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This assignment is designed to get you thinking about sociology as a social scientific discipline and to learn more about one of the following:
1) Perspectives on Beauty,
2) Use of storytelling to transmit cultural knowledge, or
3) Social class and inequality
Students must pick one of the following three choices listed below and complete the assignment.
Presentations will be given to your small group in an informal manner. You DO NOT need to create a power point to support your presentation. You should have a one page, point form handout for your group and instructor as well as some type of activity (e.g., prepared questions, quiz, bingo, etc,.) to engage your audience in your discussion. Presentations should be about 5 – 7 minutes.
Presentations are due on Friday, March 28th. NO LATE PRESENTATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED EXCEPT IN CASES OF EMERGENCY OR ILLNESS AS DISCUSSED IN ADVANCE WITH THE INSTRUCTOR.
Choice A
Find pictures in magazines, CD covers, and on-line that reflect your idea of ‘beauty.’
Cut out or print the pictures to make a mural of the pictures you selected.
Reflect on the images that you selected to answer the following questions.
1. What do you consider beautiful?
2. How do your opinions fit into class readings?
3. Do you feel beauty is influenced by culture?
4. Bring your pictures and reflection to share in class
Choice B
Ask someone to tell you a story that is significant to themselves and/or their family. Summarize the story in one to two paragraphs and tell when they first heard the story and when they first told the story.
Discuss the role that these stories played in the transmission of culture for the storyteller. Include how the story reflects (or does not reflect) norms, values, and folkways.
Explain, whether or not you agree with the significance of storytelling in the transmission of culture.
Choice C
Conduct a search of articles that provide examples of social stratification in Canada. Select 2 articles to discuss in your group.
Explain why you selected your particular articles and provide a summary of your articles.
Describe how the ideas in the articles “fit” into any theoretical explanations for social stratification.
Provide a conclusion to summarize your key points.