1)What is socialization? When does socialization occur?What is gender socialization? Think back on your experience with gender socialization. How did it affect how you learned your gender role? Describe 2 agents of socialization that impacted your socialization into gender.
2)What is Cooley’s “looking glass self”? According to George Herbert Mead, how do children develop asocial self? What is the “generalized other”? What does Mead mean by the “I” versus the “me”? Why is George Herbert Mead’s theory of social development particularly important to sociologists?
3)How can groups, formal organizations, and bureaucracies benefit individuals and societies?Provide 2 examples of bureaucracies in our society.What are 3 disadvantages of bureaucracies? Explain the “McDonaldization of Society”. What are its main components? In what ways has “McDonaldization”impacted virtually every aspect of society (consider both commercial and social activity)?
4)How do we define what is deviant, and what do sociological theories suggest about the causes of deviant behavior, including crime? How do individual-level theories of deviance differ from structural-level theories of deviance? How do individuals managed eviant identities?
5)By coming together to punish deviants, we make visible the moral boundaries of our community. In what ways might social media serve the same function as the public square did in the past for the control of deviants and the expression of collective anger? In what ways might social media fail to make us aware of our moral boundaries?
6)What is the difference between income and wealth?How do the major sociological theories explain income inequality in the United States? What is social stratification and how does it work in the United States?
7)How do we distinguish between social classes in the United States (consider Max Weber in your response)?What is “social mobility”? How has social mobility changed in the United States? What are the impacts of social class (class position) on education, health,lifestyle, and life expectancy?

8)In 1968 French sociologist and philosopher HenriLefebvre argued that big cities should be places that encourage freedom of expression, play, and creativity;however, he noticed that big modern cities are shaped to reflect the interests of powerful corporations and capitalism (for example large impersonal shopping malls that serve the interests of consumer capitalism and whose construction often leads to the displacement of that area’s original working-class residents).Lefebvre observes that the poor, the working class, and other marginalized groups are denied a say in how cities are built and how social space is utilized.Moreover, he proposes that cities must be rebuilt in the interests of the oppressed. He refers to this as reclaiming the “right to the city”. Considering how the poor in society are considered to have less power,property, and prestige (Max Weber), how might you encourage these people to participate in creating a space that reflects their needs and interests? Also, how might you transform social relations within a city whereby power and control are wrested from elites and turned over to the masses? Side note: Around the1990s, Lefebvre’s concept of “right to the city” inspired social movements across the world, including in the U.S., France, Brazil, and the Philippines.


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