Proceed to the Computer Lab, and request "Dynamic Encounters." The seven programs are designed to help students explore some important concepts and applications of sociology and to discover some of the built-in rules of social processes. The programs are easy to operate, and all instructions appear on the screen. You are to select two from the following list:
Bias High: Educational Inequality Board Game - "Bias High" presents an operating model of the problems of inequality in education, showing how underlying socioeconomic biases effect educational achievement. The goal of this board game is to complete high school. The player is randomly assigned race/ethnicity, gender, SES, etc. and sees how peer influence, family problems, romance, IQ tracking, etc. affect his/.her grade point average.
Cliques: Defining Social Groups and Subcultures - "Cliques" investigates the social world or high school. Students are asked questions that sharpen their awareness of the characteristics that typified the various groups in the social system they have recently left. Sociometric diagrams of interrelationships among groups are presented. Students are led to explore social prestige, deviance labels, and sociometric interconnections that shape attitudes and values in their recent experience.
Each "board game" is to be completed and print-outs made and submitted for assignment.
Assignment is to include a summary of your participation and outcome of each simulation game for you. No more than two typed sheets for each student is allowed. Due Date:_________________________
(No fancy folders please! Place your name on the top right-hand
corner of the first page. Thank you.)
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY
SOC 101
ASSIGNMENT - WEB SITES/ THE INTERNET
SUMMARY SHEET
NAME:________________________________ GRADE:______(20%)
TOPIC:________________________________
Select THREE (3) Web Sites (not articles) from Netscape which deal with some concept(s) or issues(s) in Sociology. These sites are to be found on the netscape and involve the same concept (i.e. occupational roles, income levels, poverty, crime, education, the economy, drugs, the environment, religion, social roles, social change, social factors of disease, divorce, gender roles, family problems, teen pregnancy, etc.) You may wish to start on the Sociology Home Page/Sociology Links, and see where these sites take you, or you may want to begin a search of web sites on your own from Yahoo,Crawler, or Excite Indexes. Select two (2) articles from index on the same topic. (Netscape to Netsearch to Index Name you choose. If you know an address: Netscape to click open. Type address.)
LIST THREE WEB SITES LOCATED AND SUMMARIZE:
1) URL._______________________________________________________________________
Description & Summary:__________________________________________________________
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2) URL_______________________________________________________________________
Description & Summary:__________________________________________________________
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3) URL_______________________________________________________________________
Description & Summary:__________________________________________________________
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Please rank the Web Sites as: "above average," (AA); "average," (A); or "below average, (BA) according to:
How up to date is it?
Was it easy to locate and find?
Is it written by an authority or major institution?
Are the graphics helpful in explaining/describing the concepts/social problems? Y_____ N______
Additional Comments:____________________________________________________________
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Proceed to Infotrak in the library and use Sociofile, and select same topic/subject and list two articles found. Summarize the content of these articles. (Use at least one sociology article published from the Sociological Journal.)
Article 1 -
Article 2 -
On attached paper, summarize all materials related to your topic. (All material should be typed.)