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How does labeling figure into the difference between primary deviance and secondary deviance? What is the importance of stigma in labeling analysis? Book: Sociology 15/E, 2013 ISBN-13: 9780205985609 John J. Macionis  

Please choose one discussion prompt below to respond to: A – Group Conformity and Leadership Style, Or, B – He Who Has the Gold Makes the Rules? After identifying which discussion prompt you are responding to and making your initial post, be sure to make at least one of your […]

You must temporarily suspend your preconceived beliefs about the gender status of this group. The task now is to look for examples of how your group/your group’s gender is socially constructed. Specifically, you need to find two examples per week, for the weeks of Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 5, […]

In the Discussion Activity for Module 1, you explored some of the initial proposed rights/amendments the Framers considered (with a few being adopted, and many others rejected). So that you may see that the desire to “amend” the U.S. Constitution has not abated, find a recent proposal introduced in Congress […]

Must have the book Social problems: Societal Crisis, Capitalism, & Democracy by Kim Macinnis must make references from the book and use citations as outside research and sources are forbidden and will result in a failing grade. must read the chapters Reality TV: Humiliation in Real Time by Lisa Zunshine […]

Many Americans believe that they are middle class, that they will be rich someday, and that people who are successful achieved their success primarily through their own hard work and ingenuity. Similarly, there is a pervasive belief that the poor are lazy. What do Conley, Plumer, Edin and Shaefer argue […]