moves disrupt networks? interlocked - compartmentalized? top  - bottom ? Me is the group, network, lessons, “shoulds”, the getting alongs, hurts, scrapes, bumps, nurturing, the LOVE
SELF "GOAL ATTAINMENT" I is the effort – the charge – the decision – the goal – the human look to the future – it is HOPE	SOCIAL STRUCTURE "LATENT PATTERN MAINTENANCE" institutions, beliefs, procedures We is FAITH –  procedure, routine, ways of doing things, empirical reality, process, operations – with regularities, we can have FAITH in them.  If procedures don’t work, because of Is and Mes not regular and we cannot have faith in them.  Sense – and operations – can break down or can build up and maintain.
Paper #2:  Library Paper  two search terms, and narrowed down two databases - and your conclusions about them overall find and cite at least 3 articles from the 2 databases one of those three articles is to have three or more authors cite the one with three or more authors, twice.  remember if it is 3, it is one way; if it is 4 or more, it is another way one " block quote" properly cited and formatted cite one 'academic' type website that is 4 unique sources two ways to cite - and you are to exemplify  both ways one in-line (author name is in the sentence) one where author name is in the (parentheses) each reference needs to be cited; each citation needs to be referenced Reference page must be done completely correctly References Capitalizations Italics Alphabetize retrieved page numbered (this will be page 3) Title page with abstract (left justified, double spaced) ASA style guide the text of the paper to be 2 pages max:  5 pieces of paper: title page (not numbered) & references, and library work sheet substance:  introduce your topic of interest and your library discoveries, with brief references to the substance you found in the four references from the two databases.    two samples:.pdf #1 version                        .pdf #2 version                     a third example of a library paper   FILM #1 - Wednesday  Read this (long) article     LIST OF SPECIFICATIONS One student last Autumn noted everything about the Library session CLICK HERE.
FILM PAPER:  2 pages only. Night class this is the next paper, due Thursday 6PM as discussed in class. Subject Line:  WRI night Film Paper First Last naming the document:  Wri night film first last.doc attached See this post for some ideas Paper #3 3 page maximum on any one of the highlighted topics below. Citation?  If you have a citation, put it in the proper format for ASA - do you need one?  You be the judge; some will have them.  Typically a reference can enhance your thinking and your paper - but it is possible to be clear and significant without one. TAKE - 3 movies and compare sociologically PERS who are you now and who will you be in ten years PERS what would U change in your past and why? could you change it some way? PERS ... when U were a child dreams had no limits? what if U had that mindset now PERS if you had a super power what would it be and why? PERS do you have a foundation belief - can you rattle it off - does it help you through the day - do you "believe" What does "belief" correlate with?  politics?  happiness?  relationship? PERS what is your biggest fear CONNECT THIS WITH #10 PERS what are you most passionate about PERS who are your Gods: Jesus, Budha, TV, School, kids, looks, books, etc. PERS ACTION turn your fear into courage PERS what is your escape when you need one? why?- how does it "work?" PERS why are you a Soc major: how did U choose? easy or really interested in it? SOC'Y PERS  how do you define success SOC'Y what have you truly learned in college SOC'Y where do you think American society is headed; where would U like it to go SOC'Y do you think your children will be better off than you? SOC'Y how do you think males v females pick a mate SOC'Y student credit cards and managing money. debt education SOC'Y are men's and women's roles in society fair? SOC'Y bullies - and how not to raise one ACTION if you won the lotto and became a multimillionaire, what would you do? ACTION disruption of norms paper: e.g., face the back in elevators ACTION SOC'Y how can Sociology unify us and not separate us? ACTION SOC'Y what do you do or say to empower others ACTION SOC'Y what are you going to do to improve society for your children? STEREO write about a stereotype & then determine how that stereotype is wrong STEREO gender similarities; race similarities STEREO cars and gender STEREO should women give men gifts, driving, walking to the front door STEREO who wears what Tshirts STEREO how do you judge people: race, gender, clothes, job - etc. THIS WAS TO DO WITH SOCIAL "GEOLOGY" THIS WAS TO DO WITH FASHION INTERRACIAL:  Dating, Awareness, Structural discrimination, Case by case discrimination -   Paper #x:  Conflict and Consensus Take a group, any group, and see conflict and consensus in it at the same time; the interplay of conflict and consensus could be seen over time, or in a cross section of time, because both are always present.  How we see depends upon the "glasses" or "lens" with which we see. All groups operate with both conflict and consensus conflict is the view that some have "power over" others consensus is the view that social bonds hold us together ask the paradoxical questions how does conflict function how do functions create conflict Look both diachronically (over time) and synchronically (through time) USE any UNIT OF ANALYSIS:  self, dyad, triad, family, peers, school, work, community, state, nation state, world paradox - the functions of conflict; the lconflict from consensus      [. . . learn, change, express, adjust, equalize] Conflict of consensus - rebel, falsehoods, incorrectness Conflict across groups vs. within groups could even see "I" as conflict, "Me" as consensus (or vice versa!) check the BLOG - this quarter and even last quarter - scan down for posts and comments on Paper #2 is conflict or consensus our ... premise, our foundation for how we see the world?  Do we see the world as dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest?  Or do we see the world as a pleasant place, where things work out if we participate and give it a try? IS IT TRUE THAT: a CONFLICT view or premise MAKES ONE GUILTY OR MAKES ONE A VICTIM a CONSENSUS view or premise MAKES ONE HAPPY, GOOFY, CONFORMIST one UNIT at which you could look: the family. There are 3 ways to raise kids: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive. what at the conflicts or the seeking consensus inside and outside those family types? how do you see them within one slice of time and across time? other UNITS at which to look:  sports teams, sports fans, military service, war   CLICK my unedited first-draft sample paper.    U might look at a woman or a man in the marketplace where you work in both "masculine" and "feminine" terms.  I do not expect U to be so broad & historical as I was:  U can find this same "struggle" or "variance" in a very close and small sphere.  Indeed, it is more provocative to find conflict and consensus at the same time, in a cross-section.
Title and BME:  Title is a needle to stich through B and E user sociological imagination; come to sociological conclusions Conclusion to include "what are your going to do about it"