1) Would you be willing to live for one year among the Nacerima

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1) Would you be willing to live for one year among the Nacerima. Why or why not? Give 3-5 solid reason for your response. 2. Can you view some everyday (familiar) action as if it is unfamiliar? For example, what do you think the application of deodorant would look like to someone from a culture that doesn't use or even think about deodorant? And, at the same time, can you see the general in the specific? For example, a subject applies deodorant because to smell any way other than perfumed is humiliating and stigmatizing. To create a piece of thoughtful writing as polished as Horace Miner's would take many, many hours and even then, success is not guaranteed. But still, I believe there is insight to be gained by trying, so please try and write a solid paragraph or two in the Miner style making some everyday occurrence seem strange in the particular - and in the general. For example, exercise routines, lunch rituals, dog walking, a $6.50 coffee creation at Starbuck's. 3. Which paradigm, Structural Functionalism (SF), Conflict Theory (CT), or Symbolic Interaction (SI) best describes the way you see current events. Briefly explain your answer and provide an example from current events that illustrates your view. Provide a brief synopsis of your example and a link to more information (like a main stream news media article). You may choose from any category that interests you, fashion, sports, international relations, entertainment, politics, etc. As Peter Berger points out, sociology is about monumental moments, everyday life, and everything in between. 4. Choose a topic area that interests you. What are the main research questions (things interested parties want to know) in your topic area. Do you think a quantitative or a qualitative approach would be most useful? Briefly explain why you think that. 5. Identify ten material objects that are a part of your regular cultural experience. For each material object identify some of the more important nonmaterial values and beliefs represented in those objects. For example, an American flag is a physical object. You can see, touch, smell, and/or taste it. But, it also represents many intangible values. What does the American flag mean to you? What does your list reveal about you or your cultural influences? 6. Weber described an historical trajectory for Western society from traditional rules, like feudal and agricultural societies, to legal-rational societies Like industrial and our own post-industrial society. Now, think about a recent social movement like #metoo and/or Black Lives Matter and describe how it can be viewed as a movement to rationalize relations (for example sexuality in the workplace or racial profile in street-level law enforcement). 7. Currently, gender roles especially as regards, power, responsibility, equality, and/or justice have under gone major changes in recent times. Sociologist maintain that most aspects of so-called gender are socially constructed and not biologically determined. It is socialization that determines who wears a skirt and who wears a kilt. Using some sociological imagination briefly describes some ways that socialization has been problematic. Then, briefly describes some possible (realistic) re-socialization ideas. 8. As the reading points out, the concept of hate crimes can be linked to the concepts of in-groups and out-groups. Can you link some other inequality or injustice to the concepts of in-groups and out-groups? 9. This may be a difficult exercise. The point is to have you behave in a deviant fashion and reflect on the role of "norms" in your (our) daily lives. Formally, the exercises for this unit have called for interaction with strangers in public. Covid-19 consideration now make such directives dangerous – (fractionally, but what was once very close to zero is now less close to zero). So here is what I want you to do. Select a friend or other acquaintance with whom you interact regularly. WITHOUT giving yourself away, the next time they ask you: "how are you?" or "what's up?" or some such thing. You ask them what they mean. They will respond with something like "what do YOU mean 'what do I mean'" Then you ask them to be more specific about what they want to know. For example, you might ask: "what do you want to know about how I am, physically, mentally, emotionally, academically? " They will respond somehow and you want to keep up this analytical thing as long as you can (try not to show any emotion – think Data on Star Trek). Eventually they will quit. After they quit you can reveal that it is an exercise for sociology class. Write what happened, what you felt and what you thought. Include input from your victim if YOU think it is of interest. Good luck and "break a leg" as they say. 10. What class traits define your peer group? For example, what speech patterns or clothing trends do you and your friends share? What cultural elements, such as taste in music or hobbies, define your peer group? Do you see this set of class traits as different from other classes above or below yours?