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Focus Question/s: None – all due by 5/21
Class Activities and Learning Opportunities:
1. Attendance, Current Events, and welcome
2. Complete Chapter 8 Lecture/notes: Conflict theory and deviance; reactions to deviance
3. Work time on Chapter 8 practice test
4. Work time on Chapter 8 study guide
5. Documentary – The One Percent
Homework:
1. 5/15 Chapter 8 Practice Test – completed in class
2. 5/19 Chapter 8 Completed Notes
3. 5/19 Chapter 8 Test
4. 5/21 4th Nine weeks Focus Questions
5. 5/21 “Band/early tester final”
Objective/s:
1. Talk about the role power plays in defining and punishing deviance while discussing, from the conflict perspective, how the criminal justice system legitimates and perpetuates social inequality.
2. Describe the different ways street crime and white-collar crime are perceived by the public and treated by the criminal justice system.
3. Discuss the reasons for and implications of “get tough” policies on crime in the United States.
Focus Question/s: #10 Under Conflict Perspective on deviance what socio-economic group of citizens is best represented by the government and legal system? How does this cause disproportionate numbers of deviants in other racial, ethnic, religious, or socio-economic groups?
Class Activities and Learning Opportunities:
1. Attendance, Current Events, and welcome
2. Complete the video on deviance: Pleasantville
3. Focus question
4. Chapter 8 Lecture/notes: Conflict theory and deviance
5. Documentary – The One Percent
Homework:
1. 5/15 Chapter 8 Practice Test – completed in class
2. 5/19 Chapter 8 Completed Notes
3. 5/19 Chapter 8 Test
4. 5/21 4th Nine weeks Focus Questions
5. 5/21 “Band/early tester final”
Objective/s:
1. Talk about the role power plays in defining and punishing deviance while discussing, from the conflict perspective, how the criminal justice system legitimates and perpetuates social inequality.
2. Describe the different ways street crime and white-collar crime are perceived by the public and treated by the criminal justice system.
3. Discuss the reasons for and implications of “get tough” policies on crime in the United States.
Focus Question/s: #9 Why would illegitimate opportunity theory say business people would be more likely to embezzle money than a factory worker on an assembly line?
Class Activities and Learning Opportunities:
1. Attendance, Current Events, and welcome
2. CNN Student News
3. Focus question
4. Read and discuss page 217 from the text “Islands in the Street: Urban Gangs in the United States”
5. Chapter 8 Lecture/notes: Functionalism and deviance
6. Continue the video on deviance: Pleasantville
Homework:
1. 5/13 None
2. 5/21 “Band/early tester final”
Objective/s:
1. Talk about the role power plays in defining and punishing deviance while discussing, from the conflict perspective, how the criminal justice system legitimates and perpetuates social inequality.
2. Describe the different ways street crime and white-collar crime are perceived by the public and treated by the criminal justice system.
Focus Question/s: #8 Within Functional Theory on deviance what are the three ways deviance helps to contribute to social order?
Class Activities and Learning Opportunities:
1. Attendance, Current Events, and welcome
2. CNN Student News
3. Review time and Chapter 8 Key Terms Quiz Part II (#’s 17 to the end)
4. Focus question
5. Chapter 8 Lecture/notes: Functionalism and deviance
6. Introduce and begin the video on deviance: Pleasantville
Homework:
1. Due 5/7 – Chapter 8 Key Terms Quiz Part II (rest of the list)
Objective/s:
1. Know, from the functionalist perspective, which functions deviance fulfills for society.
2. Understand strain theory and discuss its social implications.
Focus Question/s: #7 According to Control Theory who is most likely to commit deviance?
Class Activities and Learning Opportunities:
1. Attendance, Current Events, and welcome
2. CNN Student News
3. Review time and Chapter 8 Key Terms Quiz Part I (#’s 1-16)
4. Chapter 8 Lecture/notes: Symbolic Interaction Theory on deviance
5. Introduce and begin the video on deviance: Pleasantville
Homework:
1. Due 5/5 – Chapter 8 Key Terms Quiz Part I (#s 1-16)
2. Due 5/7 – Chapter 8 Key Terms Quiz Part II (rest of the list) Objective/s: Culture
1. Talk about deviance from the symbolic interactionist perspective, describing and applying the various components of differential association theory, control theory, and labeling theory.