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WEEK 3 ASSIGNMNET YENROSE

Choose a deviant behavior to research. Locate references (e.g., current news stories, pop culture, and reality TV shows) that convey deviant behavior being accepted or rejected/scorned.

Write an essay of 500-750 words, summarizing your findings. Include the following:

1. What was the deviant behavior?

2. What were the demographics of the group that witnessed the behavior?

3. How did the group react to the behavior?

4. Did the group attempt to control this deviant behavior? How?

Use the GCU Library to locate one to two academic sources to support your content.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

WEEK 4 DISCUSSION 1

1. What are some ways in which our American culture stratifies people? See how long of a list you can come up with. Why do societies stratify? What do you think are the functions of stratification?

2. How do we in the United States measure social mobility? How does social class and life chance play out in social mobility? Where do you see yourself 10 years from now regarding your place in society? Why?

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Short-Answer Quiz 4

Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz. The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

Topic 4

1. How do property, power, and prestige affect your personal social class? According to Marx’s conflict perspective in what social class do you belong and why?

2. From your perspective, what are the current shifts in global stratification? How does this affect the economic and political power of the United States?

3. In the current economic situation in the United States what do you project will happen to social mobility and the American Dream?

4. Describe the Horatio Alger myth. Based on your own experience discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the myth for both men and women.

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Short-Answer Quiz 3

Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz. The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

Topic 3

1. Describe your in-groups and your out-groups. Give an example of how your in-group has influenced the way that you see the world. Give an example of how your out-group either changed or reinforced your view of the world.

2. What leadership style or styles do you respond to in a positive way? What type of leader is most effective in today’s bureaucratic environment? As the group leader, how would you lead your team or group through a project?

3. Select a deviant behavior with which you are personally familiar (your behavior (s) or something that you know someone did) and choose one of the theoretical perspectives to analyze what happened.

4. Describe a broken social rule that you observed. What was the reaction of others? Why did people react in that manner? What was your response to the situation and other’s reactions?

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